It’s obfuscated but not officially blocked. Their site is asahilinux.org. It’s not worth getting a macbook for yet imo , but it’s still super impressive, especially the graphics drivers. There are issues with Mac’s built in security stuff but that just means the fingerprint reader and probably some other stuff doesn’t work.

An interesting way that I don’t know of being implemented is a donation system where you donate to a feature request / issue and whoever implements / patches it gets it, and a “tax” so that some percentage of every donation can go to maintenance, server costs, etc.

I’m saving this post. I’ve managed it in the past but even then I never knew how.

Let’s talk about privacy, just not any private operating systems because there’s a sub for that, or laws that threaten privacy because there’s a sub for that, or any corporations that try to take away people’s privacy because there’s a sub for that, or our opinions on the concept of privacy because there’s a sub for that so… privacy is, uh, not having people see what you’re doing kinda.

I use airvpn with an always on server setup, port forwarding, and constant seeding. If you’re okay with manually using a wireguard or openvpn client instead of an airvpn specific client it works great.

Edit Plus, they have a progressive pricing thing that lets you buy a few days for like 2€ just to test stuff.

Eh, I sometimes spin up a temporary docker container for some nonsense on a separate computer. I usually just go for it after checking no one is on and backing up necessary data.

If you’re just worried about people you live with and passive scan type stuff I’d do a LUKS flash drive and a txt file. If you are worried about more active stuff from 3 letters then I still think digital is going to be the best bet, but you’d better use qubes or even dedicate an airgapped computer with an encrypted drive but even that is iffy for a serious anti gov threat model.

Fmdlocator. It can auto reply a text with location to whitelisted contacts.

Nice

My friend who is better at identifying cars than I says f type BMW, probably f10.

Looks like at least 6

My opinion generally aligns with those who are saying to talk with them so they have a better understanding and don’t try to be overly strict with parental controls and such.

What I do want to add and don’t see in other comments is that if you want tracking software, you can set up fmd locator. It uses contact whitelisting so if they get a specific text from a whitelisted contact it will automatically text back their location. It isn’t for the use case of constant tracking to see if they’re sneaking out or whatever but if you want something that’s more trust based location sharing.

I don’t think so. I think they sort of have to branch off as lemmy gains users.

I use the grapheneos pin fingerprint combo with a longer password if that fails or bfu.

No. Lubuntu is designed to use very little resources which makes it faster on slow hardware where the os is a lot of the load. If you have fast hardware, regular Ubuntu might use (making this up but the point generally stands) 2%CPU and 3G of RAM and lubuntu would use 1%CPU and 2G of RAM. That would be a much larger boost if you have a much weaker CPU and only 4G of RAM, but you likely wouldn’t notice a difference on fast hardware.

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Ollama can pull info from the web using multiple sites, but yes local AIs are more prone to hallucination. Google did release Gemma3 which has a 27B model which is probably the most cost effective way to get into local models that rival chatgpt (if you can call about 2k cost effective). That was why I recommended duck.ai as well, as it has access to gpt and llama3.3:70b which will do a lot better.

You could check out localllama on lemmy to run foss ai models locally, or you could check out duck.ai as someone else mentioned. Your mental health should come first so do what you can for privacy but don’t feel bad about making compromises.

I haven’t used bluefin but it’s immutable fedora basically right? Most immutable distros do have a way to install native packages, but I could understand being hesitant to do that. The wifi issues are inconsistent, so you may find a hotel or something where it doesn’t work which could suck. For me, it was my phone hotspot. The cables being chewed shouldn’t be an issue for changing the card, the connectors are just tricky.

I’m not on bluefin but I had a display reduce issue a while back and I used virt manager with XML editing to set it manually, but I don’t remember what specifically I changed. I think somewhere in display you set variables called x and y. One thing I’d recommend about the laptop is swapping the wifi for an ax210. The intel ones work much better especially on linux and they’re like $20 (do be carefully with the antenna connectors if you do this, they’re easy to break but apart from that it’s easy). Also I fidget with the bezel all the time and it’s been fine for me.