RackNerd's OFFICIAL LET BLACK FRIDAY! HUNDREDS OF GIVEAWAYS + CRAZY DEALS, MASSIVE (come see)

TrK · November 2024

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BTW, @TrK have you jailbroken your iPad?

I am not into jail breaking my devices, for security reasons. I even don't root my android since last 4 years.

I used to like a decade ago. Not after I moved to Pixel. Might root only for the purpose of running Graphene.

Just don't see any value to it now, was kinda interesting and with all the fuss about magisk and what not, after that it just died down.

But, Graphene's different, from what I've heard. It does take the fun out of the phone if you use it mainly as a media consumption device. But, if you are privacy and security-centric, Graphene is the OS to have. Edward Snowden recommended it a few years ago.

isn't it just another AOSP fork i have seen too many tbh all promising this and that, but the security part of any AOSP fork is a joke unless you stopped using Android altogether, the only reason my main device is apple and secondary is android is due to this. Android isn't that secure imo and even though we know it we just can't have google disclose everything.

No, GrapheneOS is not "just another AOSP fork". Here is a great YouTube video (using a Privacy Front-end) if you want to have a better in-depth explaination of what GrapheneOS really is - I evolved from CopperheadOS, which was never an AOSP fork.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

If my memory serves me right copperhead was also AOSP powered OS with some privacy tweaks and graphene made it to later stage with improvements over the time. But i feel like about it is just plainly if only if ubuntu touch could have gotten that much support and i might have started using that instead of any AOSP powered rom. Be it graphene or any other.

There are plenty of Linux-based phone OS, like PostmarketOS, Mobian, and as you mentioned Ubuntu Touch.

GrapheneOS provides you will "full disk encryption" using hardware and not just software like all the other phones out there today.

Full disk encryption isn't only available to graphene, it was introduced with google pixel 5(ig), and many other AOSP based roms also have the same disk encryption feature enabled cause the hardware was supported, it's kinda same a tpm no one knew untill MS forced it on everyone's head with bullet.

As I said to @noob404 above: "The Pixel phones are the only phones with the Titan M security chip which enables it to have that hardware device encryption - all other phones claiming encryption only do so on the sofware level. "

I only trust full disk encryption on devices & computers which I install the OS on - otherwise it's not to be trusted.

Never had the time to look into encryption. Is it really worth it, unless your phone/device has some hyper-confidential info?

Everyone has a different "threat model" and it all depends on what yours is, i.e. what adversaries are you protecting yourself and your data from?

Again makes sense. But, since the whole world is interconnected now, you can't see a potential adversary. So, I guess it's better to put some time into encryption. Prevention better than cure.

Imagine having your phone stolen without encryption and then the thief can do whatever he wants with your phone contact list or any other data on your phone such a Banking App, which most banks continue to move people towards using...

Yah. You got my attention and I am pretty concerned now. Maybe, time to look into it right away.

Same would apply to a laptop too

BitLocker enough for debloated Windows or do you recommend something else?

I would recommend not to use Windows and to instead setup & use LUKS on Linux. Lots of distros have the feature to select during the install process.

Planning to move to Linux completely very soon. The only hindrance is the though of using Photoshop and Premiere on Wine.

If you have a beefy enough system, you could setup a Windows virtual machine just for those applications.

Yah, that'd be more convenient, I guess. Been thinking of making the move for almost an year now. Just the thought of moving everything has stopped me. I don't deal very well with change initially.

In October 2025, Microsoft will EOL Windows 10 which will force people onto Windows 11 (or to potentially switch to Linux), which has the Recall feature enabled. If you don't know about Windows Recall, then this is good article about that https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-windows-recall/

Linux till the grave? what distro are you using right now?

Beniskickbutt · November 2024

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BTW, @TrK have you jailbroken your iPad?

I am not into jail breaking my devices, for security reasons. I even don't root my android since last 4 years.

I used to like a decade ago. Not after I moved to Pixel. Might root only for the purpose of running Graphene.

Just don't see any value to it now, was kinda interesting and with all the fuss about magisk and what not, after that it just died down.

But, Graphene's different, from what I've heard. It does take the fun out of the phone if you use it mainly as a media consumption device. But, if you are privacy and security-centric, Graphene is the OS to have. Edward Snowden recommended it a few years ago.

isn't it just another AOSP fork i have seen too many tbh all promising this and that, but the security part of any AOSP fork is a joke unless you stopped using Android altogether, the only reason my main device is apple and secondary is android is due to this. Android isn't that secure imo and even though we know it we just can't have google disclose everything.

