Yep, that’s me, just Linux isos, I just like to collect 'em, y’know, and store them on a small 100TB NAS I can access from any Plex client computer in the house should I need them. You never know.

Still waking up and making breakfast. They’re perpetually 5 hours late.

You forgot to remove the default Testosterone and install the Estrogen package instead.

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They can’t get all computing devices. If desktop PCs are done for, I’ll go to Raspberry Pis. There’s plenty of embedded and industrial computer systems that can be repurposed to use as a general purpose computer.

The cyberpunk dystopia has arrived, prepare your tools and defenses accordingly.

I’m a tinkerer. It’s made for people like me that like to take stuff apart and put it back together to see how it works. It also, quite literally, does EXACTLY as I tell it and set it up to operate. It doesn’t do disrespectful shit like revert my default browser settings to Edge. It is MY operating system and MY computer to 100% control however I wish, not some stale-ass predatory slop-driven corporation’s.

As someone who’s worked on other people’s cars, you’re giving people way too much credit for knowing stuff about cars…

I have encountered people that didn’t know what engine oil was even for or why it had to be changed out periodically.

Where is this meme coming from because I’ve been running it for two years solid and update once per week with no issues.

You are not the only thing capable of running binaries on your system. There’s always the possibility of something else being compromised that now has the capability to run this binary.

Security comes in many layers on top of each other and with software having to work together to plug all possible holes, not just the direct exploitation paths you are currently actively conscious about and using.

BIOS? I wired switches directly to the data and address lines of my RAM/CPU and toggle in the machine code directly every time I use my PC.

Data is garbage until you define its structure and what it is supposed to represent, and there’s nothing stopping something from interpreting it as something else, we do it all the time in progranming as type casting. The same piece of data can be just a normal integer to one function, while it’s a text character to another.

The restaurant equivalent of fly by night bootleg brand stores on Amazon, where you have ten different stores all selling the same product, sometimes a straight up copy, other times with a very slight variation.

Do not the filesystem/partition management while high. From personal experience.

Exactly the same concept as memory-mapped hardware I/O, or virtual file system drivers. Makes it so you don’t have to think too much about implementation details and uses a common interface that’s already there.

Some people enjoy just ordering a plate of raw ground beef, flour, yeast, and some cheese and constructing their own burger. The kind of people who’d love to completely design and build their own house with their own hands if they had the cash and time.

If OP was actually gonna go proper black hat, this post would not exist.

Always a fan of running around in a darkened room with pulsing lights and electronic music, eating strange pills and then being chased by colorful ghosts.

I mean…my connection is so fast it takes like, what, a minute, maybe two to get an ISO? The Internet is my backup device. I can still get copies of Yggdrasil from the early 90s.

But at the end of the day, there’s only one program in control of all the hardware. They’re all getting the kernel from the same place, the distros aren’t writing their own kernels except for a few tweaks here and there.

How does this happen? Do not most major desktop Linux distros more or less run almost the same kernel with the same driver modules? (Except in the case of Debian being several years behind the rest).