Where are these OEMs that allow proper bootloader unlocking on most of their range?

Google, Sony …? Huawei stopped doing it, Oppo & Samsung doesn’t last I checked.

(If you buy a suitable device) You don’t have to use the preloaded OS (see Graphrne, Lineage etc).

I’ve got three of these, pity the batteries leak THROUGH the wires and end up corroding stuff on the board.

Fun little novelties but not very practical do do anything with these days. Maybe I’ll write a small program to turn it into a keyboard…

gedit in native Linux or WSL2. use it for Ansibke, python, C, bash, basically anything I need to edit. Has a git plugin, bottom terminal pane, left open files / current folder pane. Does all I need it to do, and it’s not a huge fuckoff electron app.

I’m pretty certain that the USB IF decided to use the max possible Gbps as the cable rating, rather than the mess that was

USB 3.0 USB 3.1 USB 3.1 (Gen 1) USB 3.1 (Gen 2) …

So it’s more likely apple are just being specific in the type of cable you need.

Landing gears are usually designed to drop by gravity (or manual hand cranking) alone if there’s a hydraulic failure.

Just a point of clarification: Don’t use RAID 5 for more than 2-4 TB. The rebuild takes so long that the mean-time-between read errors statistic basically guarantees a read error while rebuilding, which may cause the controller to trash the array.

That and rebuilding that much data might push one of the drives over the edge anyway.

One thing that people miss - either out of ignorance, or because it goes against the narrative - is that systemd is modular.

One part handles init and services (and related things like mounts and sockets, because it makes sense to do that), one handles user sessions (logind), one handles logging (journald), one handles networking (networkd) etc etc.

You don’t have to use networkd, or their efi bootloader, or their kernel install tool, or the other hostname/name resolution/userdb/tmpfiles etc etc tools.

I’m going to agree with Burstar here - if you’re setting out to prove that something is possible, you’re going to give it the best chance you can. Once you know its possible (whether its something like using an arduino to simulate an old price of hardware, or if a compound can cause cancer), you go and refine it down.

So allowing any random, possibly compromised, possibly installed by malware, add-on to run during the Firefox account login pages (see the list of URLs in this thread) isn’t a security concern to you?