Avoiding anything other than government (up to and including a corrupt cop or town)? Drop a gallon of your own stored blood in your residence, hitchike to a state or three away, grab an under the table job and never do anything like file for taxes, credit, or use your real name.
So for example if you plan on walking into the mountains until people assume you’re dead and then leave, the right people will see and you’ll catch back on.
Only if you do something dumb like stick around in the same spot of wilderness for months on end. The whole point of disappearing is that you go to a new place and start a new life.
Made worse because we have progressed so far into forensics and many countries are using that to monitor peoples’ whereabouts.
Yes, but actually no. Just because they have the data doesn't mean they're actually using it. A government motivated to find you will be a huge problem to deal with. What exactly have you done to cause the government to want you specifically?
Soon there will be no running away from anything you want to run back to and no pretending to run.
Paranoid fearmongering. Breaking the law bad enough (regardless of how moral of a law it is) will absolutely get the government on your back, but just assuming that the law will turn into hellish big brother with motivated tracking is putting the cart before the horse. Yes, it's entirely possible that the current trajectory we have will get worse / follow a downward trend into 1984 style bullshit. Obviously that's why you prepare for that. But it does not mean it will follow a downward trend into 1984 territory, and assuming that it's impossible to stop that from happening means you've given up, and are therefore a part of the problem.
It’s why witness protection only works when it’s government-sponsored.
Oh, youre thinking about the actual death bit. There's a couple of ways to do it easier then holding your breath and hoping the coroner doesn't notice during the autopsy.
Head to a place that's known to be semi-dangerous for whatever reason (a beachfront hotel, mountains, etc). Inform people of your vacation plans, and then dissappear the same way that other people who probably died did. If you're really didcated, go to bear country, leave food out for a bear, and then dump some pre-drawn blood of yours around when a bear shows up and then disappear. Switch countries and never look back. This is a dick move, but if pretending death is the best solution you can find it should work well enough.
If you're just trying to run away, it's actually relatively easy. Sell/trash everything, buy an old car, drive across country, and start completely over without ever telling anyone where you went. Don't even sign into your old online accounts. As far as everyone but the government is concerned, you'll have disappeared. If you're leaving an abusive family behind or avoiding the mafia, this is plenty, and you don't have to worry about being deported. Spend a few years as a waiter or construction worker being paid under the table and as long as you keep that up, you're even invisible from the less proactive parts of the government.
I'll be honest, faking my death seems dramatic and way too complicated for any situation i can come up with. I'd just do the disappear thing and leave it at that.
My point is that for office tasks, a 150$ laptop isn't just an option, it honestly will run office tasks incredibly well. Telling someone to not spend less than $500 on a laptop because it will run horribly is almost ten year old advice, and not helpful in 2023.
The latitude 5490 sells for 150$ and has everything a person running office stuff would want.
I'm sorry, but, no, you're not even close with the size comparison. Office 2021 is 4gb, libreoffice and office 365 are smaller than that. The cheapest bluray will hold 25gb.
Obviously office programs have not become easier to run (with libreoffice maybe being an exception), but processing power has vastly outpaced whatever new requirements they've gained.
Shit like teams needs a supercomputer to run well, and will be slow on everything else. There is no point in buying a top of the line laptop just to keep teams or a badly made website from lagging.
People haven't seriously used floppy disks for twenty years now.
This is a lot less true than it was five years ago. Web browsing and basic word editing has not become harder to do in the past ten years, but hardware has made some major leaps. (thanks amd) So as long as it has an ssd and a semi modern (within five years) processor, it will do a great job of handling homework and 4k video. With windows replaced with linux, it'll do all those things and feel snappy while it does it.
Avoid sub 100$ laptops, and keep a skeptical eye on anything between that and 400$, but it can absolutely be done.
I'm biased, but the dell inspiron laptops that businesses offload are perfect for this sort of task. They have connectivity out the wazoo (useful for that outdated projector in the seldom used classroom) and their batteries are easily replaced.
Weird, the ones on the app i've seen have usually been as horny as everybody else on that app. Grindr is actually a pretty okay place to find masc and transmasc people, compared to anything else i've used. If whattrees was serious about it, i would actually recomend grindr for them.
I use a ip link checker - to verify the vpn is working like it should. They're a dime a dozen but this one is the one that showed up first on my search.
basically, you download a unique-to-you magnet torrent, and then the torrent / website will tell you what ip is being shown to the outside world. if you leave it in your client you can see at a glance what ip you are actually using in your client.
I can't speak for the more modern cars, but my 2019 corolla had a cell phone connection which could be cut by pulling a single fuse. Idunno if it's a universal name, but it was called the DCM module. The emergency button in the roof was wired through it, and so was one of the right speakers and the built-in microphone. None of them work with the fuse removed. I'll route the speaker and mic wires around it at some point by going through the glove box, but it hasn't been a priority for me.
On top of the other comments, your private tracker will have a tutorial/rulebook on exactly how new content should be labelled. It's worth checking that out before you start experimenting with encoding quality options.
if there was an extention that could skip the sponsor segments inside the videos themselves I’d use it in a heartbeat.
sponsorblock does that. it's crowd sourced, so it doesn't always work with the small channel newest videos, but it's very good at what it does considering.
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What did you print them in? That's gonna have some major sag after a week of summer.