In California Jan 1st 2027, effectively yes. Please read AB-1043. All of this information is present there. It functionally forces any systemd‑based OS to populate it in order to comply with the law’s mandatory age‑collection requirements. It’s literally in the bill. Next time, just fucking read it, damn. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
California’s AB-1043 already passed, so we get to bitch about it now. Thanks for your support.
The most common I remember (I was like 5 at the time) was to go to the video rental store and rent a bunch of movies on VHS. You’d also rent a VHS player. You take the rental VHS player home and cable it to your existing VHS player. While one is playing the movie, the other is recording. Quick way to get a massive library of movies all named with sharpie markers and those little VHS stickers.
The real question is how many times you write over that movie and have to cross out what it was because you obviously can’t be bothered to go and buy more VHS tapes.
I ran into the same thing. Nix store got up to 57GB in size for me. I have lots of generations and upgrades ran which just continually fill up. Figured out you have to run garbage collection or use the optimizer (which takes a LONG time to run for me): https://nlewo.github.io/nixos-manual-sphinx/administration/cleaning-store.xml.html
I’ve used Arch as my daily for so many years now, it is a little tricky moving from imperative to declarative configuration. I’m treating my NixOS machine more as long term maintenance, so I’m not using the most bleeding edge packages. You can do that though by pointing to nixos-unstable.
I plan on using flakes for pinning and home-manager for writing ~/.config configurations, but I don’t think I really need it, more just to learn how. With home-manager, I could rebuild this machine from scratch (including individual application preferences/settings) just with the backed up configs. I can at any point rollback to any saved previous generation though, too, just by restarting the machine.
I’ve really been impressed with it though. To the point, I will probably be moving my Arch DIY router over and converting it to NixOS.
NixOS for fun:
powerManagement.enable = true;
services.logind.extraConfig = ''HandleLidSwitch=suspend'';
I remember the IRC channels where you would interact with channel bots to have them list what they had available. You’d make a selection, possibly end up in a queue, and then start downloading at 56k.
Honestly, none of it felt like or was treated as piracy. You were just sharing games (a physical thing you lent your friend). Even the game manual anti-piracy stuff was just treated like something you needed to work around. Your friends would just write down a few examples (like pg 43, line 26, word 12 = “punisher”) and just retry until that question was asked.
There are a lot of Docker GUI tools out there. There just isn’t Docker Desktop. Here are a few:
AI PR is absolutely correct: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/freebsd-cve-2026-4747-log-suggests-mythos-is-a-marketing-trick/
One user pointed out that Claude “wrote code to exploit a known CVE given to it” and did not “crack” FreeBSD.
Yeah, you can’t just use wireguard directly on a home network depending on provider (CGNAT) and you can’t just switch providers as most providers are in a non-compete with other providers. So, Cloudflare Mesh or Tailscale is the best option for those.
So that’s not actually true with DNS exactly.
State actors can and have compelled ISPs to redirect DNS traffic. The most notable case I can remember is Turkey assuming control over Google’s anycast address (8.8.8.8) via BGP hijacking to enforce Twitter bans (that was in 2014).
If we are talking DoT/DoH, then BGP hijacking has a more limited impact as there is encryption involved there, but it still requires IP routing the same as anything else, so modifying BGP routes would be effective if the goal was to break non-compliant DNS providers.
To be fair, the move to Linux has nothing to do with user rights. That is strictly a move to become less reliant on the US as the US has become increasingly unstable.
They have more than one product. They provide anti-cheat as well as anti-tamper
“Rules for thee, not for me”
As a networking guy, for homelab setups the router is not core of your network. That role falls on the switch. In a perfect world, you’d have a layer-3 switch handling traffic between segments and only send traffic to the router for egressing the network or a few other cases. But in the real world, you have to start somewhere and that’s what you did. Don’t let anyone tell you that you did it wrong. If someone can’t make things work without having the perfect equipment, its probably the wrong hobby for those people.
Regarding network-wide adblocking, I had a squid proxy running that did this. Every machine was issued a self-signed certificate and the connections were basically MITM so I could check the calls being made. You can run into some issues with SSL-pinning in Android or things like HSTS for common websites sometimes, but overall it did function pretty well after tweaking.
If you do decide later to replace your existing router, I’d suggest trying to build your own. My current router is a mini-PC with dual NICs running Arch configured to do packet filtering, routing, a few automations, etc. It was refurbished and cost me about $80 USD. Its a really good experience in building servers and learning how various routing protocols work.
You could try Arch with dwm for the display manager. That will run on a Samsung 905S3G pretty decently well.
You can but its dependent on the phone and USB-C adapter being used. Originally I was attempting to use 5G cellular as backup internet via a refurbished Samsung A54 5G. I was able to build the GRE tunnel between the phone and router, but the phone would either charge or provide ethernet, not both.
I would again fallback on my original statement that non-technical users don’t have issues with Linux so making it “easier to use” is not actually asking to make things simpler, its just another way of saying “make it Windows”.
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