In The Pale Moonlight ages like fine wine.

And the PS3 Cell. Also PowerPC IIRC.

Wasnt’ the 360 PPC too?

Your processor is fully configurable. Set it to whatever TDP you want; the lower you go, the more efficient it gets.

This is why AMD’s X3D chips are perceived as efficient. They aren’t actually that much more power efficient, but they’re configured to stay out of absolutely crazy voltage/clock zones most processors boost to. Cap a regular AM5 chip to the same power level, and it’s pure task efficiency wouldn’t be too far off.

It’s the strategy!

It’s the 2020s. There’s no such thing as bad attention.

Lastly, “them” setting up seemingly good persistence on your system, yet not hiding any indicators of compromise, and then nuking everything when they are seen.

That seems sort of plausible to me. It was hidden, but it’s not perfectly hidden.

My interpretation was OP isn’t necessarily the target here, but a victim of some Windows hack spreading around their shared network. It’s possible the whole network was “worth” such attention.

Tech Bro.

That’s the popular term. It’s most often applied to tech billionaires, but it covers those who idolize them, too.

I think my favorite tangential application is when Sam Altman had a meeting with some TSMC executives, and they allegedly dismissed him as a “Podcasting Bro”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-electricity.html

In other news you all will be thrilled to hear, I finally switched my KDE desktop to Nvidia.

For years, I ran it off my AMD CPU’s graphics, and completely disabled Nvidia display out. It was just less trouble. But I undid all that yesterday, and… stuff just works, as far as I can tell. It even fixed an HDR issue I was having, and KDE’s VRAM usage isn’t so egregious anymore.

Playing devil’s advocate, I think it’s reasonable to have a load-up-minutes dumb phone, in case family dies or something and they don’t have access to the right app. That’s reasonable for close family to get upset about.

But you also don’t have to give that number out, heh.

I guess you could use Google Voice too, but that’s a bit… counterproductive unless you can sandbox the app.

Home security.

Get a basic gun. Practice at a range. If you can afford it, invest in security cameras.

I guess you could involve a lawyer if the situation becomes untenable.

Don’t panic; theres a 99%+ chance you’ll be fine.

But don’t ignore the 1%. To all the “it’s just an internet troll” folks: see Jonathan Ross, where one such angry troll shot him dead, just because:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss

May he rest in peace :(

Eh at least they presumably pay attention, moderate it, and tailor it to your country.

One of my issues with FB is that it mind as well be run from Alpha Centauri. There’s nothing “human” or local about, its a gaping maw mixed with tons of other predatory service.

local analog of FB

That sounds lovely!

Use a Google Voice phone number, and an AI generated photo/video.

You can even use augmentations to create different photos/videos of the same fake person. Or create an “altered” version of yourself close enough to match whatever Facebook has.

…Hopefully.

I’m in the same predicament. There’s always eBay, but they take a fat cut on top of whatever is paid for shipping.

My issue is those “smaller communities” for my niches withered away, lost in the depths of SEO and attention machines.

I’m not innocent there. I stopped participating in many in lieu of Discord and Reddit which, in hindsight, I feel sick about. But the draw of phone pings and algorithms and critical mass is very powerful, and that temptation didn’t exist a long time ago.

No Linux client for that either, though it seems to be planned.

Eh. Firefox is fine.

The only FF fork I’ve ever used for some time is Cachy Browser, as it shipped with my distro and was ostensibly amore optimized. But even they depreciated it in lieu of vanilla Firefox.

And Firefox gets faster security patches anyway.

I’m more interested in Chrome forks because it’s Google spyware. And, as much as I don’t like it, I find Chromium-based browser to be faster. That doesn’t matter so much on desktop, but the difference is pretty dramatic on Android.

Ungoogled Chromium does not support full uBlock Origin. Last I checked, it wont auto-update itself on Windows without a 3rd party tool, and I remember it having some other “quirks” from the stuff it strips out. The delay for security updates seems pretty minimal, too.

And personally, I like the bangs feature, now that I’m using Orion on iOS anyway.

But its based on ungoogled-chromium, so if you prefer to use upstream, that makes a lot of sense. Helium’s main pitch seems to be an “easier to install” ungoogled chromium anyway.

Orion syncs cross platform, DuckDuckGo does as well. And I believe you can sync with extensions.

Orion is mobile. So is Cromite.

DDG is pretty good too. I like its approach, with a UI that encourages whitelisting sites.

To those asking “which browser other than Firefox”

https://helium.computer/

It’s fantastic. It’s Chrome, stripped of junk, with full (not lite) Ublock Origin natively supported and shipped. What more could you want?

And it can coexist alongside Firefox.

Cromite is also great, but its antifingerprinting is so hardcore it breaks some sites. That’s perfect for shopping/private browsing, but a bit much for daily driving unless tracking resistance is your #1 priority.

On iOS and OSX, Orion (from Kagi) is sublime. It’s Safari based (which you want for Apple stuff), but heavily modified with a native blocker, and supports extensions if you really need them. There aren’t many Safari “forks” like it.

I say this because I’ve been through a gauntlet of trying a bunch. Bromite, ungoogled chromium, waterfox, pale moon, Thorium, Vivaldi, all sorts of iOS apps and Firefox/Chromium forks. And these feel like endgame to me. Helium is just about perfect (as long as its development isn’t dropped), and Orion is close aside from some UI quirks.

Orion is great.

So is DuckDuckGo.