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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • As another said, a Pixel with Graphene OS is likely the most secure device you can have, even against an Apple product. Cellebrite, the software a lot of governments use to break into these phones can’t get into a Pixel device before first unlock with Graphene OS. I believe a number of Apple products are the same thing as they can’t be accessed before first unlock or lockdown mode, but your data is more secure in the hands of an open source developer than a massive capitalist company.

    Also, a notable feature of GrapheneOS is automatic reboots after no use for any arbitrary time value you want, so your phone will always be in a “before first unlock” state if some steals it like the government. They also have lockdown mode as well, not sure how that works technically on Android beyond disabling biometrics.


  • Im pretty into self hosting and have a number of public facing services like 4get and SearXNG, those two don’t use that much data. Also host immich for myself and family to replace Google Photos. Some of the bigger data hogs.

    Archive warrior - I run a Docker container that constantly scrapes, compresses, and uploads whatever data the internet archive team wants most. I’ve had it running for a couple years now and they’ve had me scraping Telegram. That does a couple hundred gigs a month.

    I2P Router - The invisible internet project, it’s sort of like Tor, but in my opinion more secure and better because it uses garlic routing instead of more centralized servers. Although it’s way less popular than Tor and seems most people use it for torrenting. Either way, I recently started hosting a router because governments around the world are cracking down on freedom of speech and censoriship, and increasing their surveillance powers. So I want to support the network and help it grow, this by itself does ~1TB of upload and download a month. Everyone in the world should start pivoting to more secure and decentralized internet solutions like this. Fuck the government.

    Linux ISOs torrents - I love Linux, what can I say?

    Backup server - I have an off-site Raspberry Pi backup server at my friend’s house that I do nightly backups of my important data to. So just depending on how much I’ve built up since the last backup that can be modest in size.

    Otherwise we have a sort of high bandwidth household with video content consumption.







  • They’ve made substantial progress in the past 10 years. Sadly, the lack of access to EUVL machines is what’s really holding them back from making higher end and more competitive technologies.

    They are actively working on making EUVL machines domestically, which would be incredible given ASML is the only organization in the world that currently makes them. Still, it’ll probably not be till the 2030s that they actually can get into production with that.

    If this is a topic that interests you, GamersNexus did an awesome hour-long deep dive into a couple Chinese chip companies and what they’ve been making and how they are being unfairly handicapped by the west, and the incredible progress they are making despite that. This is sort of perfect timing for Chinese players to enter the market given Western companies are gouging consumers and losing the good will, pretty much every PC enthusiast in the world would be happy to buy Chinese products over Western ones based strictly on price of performance is up to par.

    https://youtu.be/qzfhhAfxK-A






  • I know this is 6 months old but I just wanted to share my experience which was negative, I just got diagnosed and my psychiatrist wanted to try Atomoxetine before a stimulant. I was only on 20mg for two weeks, it raised my resting heart rate by 30 - 40 bpm. My resting heart rate was literally 100 bpm because of it, blood pressure also sky rocketed. It made me depressed and took away my libido. I hated that shit.

    But it gave me cool vivide dreams every night. It works well for some people.





  • I paid $180 a month for unlimited data on cox, but they threatened to terminate my account after I passed 1tb of upload in a month, they were calling and telling me it’s a violation of their terms of service. I said I pay for fucking unlimited data, “that doesn’t include upload” you scummy little fucks, false fucking marketing in that case because you advertised UNLIMITED DATA.

    I lucked out when I bought a house that has quantum fiber, I pay $50 a month for 500/500 and real unlimited. I push 4 - 8 tb of usage per month with about half being upload.