No, GrapheneOS is not "just another AOSP fork". Here is a great YouTube video (using a Privacy Front-end) if you want to have a better in-depth explaination of what GrapheneOS really is - I evolved from CopperheadOS, which was never an AOSP fork.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

If my memory serves me right copperhead was also AOSP powered OS with some privacy tweaks and graphene made it to later stage with improvements over the time. But i feel like about it is just plainly if only if ubuntu touch could have gotten that much support and i might have started using that instead of any AOSP powered rom. Be it graphene or any other.

There are plenty of Linux-based phone OS, like PostmarketOS, Mobian, and as you mentioned Ubuntu Touch.

GrapheneOS provides you will "full disk encryption" using hardware and not just software like all the other phones out there today.

Full disk encryption isn't only available to graphene, it was introduced with google pixel 5(ig), and many other AOSP based roms also have the same disk encryption feature enabled cause the hardware was supported, it's kinda same a tpm no one knew untill MS forced it on everyone's head with bullet.

As I said to @noob404 above: "The Pixel phones are the only phones with the Titan M security chip which enables it to have that hardware device encryption - all other phones claiming encryption only do so on the sofware level. "

I only trust full disk encryption on devices & computers which I install the OS on - otherwise it's not to be trusted.

Never had the time to look into encryption. Is it really worth it, unless your phone/device has some hyper-confidential info?

Everyone has a different "threat model" and it all depends on what yours is, i.e. what adversaries are you protecting yourself and your data from?

Again makes sense. But, since the whole world is interconnected now, you can't see a potential adversary. So, I guess it's better to put some time into encryption. Prevention better than cure.

Imagine having your phone stolen without encryption and then the thief can do whatever he wants with your phone contact list or any other data on your phone such a Banking App, which most banks continue to move people towards using...

Yah. You got my attention and I am pretty concerned now. Maybe, time to look into it right away.

Same would apply to a laptop too

BitLocker enough for debloated Windows or do you recommend something else?

I would recommend not to use Windows and to instead setup & use LUKS on Linux. Lots of distros have the feature to select during the install process.

Planning to move to Linux completely very soon. The only hindrance is the though of using Photoshop and Premiere on Wine.

Tried crita or whatever it's name is, it looks promising and for premiere ig there won't anything good for linux anytime soon.

This one - https://krita.org/en/
BTW, I don't need any advanced features on Photoshop or Premiere Pro. Just the very basic features. Any recommendations?

For photoshop krita and gimp will do, but for premier, it's hard, i know there is shotcut and davinci resolve but there will be some drawback you gotta try it and see for yourself.

I have been using gimp but i am not an artist or photoshop expert by any means. It has been enough for whatever random photo editing I have wanted to do on my own. I heard photoshop has some awesome "AI" based stuff in it now though to touch up images. Similar to what phones can do now too though so it is not a huge loss not having photoshop. I.e. remove people or things from photos and refill the space

chitree · November 2024

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@chitree said: Not in my circles

here it's whatsapp and discord

I'd rather kill myself than use those products

You could also setup a Matrix protocol chat room with bridges to both of those if you wanted to not use them but still chat with the people on those platforms

If you don't mind me asking, what's your go to IM then? I mean, not everyone in your friend circle must be tech-savvy. What do you use with them?

A bunch of us have been using SimpleX recently but for more public things we enjoy the Matrix Protocol and XMPP as both enable us to run our own servers.

99% of the messaging apps of today are centralized walled proprietary gardens and homey don't play that

I have used xmpp based clients for work chats before. The clients we used were awful and left a bad taste. I know the protocol may not be at fault here but bad client code has left a bad taste for xmpp. When you use propritary theres defeinitly a benfit that someone can make the whole stack look presentable. There is also the benefits of these open protocols though

You're welcome to use what you want to. I believe in free software which means that users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software that they use. If you're not familiar with this, this link explains it well https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Beniskickbutt · November 2024

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BTW, @TrK have you jailbroken your iPad?

I am not into jail breaking my devices, for security reasons. I even don't root my android since last 4 years.

I used to like a decade ago. Not after I moved to Pixel. Might root only for the purpose of running Graphene.

Just don't see any value to it now, was kinda interesting and with all the fuss about magisk and what not, after that it just died down.

But, Graphene's different, from what I've heard. It does take the fun out of the phone if you use it mainly as a media consumption device. But, if you are privacy and security-centric, Graphene is the OS to have. Edward Snowden recommended it a few years ago.

isn't it just another AOSP fork i have seen too many tbh all promising this and that, but the security part of any AOSP fork is a joke unless you stopped using Android altogether, the only reason my main device is apple and secondary is android is due to this. Android isn't that secure imo and even though we know it we just can't have google disclose everything.

