GL.Inet sells routers that run openwrt out of the box. I’m not claiming they’re guaranteed to not be modified to collect data, but just giving an example that there are consumer grade products out there that are better options, you just need to look for them.
Czech Republic: Svickova
Philippines: Sisig
Singapore: Chicken Nasi Goreng
Korea: Sundubu Jjigae
They’re recommended because of historical compatibility, not repairability. Also, it was because of the older thinkpads that were excellent with linux and built like tanks that gave them that reputation. Lastly, as another comment in this thread quoted, the failing score was because they were missing a french repairability index thingy, whatever that is, so not exactly a “technical” issue.
Lmao ikr. This literally has nothing to do with Squid Game except maybe capitalism.
Signal is the best balance between secure and convenience. There are more private options out there (i.e. don’t require a phone number), but they are harder to adapt especially if you want to get non-techy family and friends to switch over.
A 15+ year old MSI laptop. I’ve had to replace the screen and the battery is dead so I removed it and just use direct power. It’s happily chugging along dual booted with Windows 7 and Mint. I don’t remember the last time I logged on to the Windows partitiion, but I’m too lazy to back up the 1TB of stuff there so I just keep it there. It’s connected to my TV and I use it to watch movies.
Well at least it wasn’t just a poop emoji…yet.
I have to admit there are 2 ai-made music stuff that I like - the one with the bugs playing death metal, and the one that converts social media roasts into songs. But that’s about it.
Thunder has a tablet mode view, which can help maximize browsing on an iPad.
I’ve only been to 8 countries, so no.
The surprising part here is that the school sided with the IT guy.
The attacks in that article pertain to edge devices in corporate networks that they are attempting to hijack to use as proxy/exit nodes. That’s not really related to getting cloud accounts compromised which is not the motive of those attacks. The primary goal is to gain control of those devices and sell/rent them to malicious actors (since traffic coming from known corporate addresses are mostly trusted). I doubt the attackers care about someone’s photos/videos in the cloud. Brute force attacks can be thwarted in several ways, and as the article mentions, just making sure those edge devices are updated and patched with the latest security updates will largely protect them. Besides, any corporation with a competent security team will be able to recognize if their network devices are being used maliciously.
“Calm and boring days” is definitely underrated. When you’re an adult with daily responsibilities, it’s almost impossible to have an extended period, let alone an entire day, where there is nothing that comes up that needs to be done.
He’s exactly what I imagine a nepobaby techbro who calls himself Big Balls would look like.
As a dude, drinking sweet cocktails instead of beer and not having more than one or two drinks. First of all, I have the asian flush so I get red very easily. Even if I’m not drunk at all, I look like it. So I nurse my drink and sip slowly. I also usually don’t have more than 2 in a night. And if I’m gonna nurse a drink, I might as well have something that tastes delicious.
Dude can be an amazing piano player.
there’s always the potential for a very near future breaches or compromise
That is a goalpost that will never stop moving. There is always a potential threat and you can never reduce your risk to zero. Right now, encrypting the data yourself before uploading it is your best option outside of encrypting AND hosting the data yourself. You’re basically anticipating that the well-known secure encryption algorithms will eventually be broken, which is not impossible no doubt, but at the moment not likely. You also have to step back and figure out your threat model, in order to come up with an adequate solution.
If you don’t mind having to take an extra step to access them and probably not having the convenience of online sharing, you can encrypt your photos/videos before uploading them to online cloud storage.
Same thing he did with twitter employees. Micromanaging is one of the worst traits a manager can have.