So the shape of the plug is the same for all devices regardless of the spec… doesn’t it just make things more confusing for non techies? I can already see people saying their new laptop is broken because their 5v 0.67A power brick won’t charge it, or buying a USB-c charger just to find out it doesn’t work. A lot of aftermarket chargers claim to support up to 120W etc. Except they mean 120W is a sum of all ports for a 6 port charger so really it’s only 20W. For techies it can get annoying too if you like to play with hardware. You can just feed appropriate voltage DC over those barrel connectors, for example from a car battery with a buck converter or AA/18650 in series and it will work while usb-c charging needs to be negotiated.

It’s so good that some people download two in case the first one breaks.

https://reticulum.network/

That’s why we need decentralized infrastructure like a meshnet or personal/community satellite network. Reticulum based networks are imo the best candidates for that, right now and in the foreseeable future.

getmonero.org

Honey swapped the referal code when another reflink was clicked, brave only applied it’s own code when no referral was used. Not saying that it’s good but honey was purposefully robbing creators, often their own partners when brave only tried to make some money on the side.

It’s free and open source, you don’t have to fund anything. Just don’t enable adds/rewards and don’t pay for their VPN, AI, talk.

1. Don’t care.
2. No it doesn’t.
3. Don’t care.
4. They’re a for-profit privacy centric company same as proton, mullvad, tuta, kagi, duckduckgo, nextcloud, adguard, threema, nextDNS, startmail, bitwarden, OsmAnd, organic maps, odysee, obsidian, onlyoffice, 1984 hosting, njalla, canonical, qubesOS, pfSense, fairphone…

Where are you getting this info from? The last release was 2 days ago https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum and there is an active community porting it to different languages and working on related projects https://awesome-reticulum.net/ .

Replacing broken displays will cost them less than paying someone to swap labels by hand, and if it does become even mildly annoying to them you will be caught and have the book thrown at you. If you are gonna break the law you might as well do something more productive than generating tax write offs.

Risk criminal charges to cause $24 in damages, that will surely crumple the multi bilion dolar corporation.

What do you need all that ram for?

DRM, digital locks, hardware locking fuses etc. should be illegal. If I buy a car I can change the lights, swap out the engine, do whatever I want with it, it’s mine, I own it. Why shouldn’t I be able to do the same with my phone or game? Why should some company have the right to tell me what I can and can’t do with my own property that I paid for? That’s not DRM (digital rights management) because they have no right to manage my property, it’s OSM (ownership subversion mechanism) and that’s what we should call all that anti consumer bullshit.

I have a radxa zero 3w seed box that I also stream movies from by mounting it as a network drive. It’s running dietpi and all traffic goes through a wireguard VPN, it’s connected to a sata SSD via a cheapest USB dongle from aliexpress.

If you want to connect multiple drives a dongle like this one

or multiple cheep sata-usb dongles connected via externally powered usb hub should work but your speeds will be limited by the usb.

I haven’t tested it on an sbc but I use it to connect HDDs to my PC that I power from it’s PSU when I do backups. There are also special raspberry pi HATs that allow you to connect multiple SSDs.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/radxas-sata-hat-makes-compact-pi-5-nas/

With my setup I get ~12 MiB/s download (probably limited because of the VPN overhead) , ram usage doesn’t go above 512 MB even with dietpi dashboard and some of my scripts running. The biggest issue was heat, I had to buy radiators and a fan to keep the temps in the safe range. Other than that everything works great.

You can check benchmarks on dietpi’s website to see what sbc would work best with your network.

https://dietpi.com/survey/#benchmark

Your prices are msrp for unused components.

On my local equivalent of ebay/amazon I can get a used 3080 10 GB for $390, ryzen 9 5900x $265, 32 GB DDR4 3200 mHz $170, new b550 mobo $80, 750w psu 80+ gold $70. $975 total. I didn’t count anything else coz a lot of people already have those things from their old PCs and they’re super cheep. For a full ~$1000 build add a $60 512 GB sata ssd. Cooler will set you back $15, same as a 1080p screen, case and m+k combo and a lot of the time you can get those things for free and they will last you a lifetime.

This is my first ever keyboard that I got for free from an office that was closing down and I use it to this day. Eventually I had to buy a PS/2 to USB dongle but that’s like $5. I have a 2nd spare one in case the 1st one breaks. I plan on using it till I die.

If the place you want to spend at offers gift cards there’s a 99% chance you can buy them with monero. You can also buy prepaid Visa/MasterCard debit cards but they’ll only work at places that don’t require 3D secure. Have a look at https://cakepay.com/

I’m on ryzen 9 5900x, rtx 3080, 32 GB DDR4, with mobo and psu that’s ~€850 today and it will play most modern games on high settings 1080p at +100 fps. Computer hardware these days is a lot more like car hardware than it used to be. Generational improvements aren’t as big and the price for a used 5 year old unit is a ⅓ of a new one. Unless you absolutely need the latest and greatest go with a used last gen.

"If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.

No."

What do you “no”? It absolutely would be. A samurai wallet could be a physical wallet for cash, some hidden blade device, a toy, a regular non privacy centric crypto wallet. For example lets pretend there is this crypto wallet you haven’t heard of. Would a title like “Developer of Ninja Pocket goes to prison” be more or less informative to you?

"Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.

No. "

Again, what do you mean “no”? “Developer of crypto wallet imprisoned” tells you nothing about why he was jailed and completely misses the whole point of the story - that he was imprisoned due to the privacy features of the wallet.

"It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned

Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it’s something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a “privacy tool”."

Like I said it’s implied. The title doesn’t need to tell you that it has something to do with a crypto wallet because that’s not the important part. The privacy preserving characteristics of it is what matters. His “crime” isn’t making a crypto wallet, it’s making it private.

At this point I think it’s pretty clear you’re just being disingenuous so I’ll bid you good day.

IDK how you came to that conclusion but ok.

If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative. Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part. It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned, while with “He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.” it’s implied why (because he built a privacy tool).

What details are being withheld? His name, the tool’s name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?

Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years

Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is.

Keonne Rodriguez pleads guilty to conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business?

Only if you know who Keonne Rodriguez is and that conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business carries a prison sentence of up to 5 years.

A privacy tool dev sentenced to 5 years for a conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmission business?

Is this any better? I don’t think so. It still doesn’t tell you anything about the actual case. You can’t condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise, and trying to do so risks glossing over important details and misinforming the viewer. Also, it’s not the titles job to give you details about the story, just a basic overview of what the story is about.