hyperstar

I tried installing Guix System maybe about a year ago, but had problems with LVM on LUKS with full-disk encryption and missing and outdated documentation. Has this situation changed?

Question from a welfare country and complete ignorance: what exactly are the steps necessary to change this and why is it so difficult for the USA to take them?

Before I got my Happy Hacking I had both control and escape on caps lock, but with HH, I have no problem using the default escape, which is closer there than on regular keyboards.

On what frequency do they transmit? What non-smart equipment does one need to detect one?

How much? So rich wackos get a practically free pass, or will the fines be adjusted to weath?

What are the best ways of doing this without a smartphone?

I tried Matrix a few months ago, but the clients were pretty horrible compared to irssi. The only functional one was the ugly GUI one with emojis and all that.

I was assuming they have something equivalent to the Intel Management Engine. Do they not?

> Isn't any hardware a "potential" hardware backdoor?

I don't know. Is this true of open hardware? I mean, there could be a backdoor, but it would also be practically possible for qualified people to find it, right?

Great! now take the (potential) hardware backdoors out of your computers and make them Linux-friendly.

But why don't they just keep the drivers etc. from the previous version? This doesn't seem to be a problem for Linux.

Naive question: why is it that the newest version of macos doesn't run on older machines? (The solution is, of course, to install Linux on them.)

I'm impressed by the (allegedly) tactile and clear keyboard

https://frame.work/blog/the-keyboard

but I'd be delighted to see a happy-hacking style layout, where the arrow keys are consigned to the fn layer (which should be configurable; the whole keyboard could be configurable by qmk). It would also be nice to see an option where the trackpad is replaced by a foldable joystick. Maybe this way one could get rid of the split (arrow) key and the short f keys and the short escape. Think of the vi users.

Is the accelerometer of the iphone 5s also sensitive enough to pick up sound?

VIm is to other editors what touch typing is to hunt-and-peck.

> I’d like them to figure out things from a clean slate without my opinionated views on top of it

What clean slate? The alternative is their being influenced by other people's opinionated views.

As soon as they make it possible to install free firmware such as coreboot.

It may be that the generic masculine bears witness of an historical injustice, but so what? A trace of an injustice is not a continuation of it. A language should be capable of expressing things simply and elegantly; it oughtn't to be burdened with the need constantly to manifest some orthodoxy.

I hope you're right.

I recently bought a Wacom tablet, but didn't install any drivers except those that are in the free-software repository of Void Linux, which I suppose don't do this. I wish it were easier in general, though, to find out whether hardware requires proprietary software to function. For example, I'd like to get a document scanner, but, since I don't know of any model that can run on free software, I just do without.

Yes, the one was on Void Linux (no desktop environment), the other on Kubuntu (KDE).

Safest gives me the same each time.

I tried this with Tor Browser on two different computers and got two different fingerprints, even in safest mode.

Preferably, don't take those jobs. Or, if you must, tape the cameras and remove the microphone. Use a wired headset for talking and unplug it when not in use. When not on the job, turn it off and wrap it in aluminium foil.

I think there should always be physical off-switches for microphones: it should be possible to know that the thing is not listening. But smartphones also have other private information on them than what can be captured by its microphone.

I don't think the smartphone is inescapable at all, and I don't think any of the conveniences it offers is worth surrendering one's privacy. But there is a tendency in businesses to ignore the fact that some potential customers do not have smartphones. I wonder if legislation against this might be possible.

By going to restaurants with proper service (if at all) and not going to sporting events.

Rejecting the smartphone might be a start.

I flash libreboot first to get rid of the intel management engine and then the latest coreboot to the bios region. I think I configuried it so that it doesn't include any blobs, but I'm not sure. Wish it were easier to tell for non-experts.

The machines that get 5/5, do they have open hardware? I heard somewhere that there's this thing called microcode that resides in the processor and could contain backdoors. Is that taken into account here?

What was the thing that detracted from the corebooted Thinkpad's trustworthiness?

> both

does that mean steamos and non-steamos linux or steamos (which is a linux)? it would be nice to know whether playing this required installing a new operating system.