California ID just has a thumb print and has had it for decades. Renewing mostly gives them reiteration of info that they already have.

I thought airplane mode or power-off disables that, but maybe on some newer phones, that is left running because of “find me”. Hmm. BLE shouldn’t be able to reach any cell towers though.

It will help stop the phone from broadcasting your location, but the danger is the private stuff on your phone getting copied if your phone is seized. Better to use a burner phone with nothing private (such as contacts) on it. Used that way you don’t need multiple burners. Just keep it powered off til you reach the protest. I’d be hesitant to keep it powered (such as for mapping) on the way there, unless you don’t mind GPS track potentially being retained on the phone. OTOH they will probably track you anyway, through license plate and face recognition.

BTW the cheapest place I know of to get phones with minutes is below, especially the basic flip phones that are probably better for this anyway.

https://www.qvc.com/electronics/phones/tracfone/_/N-mlt0Z1z1393y/c.html

Normal employment background check only looks for criminal convictions.

It’s more traditional to just print the key fingerprint.

The software part is easy. The hassles are more in dealing with abuse, ddos attacks, inappropriate content, etc. Hosting can also get expensive if usage gets high enough. But, things like this have been done plenty of times and there is lots of such software already available.

What does it even mean? People can recompile the kernel to turn the crap off.

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These days if the file is write protected, you get prompted for whether you really want to remove it. I don’t know when that change appeared or whether it’s universal.

€890, meh

I’m old enough to remember chemistry sets and they kind of don’t exist any more. Anyway the stuff for making PCB’s overlaps only slightly.

You probably want to first gain some understanding of the stuff you are trying to do, before messing with expensive dangerous chemicals and all that. I like Ken Shiriff’s reverse engineering blog righto.com and maybe you can follow links from there.

I’ve always been told through hole plating is quite difficult. Make some single sided boards first, then double sided using vias to connect stuff across the two sides, before pursuing PTH. But I think home PCB’s aren’t really a thing any more either, at least for digital circuits. You can get super cheap board fab from JLPCB or whatever, instead of trying to do fine enough pad pitch for modern tiny SMT parts.

Spoiler: gas-electric hybrid, not 1000mi on a battery charge.

Bought a Samsung mini laser printer and found that it is Windows only. I gave it to a neighbour.

Meh, I’m feeling like this whole concept is pretty flawed and it might be better by now to just run Graphene or Lineage out of the box. Maybe a niche Android phone manufacturer like Unihertz could find incentive to do something like that.

A fully FOSS dumbphone would possibly be of more interest than a smartphone, fwiw. Enough smartphone projects have failed that I’m unexcited about this latest one.

You can’t. You might want to, but email just doesn’t work that way. Sorry.

Someone posted this last week:

Caption: “I hope the NVidia driver doesn’t crash”.

I’m using Markor for notes and it’s ok though missing some stuff. I’d like it to support Org markup and git versioning.

I’m pretty happy with fastmail though it is on the expensive side. At the lower end, mxroute.com is ok.

Not that resilient. Mods and admins controlling discussion, defederation due to dislike of the messenger, etc. I think the federation model is flawed and it should be done at the client side instead of on servers.

TEFL work often pays kind of badly, but it’s an ok thing to do if you don’t have better options, of ir you’re trying to spend some time travelling while bringing in enough cash to cover basic expenses. I wouldn’t want to think of it as a career.