I'd buy it, but for me, Google lost it's credibility when they made Chromebook on an a Linux kernel but kept the specs too low, and even made sure to hijack the market by providing for free to schools
I threw in the ATC since I've dropped a radio from an air traffic control tower. The battery popped off and the case was scuffed up but I was able to put the battery back on and the radio still worked great.
Even if Linus does not approve it I want to be on the email thread.
Its been ages. It was just a bulky typical motorola two way radio. They came with a rib kit for programming the frequencies with a windows app. It was the same model many police at the time early 90's were using. I'm sure it will eventually come to me.
already planning on the battery section, cameras and other sensors (including wifi and bluetooth) would always be upgradeable unlike current phones without tools by using fix and switch method all except front camera (included privacy shield) and speakers
every thing happening right now in privacy space including OS level ID verification, then websites requiring ID and now this is strangely alarming
right to privacy and speech will soon be very limited in aspects only relating and possible offline and very soon there will be nothing one can do about that
It’s not strangely alarming, it is obviously alarming and for good reason.
Take this seriously and get prepared. It’s not a drill, and it’s not something that the next administration is going to roll back, whoever ends up winning. You can’t vote your way out of this.
In the future, privacy and tech sovereignty will be a strictly offline affair.
Stock up on old computers, maybe small cheap SFF/NUC models. You will want replacements on hand as well as some to hand out to trusted friends. Don’t forget to get spare drives, used is fine considering the price right now.
Download and archive (on durable media) ISO, source code, and documentation of simple, durable operating systems that can be easily maintained and modified. I would suggest OpenBSD and a few Linux distributions. If you’re not a skilled programmer I would suggest learning the basics. Make sure you get any software packages you’ll need as well.
Mirror the source code of applications like mail servers/clients, UUCP, NNCP, Nostr servers/clients, and any other tools you find that would be useful for storing and later transmitting or copying data opportunistically. Think back to the early days of the internet; the dialup/BBS model is very apt. You want to be able to do work offline, then either connect and exchange info briefly or pass data offline via sneakernet.
Get some bulk micro SD cards. Get into packet radio.
Make friends and start building a network. Offline.
except in RAM based OS the page size and computation resources reduce significantly as OS is using the same memory to run instead of reading from disk and eating up critical memory area for applications, only thing in between a full crash and OS is the swap storage, macOS and Windows would never be even able to achieve this it is possible only due to Linux/BSD and it's level of optimization.
a better way would be to boot via nvme SSD, ethernet boot has a dependency of network, what if you need to debug when network is down or debug the errors/bugs network itself ?
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