Probably too late now but my list needs updating

Both of my 'TV's are big monitors with some lenovo minipcs running debian. Hardwired, but i could wifi them if i want.

Zero tracking, zero bullshit.

Security is important, but not at the expense of complete removal of human privacy.

Unfortunately, dns is so engrained in the internet, theres no way to replace it without replacing the internet

Robots on other planets is a rough process. Most planets, lacking atmosphere, have dust that gets EVERYWHERE, and its really bad for mechanical, electrical operations. The moon has a static charge that causes the regolith powder to seep into the smallest cracks. Humanoid robots will not last long, and all other forms are just a single failure from uselessness. Until they can either self-repair, or repair others (meaning n+1 minimum robots sent), it will not be useful for long exploration. And, honestly, id be pretty worried to find robots that could self-repair or repair others. Thats just a small step away from self-replication, and that leads down other scary paths.

Its really tough to tell someone who is all about security (not linux security but regulatory security and such) that basically granting any bit of sudo access can lead to full access.

There is a way that this can be handled, but its honestly sort of an afterthought functionality. facls. You can delegate multiple owners/groups and permissions for things, and it can work well, but you have to deal with facls on multiple fronts, setting them for basically the entire system. facls are great, in theory, but they feel like such an afterthought that they are often ignored.

At the public disclosure of chatgpt i immediately went and added a block in my nginx config. I would ideally like to block them all.

Im currently relying on UA and have a tiny if statement in my config that tells every ai ive blocked my server is simply a teapot

Unfortunately, USB is hot garbage imo. The USB-IF, really screwed up USB, especially with all the power negotiation bullshit that has to happen now. Thanks to their ever changing USB3.x super premium plus ultra megaspeed crap that they keep doing, i ended up giving up on a multi-year usb project. Because of their changes, i would have had to change my entire build, and have to mitm usb devices, which i explicitly built my device to avoid. And then theres the USB-C cable, and the stupid process of negotiation and the power cable active crap, just... uhg, i hate usb after going down that rabbit hole.

> The time derivative of acceleration is called jerk, and the time derivative of jerk is called jounce. One published paper whimsically named the fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of "snap", "crackle", and "pop" after the cartoon characters on boxes of Rice Krispies breakfast cereal.

The world was full of new computers popping up and every middle class or above person buying new ones like they do with iphones now. Companies started recycling programs, and many immediately went the route of corruption. They would pack up shipping containers full of ewaste, with 40-50% reusable items, and the rest junk, allowing them to skirt the rules. These containers would end up in 3rd world countries, with people standing over a burning pile of ewaste, filtering out reusable metals. There was, at one point, even images of children doing this work. The usable items were sold dirt cheap, with no data erasing, leading to large amounts of data theft, and being able to buy pages of active credit card numbers for a dollar.

We are talking about less critical things now, like vape pens, but its not a far throw for it to instantly become an actually bad idea to let other companies do the recycling. Make the manufacturer deal with it, or even the city/state, via public intake locations (like was mentioned of switzerland in another part of this thread)