No, GrapheneOS is not "just another AOSP fork". Here is a great YouTube video (using a Privacy Front-end) if you want to have a better in-depth explaination of what GrapheneOS really is - I evolved from CopperheadOS, which was never an AOSP fork.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

Have you used Graphene before?

I've been daily driving it for 4 or 5 years now - it's great!

Oh wow, that's awesome. What would your review be? Like it's deGoogled and misses out on a lot of stuff. How was the migration?

I would highly recommend it to others who want the best privacy and security on an Android phone.

Every phone still does suffer from the "blackbox" which we can not see into - the phone antenna & modem. Only way to solve that is to not use a phone

Makes complete sense. BTW, did you read this - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/apples-new-patent-shows-airpods-with-brain-wave-detecting-sensors/articleshow/102278175.cms or know about this?

I had not heard about this, but I don't put much stock into anything Apple does as they are a major surveillance capitalist company who utilizes their user base as data livestock while selling them fake promises.

The funny thing is, if Apple is doing it, I can't even imagine what a surveillance hawk like CHina might be doing to the phones they sell worldwide.

And imagine what our little android is doing, eavesdropping on our every convo.

Maybe yours is

Maybe everyone's unless you have it switched off, sometimes i feel like android was developed in that way only to hear everything even if your phones in pockets. I might be wrong here but who knows.

Use a faraday cage bag https://www.howtogeek.com/791386/what-is-a-faraday-bag-and-should-you-use-one/

Or a microwave oven.

From Wikipedia -

A microwave oven uses a partial Faraday shield (on five of its interior six sides) and a partial Faraday cage, consisting of a wire mesh, on the sixth side (the transparent window), to contain the electromagnetic energy within the oven and to protect the user from exposure to microwave radiation.

Can't travel with that microwave oven

Has anyone tried this or is it explicity listed on a banned travel list? :O Someone should give this a go and let us know how it turns out. Some of those smaller ones from walmart around college move in season would probably fit into an overhead bin quite nicely. Bonus is you can cook your own meals while waiting around for a flight if you can find an outlet

TrK · November 2024

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BTW, @TrK have you jailbroken your iPad?

I am not into jail breaking my devices, for security reasons. I even don't root my android since last 4 years.

I used to like a decade ago. Not after I moved to Pixel. Might root only for the purpose of running Graphene.

Just don't see any value to it now, was kinda interesting and with all the fuss about magisk and what not, after that it just died down.

But, Graphene's different, from what I've heard. It does take the fun out of the phone if you use it mainly as a media consumption device. But, if you are privacy and security-centric, Graphene is the OS to have. Edward Snowden recommended it a few years ago.

isn't it just another AOSP fork i have seen too many tbh all promising this and that, but the security part of any AOSP fork is a joke unless you stopped using Android altogether, the only reason my main device is apple and secondary is android is due to this. Android isn't that secure imo and even though we know it we just can't have google disclose everything.

No, GrapheneOS is not "just another AOSP fork". Here is a great YouTube video (using a Privacy Front-end) if you want to have a better in-depth explaination of what GrapheneOS really is - I evolved from CopperheadOS, which was never an AOSP fork.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

If my memory serves me right copperhead was also AOSP powered OS with some privacy tweaks and graphene made it to later stage with improvements over the time. But i feel like about it is just plainly if only if ubuntu touch could have gotten that much support and i might have started using that instead of any AOSP powered rom. Be it graphene or any other.

There are plenty of Linux-based phone OS, like PostmarketOS, Mobian, and as you mentioned Ubuntu Touch.

GrapheneOS provides you will "full disk encryption" using hardware and not just software like all the other phones out there today.

Full disk encryption isn't only available to graphene, it was introduced with google pixel 5(ig), and many other AOSP based roms also have the same disk encryption feature enabled cause the hardware was supported, it's kinda same a tpm no one knew untill MS forced it on everyone's head with bullet.

As I said to @noob404 above: "The Pixel phones are the only phones with the Titan M security chip which enables it to have that hardware device encryption - all other phones claiming encryption only do so on the sofware level. "

I only trust full disk encryption on devices & computers which I install the OS on - otherwise it's not to be trusted.

Never had the time to look into encryption. Is it really worth it, unless your phone/device has some hyper-confidential info?

Everyone has a different "threat model" and it all depends on what yours is, i.e. what adversaries are you protecting yourself and your data from?

Again makes sense. But, since the whole world is interconnected now, you can't see a potential adversary. So, I guess it's better to put some time into encryption. Prevention better than cure.

