[2025-04-13T01:51:38Z] <midfavila> do VMs with SDF
[2025-04-13T01:51:38Z] <midfavila> :3c
[2025-04-13T01:52:10Z] <midfavila> i compared it to all the big name VPS providers and unless you don't intend to take advantage of other system services SDF is very competitive
[2025-04-13T01:52:47Z] <midfavila> plus it's a non-profit so you don't have to deal with any of the shittiness that for-profit services usually entail
[2025-04-13T01:58:02Z] <kris_> midfavila i bet they're super overpriced though
[2025-04-13T01:58:12Z] <kris_> most "small" providers are
[2025-04-13T01:58:21Z] <kris_> kyun.host also exists but i dont trust them very much
[2025-04-13T01:58:47Z] <kris_> albeit kyun.host lets you pay in monero and they just give you an account hash, similar to mullvad, so if you handle yourself correctly you basically get an "anonymous vps"
[2025-04-13T02:00:14Z] <midfavila> you can pay SDF in cash
[2025-04-13T02:00:25Z] <midfavila> so anonymous transactions aren't a huge concern 
[2025-04-13T02:00:33Z] <midfavila> i think SDF starts at like 5-10 a month 
[2025-04-13T02:00:56Z] <midfavila> i will say that if you don't think you would benefit from MetaARPA then it's not necessarily worth it
[2025-04-13T02:01:11Z] <kris_> they don't tell you what kind of processing power you're getting
[2025-04-13T02:01:12Z] <midfavila> since i think that's 42$ a year after the latest referendum 
[2025-04-13T02:01:18Z] <midfavila> it's not a ton
[2025-04-13T02:01:21Z] <midfavila> single core machine
[2025-04-13T02:01:21Z] <kris_> "$7/mo"
[2025-04-13T02:01:27Z] <kris_> for a gig of ram and 20gb of storage
[2025-04-13T02:01:33Z] * midfavila bigshrugs
[2025-04-13T02:01:34Z] <kris_> so basically, borderline useless
[2025-04-13T02:01:38Z] <kris_> unfortunately
[2025-04-13T02:01:44Z] <midfavila> sounds perfectly useful to me
[2025-04-13T02:02:00Z] <kris_> i host kind of a good amount of stuff on my vps
[2025-04-13T02:02:20Z] <kris_> im paying like 6 euros per month for a 4 core ampere arm vps with 8gb of ram and 80gb of ssd
[2025-04-13T02:02:55Z] <midfavila> ye fair enough then
[2025-04-13T02:03:25Z] <kris_> the main issue i have is that hetzner will comply with law enforcement even without a warrant apparently
[2025-04-13T02:03:37Z] <kris_> i'm not going to tell you who told me that, but i have it on *very* good authority that's the case
[2025-04-13T02:04:22Z] <kris_> which is kind of wild considering hetzner is where i host my irc bouncer
[2025-04-13T02:04:35Z] <kris_> i'm considering moving it in-house and proxying through hetzner instead
[2025-04-13T02:04:43Z] <kris_> given the connection to liberachat should be encrypted
[2025-04-13T02:05:24Z] <midfavila> im at the point where if i were to do something funky i would involve computers as little as possible in the process
[2025-04-13T02:05:28Z] <midfavila> you won't beat a state actor
[2025-04-13T02:05:29Z] <midfavila> lol
[2025-04-13T02:05:42Z] <kris_> you absolutely *can*
[2025-04-13T02:05:53Z] <kris_> you just also have to be incredibly conscious of opsec the entire time
[2025-04-13T02:06:02Z] <midfavila> tens if not hundreds of turbo autists getting paid to find the tiniest crack in everything you do? 
[2025-04-13T02:06:07Z] <midfavila> the odds aren't great
[2025-04-13T02:06:23Z] <kris_> it just depends on what it is
[2025-04-13T02:06:26Z] <midfavila> like sure in theory you can beat the odds
[2025-04-13T02:06:29Z] <midfavila> but in practice?
