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  • Hey, I have no experience with the accessibility side of this, so I cannot tell. At least now. If I’d explore the topic, I might recommend something at some later point.

    I have a MacBook Air 11” from 2010, with a broken screen. I plan to utilise it as a server, but it’s not really good in that department. I do that purely because of the experiment, plus I have it lying around anyway, so why not. If you want, I can link a blog post about the laptop, when I’d write it. (May not be very soon, say, weeks. If no months. No ETA. I played with it for a while and put it off for later.)

    The time capsule, is it a router? I have an AirPort Extreme router at home, I still use it. It’s a decent router, if you don’t need anything too special. I have no idea how good that is accessibility wise. I believe Apple products are the best at it, so I’d rather recommend macOS, I have no idea how bad that is with Linux. I remember the relatively recent series of posts about it, I bet you know them better.


  • It looks much better than I have. My current infrastructure is built upon a set of mostly obsolete devices: Intel Atom 230 and 330 used processors. Also, SBCs: a few Raspberry Pi 2Bs, and a few Orange Pi Zeros (the very first gen, 32-bit). They are spread among different locations (office, relatives, home), and if I’d get a side gig job with the next company, I may deploy a couple of used computers for them too. So there’s not much to picture, but it looks much worse than this.

    Also, is it a Surface on the left? I almost sure it is! I’ve bought 3RT (obsolete slow model) two weeks ago. It’s piece of shit hardware, but the concept of a Linux tablet / laptop for cheap (I buy used) is beautiful, so I’m considering getting one more modern model at some later point. I guess when my battery would be in a poor condition. It’s a great device for sshing, at the very least.



  • I have no proof for this except my memories. Perhaps we could find some links somewhere, but that would change nothing: it doesn’t work today. My guess that maybe it was different for different markets / locations. As I clearly remember a friend learned about Pi-Hole and bought an SBC just to deploy Pi-Hole. I’d been having it censoring the ads for my entire family, till it stopped doing that at some point. I still have that Pi-Hole deployed by the way, it continues blocking trackers and other shitty things online.

    I wonder why browser extensions still work, while network-wide ad blocker does not.



  • This, but these days I’d give you guys a better and more modern advice: find a spare device to play with Linux. Get that cheap or even free laptop from someone who cannot use it, because it’s too slow and unusable. Swap the HDD with SSD, if that’s the case (modern laptops have SSDs already, usually). Install Linux there, explore. Test all your workflows. Then don’t play with dual boot thing, don’t waste your time. Just forget Windows, you’ll be surprised anyone uses it, it’ll take you a year at best, if you can do all your tasks on Linux. Not all tasks can be done with Linux, but most of them, and more coming. The more of us use the platform, the more valuable it becomes for other developers to target.









  • Yes, you’re correct. I did not really meant that literally, but I’m very pissed they do the real literal genocide, and most of the world have very little fucks about it. Business as usual.

    I’m okay with Russians to just be, if we speak of any region but Moscow. I’d prefer the capital to be nuked, or at least the elites to be eradicated entirely. I just hope against hope there’s gonna be a new Mossad, since Russia went full-in being new nazis.