I tried something like this before. Started with a curl command or script which would follow every internal link in a page to recursively download the websjte. That was annoying cause there can be a lot of extra elements you don’t really need. Then I tried ArchiveBox which was a bit op for my purposes but may work well here.

I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I’m using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can’t get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don’t load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn’t helped. Can’t even go above 60Hz refresh rate.

I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it’s basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.

I don’t have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.

In addition to wanting a list of people with “disabilities,” the government and health insurance companies are also pushing for centralized medical records, which are accessible by the government, insurance, and whoever they decide to sell the data to.

We all probably know Allen Dulles was a Nazi sympathizer.

I often think about that. According to what I remember hearing or reading from Aaron Good, FDR would have charged Dulles with treason after the war. Dulles was literally helping Nazi leadership escape Germany towards the end of the war. Except that of course he died before then, and his nominally socdem VP Henry Wallace had been forced off the ballot for the 1944 election in favour of the more anti-communist and pro-capital Harry Truman. Truman would be convinced to start the CIA and give them the mission to do whatever they want in service of Wall Street, and the Dulleses went into history not as traitors and Nazi collaborators but as accomplished statesmen crucial to the foundations of the empire as we learned to know it since.

Trolls aren’t even trying anymore.

I write notes in markdown (I’m not attached to any particular editor) and push them to a self hosted git server. Git therefore also helps handle any merge conflicts between devices.

I’m glad that during this cost of living crisis the government is focusing on what’s important: weapons, bunkers, and racism.

Whichever clown creditor decided linking the credit repayment to the growth of a country at war deserves to be defaulted on.

We also need to move back to a time where creditors take about half the responsibility for a loan.

The “maintaining privacy” is just a bit. It’s about gaining complete access to everyone’s private communications for whatever rhyme or reason the ruling class wants

Between medical bills and potentially needing a care home or home assistance later on, that amount can disappear quick. If you own your home, which many in the retiring generation still do, you also have taxes, upkeep, and maybe even the rest of a mortgage to pay off as well.

Some US based financial advisors recommend having $1.5M or more saved to retire.

Retirement is for the propertied class.

Yes, as the Trump admin clearly proves, they follow the law to the letter.

/s

Reminds me a bit of the impromptu Christmas truce of the first winter of WWI.

The soldiers clambered out of their trenches, chatted, played football, and enjoyed life. The soldiers learned to see the other side as humans, just like them.

The following Christmases the soldiers were under strict orders to keep shooting on Christmas and not dare consort with the enemy.

You mean the cops founded to round up and oppress Indigenous people? The cops that now have agreements with massive corporations to ensure destructive resource extraction projects happen, no matter what the people say? Ok, I’ll consider them their own type of horrendous.

The US made it illegal to cooperate with China on matters of space exploration and research years ago. China on the other hand welcomes collaboration from anyone.

The Android private DNS setting is just for a DNS-over-TLS resolver. The only thing about it that’s private is your queries are encrypted en route to the server (traditonal DNS is cleartext). There’s no filtering or blocking.

Some Android versions also have a hard coded DNS server set to Google, which based on my tinkering uses DNS-over-HTTPS. Not only is it annoying but I find it awfully insecure - even if you think you have stuff locked down it might just not be. I fixed that issue by blocking all DNS-over-HTTPS servers in my router, and also have all outgoing requests to port 53 redirected to my local resolvers (Pihole + Unbound).

If the NYT would stop cheerleading imperialism we’d be off to a great start.

All the nice switches are already made in China, and typically cost less than Cherry.

The Third Way Reich

Chancelllor Blackrock: hold my beer.

secure anonymous access

A VPN doesn’t provide this on its own. Nothing does.