All the better, you know how to find help.

You might even be a better windows fixer than someone certified simply for that. That, and you’ll share your learning process with that person asking for help.

10% of a billion us dollars? That’s power not fit for a single human, distinct from a simple million dollars.

Because nobody actually “earns” that much, they plunder it through unfortunately-legal abuse.

Mullvad on desktop has QUIC protocol encapsulation so that wireguard just looks like normal https traffic.

There’s also shadowsocks protocol encapsulation to look like ssh traffic. And that’s even available on mobile too.

I’d love to see them audited.

Back when they were in the US, they closed shop and moved to Iceland to avoid turning over data for a subpoena.

That’s both admirable and an admission that they had longs to turn over.

But that they generate accounts on the fly like the best? Is promising in context.

You know how the US government has 3 branches that are supposed to check and balance each other? We should teach that Corporations, Government, and Individuals/Unions operate similarly.

Corporate terms of service check individuals against abusing others. So do government laws.

Government is supposed to check corporations from abusing their customers. And customer boycotts moderate corporate behavior.

And corporations… Apparently moderate the flow of information to individuals so the companies always manufacture consent. And lobby for their own advantage.

If nothing else, by describing how it is, we can have a real conversation about how fucked/okay all of this is, and examine what parts of this framework are actually functioning.

And in that, we can explore where Unions fit - as 3rd party bosses steeped in corruption, or as genuine representatives of their people. And explore how to rebound in just the one context, because we are good citizens. 😇😅😉

Gentoo and Arch are built to be infinitely mod-able.

Writing a patch for a thing you use at home, and wanna share it with the world? Gentoo even makes that easier. Arch stepped away from that to rely on precompiled binaries for simplicity and efficiency’s sake, but it’s still available through the ABS and AUR with some extra steps.

Nix and Guix? I’m afraid of the dependency-redundancy involved, but organizational deployments seem like the right place for that.

Serious development without requiring a dedicated machine, where all deps are accounted for? Yeah, Nix/Guix will help quite a bit. Rapid, flexible deployment of something customized and virtualized? There too, Nix/Guix.

Need some containerization or Virtualization? Gentoo or Arch already has your back. And if that’s your primary usecase, you may prefer Qubes to anything we’ve already discussed. Then again… Gentoo could use a Qubes-porting repo maintainer.

I thought SteamOS was already out