Some two euro increase for my auction server.

Protectli sells opnsense firewalls with SFP+ support. Make sure these can handle gigabit data rates.

You can also terminate SFP with a switch and route that at L2 (VLAN) level to your firewall’s NIC.

They want mandatory end user identification, through the backdoor. Can’t tolerate any wrongthink, citizen.

Likewise, in consulting now plenty positions in defense/arms which require a security clearance.

I wonder whether we’ll see some of the networking etc. gear on eBay.

I would go with a refurbished Lenovo TinyPC with a quad/hexacore and some 16 GB RAM. These used to go for 200-300 EUR, but this might have changed recently. I run an AMD Fujitsu thin client as my opnsense firewall.

The EU is, unfortunately, also aboard the fascist train. It’s just running slightly behind schedule.

My employer provides work phones and notebooks. I don’t own these devices, nor do I use these for private purposes. I haven’t heard that local universities mandate proprietary device ownership, though it is possible. I would complain about that.

I paid 330 EUR new for the 7a, but refurbished would have been cheaper. My Lineage OS device was 200 EUR new. Pixel premium is freedom tax.

I only use my (Lineage OS) private phone for cellular telephony, some limited Google apps (Gmail, calendar, weather) and tethering my tablets and my GOS phone. As such any phone or MiFi router (which I’ve used in the past) would do. My work phone is a stock Fairphone.

So I only need a WiFi Linux or Android tablet with decent touch support.

I don’t get it. Bears are taking cash, what’s the hint?

Not in my country.

There are Linux distros for tablets, though I haven’t test-driven one yet since there’s Lineage OS and GrapheneOS. I could imagine using an open hardware tablet with a community distro 5-10 years from now.

Also a side effect of their censorship and intercept infrastructure.

If Google goes closed source and nobody sustainably forks Android we can go back to Linux. This should bring tablet (don’t care for phones) support to genuine usability rather soon.

Yes, which is why I’ve moved on from LineageOS on Poco 4 to GrapheneOS on Pixel 7a and Pixel tablet. Should GOS become nonviable then we would have to regress to LineageOS or Linux.

Yes, propaganda is uncommonly effective.

Some governments (like Russia) have deployed behaviour (i.e. not just DPI) based VPN detection which reliably kills VPN sessions, however these are wrapped. I am currently not aware of a way to circumvent this. Presumably, this will require camouflaging as a user browser session.

Still waiting for it.

HBM are thinned die stacks which are assembled at the GPU periphery using silicon interposers. My AMD GPU has HBM. In case of HBM overproduction post-bubble we might see resurgence of GPUs with HBM rather than GDDRx.