Still waiting on the internal investigation results.

pedophilia, with excuses.

Is it $60 or less? Everytime one of these alternative boards with an assload of more features pops up, nobody bothers to mention the price. Obviously we could spend more money to get more features, that’s what spending more money does. You can’t replace something without actually offering an alternative. The pi’s biggest selling point was that it was cheaper than a steak dinner. If you dont match or beat that, you aren’t actually competing with the pi.

There are also connectors that let the cable through the holes in the end, completely removing the need to try and get the strip length exactly right. It’s worth looking into if you have to do this more than a once or twice. As a quick example; https://www.amazon.com/Klein-Tools-80024-Racheting-Installation/dp/B09FWH5RFF/

It’s funny, i had the opposite idea. The beginning / middle was very mid, but the ending managed to pull the movie from a c+ to an a-. The emotional climax that tied it all together was the only thing keeping the movie going.

Not true. It also does intel; https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/intel/. I got an nvidia card working with hacky terminal workaround as well. it’s been rock solid for almost a year now.

Avoiding anything other than government (up to and including a corrupt cop or town)? Drop a gallon of your own stored blood in your residence, hitchike to a state or three away, grab an under the table job and never do anything like file for taxes, credit, or use your real name.

It’s just so hard to imagine because all our land here is getting developed.

There is a lot of development going on, yes, but damn do you have a skewed idea of what ‘all the land’ actually entails. America is fucking huge, and there is a fuckton of empty space on the western half of it. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/nobody-lives-here-mapping-emptiness-in-the-us-and-beyond/

So for example if you plan on walking into the mountains until people assume you’re dead and then leave, the right people will see and you’ll catch back on.

Only if you do something dumb like stick around in the same spot of wilderness for months on end. The whole point of disappearing is that you go to a new place and start a new life.

Made worse because we have progressed so far into forensics and many countries are using that to monitor peoples’ whereabouts.

Yes, but actually no. Just because they have the data doesn’t mean they’re actually using it. A government motivated to find you will be a huge problem to deal with. What exactly have you done to cause the government to want you specifically?

Soon there will be no running away from anything you want to run back to and no pretending to run.

Paranoid fearmongering. Breaking the law bad enough (regardless of how moral of a law it is) will absolutely get the government on your back, but just assuming that the law will turn into hellish big brother with motivated tracking is putting the cart before the horse. Yes, it’s entirely possible that the current trajectory we have will get worse / follow a downward trend into 1984 style bullshit. Obviously that’s why you prepare for that. But it does not mean it will follow a downward trend into 1984 territory, and assuming that it’s impossible to stop that from happening means you’ve given up, and are therefore a part of the problem.

It’s why witness protection only works when it’s government-sponsored.

Citation needed.

Oh, youre thinking about the actual death bit. There’s a couple of ways to do it easier then holding your breath and hoping the coroner doesn’t notice during the autopsy.

Head to a place that’s known to be semi-dangerous for whatever reason (a beachfront hotel, mountains, etc). Inform people of your vacation plans, and then dissappear the same way that other people who probably died did. If you’re really didcated, go to bear country, leave food out for a bear, and then dump some pre-drawn blood of yours around when a bear shows up and then disappear. Switch countries and never look back. This is a dick move, but if pretending death is the best solution you can find it should work well enough.

If you’re just trying to run away, it’s actually relatively easy. Sell/trash everything, buy an old car, drive across country, and start completely over without ever telling anyone where you went. Don’t even sign into your old online accounts. As far as everyone but the government is concerned, you’ll have disappeared. If you’re leaving an abusive family behind or avoiding the mafia, this is plenty, and you don’t have to worry about being deported. Spend a few years as a waiter or construction worker being paid under the table and as long as you keep that up, you’re even invisible from the less proactive parts of the government.

I’ll be honest, faking my death seems dramatic and way too complicated for any situation i can come up with. I’d just do the disappear thing and leave it at that.

Forge it. Governments mostly take paperwork in good faith, and only question it beyond surface level if they are given a reason to.

My point is that for office tasks, a 150$ laptop isn’t just an option, it honestly will run office tasks incredibly well. Telling someone to not spend less than $500 on a laptop because it will run horribly is almost ten year old advice, and not helpful in 2023.

The latitude 5490 sells for 150$ and has everything a person running office stuff would want.

I’m sorry, but, no, you’re not even close with the size comparison. Office 2021 is 4gb, libreoffice and office 365 are smaller than that. The cheapest bluray will hold 25gb.

Obviously office programs have not become easier to run (with libreoffice maybe being an exception), but processing power has vastly outpaced whatever new requirements they’ve gained.

Shit like teams needs a supercomputer to run well, and will be slow on everything else. There is no point in buying a top of the line laptop just to keep teams or a badly made website from lagging.

People haven’t seriously used floppy disks for twenty years now.

This is a lot less true than it was five years ago. Web browsing and basic word editing has not become harder to do in the past ten years, but hardware has made some major leaps. (thanks amd) So as long as it has an ssd and a semi modern (within five years) processor, it will do a great job of handling homework and 4k video. With windows replaced with linux, it’ll do all those things and feel snappy while it does it.

Avoid sub 100$ laptops, and keep a skeptical eye on anything between that and 400$, but it can absolutely be done.

I’m biased, but the dell inspiron laptops that businesses offload are perfect for this sort of task. They have connectivity out the wazoo (useful for that outdated projector in the seldom used classroom) and their batteries are easily replaced.

Exxept for the source csam required to get the model started, of course.

Shit, same tho. They brought him a fucking fish at the end. What. The. Fuck.

Nope. Content creators, the ones doing all the talking on reddit, definitely left. Check out this graph of posts per day on r/askreddit

tucker and dale is a horrible choice for a luigi’s mansion kid

I use a ip link checker - to verify the vpn is working like it should. They’re a dime a dozen but this one is the one that showed up first on my search.

basically, you download a unique-to-you magnet torrent, and then the torrent / website will tell you what ip is being shown to the outside world. if you leave it in your client you can see at a glance what ip you are actually using in your client.

I can’t speak for the more modern cars, but my 2019 corolla had a cell phone connection which could be cut by pulling a single fuse. Idunno if it’s a universal name, but it was called the DCM module. The emergency button in the roof was wired through it, and so was one of the right speakers and the built-in microphone. None of them work with the fuse removed. I’ll route the speaker and mic wires around it at some point by going through the glove box, but it hasn’t been a priority for me.

https://www.toyotanation.com/threads/how-do-i-locate-the-dcm-telematics-unit-on-a-2020-corolla.1693507/#post-14400614

I’m happy i did that too. Apparently toyota is still leaking the location history of a bunch of their cars and i’d hate to see that get abused.