I’m curious, did you dig around the BIOS/UEFI to see if there are any ACPI power states that can be disabled?

I had a very similar issue and turning off S3 worked around it. Of course, that meant higher power usage during sleep but it was a compromise over buying new hardware.

not my words. It’s the Valve dev who said it.

Funny, I just saw an article saying don’t get too excited about Linux gaming boosts because apparently Wine doesn’t use ntsync yet, and Valve already worked around ntsync by implementing the faster fsync in SteamOS.

I feel like there was an app from the ACLU or EFF that did exactly that. Locked the device and started recording on panic button combo, and if I am remembering correctly had the ability to auto-upload to a cloud in case of device seizure.

EDIT: Ah, ok I was confused. It was the ACLU Mobile Justice app which was cloud based, but it was shutdown just last month. They point to external entities having access to their database as the reason.

How else can you pretend you are ordering the Hulk around?

apt update

apt upgrade

…actually, now I want to see if I can set up an alias like that.

hulk smash firefox

It doesn’t even mention when Brave silently installed their VPN as a service on your system. Which doesn’t get removed when you uninstall Brave. And if you do manually remove it, gets reinstalled on Brave silent automatic update, because that’s also a background running service.

tl;dr:

He buys an official USB stick of it (unbranded), finds out it’s an Ubuntu derivative now, with a mix of Gnome and KDE apps, and anything that was proprietary Linspire software on it hasn’t been updated for a decade. Concludes it must be for schools and corporations wanting an official support team.

Correct me if I’m wrong but- manually configuring your DNS in the OS would still enable traffic monitoring, wouldn’t it? I always thought DNS traffic is not encrypted by default.

I made the mistake of trying Debian on a new system. While I will eventually transition to Debian for it’s stability, it’s glacial speed of change means that new hardware isn’t very compatible. I tried the half-step that was LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and even that was missing some support for my hardware. Not until I moved to Ubuntu-based Linux Mint did I finally have everything working, after some poking and prodding. I’m guessing once Debian Trixie comes out, I can test again.

You have to have more mature hardware if you go Debian. It’s not something I’d tell anyone to install on a new build.

I haven’t followed Kotaku for years. Did they give up on covering video games? Car manufacturing isn’t even adjacent.

Any reason you avoided the official Raspberry Pi Imager software? You really can just configure a headless OS all before flashing the SD card. Choose RPi OS lite from the list, then set up your hostname, username, password, wireless and turn on SSH service. Then all you have to do after flashing is plug in power and SSH in. None of this display troubleshooting would be needed.

Two questions:

Do you have anything between the Pi and Display, like an HDMI switch? Sometimes the Pi incorrectly sets the display resolution if it can’t communicate with the display directly.

Did you use the Raspberry Pi Imager program? You can configure SSH and WiFi, before you even image to SD. It’s how I set up my headless stuff so I don’t have to futz with connecting displays.

I’m sorry I can’t speak for Apple TV, but I do know Roku. I captured about a month of DNS with a Roku device on the network. It phones home about everything. Even better, they hardcoded the DNS server on the device to prevent tampering with ads in their menus. I had to set up a redirect to quarantine it before eventually taking it off the network completely.

Last I recall, the most private method for general streaming was a cheap Android device from Walmart with a custom OS installed on it.

I can skip over any business that only has a Facebook page. Plenty of choices out there…

What I can’t skip is when a political candidate is only on Facebook. I can’t count the number of times I was trying to research candidates for local election and found they only had their policies on a locked Facebook page. Infuriating doesn’t describe it.

sometimes you think you are old, and then you find out you are oldold and things are a little harder than you realized.

The “we know better than you” attitude Microsoft has. They’ve very slowly removed more and more power user functionality. Almost every customization has to be hacked in with a group policy or registry edit now, or by outright replacing explorer.exe

I wonder how many people still directly connect to the internet without a gateway. It seems sensational to say “INSTANTLY INFECTED” and then tiny print (in a way that nobody connects to the internet since 1999). But maybe I’m just ignorant to how large a market still use direct connection.