TerkErJerbs

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[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Yeah sorry I don't have experience with Graphene but a quick search seems to say root is very difficult with it. Maybe look into flashing a different custom ROM if you really need this.

One thing I've done quite a bit is use my travel router (I have a GL-Inet Slate but there are lots of options) to repeat my hotspot, then connect all my devices via the router. And set the VPN up on the router. This way everything going out over the hotspot is encrypted anyhow.

For my needs, I can power the Slate by plugging it into my laptop or even my phone via usb-c. It's very portable and versatile. Ymmv.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You can (basically) only do this with a rooted phone. There are some permissions issues that prevent the hotspot network adapter from being shared over the VPN client otherwise. This article from Proton is just an ELI5 splainer, you can go deeper with some searches.

If you have root and/or a custom ROM already (which usually assumes root) it's not that complicated.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Ed's got a podcast called Better Offline as well.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

/nightsoil has entered the chat

You should probably look up how most of your rice and beans are grown overseas.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Right. We all know Steam Deck is running on Arch. And also that Steam previously did publicly release SteamOS for awhile (Debian based). So hopefully one day soon they get ballsy enough to push a new/modern official linux build and profit. They haven't even taken the old links to the SteamOS builds down. I mean c'mon!

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 82 points 1 month ago

For anyone on this thread who doesn't know who Ken Klip is, please check out his free Substack (and subscribe if you can). I wasn't on Twitter very long (maybe 1.5 years before Elmong took over) but one of the people I value that I ran into on that platform is Ken Klippenstein and I've been following him since. He's amazing at filing thousands of FOIA requests and doing the digging into them that no mainstream journalist does anymore. He also recently quit The Intercept because they were enshittifying far more than he was comfortable with, which for a writer is a huge thing to leave the umbrella of a company like that and a paycheck behind. Writers going out on their own in this climate is the only way we'll stay even remotely unfucked in the post-information (or misinformation) age.

Klip fuckin rules. Please give him some due.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Admit to not reading the whole article but does this mean they're finally going to officially release SteamOS 3 for desktops? Or am I stuck with hacky ports from the Steam Deck?

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

Can confirm. Noticed that stupid fucking opt-out setting after the last update and shook my fist at the sky. Do better Firefox, ffs.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Well you're kinda right. I've lived in BC and the Yukon where it's fully legal for women to go topless and I know quite a few who have, for shorter events like naked bike ride etc. But most of them intelligently choose not to at public beaches and whatnot because of the ick factor.

I know one lady who did choose to go topless on a hot summer day in a fairly major downtown center and was accosted by cops whom she had to argue with (gladly, and loudly) for over an hour to explain to them that she was breaking no laws. They were trying to pressure her to re-robe because they were getting complaints, but again it's true that she was breaking no laws at all. They couldn't in the end do anything about it, and rightly so.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Adderall is basically chemically identical to meth. The Sacklers are fuckin billionaires for pushing Oxy onto tens of millions of people (who later had to go to the streets for fent and smack to avoid becoming dope sick if they couldn't ween off successfully). It's time to stop leaning into this bullshit drug-war rhetoric that was already de-humanizing long before benzo-dope and fentanyl etc hit the market.

Anyone who opposes medically supervised safer-supply is de facto pro leaving things the way they are, which are illicit drugs being distributed by cartels and gangs at extremely elevated costs to the user, which creates an economic situation that the addicts need to come up with the money to stay unsick by any means necessary.

In most cases the legitimate cost to produce a dose of a given drug is pennies. Street prices reflect all of the greed and logistics of smuggling them across several borders to get them into the hands of users. And those costs don't take into account all of the violence and corruption and murder which come into play when cartels and gangs are responsible for those supply routes.

At the very least safer-supply would bring the cost down for end-users and those drugs would be taxed which could be put back into the system, instead of those profits being taken by assholes with zero concern for who lives or dies. I'm saying this with no love for the government but I would way rather go to a doctor than a street dealer (even while I've met lots of dealers who have more empathy than the medical system as a whole). I think that's pretty fucking easy to parse.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah caught that. Appropriately apologetic for even trying to use a calculator. I'm a HS dropout, what can I say 😂

Thanks for fact-checking.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah caught that. Appropriately apologetic for even trying to use a calculator. I'm a HS dropout, what can I say 😂

Thanks for fact-checking.

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