Believe me, OP, SBCs are much more expensive than secondhand laptops and the performance is crap. If form factor is in consideration, consider a mini PC in the shape of NUC, or just get a Mac Mini M4 (install Asahi). If you want something flat, you can buy a secondhand Macbook with the screen removed.

Always, always choose amd64 or Apple Silicon.

Don’t look for a solution that is technical where the problem is mental.

No worries. My bad.

miniserve, a popular command line program written in Rust to serve static files, also counts down (from three though) before launching the server, just like he counts down from five before someone rewrites your Hanoi Tower game in Rust.

http://crates.io/crates/miniserve

Why are you sharing your program with miniserve?

Not really from the ground up. Their XFCE variant is amazingly convenient nowadays.

I’m that goof who built a desktop-shaped computer with the Milk-V Jupiter RISC-V (RV64GCVB) board last year. The performance was awful compared to recent amd64 setup. The amount of RAM wasn’t an issue, but the CPU was way to slow to even run a graphical interface (read XFCE), or compile some simple program in Rust. It’s equivalent to those arm926ej-s SBCs ten to fifteen years ago capable of running Linux 2.6, and only suitable for writing code in text.

I’d say give it two more decades, at current pace.

That’s fair, but come to think of it, the architecture of the CPU doesn’t really say anything about privacy. Someone can build an RISC-V chip but sneak in telemetry, or you can build yourself a x86_64 CPU and be 100% no telemetry. It’s about the manufacturer, not the architecture.

I don’t think you can ever be 100% sure that the CPU you’re running on is telemetry-free unless you have those kick-ass X-ray machines and examine it yourself. Building your trust on top of something else you deem trustworthy though, is practical. Billions of people are running Intel/AMD off-the-shelf CPUs, and there are perhaps millions specialists in them, what is the chance that a backdoor remains hidden?

The same goes for software. How do you know Linux kernel, OpenSSL, Wayland is trustworthy? Because many people use them, and it’s unlikely a backdoor is there. Think about the sheer amount of software the CPU runs. Don’t you think we shall have a greater concern there?

Hopefully this calms your paranoia about hardware a bit.

No investigation

I live in China.

Then I had to wonder, does the cellphone still refuse to work even though the battery Vcc pin is wired to the wall charger? Do you think it was trying to talk to the battery in a protocol? I don’t remember third-party batteries being so sophisticated.

Have you tried removing the battery out? I assume you did, but have you tried taking it to a repair shop and ask to short the charging pin to the battery power pin?

You know who’s insufferable? The people who downvoted a wrong statement, and the mod who right out removed it. How about just tell them how it was wrong?

I was clearly not trolling or joking, and yes, less educated than you on politics. Did you get tossed out of school in the first grade when you gave a wrong answer to the teacher? No. Then how about have some empathy and tell people what you think is right?

Insufferable. I moved away from Reddit but Reddit found me here.

Removed by mod

I don’t think the PRC falls into the bracket of socialist countries. If you apply for jobs, nine out of ten times you will end up working for a compamy owned by one boss or a board, and that makes the principal aspect of economy owned privately. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Systems built on microkernels exist, you know. See Redox.
https://redox-os.org/

Sorry about your loss.

Hey, did you know you get to send your deceased love one a letter once your life comes to an end? You can write about how much you have enjoyed your life when you were together, and your life later without her. How you accepted, how you coped, how you overcame. I’m sure you don’t want her to know that you lived an extremely terrible life afterwards, right? Definitely not good, but not too bad. You can’t end your life early just to send that letter, for the obvious reason!🙂

Check MakeMKV’s forum for drive models if your intention is to playback (with free software) or to backup.

Same to you. Happy holiday.

To be frank, not really. What’s so special about us Lemmings? I mean, so many other people brighter and more experienced than us have already shared. Whatever we said here can only be a subset to that at most, then why not just read the old threads.

No only OP provided almost no discussion value in the post body, but also this topic has been discussed one million times and nothing more can be talked about.

You dreamed about waking up.