Imagine having your phone stolen without encryption and then the thief can do whatever he wants with your phone contact list or any other data on your phone such a Banking App, which most banks continue to move people towards using...

Yah. You got my attention and I am pretty concerned now. Maybe, time to look into it right away.

Same would apply to a laptop too

BitLocker enough for debloated Windows or do you recommend something else?

I would recommend not to use Windows and to instead setup & use LUKS on Linux. Lots of distros have the feature to select during the install process.

Planning to move to Linux completely very soon. The only hindrance is the though of using Photoshop and Premiere on Wine.

Tried crita or whatever it's name is, it looks promising and for premiere ig there won't anything good for linux anytime soon.

This one - https://krita.org/en/
BTW, I don't need any advanced features on Photoshop or Premiere Pro. Just the very basic features. Any recommendations?

For photoshop krita and gimp will do, but for premier, it's hard, i know there is shotcut and davinci resolve but there will be some drawback you gotta try it and see for yourself.

I have been using gimp but i am not an artist or photoshop expert by any means. It has been enough for whatever random photo editing I have wanted to do on my own. I heard photoshop has some awesome "AI" based stuff in it now though to touch up images. Similar to what phones can do now too though so it is not a huge loss not having photoshop. I.e. remove people or things from photos and refill the space

Yeah the adobe firefly(if i am not wrong here), it's good but honestly using a free and open source software against a closed source and paid one there's just no comparison.

Neat321 · November 2024

WHERE_IS_THE_CHEF

hype it up

Beniskickbutt · November 2024

WHERE_IS_THE_CHEF> @Neat321 said:

WHERE_IS_THE_CHEF

hype it up

I am thinking he is getting ready to start the day and coming up with the wildest give aways for what is bound to be one of the most intense give away weeks to date. We have the real black friday about to land and I think the give aways are going to be hot hot hot! this week.

Neat321 · November 2024

Oh, I forgot that he is in a different time zone.

chitree · November 2024

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BTW, @TrK have you jailbroken your iPad?

I am not into jail breaking my devices, for security reasons. I even don't root my android since last 4 years.

I used to like a decade ago. Not after I moved to Pixel. Might root only for the purpose of running Graphene.

Just don't see any value to it now, was kinda interesting and with all the fuss about magisk and what not, after that it just died down.

But, Graphene's different, from what I've heard. It does take the fun out of the phone if you use it mainly as a media consumption device. But, if you are privacy and security-centric, Graphene is the OS to have. Edward Snowden recommended it a few years ago.

isn't it just another AOSP fork i have seen too many tbh all promising this and that, but the security part of any AOSP fork is a joke unless you stopped using Android altogether, the only reason my main device is apple and secondary is android is due to this. Android isn't that secure imo and even though we know it we just can't have google disclose everything.

No, GrapheneOS is not "just another AOSP fork". Here is a great YouTube video (using a Privacy Front-end) if you want to have a better in-depth explaination of what GrapheneOS really is - I evolved from CopperheadOS, which was never an AOSP fork.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

If my memory serves me right copperhead was also AOSP powered OS with some privacy tweaks and graphene made it to later stage with improvements over the time. But i feel like about it is just plainly if only if ubuntu touch could have gotten that much support and i might have started using that instead of any AOSP powered rom. Be it graphene or any other.

There are plenty of Linux-based phone OS, like PostmarketOS, Mobian, and as you mentioned Ubuntu Touch.

GrapheneOS provides you will "full disk encryption" using hardware and not just software like all the other phones out there today.

Full disk encryption isn't only available to graphene, it was introduced with google pixel 5(ig), and many other AOSP based roms also have the same disk encryption feature enabled cause the hardware was supported, it's kinda same a tpm no one knew untill MS forced it on everyone's head with bullet.

As I said to @noob404 above: "The Pixel phones are the only phones with the Titan M security chip which enables it to have that hardware device encryption - all other phones claiming encryption only do so on the sofware level. "

I only trust full disk encryption on devices & computers which I install the OS on - otherwise it's not to be trusted.

Never had the time to look into encryption. Is it really worth it, unless your phone/device has some hyper-confidential info?

Everyone has a different "threat model" and it all depends on what yours is, i.e. what adversaries are you protecting yourself and your data from?

Again makes sense. But, since the whole world is interconnected now, you can't see a potential adversary. So, I guess it's better to put some time into encryption. Prevention better than cure.

Imagine having your phone stolen without encryption and then the thief can do whatever he wants with your phone contact list or any other data on your phone such a Banking App, which most banks continue to move people towards using...

