Seefra 1

The book title and the school insignia give it away, (also one ear is bigger than then other, but that could have been an artistic choice).

Apart from there I can’t tell. A bit of digital touch up and I would be absolutely unable to tell.

I feel that other ppl are better at spotting AI than I.

Electricity

You can make an image of the / drive so it’s easier to restore if they break the system.

I you can slowly teach them to use the command line, if they can read fluently using the cli shouldn’t be that hard. You can teach them the basic commands, and teach them to install a program with apt.

Also, you said write a short story? The teach them vim (or emacs if you prefer that).

You can install vmpk (or some other music keyboard emulation program) so they can play some music. And if they get more interested get them LMMS and later ardour + advanced stuff.

Krita is a super nice program to draw, and colour (tho no fun without a drawing tablet), maybe you can teach them vectorial drawing on inkscape. And if they like it then install Blender and go 3D.

I don’t usually recommend this, but since you are in a situation where you really can’t afford a VPN or a seedbox and live in a country where torrenting is prosecuted then I think that grants a free pass to abuse the tor network a bit and torrent over tor.

There are some guides online on now to route the traffic, note that it’s very easy to leak traffic if you don’t know what you’re doing. Look for a good guide . I’m guessing the safest way to do it is by using Whonix.

If going that route avoid downloading big torrents if you can find smaller ones or try to search for direct downloads first.

And also, I don’t usually say this, but, avoid seeding. Yes leeching is bad, but saturating tor is probably worse I think.

I’m not a very legal person, but I can’t think of any documents that I can’t just request a copy.

If my apartment were to burn down I would have bigger problems to worry about, like homelessness and losing all my tech that took me years to aquire.

Idk, I find that at low speeds electric cars are louder than modern internal combustion. They have that SciFi drone sound.

Timelord

If money is no object then I wouldn’t stay put in one place, and I would probably also get an yash and stay in the high seas from time to time

I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit had a secret API for facilitating the creation and management of corporate bots.

Just tell them “I own my own private cloud” and then look smug.

Then I may tell them “this way the CIA (don’t say NSA, older people usually don’t know what NSA is, but they know CIA) or those capitalist companies can’t spy on me”

And I don’t find a need to go into more detail, at this point the conversation has either moved on or they say “but I have nothing to hide” and move on anyway.

Give them all the intel I can remember to make the destruction more effective.

Google controls all smartphones, Amazon controls most products that I can’t find locally, Microsoft controls all computers, even if I don’t use windows generally I still have to pay the Microsoft tax.

Every other product I can buy like pants also come from companies that pollute, usually in China.

The problem isn’t exclusively those companies in the pic, it’s every single one of them, those are just bigger.

The problem is fundamentally capitalism and changing from a buying from one big company to a small one only makes so the small company now has funds to pollute more instead.

Yea, gonna stop using things and live naked in the wilderness.

… Which is why we all should immediately switch to post-quantum encryption possibly much weaker against conventional cryptanalysis.

There’s no need to switch, you can just layer it, and should be done asap

Sugar, chocolate, cookies and cakes.

Cold backups, anything else is vulnerable to hacking and electric damage.

But it’s important to scrub the backups from time to time, so it’s not when your hard drive dies that you discover that your backups were corrupted.

If files are really important then I would get 2 backups, one hot synchronised daily or hourly and a cold synced once a month. But for hobby photos I find that one backup is enough.

Cloud hosting is out of the question for privacy and cost reasons. I have almost 1TB of photos, I can buy a lot of hard drives for the price of just one year of cloud.

I thought it was an encoding bug, lol

Yeah, I’m know it’s unrealistic, but a man can dream.

It would be a magical thing, it would be p2p and use relays so thin clients can connect to it, it would be 100% anonymous via onion routing and also allowing tor, but at the same time, somehow, it would handle spam (maybe by generating some cryptographic token somehow?).

It would also support storing and distributing files inside the app which includes HTML pages in a p2p IPFS fashion, so it could be used as an alternative to torrent. So like, besides communities you could host HTML pages, and those pages could contain links to films, and series and stuff.

And maybe several models of communities, so you could create a reddit/lemmy style community, or an youtube/peertube style community which would host videos.

Also DM part of the app would have very strong e2ee support groups and calls.

So I guess it would be an everything app.

And ofc it would be free both as in price and freedom.

Now I realise that the codebase would be almost impossible to maintain and such a complex program would probably have too many bugs including security bugs which would defeat the purpose. But it’s an entertaining thought.