If this is upendable, im sure the next distro will be fun for this user.

IMO, its not a brand issue. Its a seller/batch/brand issue. Hard drives are sensitive to vibration, and if you buy multiple drives from the same place, at the same time, and all the same brand and model, you might be setting yourself up for a bad experience if someone accidentally slammed those boxes around earlier in their life.

I highly recommend everyone buy their drives from different sellers, at different times, spread out over various models from different brands. This helps eliminate the bad batch issue.

And linux distros

Yo delete the pics of your fingerprint lol

Sorry. Im not sure what would make it a good or bad port. Im not familiar with what the differences would be.

It was originally released on N64 and the Switch Online N64 mode seems fine. It feels like the original game.

Honestly, its probably a good thing they canceled it. They were going to butcher that perfect game.

But also FYI, Perfect Dark is available on Nintendo Switch Online as a Nintendo 64 +17 Mature title, along with Turok and Turok 2

I believe the Pixel 9a is also available. You might snag that one instead of an 8a just to give yourself another year of support.

Forgive me. Just trying to understand. How does the kernel flag NEO_DISABLE_MITIGATIONS have any affect on the CPU? Seems to be targeted towards OpenCL and Level Zero, which are APIs to access GPU hardware directly.

The kernel mitigations would be for the CPU, not the GPU.

Depends on how you use your system if you have multiple users. CPU mitigations wont protect GPU workloads, and vice versa. If your CPU was mitigating GPU workloads, that would probably be a massive performance loss.

This is fine for single user systems. If your system allows more than 1 users, this is probably not something you want to do.

I changed my mkinitcpio hook from the busybox initencrypt to systemd init sd-encrypt to help with this, as it presents a different way to unlock a LUKS partition. Be sure to read the notes about sd-vconsole if you use this hook. Your mileage may vary since im not sure which OS you’re on.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio#Common_hooks

Wonder how well this works with unified kernel images, secure boot, tpm, cpu microcode, and disk encryption.

I can think of some commercial audio processors that can help with that, but they are super pricey.

I can’t think of a linux application that has this capability. If there is something out there that offers AEC (acoustic echo cancellation) on linux with two mic inputs, id also be interested.

One way to help with this as far as inexpensive hardware is to make sure you’re using cardioid dynamic microphones, and not omnidirectional condenser microphones. Cardioid dynamic mics generally pick up audio directionally, like from the “front”. You have to be right up on the mic in order to have it record any type of audio. They generally wont pick up environmental sound from anything more than a few feet away. You can just point them away from noise you don’t want to pick up.

So we don’t have perfect privacy?

It doesn’t move at all. If your hardware is compromised, then it doesn’t matter what apps or software you run, right? Its not under your control.

So which phone has libre baseband firmware?

If libre apps run on proprietary hardware, is it really under your control?

Can you name a phone that has libre hardware as an alternative?

Apple already fixed it years ago when they released iOS 12.

Backing up health records data

You can use iCloud to store your Health data, including health records, using end-to-end encryption (requires iOS 12 or later and two-factor authentication). Health and health records data is also included in local iTunes backups, if you’ve configured your iTunes backups to be encrypted.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111755

Can you name a phone that has open source basebands that has a FLOSS license attached to it? Surely if you’re arguing against apple, you are not using a phone that has proprietary blobs in the firmware.

Read the original comment again.