You can’t turn back the clock. Meaningful changes require a different social relationship between people and production.

Journalctl is telling you the kernel is having a problem with establishing and maintaining a pcie link to the wireless card and the card has a driver in the kernel for a long time.

On the off chance I’m wrong, yanking the card, turning on the computer and seeing if all the errors and bad behavior goes away then turning it off and reinserting the card will give you proof positive that you’re barking up the right tree with the wireless card and if it fixes the problem for good then I was right and that’s an L but at least your wireless is working…

The wireless card is not seated properly. Open the laptop, remove the wireless card and reinsert it.

If it’s simply putting your money where your mouth is then that’s perfectly good.

If you’re worried about being in the crosshairs of that intelligence apparatus it would be good to limit what information stays outside the encrypted vault of whatever password manager you choose no matter where the service is based or servers are located.

The mullvad port forwarding takedown is a great example of legal denial of service if you’re wondering to what extent these different agencies collaborate across oceans and borders.

This won’t work.

Not because you don’t know how to do it, or because they’re not using user generated content in the training datasets, but because all the services are hardened against specifically this vector.

Imagine you’re one of a large handful of ai companies offering cheap or free services at far, far below cost in an effort to be the guy once it all takes off. What’s the literal first thing you’d do to kneecap your rivals? You’d load their service down generating garbage so they have to waste money on it for no (or even negative) return!

So naturally they have all worked soft limits into their apis and worded their terms of service to prevent vaguely worded “abuses”, presented as a few bad apples who live in vans down by their respective rivers needing to be reined in before they can poison the well, all to prevent corporate sabotage.

The proliferation of “slop art” like yapdollar or the millennial memory care smiley are great examples of corporate versions of the cias support of the tomato soup can man in the 60s. Ostensibly saying something about our world but literally funded to prevent the opposition from being able to function.

Once the obvious vector of “waste a billion gpu flops making a picture of your competitor suffering over and over again” ran up against a wall, companies did a bunch of distributed versions, often under the guise of “reverse engineering” or “research” then pivoted towards encouraging the most brain broken festies to use their competitors services and presently are all in on social media grifters doing the same.

Your program couldn’t possibly do more damage than a hundred million zoomers making tool covers animate or having Colby the Christian computer narrate their resumes.

If you just skipped to the end then this reply can be filed under “the revolution will not be televised” because we aren’t living in they live or the running man. Simply sabotaging or taking over the media apparatus used to harm people can’t “set them free” because that apparatus is part of a greater system that is self repairing and self replicating. Adventurism is frowned upon not only because it’s an a-1 way to see who’s a fed but also because it doesn’t fucking work.

Oh I wouldn’t self host that, all I was trying to do was examine what business or compliance reason you might have for wanting to stay out of servers in us jurisdiction or not use a service that might be subject to us laws.

Remember to focus on machines with no bios lock. It’s not a problem to message an eBay seller and ask them if that’s the case. For that model of dell, some of the cheap ones will have the much lower resolution screen, keep that in mind.

Okay, if I were you I’d look for eBay or local Lenovo thinkpad T14 gen 1 (not the t14s!) or dell latitude 5510, both are a year or two newer than even the computer I linked you earlier and can be had with 16gb of ram, 256gb ssd and good batteries for 150 before shipping.

Both of those options have upgrade possibilities down the road and lots of available parts for when something breaks.

Unfortunately newer computers don’t have disc drives usually so you’d have to buy a cheap $20 usb dvd drive but that’s no big deal.

Okay. I’m gonna lead with questions and put information at the bottom:

Can you install an operating system on the laptop?

Are you comfortable installing “user serviceable” components (ram, ssd, etc.) on the laptop?

Do you need a cd drive?

What’s your budget?

I5 is intels marketing term to differentiate their different “tiers” of cpu features. The i5 you posted is a third generation two core processor and the i5 I replied with is an 8th generation four core processor with many significant upgrades in comparison.

