Someone should rename the gens. I never know what people are refering to with the arbitrary names. Maybe gen a, b and c would work.

Trying to see what they can get away with. Can I control other things too? I was allowd to dictate how people spend their money here, so why not there?

Natural progression on closed, locked down, mainstream platforms. They are not compatible with democratic, free countries.

Raspberrypi with pivpn. Put it right next to the router. Can possibly be powered by the routers usb port as well. Connect with ssh to administer. Easy as pie.

For always staying on the vpn: Get a pfsense router and configure it to always connect to the vpn and route all traffic through it.

Enjoyable read!

Many of the things you mentioned are not “loosing”. They are chugging along. Slow and steady.

Cause it takes time and effort. Most people just pay someone else to read the manual.

It’s part of the standard. It’s slightly different for each USB verision. USB 2.0 starts at 100mA at 5V and the device can negotiate up to 500mA, if the host can deliver.

You won’t run in to coding.

Having decision paralysis? Best to just pick an option and do it. Expect it to go wrong and be pleasantly surprised when it diesn’t. Don’t try to plan it all out. Doing is the best learning. Unsure about something? Press enter and see what happens. Start over if you have to.

Pick Mint. It’s a good start. load it to a USB, reboot, find the boot menu, boot the USB, let the installer guide you. Have another device handy for internet searches if something confuses you. At this point, If for some reason you wanna try another distro, go ahead! Doesn’t hurt to reinstall and try out.

USB is intelligent. The device should draw as much current as it asks for. If the device is not detecting any host to do any data transfer with, then it is probably idling at lowest unit power load. I would bet it’s not bad for it in any way. As long as that power brick lives up to the standard.

So paypal is unreliable, is the takeaway.

Explain this please.

I observe this in the stray dog population. There is always one calm and confident dog like this.

Would make senes if first and second line switched.

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Among dogs there is certainly the one dog that has the respect of the other dogs. The other dogs will happily wag their tail and show their belly. The ones that challange it will be chased away. I think each sex in the community has a ‘leader’ of their own.

I think the equivalent in humans are charismatic individuals that command respect over their surrounding.

People who self-proclaim ‘alpha’ usually lack charisma, are agressive, dysfunctional individuals that live in a fantasy. Noone respects them. They may see them as crazy and hence fear them.

The people?

I was imagining tunnels underground. Like lava tubes.

So they are just offering plain data protection now?

Rephrase the question, “Do you fear the consequences of facing trials after the war, similar to how the nazi enablers did?”

Holocene extinction