This looks promising, I’ll look into it more. Thank you.

I think you’re exaggerating about those sites. With an adblocker turned on they’re generally totally fine, and often a nicer viewing experience than some of the big streaming services - especially YouTube.

I actually wouldn’t mind playing directly from those sites in fact. My biggest priority is having a convenient home screen or desktop on the TV, and providing easy one-click access to those services to make it easy to use if I have guests over or something.

Yeah currently I’m just leaning toward using a docked Steam Deck, and using desktop mode with a wireless keyboard that has a built-in touchpad. The browser as is would be fine.

Maybe if I want to put in the extra effort I can see about adding the browser as a “non-Steam game” and set it to open straight to a streaming site, so that I can open it directly from gaming mode.

Checkmate, atheists.

That looks like paradise.

I’ve heard a little bit about India having their own issues regarding animal rights. 9% is still a lot better than 1% though.

Biking is my freedom, which means I’m very unfree.

The only traveling I’ve done outside of the US was to Canada, very briefly.

What countries are most friendly to a vegan lifestyle? Which ones are most walkable and bikeable?

It sounds like they are basically doing the same thing Replicant does (they even mentioned Replicant), but based on LineageOS right now, and with enough resources to hire someone to work on reverse engineering the proprietary bits.

Not the most glamorous endeavor, but a cool and necessary project. Pretty pragmatic too, focusing on Android instead of mobile Linux.

Okay, whatever, you do you. I’m just saying, “religion is bad” is, like, kinda useless, ya know?

Oh edgelord I see. I got you covered, here’s the one you can push.

I get where people are coming from with a kneejerk, “religion is bad!” reaction, but honestly that’s not very helpful. The world is always going to have a pluralism of beliefs, and many of those beliefs are going to be of a religious nature. You’re never going to get rid of religion, so may as well be realistic about what can change.

Being that virtually all of the most harmful things being done in the name of religion, in the United States, can be traced to a subset of Christian factions, it’s more helpful overall to identify and promote the forms of Christianity that are progressive instead. A groups true worst enemy is their nearest neighbor.

I hope I’m wrong but I fully believe a crackdown on cannabis is coming.

It’s a Thinkpad P51 with a Xeon chip of some sort. Yeah I don’t know what happened there, only that switching to fedora without full disk encryption has resulted in much greater performance, like a difference between being able to do some gaming or not. So many variable changed there that I don’t even know if the crypto had anything to do with it.

I will switch to Android roms that don’t have that defect, and continue to buy and tinker with Linux phones when I can afford it, until they become daily-drivable.

Currently I have fragments of my data stored on at least half a dozen devices that I’ve accumulated over the years. My digital life is as messy as my adhd brain. I plan on setting up a NAS at some point, and will likely both consolidate all my data there and use LUKS. But until then encrypting one drive is the least of my problems.

Although anti-theft tech in my laptop might be kind of neat.

The type of partition I created was Debian’s default settings at the time.

This is where the threat modeling comes in. The laptop in question is not currently likely to be physically searched - nor does it contain any data that is likely to put me at any risk if it is searched, and the more prudent things I can be doing to protect my privacy have more to do with getting away from Android/Play Store, and being less dependent on other surveillance-capitalism services like YouTube, Google Maps, etc.

I will likely use LUKS again in the future, but there are broader overhauls I need to make to my digital life first.

Last time I had LUKS setup on my main laptop, there was a surprizingly sharp hit in performance.

I’m glad I have the option, but is it really the most appropriate thing for me to use right now? It just doesn’t make sense to talk about security and privacy without a clear threat model first.

Without a doubt, but, it’s complicated. I try not to make assumptions, or get my own personal interpretations of things mixed up with direct experience.

No no, it’s when you get circumcision and then rub Tylenol on the wound… right?

At least twelve lanes on a single track. If I recall, the cool keytar instrument you could get for… was it Rock Band 3? might be able to make a song with that track in it. Not sure how many other games or instruments could do that though.