More ram is better. Computer programs are getting worse over time and 8gb is realistically the minimum for a decent experience right now.

A new battery on an old laptop is still gonna be at best new old stock and third party batteries are often not the best. So I’ll try to recommend newer but still affordable models with user replaceable batteries unless you feel comfortable replacing a possibly glued in battery.

Dedicated gpu in a laptop is a liability. It just uses power to make heat. I’ll stick to integrated.

Do you mean the us government or just into us jurisdiction?

I’m pretty sure that even with a service based in another European nation whose servers are in that nation you couldn’t rely on either…

I own and use this laptop. It’s a good one, don’t buy it.

Those are dogshit ram and ssd. It’s a $30 laptop with that equipment. It used to be a $50 laptop with big ssd and the maximum 16gb of ram.

The display is definitely bad by this point. If the seller hasn’t put a new thermal pad on then it’s gonna be running the fan constantly. They would have said in the listing if they did this relatively in depth piece of maintenance.

Here’s a t480s for less money: https://www.ebay.com/itm/376836794850. Faster processor, more ram, bigger ssd, better display, years newer, valid windows 11 license (not that it matters).

What are you actually looking for in a laptop?

Bring back the og app store icon. This plastic popsicle stick bullshit has to end.

Reads like a communist hiding their power level or a liberal searching for a take on the enclosures actively happening this very moment that isn’t the fascist/libertarian one (“it’s different because it’s happening to me!”).

That won’t work.

The best you can do is clear your cache and history every time you close the browser and use some kind of containerized system like the Firefox plugin.

What you’re asking about is fundamentally not how the web is designed.

E: and of course close the browser when you’re done looking at the website.

I haven’t used offline kms in years. It’s all hwid

After you eventually settle on bitwarden, rotate all passwords and uninstall or clear out the contents of other password managers. From your replies in this thread it seems like you’ve used many different managers.

Grok, make this hexbear thread pregnant.

No that’s probably a bad idea.

But if you were to get a gpu, the most recent and highest end ones are the ones that stay relevant the longest. People could still run shit on titans until nvidia dropped support from the latest driver package.

You could try doing without a gpu, in which case you save a lot of money you would have spent on one but now you have to spend more money on a motherboard/cpu/memory in order to squeeze maximum performance out of the onboard gpu and when one of them starts to be too slow you’re fucked.

If you do buy a gpu then you can reasonably expect only a 5% drop in frame rate when you use a very cheap 6-7 year old ddr4/pcie3/old cpu combo, which aren’t being hit quite as bad with ram pricing.

Gpus have grown significantly in the last two decades from components that often shipped with a half height bracket in case you wanted to stick it in a sff pc to the main geometric limitation of case choice. Use the “length” filter field in the pc part picker website to not end up with an unfortunate situation.

Amd or nvidia? People will say there are serious differences on linux, I’m not seeing it. The nvidia stuff tends to be performant longer but ymmv. The top end current generation amd cards can be had for under a grand, you’ll be lucky to get a 5090 for under two grand.

People will disagree with me, and they’re wrong, but the best gaming experience overall is nvidia. It may not be worth 1k to you, but it’s reality.

If I were feeling antsy and needed to pull the cost effective trigger on some parts I’d look at the area around me or eBay for a used professional workstation targeting pcie3/ddr4 and gpu mounting length and get a 9070. Once it’s up and running, mission accomplished, I’d still sock cash back and keep an eye out for an nvidia deal.

“We should give people access to computers” — “aren’t you sweet!”

“We should give every person access to instant global communication and the most powerful information editing technology in the world” — “hello? Hr?”

I wasn’t able to reproduce what you described about apple ai and signal.

The foss-ness of an operating system or application doesn’t matter for the purposes of encrypted messaging, what matters is if the user has the application and operating system configured appropriately and understands how to not give up secrets.