Anna

You are either a degenerate gambler or already a billionaire \s

Not if they were using stolen wifi and Signal \s

Spoken like a true capitalist \s

Just VPN is sufficient and don’t get fooled by a lot of VPN adverts. Almost all of the internet uses SSL so even if you directly connect to public WiFi no-one can just snoop on your passwords or anything else. The only thing they will be able to see is the website you are visiting. Same as your ISP whether it’s some telco, VPN, or Google.

I can understand you not wanting to share which website you visit to google but if you are not careful Google will find out one way or the other. Even if you use VPN or Tor

And as already mentioned never do Tor over VPN or VPN over Tor unless you know exactly what you are doing and what are the risk associated with them.

If you are worried about state actors with compromised rootCA and DNS then Tor can help you there but if they are using this to spy on you then just bypassing it can also put you on a list

Umm… apart from my ARR setup and few specific apps and websites. I use Tor and I2P for almost everything.

And for doomsday scenario I’ve several physical books I love and won’t mind re-reading until the heat death. Also I’ve downloaded several GBs of EPUBs I still have to get to… I think I’ll be alright.

Nah… If you use of=/dev/sda it won’t touch your main drive \s

I’ve never built a full ISO or Libre kernel specifically. But, For debugging few issues in my laptop I’ve built the kernel for qubes OS and app VMs. But from your description it sounds like you just want to disable certain modules. That can easily be achieved by updating the .config for the kernel and if needed you can add the patches to the kernel from Linus (Qubes is already adding few) check out https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-linux-kernel

you can also use Qubes builder v2 to create rpm packages in secure way.

I’ve been daily driving Qubes OS for last 6 years. You don’t need to be an Linux expert but you should know basic things. And few common commands and maybe simple bash scripting if you want some level of customization

Main thing is divide your personas,and create a Qubes for each of them. and if you just want to search for some random shit use disposable VMs

My setup is something like this I’ve 3 debian and 3 fedora templates 1 minimal used for sys VMs and vault, 2 normal template here I only install packages only available in official debian/fedora, repos 3 in this template I add custom repos which are still trustworthy

Then depending on what I need in which app on I assign the template.

I’m forced to use zoom and other very intrusive apps for them I’ve just setup the rc.local script (this runs with start of any Qube) to install them

Also even though Qubes provides isolation at Qube level I still use firejail inside all the VMs it just takes few minutes to setup and gives a peace of mind

Also Hassel depends on what you use it for. Few pain points for me are

1. Nested virtualization isn’t possible* there are some workarounds and in most cases it’s okay. The only problem is for Android app development. In that case the best solution is to just use adb and connect your own device

2. PCI passthrough it was really terrible few years ago but now it works in most cases but for me sometimes my Laptop overheats. I don’t need it much often so i haven’t spent time to fix it.

The only place I find it useful is in writing documentation for the code. I can quickly review it without there being any gotchas that only show up under certain circumstances like with code and even if I miss something it doesn’t break anything and anyone who is confused by the doc can easily reach out to me.

I’m reading The Light of all that falls by James Islington (3rd book in The Licanius trilogy)

The one with the blinking white block. Except when I’m in insert mode of vim then blinking white line

I use OSMAnd. But, offline I don’t really care for real time traffic updates. I know the city I live in and can guess fairly accurately how long any journey will take.

Intelligence is nuanced so let’s test everyone on mathematics

It’s like testing if a fish is faster at climbing tree than a monkey.

Almost all the animals I’ve seen 1thing or other that they can do which is impossible for me.

Bees and birds navigating. Even with GPS I sometimes get lost.

Dogs being able to identity people. Sometimes I’m like have seen this person before whose talking to me

Birds creating intricate nests, etc

This doesn’t mean I’m dumber than these animals I can write code these animals won’t even be able to dream about. This just means every species specialized in something for the sake of survival of the shittiest.

Opend it in Tor Browser inside a Whonix dispVM inside Qubes OS it got nothing on me

Atleast be a neckbeard and use cat the way neckbeard Gods intended \s

Tax

GrapheneOS but check banking apps again because for me they were working till last year but then Google started enforcing Play integrity check instead of SafetyNet checks. I was able to do almost everything from website so there’s that

Go to user settings/manage usersthere you can enable SMS and calls

Sorry to pop your bubble but Google is Platinum tier member of Linux Foundation.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

See ya losers I’m going to moon \s