Hmm you’re right. It looks like it CAN draw more power but under the same load would draw less. How did I make that mistake? Thanks for correcting me.

Look at the idle power draw. The 9900 is higher and the performance is not that much better.

Seed boxes are also dumb. You are making a honeypot for yourself that can be monitored by the hosting provider.

Yes and no. It’s certainly better than stock android. You won’t find anyone who says otherwise. But it creates unnecessary dependancies on apple’s ecosystem and Apple can’t be trusted. Nothing with shareholders can be trusted. Apple might be an ally today but they are a US based-company operating within the confines of what the US will let it do.

All their cloud services are pretty poorly protected too. Every year or so me and my friends will find Chinese gibberish entries in our calendars that link to phishing sites. These get cleaned up eventually but it proves that Apple is lying about not being able to access your shit.

I’m planning my exodus from the Apple ecosystem and looking at grapheneOS but I’m still in the skeptic stage. I have lots of cloud decoupling to do and my self hosting ambitions are big so at the moment my iPhone isnt the biggest priority to change out.

But I absolutely do not trust it.

I2P is king here but it has a limitation that makes it stronger but less practical. I2P doesn’t generally do outproxies. A few exist but they typically aren’t trusted or used. Instead, I2P tries to keep private by only routing around traffic the originated within its own network rather than piping things from clearnet from one place to another. An issue with arrives that do that is you can see traffic from a honey pot going into a black box and with enough monitoring where it ends up leaving that black box. It’s very difficult to track traffic flow within the network but once it jumps back into clear net you can find it again.

Now while you can argue that it doesn’t come out on clearnet, just originates from there, I counter that with Microsoft Windows telemetry, it might as well be clearnet. Windows is the dominant player at the moment so it’s most likely the traffic ends up on a windows machine. There are really benefits behind the telemetry date but they also means there’s a single point an authoritarian regime can apply pressure to to monitor whatever they want. With advances in AI, chewing through tons of collected data is much easier to do, so the idea of “they can’t stop all of us” is ridiculous. They will just pick off the undesirables in smaller chunks.

Ultimately nothing is completely safe but if you really value privacy, make yourself such an enormous pain in the ass that monitoring you becomes a chore.

I2P and postman are free.

Incorrect. It just means someone has to throw money at proton to get that data instead of throwing at ISPs and marketing nuts. They are subject to the same capitalistic pressures as anyone else.

I2P needs more torrents and more people.

It’s also a shit product riding on marketing laurels from its past glory days, like Norton. It leaves pieces behind that can cause malware to come roaring back.

It isn’t hard to just nuke a system or restore a backup people.

TDPs the same? Bah! I’m looking at a 7900 build and this would be two generations that cannot match its energy efficiency.

Enter the calm and quiet room

Pass out torches and pitchforks, guns and knives

“Snaps exist”

War erupts.

there is no company forcing you to do things their way

IBM would like to do have a few words.

That wiki is by far the best part of arch.

Yes but popularity subjects them to different pressures, many of which are not beneficial.

That’s the thing. It’s mostly just Reddit shit. Nothing proven but the case they made is plausible so…I dunno.

I read somewhere tuta is just a honeypot though.

Not always true. Letting me from an account information TO something specifically is a risk, but simply demanding they remove MY data from an account that’s not mine is not a fraud concern. Thats the opposite of a fraud concern.

Moreover, I was able to prove I have that number in that I have all the information they gave me access to through that number.

I’m not able to get a new number right now. I’m still dealing with some shit that I can’t risk losing contact with someone just because they might have an old number. There’s a possibility I can change it out again tomorrow n a few months when things calm down but not now.

I’m telling them to stop involving me, not involve me more. that’s hardly a scam. further, their inaction can lead to fraud, so its really is in everyone’s best interest if they do something about this.

I thought about that, but that only treats the symptom. This lady has my number listed on something she uses to arguably commit crimes, which means if she ever gets busted for it, her problem could potentially become my problem. I need to not be involved in her shit anywhere, and theres not really a justification to leave my data in someone else’s account.

I gave them the confirmation number. I can prove I am getting things that are not for me and did prove that. They refuse to budge.