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QubesOS is to FOSS/OPSEC/UX as continental philosophy is to philosophy 🤭

I'll have to revisit it again. Last time I tried it was slower than winxp!

You ever hear the story about the little engine that could? https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/f94e95fe0f7cefbf08fe1724a0bf6d02f7a54f86c3bb42c85f01bdf7dd6365d0.mp4

nostr:npub132ny9cnwv5rjzw0ppk6ev34gn2n48zjejed2k0kcjxgawxt86mps7f9u95 your favorite movie!!

Spike Lee 💀💀💀

Haahahaha 🤣

I just dıdid.

One of the greatest comedies of all time.

Did your PC meet the specs?

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😳😂🫡…clearly a woman of refinement and comedic taste…..respeck🫡🫂⭕️

QubesOS for serious business

Maybe isolation isn’t withdrawal, it can be a strong strategy, compartmentalization can keep our world clean: "our mind steady, and our vulnerabilities contained, when everything is noisy, connected, and exposed is collapsing under its own chaos, the ones (we) who protect our boundaries aren’t paranoid, we’re the only ones still thinking clearly.." 😳😳😳

Well said.

Yes, more than adequate.

What I mean is... they have hardware requirements listed on the website. Did you check your PC against that list? QubesOS doesn't just run on any PC, there are requirements. With QubesOS newer and faster does not necessarily mean better or compatible.

I'll check, pretty sure they were compatible at the time, maybe 2 years ago.

Impenetrable?

It’s worth giving it another shot. I first ran QubesOS on an older ROG Strix that was mostly compatible, and it handled it surprisingly well. I fell in love with the OS and wanted to run it on hardware that could actually do it justice. When I upgraded, I checked both compatibility lists and learned that newer doesn’t mean better or compatible. So when it was time for a new laptop, I literally chose a recommended ThinkPad off that list to run QubesOS, and it’s been solid for years now.

There's a few levels to it, I'll just list one. It can read as a bunch of malarkey, or the slow burn of the medium is actually the message, which makes going through worth it. Either interpretation is valid 🙃

I'm unlikely to recommend Qubes to learn about opsec just as i'm unlikely to recommend that kind of reading to gain any type of understanding - you kind of have to make that leap yourself and keep practicing.

I can only read it through secondary sources. How (not) to speak of God by Peter Rollins had a profound impact on my faith.

I've stopped using it as my daily driver. I found version upgrades required quite an investment in time and their perfered approach to declarative config kind of sucks. I now use nixos and i try and compartmentalise as much as possible. https://github.com/CertainLach/nixos-qubes looked really promising and it looked like they were making a lot of progress really quickly but they seem to have abandoned the project 9 months ago.

Arch is what I typically run, and learning Qubes helped me understand the relationships between each distro, the file compartmentalization was enjoyable to use. I haven't gotten into nix

I have three Thinkpads (don’t mean to brag but… haha) the oldest being a 2005 R61, still runs good, struggles with the more modern Linux’s, had to build my own for it. My other two are a little newer. I’d like to get an X1 carbon. Also have 2 Mac’s, both broke lol! And some old HP’s that work well, needs a newer kernel for sound to work, ho humm. Just in case you’re wondering, I collect laptops, clean them up, install Linux and give them to kids wanting to learn but unable to buy their own.

Deleuze has been a great influence for me on how I think about processes and organization as a sort of fractal structure. I definitely use other sources, let the ideas digest and come back to the original text. Found something interesting to lock on to and just kept digging through what's interesting. Feel like I've barely read much of the actual pages though

That is such a wonderful thing to do. Love my X1 Carbon.

Did you try HydraVeil by nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6 ?

No. SP has asked me to check it out a few times. I’ve got a lot on my plate right now, but it does look interesting, and I’ll dig into it if/when I have time. If I end up being interested in their offer, I’ll reach out.

I believe there is a misunderstanding. We are selling time. The average person does not have time to setup Qubes. Configure Browsers. Research which servers are too centralized for VPNs. Test which websites work with Javascript restrictions like Tor Browser. So HydraVeil saves the user time by doing all the work for you, with the click of a button on a GUI AppImage. You have this toxic attitude with me, to act like you're above me. But the reason it's so toxic, is beyond just being rude. But because the one who suffers is the end-user who listens to your advice. Your followers say "I don't have time", and end up not getting the privacy.