As a longtime and current debian user, lol if you think it hasn’t been infiltrated or that any network of developers spread over the globe could resist infiltration let alone the open source “community”.

A large portion of the maintainers of popular open source projects are en the employ of some company or other explicitly because of their maintainer role. Even if some hypothetical distributed global network of developers could resist infiltration, the maintainers of our open source software cannot.

The building blocks of android are maintained by developers who are employed by google. Google was compliant with prism four years before Apple (the exact amount of time it would take for a sealed case to wind its way through appeals).

If the fact of apples compliance with the laws of its jurisdiction worry you, the fact that people don’t get targeted or convicted off of information from properly configured icloud accounts or locked Apple devices should counteract that worry. The fact that other generally held to be trustworthy companies like mullvad are compliant with the laws of their jurisdiction should make it clear that legal compliance doesn’t necessarily mean a company or service isn’t trustworthy.

I would also like to point out that for the purposes of us law, entities outside the jurisdiction of the us are subject to a freer surveillance apparatus which need not be hampered by what some judge is willing to sign off on and doesn’t need to comply with its subjects rights as defined under us law.

An apple in Mexico would be able to offer fewer protections to its us customers than one incorporated in the us.

Do you think it’s possible for companies or individuals to not comply with court ordered surveillance and search warrants? That’s what prism is, nsa driven data collection ordered by the court system.

Further, on its own and absent any other evidence, the timeline of prism entry corroborates my statement that ios is second to graphene.

Apple is not a good company, there are no good companies. Apple is a company selling security and privacy amongst other things. You have to buy security and privacy because you can’t go out into the backyard, fell a phone tree, carefully choose the section with the strongest, straightest traces and shape it into an optimally private and secure device in the shed using your grandfathers antique phoneworking bench and strap driven phone lathe.

NASA collected ancient herminudic texts and combined the antediluvian wisdom within with cutting edge materials science and technology to produce a device that could reverse the events of the last few seconds within a 1m radius at phenomenal energy cost, scrubbing the mission in the process.

The soviets welded the capsule shut.

Yeah I guess if you’re constantly slamming your penis in the car door than having a button that turns back time would be one approach.

It can be made very good from a security and privacy perspective.

If you know you know I guess.

Anyone telling you the list isn’t graphene -> ios -> good custom android -> aosp-> google stock -> samsung stock is lying to you.

Good luck. If that gets enough heat off you that you can wait on putting a computer together it’s probably a good idea to target good deals on old Xeon workstations or tower servers instead of using consumer hardware.

Sorry it took a little while to get back to you, I wasn’t in the workshop till today.

Just powered it up and did a quick memtest and pi, the case has three 5.25 bays, eight 3.5, the motherboard has eight sata ports and has a i7 3770 cooled using an aio with 16gb of total ram in four slots.

The front bezel of the case is missing. For a server the front bezel shouldn’t matter too much, nothing is exposed in an unsafe way, just a metal grate instead of plastic transformer face.

I use the little brother of this configuration, with half the cores and a slower clock, as my primary nas/jellyfin/rtorrent server/arr stack/many other tasks and it handles 150+ tb of disks (using an hba and expander) and transcoding 1080 content no problem. I wanted to do 4k I’d add a surplus workstation gpu to transcoding.

I’d like to not get completely destroyed on shipping, so lmk your zip (or some other way of talking if you don’t wanna give that out here) and I’ll see how bad it is.

E: I just wanna say, you’re probably best served by thrifting a recent wireless router that’s supported by freshtomato, openwrt or pfsense and doing your network stuff on that.

No I mean like I will sell you one of those. What dimensions do you need to know?

E: Also I have an old gaming pc in a gaming pc sized case.

May I interest you in a Lenovo thinkcentere m700, hp z230, or dell 3040 sff or 7040 mt?

Usually people don’t that.

The preferred solution for those mice in linux for as long as I can remember is modifier left clicking where you hold down ctrl or alt or whatever when you left click to get right or middle.

The reason people don’t do long click and instead do modifiers is because it allows you to use three button inout which is what x and whatever came before it were designed for and secretly everything in a linux gui expects.

If you absolutely have to have long press and cannot use modifiers because your other hand is occupied when clicking the mouse button due to chronic masturbation, evdev or the other x11 input emulation configurations are the way to go.

If you have a computer repair place near you just go there and say “I have $100 and I want to trade it for a motherboard, cpu and cooler that fits in this case and takes this ram.”

They’re gonna have an old 8th gen + intel or am4 setup that will work for you.

Reserve currency status is established and maintained through military might.

How much you looking to spend?

Oh I didn’t even look up motherboard availability, I only know of dual core no multithreading celeron lga 1200 CPUs. You’re gonna have problems accomplishing your goals with that.

No, you’re wrong.

People who still feel like they aren’t being coddled enough when it comes to linux help in the year of our lord 2026 are the toxic ones. Assistance with every possible problem exists in every imaginable format and with focus on a dazzling array of backgrounds and levels of comprehension.

At some point when you’re set loose in the library and can’t find out about locomotive axle layouts it’s your own fault.

If your case can mount the sata drives and your power supply has a 24 pin, four pin and enough sata connectors for your drives then all you need is a ddr4 motherboard, cpu and cooler.

If you’re stuck on off the shelf stuff then maybe a b550 and some am4 cpu, if you can mess around with weird shit there’s a bunch of odd sample intel cpu/motherboard combos floating around the aliexpress sphere.

Some of the am4 boards have multiple nics so that’s probably worthwhile for your use case.

No, fuck you.

If you want to use the community computer you have to actually put forth the effort to learn how to do it. There is no excuse in 2026, vast mountains of educational material in every format written for every combination of medium and cognition are available at an instant.

From your perspective it would be easier and more efficient if people made videos, or talked you through it. From everyone else’s perspective it’s a big waste of time when they could be doing literally anything else and you will end up with a stronger understanding when you do it yourself.

That’s not to say people won’t help you, just that you should put forth the effort to learn so you don’t burden the community, such as it is, with your simple requests.

Alternately, you don’t have to use linux. Windows is a perfectly good operating system, macos is a perfectly good operating system.

wget -a website.url

It’s probably better not to try to preserve webcomics. It’s like the only bad form of art.

You live in America and consider yourself middle class. You have been targeted by an individual before and want to feel safe and secure.

Buy a gun and become licensed to carry it concealed.