Yah. You got my attention and I am pretty concerned now. Maybe, time to look into it right away.

Same would apply to a laptop too

BitLocker enough for debloated Windows or do you recommend something else?

I would recommend not to use Windows and to instead setup & use LUKS on Linux. Lots of distros have the feature to select during the install process.

Planning to move to Linux completely very soon. The only hindrance is the though of using Photoshop and Premiere on Wine.

If you have a beefy enough system, you could setup a Windows virtual machine just for those applications.

Yah, that'd be more convenient, I guess. Been thinking of making the move for almost an year now. Just the thought of moving everything has stopped me. I don't deal very well with change initially.

In October 2025, Microsoft will EOL Windows 10 which will force people onto Windows 11 (or to potentially switch to Linux), which has the Recall feature enabled. If you don't know about Windows Recall, then this is good article about that https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-windows-recall/

Linux till the grave? what distro are you using right now?

I'm using Arch Linux and Artix Linux on my laptops and desktops, but I don't recommend these unless you enjoy the command line. Linux Mint is a great distro which I do recommend to others.

What distro are you using now?

noob404 · November 2024

On a quick break. Here's a rare picture of the RackNerd Chef with his wireless hands:-

TrK · November 2024

@chitree said: I'm using Arch Linux and Artix Linux on my laptops and desktops, but I don't recommend these unless you enjoy the command line. Linux Mint is a great distro which I do recommend to others.

What distro are you using now?

Using elementaryOS for the main and have bunch of weird distro testing stuff lying around in another ssd.

chitree · November 2024

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BTW, @TrK have you jailbroken your iPad?

I am not into jail breaking my devices, for security reasons. I even don't root my android since last 4 years.

I used to like a decade ago. Not after I moved to Pixel. Might root only for the purpose of running Graphene.

Just don't see any value to it now, was kinda interesting and with all the fuss about magisk and what not, after that it just died down.

But, Graphene's different, from what I've heard. It does take the fun out of the phone if you use it mainly as a media consumption device. But, if you are privacy and security-centric, Graphene is the OS to have. Edward Snowden recommended it a few years ago.

isn't it just another AOSP fork i have seen too many tbh all promising this and that, but the security part of any AOSP fork is a joke unless you stopped using Android altogether, the only reason my main device is apple and secondary is android is due to this. Android isn't that secure imo and even though we know it we just can't have google disclose everything.

No, GrapheneOS is not "just another AOSP fork". Here is a great YouTube video (using a Privacy Front-end) if you want to have a better in-depth explaination of what GrapheneOS really is - I evolved from CopperheadOS, which was never an AOSP fork.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

Have you used Graphene before?

I've been daily driving it for 4 or 5 years now - it's great!

Oh wow, that's awesome. What would your review be? Like it's deGoogled and misses out on a lot of stuff. How was the migration?

I would highly recommend it to others who want the best privacy and security on an Android phone.

Every phone still does suffer from the "blackbox" which we can not see into - the phone antenna & modem. Only way to solve that is to not use a phone

Makes complete sense. BTW, did you read this - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/apples-new-patent-shows-airpods-with-brain-wave-detecting-sensors/articleshow/102278175.cms or know about this?

I had not heard about this, but I don't put much stock into anything Apple does as they are a major surveillance capitalist company who utilizes their user base as data livestock while selling them fake promises.

The funny thing is, if Apple is doing it, I can't even imagine what a surveillance hawk like CHina might be doing to the phones they sell worldwide.

And imagine what our little android is doing, eavesdropping on our every convo.

Maybe yours is

Maybe everyone's unless you have it switched off, sometimes i feel like android was developed in that way only to hear everything even if your phones in pockets. I might be wrong here but who knows.

Use a faraday cage bag https://www.howtogeek.com/791386/what-is-a-faraday-bag-and-should-you-use-one/

Or a microwave oven.

From Wikipedia -

A microwave oven uses a partial Faraday shield (on five of its interior six sides) and a partial Faraday cage, consisting of a wire mesh, on the sixth side (the transparent window), to contain the electromagnetic energy within the oven and to protect the user from exposure to microwave radiation.

Can't travel with that microwave oven

Has anyone tried this or is it explicity listed on a banned travel list? :O Someone should give this a go and let us know how it turns out. Some of those smaller ones from walmart around college move in season would probably fit into an overhead bin quite nicely. Bonus is you can cook your own meals while waiting around for a flight if you can find an outlet

If peanut butter is an unpermitted liquid to travel with now because "terrorism", then I doubt a microwave oven would travel

Beniskickbutt · November 2024

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Let's go and hype for a GA, resource GA? swag GA? or something even better?

