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If you and the attacker share the same network the attacker can get all sorts if info.

Tools like nmap show things like ip, mac, ports and os detection.

You can use macchanger to randomize your mac. I think there is a setting in networkmanager to do this. Been a while since I looked in the settings.

Trump is one symptom of much deeper corruption in our political system. One that transcends party lines. Politician’s are bought by monied interests and no longer serve the people in most cases.

If we cant get the money out of politics it’s only a matter of time till another despot rises.

Garuda Linux -> https://garudalinux.org/

Just checked the fstab on my tablet and they have subvolumes for root, home, srv, cache, log and tmp. I also have snap-pac installed and not sure if it’s installed by default but I assume it is. Their KDE is awesome! Very polished. They have really taken the time to make arch easy.

They have all sorts of aliases in the .bashrc that are there to make transitioning to arch a little less daunting to the average user. Things like reflector to stay current with mirrorlists.

The have warnings when something is wrong during updates with instructions how to fix, taking care of conflicts during updates, fixing pacman lock, garuda-update remote fix to restore pacman to their default’s. Chaotic AUR might be installed by default, not sure it’s been a long while since I installed. Great setup assistant, and installer. btrfs-assistant and eza setup. Might want to install and set up meld to handle pacdiff in the .bashrc alias pacdiff="sudo -H DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff"

If you want easyarch Garuda is it. If you want a real arch experience without having to go through the manual install process, endeavour or archinstall is the way to go. You might have to setup btrfs and snapper the way you want it manually though. Im not sure about endeavour as I haven’t used it in a while. It’s pretty easy to do though.

Set up the snapper-timeline.timer and set snapshots to only snap on update/remove of packages with snap-pac. Also from the arch wiki,

Create subvolumes for things that are not worth being snapshotted, like /var/cache/pacman/pkg, /var/abs, /var/tmp, and /srv.

One of us, one of us!

They aren’t gonna make it free, your still gonna have to pay and likely more in monthly service/rental fees and hardware. If my theory is correct, they want you to settle for less while they control the hardware, host all the services, manipulate all the data and surveil everyone’s movement and conversations. All this made easier with a central hub cloud computing the plebes are forced into due to manufactured scarcity.

So I’ve got a wacky conspiracy theory about this and all the hardware shortages, ai datacenters, etc. The tech companies are trying to position themselves for “cloud only computing devices” being the only affordable option for most people. The you’ll own nothing and like it model.

That was a lot of fun.

Kde is working really well on linux-surface. Had to change the OSK to maliit(?) but everything I need works. I haven’t tried to install the camera driver because I never needed it. Stylus works really well ootb. Use it with Krita. Screen rotation works great and I use it as an e-reader. I choose an easy arch distro because disk encryption works with the native keyboard although it has been some time since i tried a non rolling distro and other distros could have addressed the startup keyboard issues by now. 10/10 would recommend.

VPN’s are like a condom for the internet. With much of the internet trying to fuck you putting on a wrapper is probably a good idea.

Eventually you get used to the slower speeds, rarely have issues with connection and if I do I just change IP. If a website doesn’t allow a vpn I really don’t need to go there and for the sites that I do want to visit there are optional different front ends I use.

A vpn and a good add blocker is pretty much a necessity for me at this point.

Can you use ublock? built in. Im going to give it a go.