Lichess.org for online chess, or (most private of all) a physical travel board if you’re with a friend who wants to play. Lichess isn’t very private but definition though. Not sure why you asked in c/privacy? Anyway what happened to reading a book on a bus trip?

Oh try universal paperclips if you haven’t. 5 hours is about right for finishing it. That’s pretty private.

Rumble is real time voice chat right? Closest I know to that is Jitsi Meet. For text chat there are many irc networks.

Is there a simple explanation for the increased AfD support? I’m in the US and have almost no clue about EU politics.

I’ve been using Debian MATE. It’s mostly ok.

I use Thunderbird and hate it. Full of bugs and cramdowns (not sure what the right term is) where they make a bad setting that you can’t undo. Also too difficult to find too many things. And way too many non-mail features. I haven’t bothered seeking a good alternative but Thunderbird leaves a lot to be desired. Forking isn’t likely to help much. It needs total replacement.

This is spammy and AI-style long winded. I didn’t read much. A shorter version without the advertising would be more useful.

The usual way to stay mostly private is just set up a corporation and bill through it. Here in California the annual fees are enough to be annoying but in other states they are very low. I once played with the idea of offering “company as a service” that would do everything for you online, but meh.

It’s a research reactor, it will be relatively small because it’s not intended to provide a production power source.

I get that and a research reactor is a fine thing, but I’d like to have gotten some info about the scaling potential. Like are there obstacles to large scale utility power being generated with thorium?

Noo, really, idk what Disco was but tags and recommendations from other humans are plenty to find good AO3 fic to read. And AO3 itself has been getting hammered for months, presumably by corporate AI crawlers. A recommendation engine would also have to crawl AO3. That’s very difficult to do because of said hammering. Even the regular download feature barely works now if you use fanficfare for it.

I believe the Nvidia driver situation still sucks and maybe always will due to Nvidia incalcitrance. You could try pulling out that 3060 board. Next, what motherboard are you using? That might also have compatibility issues. Other than that, dual booting has sometimes been a pain, but if the system is coming up you’ve gotten past that. Your system is pretty powerful and should work well.

I use Debian on an old Thinkpad and (mostly) don’t have such issues. Installs and upgrades in particular work fine. I had probs with the wifi driver on my x220 but it works fine on the similar t520. Framework might be trying to do too much.

Wikibooks might be ok for that.

For howto guides there is wikihow, though its license is noncommercial only iirc.

Wikibooks might also be suitable, as someone said. The other editors there are less insane about rule enforcement than wikipedia’s, anyway.

If you can say what your topic is, that could help.

You can but it kind of sucks and you would only normally do it on a very temporary hacky basis. Otherwise use OpenVPN or Wireguard or whatever. If you want to do it with ssh, see the VPN instructions on the man page. But I mean it’s janky.

For high value accounts, use 2fa with hardware tokens if you can, and maybe use a dedicated computer (old laptop) with a bare bones software installation to minimize the likelihood of malware.

“Study war no more” was supposed to mean something entirely different.

Cig lighter phone charger won’t supply the 5v? I’d have thought the camera mount and enclosure would take the most effort. Raspberry pi zero with their camera accessory would be the main camera.

That’s pretty cool! Any hardware info? I had thought a diy dashcam project would be most about hardware (rpi zero and 3d printed enclosure maybe) with the software being relatively simple. Using an old phone might be another approach.

Do the police take your dash cam if they pull you over? Does that show on their own badge cam?

Streaming live video takes a lot of bandwidth and connectivity from a car can be intermittent, but maybe it’s enough to send a timestamped hash every few seconds, so there is tamper evidence in case of a deletion.

Anyway, deleting video through a dashcam user interface is like deleting a file on a computer: basically a little bit of metadata is overwritten but the underlying data can usually be mostly recovered with filesystem repair or forensic tools. To really delete it for sure you have to either destroy the media or use special tools to overwrite the data blocks. Or just running the camera for a long time (to make sure the freed blocks get re-used) might do it.

You could also stream to another phone or computer tucked away elsewhere in the car, unless you expect the whole car to be seized.

Dash cams do this continuously I thought. Good? Bad? IDK.

I’ve used nextcloud for this but it’s not great. I’m sure there are better alternatives.