About your notes regarding case. I don’t believe geeater silence is worth higher temperatures overall. Between 9700 and DDR5, you will for sure noticr a difference in speed. I would recommend X670/E if you had any interest in 2 to 3 yeats for the new CPU architecture going up to 16 cores.

Overall I like the price to perforamnce, as long as you stay at 8 cores. I would suggest a 5070 to help with workflow, I know that it’s going to be over 400USD.

Why the Tomhawk over their other boards or Gigabte?

Ok, if you say so. I have IceCat and Librewolf on computer and FREE Browser on phone.

Only consider CalyxOS and GrapheneOS. Ideologues will push you exclusively towards GrapheneOS but it’s not th be-all solution for all people that they think it is. My current and previous phone are GrapheneOS. It’s fine. It does what I want. I don’t find it amazing only because it’s a phone, not a new discovery. I use GrapheneOS with F-Droid with all anti-features disabled in F-Droid settings and I have all the apps I need.

Lineage will likely wirk with random phones, that dosn’t mean it’s quality. I say, if a phone OS works on LG, Samaung, Nokia, and a Chinese company phone, I don’t trust the stability of the OS.

I see the name e/OS around, I don’t hear it ever mentioned in public discussions, I think it’s for Fairphone or one of those gimmick name phones.

I’ve never heard of DivestOS before you mentioning it.

Wikipedia is a collection of random statements, I don’t go to that side. Wikipedia does not accuratly ddscribe the things that I’m against, and it does not properly explain the things that I support.

Who made up the phrase “Christian Nationalist” like some brain dead involant who thinks it actually exists? What is it with white people always recycling the same attacks and don’t have the brain cells to think of something original?

I would sugvest the 4070 Ti Super because I think you will longer graphical performance out of it than Radeon, and sinse path tracing is the way of the future, nVidia stands on their own.

Sure at any price point Radeon can put up higher numbers, but as soon as you turn on lighting like raytracing and path tracing, the numbers for Radeon fall off.

I k.ow there is continuous debates about how pointless raytracing is, or what Unreal Engine calls Lumen I believe, but look at 5 games who promote raytracing as a selling point for the game with the feature turned on and how it looks turned off, and also look at the difference between raytracing and path tracing, and I argue it’s only going to get better than the current iteration, thereby making it the way of the future for games so buy a GPU that is better prepared for future new releases.

I know that for a fact that you can’t install GrapheneOS on it, but CalyxIS is available for the Fairphone, then flash that and you’ll have full protection, minus mandatory communication services that are require to use any kind of a smartphone.

Go through Brax’s videos and see if he ever shows how to do anything or if he nly talks about it but never gives instructions. There are random no name channels that show how to flash ROMs, what does Brax show?

Look at his website, does that look like it was made by someone within th past 25 years?

Apparently he has some kind of an APK file to install, how easy is it to find and what is the date of the last release?

Does he always sell out of phones, or were they never available for public buyers? Where is his ordering page? Does the order page say sold out or is there no ordering website?

My point being, add up all of the evidence and comapred it to random websites that list which used phones they sell, compare to the amount of random videos that walkthrough how to to flash a ROM, I say Brax starts to look like a con who doesn’t know tech, only parrots what he reads. Compare his website to free wsbsite builders, see which looks like more recent designs and web technologies.

X870-E board, whichever CPU you can afford, and DDR5 RAM. Everything else is good for quite awhile.

Yoy can dream up every fantasy scenerio you want until you are butt stupid, it does not make it plausible.

I guess that you cannot read well so I will say it plainly, when a TV has no access to the outside internet over the lifespan of the TV, zero information or files will ever be uploaded and will stay on TV with no external copy existing anymore.

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There is no meaningful data for the OS to capture if it used as a display for externally connected devices.

The only way to have 100% privacy on all devices is not have internet service.

Yes, plugin ethernet, install updates, unplug ethernet, never connect it to wi-fi, there is no risk to privacy.

Are people aware that they can buy a smart TV and never conntect it to wi-fi and never plug in the ethernet? There is no risk if TV never gets an IP.

I do agree with your explanarion. Your initial responce came across as flippant as if there is only one approved opinion, and that is to hate Twitter, as opposed respecting people’s decision to only use Twitter.

I see the hyocritical posts on the fediverse to hate on X/Twitter, but at the same time the fediverse is constantly begging to be accepted as relevant. Considering it’s only a small number of people that use Twitter on a weekly basis, Mastadon is completely meaningless and will forever be nothing, and nobody has ever heard of Lemmy, but Lemmy has already garaunteed itself to remain nonexistant to discussions on the stredt and in busineasaes.

I do wonder if Mastodon is doomed to be forgotten, even if there are servers still running it, but it’s too early to say. But I will bet cash money that absolutely nothing from fediverse will ever have broad appeal and fediverse will permanently stay in a tiny nothing hole separate from society.

No, not when you are selective of what you say for the purpose of influencing any person’s decision over to your preference or bias.

Your question is disengenuous and is driven by abiased agenda, not objective observance.

Or people can be adults who make their own decisions to use any website they want, including being on x.com everyday if that’s what a person chooses to do.

Is that the same as the misnomer or fallacy that privacy is dead?