What does it even mean? People can recompile the kernel to turn the crap off.

These days if the file is write protected, you get prompted for whether you really want to remove it. I don’t know when that change appeared or whether it’s universal.

€890, meh

Bought a Samsung mini laser printer and found that it is Windows only. I gave it to a neighbour.

Meh, I’m feeling like this whole concept is pretty flawed and it might be better by now to just run Graphene or Lineage out of the box. Maybe a niche Android phone manufacturer like Unihertz could find incentive to do something like that.

A fully FOSS dumbphone would possibly be of more interest than a smartphone, fwiw. Enough smartphone projects have failed that I’m unexcited about this latest one.

Someone posted this last week:

Caption: “I hope the NVidia driver doesn’t crash”.

Google gets lots of your email either way, since many of your correspondents will be on gmail. I’ve been getting domains mostly from porkbun.com which offers free whois privacy. namesilo.com has it too.

Don’t ever write any really private data to the SSD in cleartext. Use an encrypted file system. “Erase” by throwing away the key. That said, for modern fast SSD’s the performance overhead of the encryption might be a problem. For the old SATA SSD in my laptop, I don’t notice it.

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