The r4s doesn’t have eMMC where as the r6s does. I just left the SD card as rw, I’m not too concerned about failure, I’m hoping for some wear leveling built in, if not SD cards are cheap. I should probably clone the disk and have a cold spare SD card.

Storage wise I’m using 17. 63MiB of 29.38GiB, I think I may have bought a too big SD card Ram usage is around 88MiB of 3.87GiB I have got a couple of more things to set up like wireguard but as it stands I’m glad I went the openwrt route over a full server install

I looked at the nanopi r4s and the r6s when I replaced my router. I did consider doing it all myself but in the end settled on the r4s running opwenwrt, I think it took all of 5mins from download to working system. The benefit been the openwrt image has uboot included so only one image need writing, also web interface out of the box

Don’t think of it as an installation, it’s writing image files to disk. I prefer using gparted or disks when working with partitions. Then use dd for the actual writing as I can quite easily see I’ve got the right partition from gparted/disks. Got that wrong a couple of times 😅

I wonder if it’s the vegetable type or the viking type

Clearly not an arch user

Great now I need my tinfoil hat

Rothschilds are diamonds and other crap,

It’s the Australian Rupert Murdoch

Although him and a Lord Rothschild have been involved in some fuckery with oil in Israel

I think the correct answer is some billionaire

At the rate the UK is going it won’t be long before there is no northern Ireland, and just Ireland

The United kingdom of great Britain and ireland, there are always exceptions

I think it’s more if you want to replace one you have to replace both, and if you don’t glue the battery to the screen the phone will fall apart, that’s what I’d do if I was an evil corporation and wanted customers to buy a new phone instead of repairing

I did see a m.2 based expansion card based on ASM1166 chipset, or failing that a sata port multiplier, but those depend on the data port supporting it

I think you are not understanding how global shipping works, the ship could be owned by company in country A, hired by company in country B, under the flag of country C, cargo owned by country D, crew from country E, F and G or any random mix of everything.

Also the vast majority of goods to Europe goes through the red sea, and Suez canal. Remember what happened last time shipping stopped going through the Suez canal. It directly effects the economies of Europe, which most countries are NATO, so you could say it’s an attack on NATO country, which is article 5 of the treaty, and the only time article 5 has been invoked, was the 9/11 attacks, which led to a 20year(?) war. So maybe there is some interest in not letting it get that far again

All I’m reading from this is that the company has “ethical violation” problems and should probably be investigated

It all depends on how paranoid you feel. If the device has a hardcoded IP addresses changing the DNS won’t do anything. The only way to block that is by using a firewall external to your device and blocking it that way. You can get malware/backdoors in all the places you mention, and even built in to usb cables as well.

In the end the question becomes who can you actually trust, and how sensitive is your data. At some point you have to trust someone and potentially give any some form of data/information, otherwise you are just living in a bubble with no access to anything.

Personally I don’t believe anyone is interested in my data/info for anything other than selling adverts towards me, and potentially trying to steal money via scams, fraud etc.

I run a pixel 6a, some people will tell me that Google has all my data, and they are right, however I know what they have and can be pretty certain that I’m not going to have random crap and potential malware on the CPU or chip on the board, and it also receives regular updates.

Any app you run the phone (unless root enabled) will have to run on top of whatever rom you have installed, and is ultimately controlled by the Rom. It probably isn’t but again depends on level paranoia and trust you have. The paranoid route would be to build your own version of android from source on something like a fairphone.

Just out of interest I checked the UK’s system called PAYE, it’s was fully introduced in 1944. The only people that have to deal with bullshit tax returns are people that are probably going to be making enough money to be able to afford someone to sort it out for them anyway.

Are they actually called Important Folder (ABC), it might be truncating the name at the spaces, and giving the same folder name 3 times, Try Important_folder_a etc.

The amount of times I’ve had this argument in the office is untrue. I think the default values aren’t stored in the docx file or something like that, but when you manually set a value it does store it in the docx.

Then you have the whole proprietary blobs in a “open” standard to deal with.

The worst offenders are people who format with tabs and spaces and wonder why it’s all messed up.

If you have to use a program that is windows only you have to use windows. I could move our entire company over to Linux if it wasn’t for SOLIDWORKS been windows only.

Wine can be an option but I’ve found it very hit and miss on some of the more obscure windows only programs

In the past I’ve used virtual box (virtual machine) in seamless mode, so it looks just like a window in Linux. I can’t remember why I stopped, I think it was down to licencing and oracle buying it.

Exactly all programs should be web based cloud subscription only. We don’t want that filthy code on our rgb nvme drives

I’ve done it before where a newer version of a program is available that hasn’t been backported, just need to watch the dependencys. Sometimes it works out fine, othertimes you need a second package or 2 to update, othertimes it’s time to upgrade to the latest bleeding edge release of the OS

Oh and sailing, kayaking/paddle boarding, bike rides, at the beach in waves, generally anything that involves getting wet