Install GrapheneOS on it and you can disable that feature completely
Nice. Im also now linux only and as open hardware as possible. Native Linux games is still not that common but hopefully Steam Deck and other future hw can make it more popular and increase the inventives over the coming years, it is increasing year by year now. I use Pop!OS with Nvidia open source drivers. Run Yuzu (Nintendo Switch emulator), Steam, Lutris with proton compability layer (wine fork) and use the steam controller. Can play almost any games with few exceptions, without issue.
Healty competition again now
Good to see them go up in speed/ storage and down in price. Maybe you could even get a decently priced 8tb NVMe drive in a couple of years
This newly released HIKSEMI Future 4tb NVMe SSD TLC drive — have endurance TBW of 7200tb(!). For comparison the upcoming Samsung 990 Pro 4tb will have a TBW of 2400tb and will cost 2-3 times as much. It also comes with a solid 5yr warranty. Picked it up for under $230.
Still not used a keyboard with it as its nothing good released yet, hopefully soon. If you looking for something with (optional) keyboard this Starlight 12.5 tablet PC from Starlabs with CoreBoot, now in discounted preorder also look pretty sweet: https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite
UX is clean AOSP and you wont want to go back
Finally a CoreBoot (and remove Intel_ME) #FOSS BIOS implementation for a decent current 13th gen Intel i7/i9 consumer grade desktop platform with the MSI Z790-P motherboard.
DDR5 ram / PCI-E Gen 5 ATX motherboard with 2.5G LAN / WiFi 6E and 4x NVMe (gen 4) slots — CPU's with up to 32 threads that can reach 6ghz (on performance cores turbo).
It's listed at $209. Linux support should be pretty good already, looking forward to flashing and testing it next week. 2023 is turning out to be an amazing year for #privacy ✊
Nuclear Now (2023) — by Oliver Stone lays out a clear path for a realistic transition to abundance of stable, clean and safe energy that can move all global civilizations forward and enable the whole of human kind to prosper 🫂
Watch the whole movie here for free:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OKCe-TvoSGw
#filmstr #movies
After a few failed payments to the nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n store — Mastercard called me up and asked about suspicious blocked transactions (no pun). Asked her if it was cause of VPN usage? She said: «NO, it's cause of the merchant’s name getting the transactions flagged.» She confirmed this clearly two more times before agreeing to unblock it and hanging up. Payed instead with BTC/⚡
#Bitcoin fixed it
If you thought US politics was screwed up..
Phua Thai screwing their voters over by backstabbing everyone to get Thaksin back to Thailand and pardoned for his long list of crimes after 15 years a fugitive abroad.
They promise time and geo- locked CBDC airdrops and doubling of the minimum salary. Fairytail populist policies that will only bring hyperinflation and more suffering to an already weak and fragile economy.
Close to 3000 people was brutally murdered in the streets without trial by his failed war-on-drugs between March to April in 2003.
The big upside with this anti-democratic process is that Thailand seemingly avoided a US controlled proxy goverment that could have throwed the country in to a proxy war with Myanmar and China.
BraveNewPipe #FOSS android app is a NewPipe free speech fork – that let you add sources from Rumble, Youtube, Bitchute etc, and integrate them all in to one large seamless feed, without exposure to any google services or JS tracking and completely free of world destroying BigTech algos.
It also allow features such as listening while app in background (premium/payed Youtube feature) and import/export your saved feed to different devices.
https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe/releases
Install it with Obtainium to keep it updated:
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases
#Privacy