Physical movement can be tracked by cameras. All digital transactions are tracked by virtue of the way the internet works.

When you put your trust in digital transactions you are putting your trust in the cryptography that hopefully underpins them. With recent regimes of harvest now decrypt later, you are putting your trust in both the perfect forward and quantum/parallel resistance of that cryptography.

Just some food for thought. Sending cash might be a smarter choice than you think.

You are not following the point I’m making:

The account you buy on the darknet works because the rest of the internet already associated it with an identity. That means law enforcement has cause to investigate the new user for impersonation or id theft. It doesn’t matter if they can’t get you for id theft or impersonation on a technicality, they’re already investigating you at that point! Law enforcement attention is what you don’t want!

It’s like using your neighbors car with an expired tag because you don’t want to have your car show up on the highway cameras.

It varies by jurisdiction but if the reseller you bought from is selling you an account used by some other person for some personally identifiable thing (which is why the internet at large trusts that account and why you bought it!) then you’re at the very least toeing the line of Id theft or impersonation and while the cops might not be able to get you for that particular crime they will absolutely have enough suspicion to investigate you and discover other crimes or even just watchlist you.

I don’t care if you break the law from a moral or ethical standpoint, but it can cause you problems from a practical one.

Yeah I use mullvad.

It’s not a big deal because the answer to the problem is “don’t run snaps”.

Uhh, proton works fine…

You might need to clear your browsing data. You might want to start doing that all the time if you’re concerned about anonymity or privacy.

Idk

Everyone telling you email isn’t private is right.

Don’t use it for things you don’t want to be public knowledge.

What is your desktop environment?

May I interest you in the “ln” command?

Usually if you wanna access a file (or a directory, that’s a file too!) from some place other than where it is in the filesystem you make a link using ln like “ln /mnt/target link_name”. Which would give you a link type file (that shows up as a link when you give -l to ls) called “link_name” which references “/mnt/target” when you try to do something to it (Like ls!).

Six gigabytes are plenty for even full desktop Ubuntu.

I for one welcome our new public security mailing list!

It depends on what they want. The op and title are pretty vague and general, so I offered a very easy solution that could meet their needs.

That’s exactly what I mean. It all depends on what makes a company big tech.

If it’s just having lots of money or capital then it’s really hard to divest oneself because of the phenomenal heights of industry required to make chips. Like, on some level you gotta accept that no one’s doing 14nm lithography in a shed out behind their house (people who do home lithography are in the micrometer range last I looked).

LPIC-1 my butt, op!

You can always just use an m series mac if you don’t want to support Intel or amd.

It all depends on how you define big tech.

The framework risc v board, for example, uses the StarFive JH-7110 which is manufactured by tsmc. Doesn’t get much bigger than that!

Specs for what?

The hardware you run it on will have a range of specs.

The model you try to use will have a bunch of measurements that can be called specs.

Once you pick some hardware, the measurements of the model you run on it can be adjusted for “accuracy” or speed.

Of course, the range of hardware that’s available to you informs that calculus.

The alternative to answering this post is to get a Mac mini or whatever they’re selling as a desktop llm device now and not mess around.

There are about a million ways to do what you’re asking. Which one is the right choice depends on the particular hardware you’re using and what you want to accomplish.

Yes it works good if you read first and plan and follow the instructions. If you just yeet it into your computer you will have problems.

You may end up doing a reinstall as opposed to a patch or upgrade.

You may find that dynamic wallpaper not working, needing to update with command line, photos app can’t edit and needing to use a third party browser is an okay set of tradeoffs to get to sequoia (macos 15) which still gets point updates and security patches (grimly: for now).

If I was using a 10,1 I’d back up my system and jump straight to sequoia with oclp. If you can get by long enough to save up for a more recent computer (m1+) then that’s a win. Sequoia is the last version of macos with support for Intel processors. Now is a bad time to be running old versions.

E: before oclp the linux wisdom for these models was to go in with a soldering iron or a chip clip and disable the dedicated gpu in order to avoid problems with it. Often it would break the hdmi or DisplayPort or whatever video out port was on the side of the laptop because while the integrated display could run off the intel processors gpu the video out was hardwired to the dgpu.

Your computer is MacBook Pro 10,1 and pro 15” retina mid 2012 a1398.

The relevant technologies are ivy bridge, intel hd 4000 and nvidia Kepler.

According to opencore legacy patcher, you can use Ventura (osx/macos 13)with broken live text if you go the opencore route.

That will most likely offer a better experience than linux on your hardware.