Looking for merch now. It's high time, Ig!

Then HYPE it, i guess the chef is going to make a comeback anytime now.

Are we sure. Got the Chef on chat support now. Time to make requests

generate more, the api is on a racknerd server, might be able to convince chef for a massive upgrade this year...
couldnt convince for a backpack yesterday, upgrades might work lmao

I like this! I had not noticed you had an image generator in your signature. How much of this runs on your racknerd server? Are you actually generating the images there as well or are you sending a request out to an external site to generate the image? I am not to familar as to how many ai based image generation things there are out there that you can simply run on your own servers

TrK · November 2024

@noob404 said:
On a quick break. Here's a rare picture of the RackNerd Chef with his wireless hands:-

with six fingers as well.

noob404 · November 2024

@chitree said:

@noob404 said:

@chitree said:

@DeadlyChemist said:

@chitree said: Not in my circles

here it's whatsapp and discord

I'd rather kill myself than use those products

You could also setup a Matrix protocol chat room with bridges to both of those if you wanted to not use them but still chat with the people on those platforms

If you don't mind me asking, what's your go to IM then? I mean, not everyone in your friend circle must be tech-savvy. What do you use with them?

A bunch of us have been using SimpleX recently but for more public things we enjoy the Matrix Protocol and XMPP as both enable us to run our own servers.

99% of the messaging apps of today are centralized walled proprietary gardens and homey don't play that

So many things to research. I might have to make a list of things I learner here so that I could look into each one of them or as much as I can, once the GA is over.

chitree · November 2024

@noob404 said:
On a quick break. Here's a rare picture of the RackNerd Chef with his wireless hands:-

Wireless limbs is a future I don't want to see...

noob404 · November 2024

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:
Okay everyone, time for me to get back to work, if I wanna participate in any potential GAs that happen in a few hours hopefully. See you then. Please continue the convo. I get to learn a lot from these.

lol the conversations happen cause we want to hear/read each other's pov regarding something. but if you are alone you only do self reflection.

True. I am gonna join in from time to time. Looking for knowledge and grabbing it wherever I can.

TrK · November 2024

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:
Okay everyone, time for me to get back to work, if I wanna participate in any potential GAs that happen in a few hours hopefully. See you then. Please continue the convo. I get to learn a lot from these.

lol the conversations happen cause we want to hear/read each other's pov regarding something. but if you are alone you only do self reflection.

True. I am gonna join in from time to time. Looking for knowledge and grabbing it wherever I can.

Sounds good enough, let's see if we see some active GAs this time around, i mean i am not usually that active.

Beniskickbutt · November 2024

I tried out the racknerd image generator and it gave me a photo of deadly chemist working at his battle station. As a side note, I am also suprised at how many different ways this thing has come up with to spell RackNerd. I've seen things like Rack Neerd Rack Neard amongst others.

noob404 · November 2024

@chitree said:

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BTW, @TrK have you jailbroken your iPad?

I am not into jail breaking my devices, for security reasons. I even don't root my android since last 4 years.

I used to like a decade ago. Not after I moved to Pixel. Might root only for the purpose of running Graphene.

Just don't see any value to it now, was kinda interesting and with all the fuss about magisk and what not, after that it just died down.

But, Graphene's different, from what I've heard. It does take the fun out of the phone if you use it mainly as a media consumption device. But, if you are privacy and security-centric, Graphene is the OS to have. Edward Snowden recommended it a few years ago.

isn't it just another AOSP fork i have seen too many tbh all promising this and that, but the security part of any AOSP fork is a joke unless you stopped using Android altogether, the only reason my main device is apple and secondary is android is due to this. Android isn't that secure imo and even though we know it we just can't have google disclose everything.

No, GrapheneOS is not "just another AOSP fork". Here is a great YouTube video (using a Privacy Front-end) if you want to have a better in-depth explaination of what GrapheneOS really is - I evolved from CopperheadOS, which was never an AOSP fork.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

If my memory serves me right copperhead was also AOSP powered OS with some privacy tweaks and graphene made it to later stage with improvements over the time. But i feel like about it is just plainly if only if ubuntu touch could have gotten that much support and i might have started using that instead of any AOSP powered rom. Be it graphene or any other.

There are plenty of Linux-based phone OS, like PostmarketOS, Mobian, and as you mentioned Ubuntu Touch.

GrapheneOS provides you will "full disk encryption" using hardware and not just software like all the other phones out there today.

