Hellfire103 @ hellfire103 @lemmy.ca

Young humanoid in the UK. Proudly LGBT. Slava Ukraini! | *they/them*

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I used to use Artix, a long time ago. It's nice, but I preferred vanilla Arch. There's not really much else I can say.

In terms of init systems, I like the following for different reasons:

• OpenRC - It just works and the commands make sense
• S6 - It's really bloody fast
• runit - It's simple

I don't personally have a problem with systemd, either, but I understand why many people don't like it.

Yeah, I actually do wish that Void had some way of adding third-party repos. XBPS supports it, but none exist.

Also, many third-party srcpkgs do not compile well on musl, and AppImages aren't supported yet. I think I might reinstall with glibc until musl is a little more developed.

To be frank:

• Good idea in theory
• Ancaps and cryptobros ruined it for the rest of us
• Monero is okay

The only places here with decent public transport are the major cities and a handful of towns. Where I live there's only one bus, which stops for breakfast and lunch and doesn't run after 7 PM. We used to have a train, but the tracks were removed in the '60s and half of what used to be the line is now underwater.

Not to mention that the Conservative government keeps finding new and inventive ways to cripple public services.

Then again, minimum wage isn't enough own a car and pay for the insurance, so I probably won't be getting a car anyway.

I suppose I do enjoy hiking...

Either bring a burner phone, or make sure you disable biometrics before you land. You could also consider wiping the phone and then restoring from a backup later on.

Also, learn about your constitutional rights and any relevant state laws (e.g. the CCPA in California). You probably won't have to mention them, but they're good to know.

1. I see. Guess I'd better load up a guide and get ready to break my internet!
2. Lovely. Running on Lockdown Mode now, and it's actually not that bad!
3. Thank you! You can find my post here.

Which calculator is it?

It's a Casio fx-CG50 (known as the Casio PRIZM in the USA). The TOTP generator is part of the Utilities app.

Thanks! As it happens, I have experimented with self-hosting before. It's just that it can be expensive to do this and there are often age barriers (for some reason).

I have managed to host a static website completely for free, however. I used Codeberg Pages for the site, Cloudflare for the DNS (although I may move to FreeDNS), and EU.ORG for the domain. It's not quite self-hosting, but it's close!

Well thanks! As for the questions:

1. I had been distrohopping on the ThinkPad after Arch Linux started acting a little funny. FreeBSD just happened to be the OS that stuck.
2. I use WireGuard because it's light and allows me to set custom DNS servers (allowing me to use ProtonVPN and NextDNS at the same time). My school has blocked most VPNs, but the official apps for ProtonVPN and Windscribe can get around it no problem, as can Tor, but I do lose my DNS.
3. I'll give it a look, but I'm already quite happy with NextDNS.
4. Interesting. I did manage to get WhatsApp working in Pidgin a while ago, but it was a little clunky.
5. I might consider doing that, but I do need to use my webcam for the occasional intrusive Teams call. It is what it is and I do what I can to maximise my privacy.
6. Yeah, I'm not sure I want to go nuclear. My accounts are (with the exception of my abandoned Instagram account) on privacy-respecting services with more people than bad actors. I would say that all I should do is change my usernames and profile pictures, then unlink my websites while I scrub away personal details. After that, all I need to do is DM a few of my trusted mutuals about the change, so they don't think I'm a stranger, and everything should be hunky-dory.
7. Good advice, although I tend to shop more in-person than online.
8. I don't have a transport. I use a standard off-the-shelf boombox to play the CDs, and I use fre:ac to rip and convert them to Ogg Vorbis format. I like the idea of FLAC, but I don't see the point in using it myself, as I already have hard copies of the media.
9. I used ^L_A_^T_E_^X in the past, but now I prefer Markdown. The syntax is easier and it comes out of Pandoc looking the same as ^L_A_^T_E_^X.
10. Sounds cool. This would also be relevant to the cybersecurity degree I've applied for at uni.

That's hilarious XD

Thanks!

So funny story. I spent a couple of hours threat-modelling last year, and then I forgot where I put the docs. Really, I'm just maxing out everything as much as I can without it becoming too inconvenient. I'm mainly trying to reduce tracking and data mining by "evil" organisations (e.g. multinationals, billionaire-run companies, three-letter agencies, GAFAM).

If I find a template, I'll be sure to send you a copy of my threat model.

Nice setup! I think I'll maybe make one of my own!

I have a few questions, though:

• How did you set up your firewall? What did you use and what rules do you have in place?
• How did you harden iOS? I have read up and implemented a number of basic settings to reduce tracking, and NextDNS blocks the rest, but I wouldn't consider my current iPhone "hardened", per se.

Text replacement feature in the iOS settings.

I haven't got around to mapping it on Linux yet.

I have it mapped to "\ib" in my phone

Ooh! Very nice!

Holy shit! This was a joke back in 2022, but now it actually is cheaper to buy cocaine and run everywhere‽

• Uses runit instead of systemd
• Uses LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL
• Optionally uses musl libc instead of glibc
• Uses the XBPS package manager
• Void is similar to BSD, in many respects
• It's very minimal, and that makes it flexible
• It's very lightweight. Until I installed a WM and started a bunch of daemons, my RAM usage was not only in the megabytes, but also only double digits.
• It has XBPS-SRC, which is comparable to Portage and FreeBSD Ports.
• Most of the documentation is on Reddit and in blog posts, as Void Docs is quite basic and the wiki is no-longer updated. Some may consider this a good thing, others will disagree.

Flatpak Nix solved most of the issues I had the last time I tried musl. It's working fine as of today!

EDIT: Flatpak refuses to work with xdg-desktop-portal when dbus is running, so now I'm using the Nix package manager. Void+Nix is a match made in heaven!

% sudo xbps-install -Su sddm sway wayland

% sudo ln -s /etc/sv/sddm /var/service

% sudo sv up sddm

"Hey, why aren't there any sessions?"