CallMeAl (like Alan)

With the charger I linked you don’t need the original charging bricks for any that use a USB cable, you only need the cable. Including iPad, iPhone, Macbook. It saves even more space.

Hotels will generally not have step down transformers in my experience. I would leave the us power strip at home. Instead get a charger like this https://us.ugreen.com/products/100w-6port-desktop-charger that can charge all your devices. It is dual voltage 50/60Hz and the power cable is removable so you can change for one with an euro plug that works almost everywhere in europe. You can bring a small adapter for the places where the euro plug doesn’t work if you are going to any.

It was a typo, fixed.

I loaded this list into Dispatcharr and then went through and tested and added what looked interesting to my channel list. Right now I have 60 channels that I can watch via Jellyfin.

These include movie channels, news channels (from several countries). music videos, comedy, documentary. Also streams dedicated to older shows like CSI, Beavis and Butthead, etc.

Mostly I watch music video channels while I’m working or doing chores. News when I want news, and Buzzr because I like old game shows when I just want something chill.

ETA: Here you can find links to all the lists https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv/blob/master/PLAYLISTS.md

I’ve recently been getting into free IPTV streams. There are 1000s and 1000s and free streams from all over the world in pretty much every language with over 2000 in English alone. Most are not geo blocked. You can find a list here: https://iptv-org.github.io/

all rock solid af

monit, postfix, gearman, dhcpd, bind

Yes, I think part of the trick is that the CEO is a great video producer and has a large fanbase for his yt channel who are very enthusiastic about his ideas even if they won’t actually buy such a phone.

I think the problem is that they grossly over estimated how many people actually wanted to buy a “legit” Commodore branded Commodore Ultimate when they came up with the idea to buy the Commodore brand.

Now they are trying to come up with ways to make it profitable but they don’t really seem to understand Product Market Fit.

I think it would be a better idea to do some high quality branded merch.

What are you doing Hermes?

I do think the Ultimate C64 is very nice. If it came out 5-6 years ago I would have bought it. By the time it came out tho, I have already put together a couple of my own “ultimate” C64s. For someone who is starting from scratch I would certainly suggest a Commodore Ultimate.

For me, I’ve been hoping they would do something more like the Mega65.

That’s the thing. I already have almost a dozen original and remake Commodore 64s. Also Plus/4, C128, and so on. I don’t know who the target market of the new Commodore is, but it doesn’t feel like its me.

Come on Commodore, I want a retro computer with new Herdware in it. Not some crippled linux phone.

Is a professional audit the only thing that counts, or does open-sourcing the code so people can poke at it move the needle at all on its own?

To me, open sourcing the code is a move in the right direction but it doesn’t make up for a professional review of your encryption system.

The thing about encryption is that there are many subtle ways to get something wrong, even when just implementing it with a well known and trusted library. I took a deep dive course on Designing Secure Encryption for Practical Use and while I learned a ton from it, the main take away for me was that I shouldn’t do it if its intended for serious use. At least not without expert reviewers.

Regarding XMPP, it’s architecture is like email. Anyone can stand up their own server and your User ID looks like an email address: user@chatserver.org. Like email, you can send messages to anyone on any server if you know their ID. Phone numbers are simply never involved.

Honestly, I wouldn’t even consider using it unless it were reviewed by a professional cryptographer. There are already battletested options that don’t require a phone number or sharing info with a company. For that, I like XMPP with a client that uses OMEMO for encryption.