Full disk encryption isn't only available to graphene, it was introduced with google pixel 5(ig), and many other AOSP based roms also have the same disk encryption feature enabled cause the hardware was supported, it's kinda same a tpm no one knew untill MS forced it on everyone's head with bullet.

As I said to @noob404 above: "The Pixel phones are the only phones with the Titan M security chip which enables it to have that hardware device encryption - all other phones claiming encryption only do so on the sofware level. "

I only trust full disk encryption on devices & computers which I install the OS on - otherwise it's not to be trusted.

Never had the time to look into encryption. Is it really worth it, unless your phone/device has some hyper-confidential info?

Everyone has a different "threat model" and it all depends on what yours is, i.e. what adversaries are you protecting yourself and your data from?

Again makes sense. But, since the whole world is interconnected now, you can't see a potential adversary. So, I guess it's better to put some time into encryption. Prevention better than cure.

Imagine having your phone stolen without encryption and then the thief can do whatever he wants with your phone contact list or any other data on your phone such a Banking App, which most banks continue to move people towards using...

Yah. You got my attention and I am pretty concerned now. Maybe, time to look into it right away.

Same would apply to a laptop too

BitLocker enough for debloated Windows or do you recommend something else?

I would recommend not to use Windows and to instead setup & use LUKS on Linux. Lots of distros have the feature to select during the install process.

Planning to move to Linux completely very soon. The only hindrance is the though of using Photoshop and Premiere on Wine.

Tried crita or whatever it's name is, it looks promising and for premiere ig there won't anything good for linux anytime soon.

This one - https://krita.org/en/
BTW, I don't need any advanced features on Photoshop or Premiere Pro. Just the very basic features. Any recommendations?

There's the GIMP too for image editting. https://www.gimp.org/

GIMP, I have heard is very close to Photoshop. Still have to try though.

Neat321 · November 2024

@chitree said: What distro are you using now?

I'm not TrK, but I'm using Void Linux on all the devices I have, from my Raspberry Pi 5 to my desktop. I highly recommend it.

chitree · November 2024

@TrK said:

@chitree said: I'm using Arch Linux and Artix Linux on my laptops and desktops, but I don't recommend these unless you enjoy the command line. Linux Mint is a great distro which I do recommend to others.

What distro are you using now?

Using elementaryOS for the main and have bunch of weird distro testing stuff lying around in another ssd.

Nice! How do you like elementaryOS's custom desktop environment?

DeadlyChemist · November 2024

@Beniskickbutt said:

@DeadlyChemist said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:
Let's go and hype for a GA, resource GA? swag GA? or something even better?

Looking for merch now. It's high time, Ig!

Then HYPE it, i guess the chef is going to make a comeback anytime now.

Are we sure. Got the Chef on chat support now. Time to make requests

generate more, the api is on a racknerd server, might be able to convince chef for a massive upgrade this year...
couldnt convince for a backpack yesterday, upgrades might work lmao

I like this! I had not noticed you had an image generator in your signature. How much of this runs on your racknerd server? Are you actually generating the images there as well or are you sending a request out to an external site to generate the image? I am not to familar as to how many ai based image generation things there are out there that you can simply run on your own servers

Nahh
My server just saves the requests from deepai and also serves them

The generation is done by deepai, i pay (not much) for every picture generated

My api is made so you HAVE TO include the word racknerd but im pretty sure you csk generate whatever you want and put the text in the back and the AI wont remeber the text

Plus you can generate nsfw if you wanted

All doors open, as long as it includes "racknerd"
I hope people dont abuse it too much

noob404 · November 2024

@chitree said:

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@chitree said:

@TrK said:

@chitree said:

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@chitree said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:
BTW, @TrK have you jailbroken your iPad?

I am not into jail breaking my devices, for security reasons. I even don't root my android since last 4 years.

I used to like a decade ago. Not after I moved to Pixel. Might root only for the purpose of running Graphene.

Just don't see any value to it now, was kinda interesting and with all the fuss about magisk and what not, after that it just died down.

But, Graphene's different, from what I've heard. It does take the fun out of the phone if you use it mainly as a media consumption device. But, if you are privacy and security-centric, Graphene is the OS to have. Edward Snowden recommended it a few years ago.

isn't it just another AOSP fork i have seen too many tbh all promising this and that, but the security part of any AOSP fork is a joke unless you stopped using Android altogether, the only reason my main device is apple and secondary is android is due to this. Android isn't that secure imo and even though we know it we just can't have google disclose everything.

