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Light has infinite speed. Zero time passes for it to move from one place to another, even if it looks like millions of years to us.

Qubes is the best for managing VMs, it’s known as a security minded distro but it’s really the most well thought out VM manager I’ve seen. VMs are so well integrated.

NLNet funds some of the most interesting and diverse projects, including some ideas that have massive potential like Femtostar [1] which is an open version of Starlink, and Precursor [2] which is device which now physically exists and is arguably the most secure personal computer ever designed in modern times.

I browse through their projects all the time when I’m looking for interesting, cutting edge work.

[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/FemtoStar/

[2] betrusted.io

There can be a good number of opinionated armchair know it all‘s, but, like HN, if you’re willing to sift through comments there’s lots of great insight and references you might not come across on your own.

I always love Eno’s description of the spec for this job:

“The thing from the agency said, ‘We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,’ this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said ‘and it must be 3.25 seconds long.’”

Unfortunately you don’t understand what trustless means in this context. “No one trusts a trustless coin” makes no sense, there is no trust required for it to function (theoretically). It works as expected whether your counterparty is a saint or entirely corrupt.

That is much easier said than done.

Graphene is simultaneously the easiest to install and most robust rom I have ever installed in my years of it. It is a gem.

The extremely high paid FANG income is a thing of the past, already down 50% ytd. I hope you enjoyed it while it lasted.

Do you have two million liquid bucks or not?

Extremely brave comment. Thank you for your service.

Yea this is the real hacker dream machine, I’m always sad framework is getting more love when it’s not open hardware or open source.

Are you joking? Thinkpads for decades have had all the parts replaceable with off the shelf components. Framework is barely caught up with my 2008 thinkpad lol.

I have been using the previous hisense a5 for years, it is absolutely wonderful. Maybe the Smallest ereader you can buy, with all of my note taking apps. Best way to read hacker news and my rss in the morning.

One caveat: I waited to buy mine until some one discovered a way to jailbreak. I have AFWall firewall so that no apps can connect to the internet without my whitelisting, which makes me feel better about all the Chinese crap. I also meticulously removed as much of the default apps as I could permanently, and disabled the rest.

I am dreaming of a Google pixel or Apple device with epaper so that I can trust it as a daily driver for everything.

Awesome

Well indexes are a relatively new product (less than 100 years old).

Here is one implementation: https://github.com/danstiner/rust-u2f

I used to make a few hundred bucks a month on good months participating in a real app called SURKUS. Went to a lot of weird places, including a Halloween party put on by a VR consortium. It sent me to someone’s actual house party at least once, but usually was a movie, or an event in the park, or music event and almost every week they’d have me order something off Amazon to review. They would pay via PayPal the value of the Amazon product plus $5-$20 for my time.

For pictures of mushrooms, poetry and t aoish aphorisms: @[email protected]

Also not good, will confirm when it arrives.

What are your “before nad” supplements?

The Star Labs Starbook MK V has coreboot and intel ME turned off and is one generation newer CPU (11th gen).

Need this in my laptop and phone YESTERDAY.

Isn’t 1080x1920 very few pixels for a screen this size?

Ya COVID isn’t real. I’m sure you’re right.

You can watch videos on modern eink devices from boox and hisense. Looks like an old TV.

Garmin instinct 2 solar has the same black and white screen as the pebble and requires zero charging; battery lasts forever with enough sun.

The 4% rule is pretty generic. But if 2.5-3% will cover your expenses, statistically that will never run out no matter how long you live.

The keyboard is an open source one called the hillside [1]. It has a niche little thing called a puck on the bottom of it that allows standard 1/4” thread mounting to many tripods/camera accessories [2]. The clamp is off of Amazon and has rubber so that it won’t damage a computer, it is very strong and not easy to alter. [3]

[1] https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside [2] https://splitkb.com/products/tenting-puck [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QV1HYVZ/ref=sspa_mw_detail_2?ps...

See my solution posted outside the thread

My split keyboard solution below. much healthier/comfier hand width/orientation, and ability to walk around the office relatively easily. all off the shelf parts. As many have said, better is having a screen at eye level and keyboard not attached, but this is great when writing in the garden.

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