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The Pine64 SBCs look to be good choices. They don't have WiFi, but fortunately I don't need WiFi for this.

https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers is more up to date.

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Single_Board_Com... has suggestions.

I'm looking for a Raspberry Pi type device: ethernet, USB ports, that runs Linux distributions and works great with a vanilla kernel. Suggestions?

Perhaps the continual raising awareness of problems is a key part of progress.

> All we need is to build distributed systems that work. That means decentralized bulk activity, hierarchical regulation. XMPP fits this definition. Bulk activity occurs via decent…

TIL. Do you have any links that go into more detail about these differences?

I don't know enough about Nix internals to know how much of a problem this is, or the right way to improve it. However, it's good to see an ecosystem forming around the derivation …

I suspect many, perhaps even most, are aware of the bias they are exposed to. I don't expect I'm particularly resistant to it. I am keen to learn more about what I can do. An alter…

It's a clear case of censorship. In censorsing they might have amplified the story, but this amplification only occurred after the matter/case was decided. That is too late. > If y…

Fact checking, or more importantly which claims get fact checked, is a signal for political leanings, if nothing else.

The question is, if media centralization continues, what evidence/perspectives could have been removed from the public sphere, and what impact could that have on impartiality? Tech…

I fully accept that FB is free to run itself how it pleases. That said, it's clear they are not in a position to act as a neutral platform for civic discourse. I try to support tec…

> You can live here for the rest of your life carefully achieving satisfying challenges "rest of your [professional] life" suggests at least 30 years. How confident can you be pred…

Yeah... Guix does not distribute Firefox and instead distributes GNU Icecat, which comes with the unremovable libreJS and an extension to make UPS's site work without JavaScript. h…

Or, more typically, the binary is built your distribution.

I'm jaded about the Internet. https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence didn't last. The web is no longer "surfed". The web is an escalator of sanitised material, surveilled and …

Helm might have info documentation, available offline within Emacs. Try `M-x info-apropos` and type "helm". Info docs form a tree: press '^' to go up a node, 'n' and 'p' to go forw…