That was back before tariffs and any goodwill whatsoever dissolved.

They won’t sell it to you, they’re just making sure they aren’t beholden to the same ram shortages the rest of the world is.

I give the warning before I’m handed the laptop. I’ve done three in the family, all Linux Mint XFCE, I never hear any complaints. Shit just works.

A dns server knows what and where things are. That’s its only real job, to tell who’s asking where say, http://eff.org/ is.

“Ay homie, where’s https://eff.org/?”

over here - 173.239.79.200

“thanks, bud!”

The issue is, the dns server you use by default is under the control of whoever your provider is, and as a result, they get all of your dns lookups like the example above as well as every porn site, every piracy site, everywhere.

Installing your own, or simply moving to one your provider has no business with like 9.9.9.9 can help keep your dns queries more private, go a step further and use encrypted dns, as many providers supply, and you’ll be even further covered.

Installing your own, however, comes with the added perk of being able to apply your own dns entries. Suddenly local addresses can have custom names without ever touching a hosts file. Neat! Use DNS certs and you’ve got local SSL!

I would go find something applicable to feed you for a dns 101, but my old resources don’t exist. I just know stuff from years of doing it and failing over and over until things work.

It opened the door to pihole and unbound, then dns certs, man… everything’s so nice now lol

I hosted shit for about ten years before really understanding how local dns worked.

Imagine a primitive society that discovered literally every major modern scientific achievement, but somehow missed the wheel. That’s basically how my first setup went lol.

That’s not my point. Everyone drives, thus you see everyone’s license plate.

Not everyone goes and exposes their home IP to a third party, enters their license plate(or worse, someone else’s) and gets each one put on some secret government watch-list.

Honeypot as fuck

give my personal license plate to a third party website to check against privacy invasion

nah, y-you guys go first

There’s a lot of could-be’s involved here.

This, I like this.

It’ll pass, it just won’t matter outside of California and the corporate entities 3D printing there.

You can still print guns out of your heavily modified Ender 9999 covered in a trash bag.

pssst: it’s gonna get worse

Download a shitload of epubs, roms, backup of wikipedia, and get ready for full-on, unmissable, 1984-style marketing and propaganda culture. You’ll see it, you’ll have to see it, and there will be no option B.

“Okay, evil asshole” ~ Everyone on Earth

I’ve considered containerizing it somewhere just for the sake of selling and buying car parts and ‘the like’, but I have no active intention to participate beyond that and family matters.

Fact is, I’d be fine if that was all Facebook was, that seems reasonable. It’s the endless patronizing propaganda, tracking, ads and arguing bots everyone takes issue with. If they just didn’t suck, they’d be fine.

People selling lawnmowers and TVs from 2013 that still work.

Good, fuck em. Smol web, best web

Plane Landed!

style: 4500

substance: 4500

speed: 4000

civilian health: 5000 PERFECT

rings collected: 5000 PERFECT

black box: INTACT

Grade: A

“A?! A?? wtf do you even want!? WHERE’S MY GODDAMN S-RANK!?”

throws controller

Is lemmy nothing to you people?

Cost of doing business, easy write off.

Uh yeah shuffles papers our uhh Ai did that as well!

“My Ai just hacked the entire US financial sector then left without a trace, prove it didn’t!”

This is like kids saying Superman could beat Goku in middleschool.

he could, tho