[2025-04-13T02:06:34Z] <kris_> tons of "dark web" market places do completely fine
[2025-04-13T02:06:46Z] <kris_> multiple of them have ran their life cycle and closed down with their profits and moved on
[2025-04-13T02:06:53Z] <midfavila> i have a feeling that's because most of them aren't a serious problem
[2025-04-13T02:07:08Z] <midfavila> compared to other things the state could spend its resources on
[2025-04-13T02:07:10Z] <kris_> potentially
[2025-04-13T02:07:17Z] <kris_> if i were doing anything that high profile though it'd be over i2p
[2025-04-13T02:07:19Z] <kris_> not tor
[2025-04-13T02:07:53Z] <kris_> kind of funny that im having a similar discussion in another chat right now, a few times in the past couple weeks ive needed some form of e2ee chat with a friend
[2025-04-13T02:07:59Z] <kris_> i guess its about time i bite it and set up xmpp again
[2025-04-13T02:08:26Z] <midfavila> xmpp with omemo or irc/icb/talk with pgp/otr 
[2025-04-13T02:08:30Z] <midfavila> tends to be my go to
[2025-04-13T02:08:35Z] <midfavila> but icb is kind of ehhhhh
[2025-04-13T02:08:38Z] <kris_> otr is cool but seems horribly maintained
[2025-04-13T02:08:43Z] <kris_> and like no clients support it
[2025-04-13T02:08:47Z] <kris_> and/or have plugins for it
[2025-04-13T02:08:52Z] <midfavila> the only client that matters supports it
[2025-04-13T02:08:57Z] <kris_> i swear if you say pidgin
[2025-04-13T02:09:01Z] <midfavila> :3c
[2025-04-13T02:09:06Z] <kris_> unbelievable
[2025-04-13T02:09:08Z] <kris_> lmfao
[2025-04-13T02:09:16Z] <midfavila> what can i say, i'm a libpurple stan
[2025-04-13T02:09:23Z] <midfavila> i know it's a hot mess but it's *my* hot mess
[2025-04-13T02:09:29Z] <kris_> i'm a weechat shill
[2025-04-13T02:09:34Z] <midfavila> it's the only way i can use muh discords on my uconsole
[2025-04-13T02:09:44Z] <kris_> even though it doesnt exactly work very well with my bouncer
[2025-04-13T02:09:47Z] <kris_> since i moved from znc to soju
[2025-04-13T02:10:25Z] <kris_> i just use the vesktop client for discord
[2025-04-13T02:10:35Z] <kris_> not on a uconsole though ofc
[2025-04-13T02:10:51Z] <midfavila> my uconsole is a 1ghz riscv machine with 1gb of ddr3
[2025-04-13T02:11:04Z] <midfavila> i dont think it could even open a modern browser
[2025-04-13T02:11:12Z] <kris_> probably not
[2025-04-13T02:11:17Z] <midfavila> it definitely tried to open uhhh
[2025-04-13T02:11:23Z] <kris_> my t480 is working out well for me though, finally got new batteries
[2025-04-13T02:11:24Z] <midfavila> that lua vi style browser
[2025-04-13T02:11:26Z] <kris_> got scammed on a batt kinda but still
[2025-04-13T02:11:30Z] <midfavila> it *did*... open
[2025-04-13T02:11:36Z] <midfavila> and then promptly OOM
[2025-04-13T02:11:36Z] <kris_> tldr bought an "oem genuine" one on ebay, 72wh
[2025-04-13T02:11:48Z] <midfavila> what did i tell you dawg
[2025-04-13T02:11:51Z] <kris_> shows up and it's labeled appropriately, looks real, OS reports 64wh peak
[2025-04-13T02:11:57Z] <kris_> so i guess its a 64wh batt
[2025-04-13T02:12:17Z] <kris_> the battery life is still fucking killer though so im not the most upset
[2025-04-13T02:12:21Z] <midfavila> ye fair
[2025-04-13T02:12:24Z] <kris_> the new internal one i got is actually the size its supposed to be at least
[2025-04-13T02:12:31Z] <midfavila> i think that's my biggest complaint about my reform
[2025-04-13T02:12:47Z] <kris_> by killer i mean easily like 14wh of battery with moderate load via discord, librewolf with a bunch of tabs open, music player playing flacs
[2025-04-13T02:12:48Z] <midfavila> is that the lifepo4 cells it uses have a fair amount less energy density than conventional cells
[2025-04-13T02:13:19Z] <midfavila> i'm thinking i might do some pretty heavy mods in the future though. add a couple extra cells in the process
[2025-04-13T02:13:26Z] <kris_> s/14wh/14h
[2025-04-13T02:13:38Z] <kris_> and yeah that could be neat
[2025-04-13T02:13:41Z] <kris_> the reform is definitely cool
[2025-04-13T02:13:51Z] <midfavila> once the modos display controller board comes out i want to try and replace the standard 16:9 LCD with a 4:3 e-ink panel
[2025-04-13T02:14:11Z] <midfavila> since afaik the imx8mq uses eDP and the modos board also offers edp
[2025-04-13T02:14:28Z] <midfavila> but that ofc entails getting a new chassis milled, probably 14"
[2025-04-13T02:14:45Z] <midfavila> which means figuring out how the hell i'm gonna get the mainboard to work 
[2025-04-13T02:15:21Z] <midfavila> i'll probably just use USB A to A cables as a kludge 
[2025-04-13T02:15:39Z] <midfavila> instead of modifying and ordering a new mainboard
[2025-04-13T02:16:20Z] <midfavila> then i'd like to add more cells, like i said, and im crazy enough to try and mount a kishsaver model f in the chassis
[2025-04-13T02:16:24Z] <midfavila> if theres enough depth
[2025-04-13T02:16:50Z] <midfavila> trackball and model f with a 1600x1200 epaper display in the reform...
[2025-04-13T02:17:01Z] <midfavila> perfection
[2025-04-13T03:32:18Z] <kris_> for some reason my seeding has really picked up since i moved from my old router to openwrt