No, GrapheneOS is not "just another AOSP fork". Here is a great YouTube video (using a Privacy Front-end) if you want to have a better in-depth explaination of what GrapheneOS really is - I evolved from CopperheadOS, which was never an AOSP fork.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

If my memory serves me right copperhead was also AOSP powered OS with some privacy tweaks and graphene made it to later stage with improvements over the time. But i feel like about it is just plainly if only if ubuntu touch could have gotten that much support and i might have started using that instead of any AOSP powered rom. Be it graphene or any other.

There are plenty of Linux-based phone OS, like PostmarketOS, Mobian, and as you mentioned Ubuntu Touch.

GrapheneOS provides you will "full disk encryption" using hardware and not just software like all the other phones out there today.

Full disk encryption isn't only available to graphene, it was introduced with google pixel 5(ig), and many other AOSP based roms also have the same disk encryption feature enabled cause the hardware was supported, it's kinda same a tpm no one knew untill MS forced it on everyone's head with bullet.

As I said to @noob404 above: "The Pixel phones are the only phones with the Titan M security chip which enables it to have that hardware device encryption - all other phones claiming encryption only do so on the sofware level. "

I only trust full disk encryption on devices & computers which I install the OS on - otherwise it's not to be trusted.

Never had the time to look into encryption. Is it really worth it, unless your phone/device has some hyper-confidential info?

Everyone has a different "threat model" and it all depends on what yours is, i.e. what adversaries are you protecting yourself and your data from?

Again makes sense. But, since the whole world is interconnected now, you can't see a potential adversary. So, I guess it's better to put some time into encryption. Prevention better than cure.

Imagine having your phone stolen without encryption and then the thief can do whatever he wants with your phone contact list or any other data on your phone such a Banking App, which most banks continue to move people towards using...

Yah. You got my attention and I am pretty concerned now. Maybe, time to look into it right away.

Same would apply to a laptop too

BitLocker enough for debloated Windows or do you recommend something else?

I would recommend not to use Windows and to instead setup & use LUKS on Linux. Lots of distros have the feature to select during the install process.

Planning to move to Linux completely very soon. The only hindrance is the though of using Photoshop and Premiere on Wine.

If you have a beefy enough system, you could setup a Windows virtual machine just for those applications.

Yah, that'd be more convenient, I guess. Been thinking of making the move for almost an year now. Just the thought of moving everything has stopped me. I don't deal very well with change initially.

In October 2025, Microsoft will EOL Windows 10 which will force people onto Windows 11 (or to potentially switch to Linux), which has the Recall feature enabled. If you don't know about Windows Recall, then this is good article about that https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-windows-recall/

I migrated before that itself to Windows 11, but, I am planning to move completely to Linux before that date.

noob404 · November 2024

@unfortunately said:

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Man, I had a mini meltdown here thinking I missed another GA!

noob404 · November 2024

@Beniskickbutt said:
Good morning party people! Looks like everyone was busy. I think this is the biggest jump in number of pages i have seen added since my last log in. Went from like 270ish to 329. Looks like you all have been busy!

We are slowly going back to NY2024 levels, I believe.

Beniskickbutt · November 2024

@chitree said:

@noob404 said:
On a quick break. Here's a rare picture of the RackNerd Chef with his wireless hands:-

Wireless limbs is a future I don't want to see...

Just think, then you do not even have to leave your seat to grab something. You can just pilot your limb to run to the kitchen and garb you your coffee, some snacks, or whatever else you need. Maybe it would not be so bad after all.

Also I hope the fact that Chef's plate is empty is not a vision of what the future looks like for give aways today! Chef's plate should be full of food and riches for all

TrK · November 2024

@Neat321 said:

@chitree said: What distro are you using now?

I'm not TrK, but I'm using Void Linux on all the devices I have, from my Raspberry Pi 5 to my desktop. I highly recommend it.

What do you mean by that? what am i ? a weird creature that have bunch linux distros on standby?

noob404 · November 2024

@Beniskickbutt said:

@DeadlyChemist said:
imma go off for a while, have fun generating pics and spam pinging me i guess

Oh no, have we gone the route of posting pics now while I was gone? That could explain the huge surge. I am just catching up again now. I heard last year people were spamming like thousands of comments worth of pictures!

Here you go - https://racknerd.thechemicalworkshop.com/?text=racknerd-

That's @DeadlyChemist 's AI gen page. Just provide your prompt after racknerd.

chitree · November 2024

@Neat321 said:

@chitree said: What distro are you using now?

I'm not TrK, but I'm using Void Linux on all the devices I have, from my Raspberry Pi 5 to my desktop. I highly recommend it.

I've been meaning to check out Void as it's using runit, because I'm an OpenRC guy.

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