In a special box for hazzard waste?!

I had way too many of these drawers 🫠

It is also insecure with possiblity to crash your computer, the only advantage is that it is cheap.

My strategy is to always install program with flatpak, SDKs are also installed as flatpak, find graphical alternatives to command line programs. I don’t use command line a lot, so I don’t need fancy tools for it.

I only have one system package installed for inputting unicode math symbols. So that I have a clean and easily migratable system.

I might add, everyway actually seek to “consolidate” all the older ways, and always ends up adding to the ways needing to be consolidated.

Installing on a old laptop is great because eventually after you get a more serious machine, you probably got enough experience to choose your distros.

Linux mint is certainly the most promising option, especially if you are just using the laptop, and don’t have any external monitors setup.

You are right. I have done some research, it seems most people think that client side hashing is unnecessary in an HTTPS setting.

That is my misunderstanding.

it says it is encrypted but it is encrypred using keys that google has access to as they are unlocked with you logging in into google account.

First it uses lock screen password, so google do not have access to this password.

Even if your lock screen is unfortunately your Google password, I think proper authentication protocol do not send your password to Google to authenticate, but only the hash, which cannot be reverted to derive your password.

Obviously, the above is assuming that Google is not malicious. Otherwise it can just use play service, which is privileged and closed source, to get all your data. If your threat model including Google itself trying to steal your key, you will probably need to install a trusted rom or use iOS (however, apple and the rom developer can also steal your key).

I think these are different. They mostly find vulnerability in the iOS system as opposed to try to crack the backup system.

I think iOS or Android backup system are rather secure compared to other components because of the following: hacker will also need to break into a cloud drive to retrieve them, which adds extra work; the backup is simple, just bunch of files and a password, apple/google can use standard well-tested encryption to encrypt them.

However, guaranteeing there is no way to break into an operating system, especially with all the features that a modern system requires, is much harder.

The non-profit can hire the company executive and pay them, which if I understand correctly is exempt from income tax.

I think this can be a way for executives to avoid income tax: basically donate to a foundation through obscured means (crypto, purchase from third party, etc), then get non-profit money with exemption. They probably need to jump through many hoops and it is very likely still illegal, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is common.

But anyway the couple dime people are donating probably is neglegible for tax purposes (I am guessing, I don’t have data). Yet I see no reason not to just donate to a charity you trust online…

Source about income tax: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/nonprofit-tax.asp