Their SSDs seem to have the best reputation though.

Or in a VM

Problem is, some of this software may likely be made to specifically not run in a VM, since it is supposed to keep track of everything the student is doing during exams.

I just realized I sound way too paranoid but it’s an interesting question

Nope. Not paranoid enough. If school/work requires such software, that goes onto a separate device only for those purposes, which will then be considered untrustworthy environment like any public computer.

Although perhaps in a sense it is paranoid compared to what others do. Recently I’ve had to get something printed without having own printer. I’ve found out people have no problem logging into their Google or Microsoft account on public PCs.
I brought the PDF on a CD.
There’s a certain small chance that something malicious could be written to a USB, and I don’t know about all the possible vulnerabilities. If mounted, perhaps the automatic media thumbnail generator could be exploited. That is probably paranoid, worrying about random software installed on your own computer is certainly not.

Elites:…

Elites: “As a large language model I am unable to answer that question.”

now

I am pretty sure CRTs could easily get over 100Hz depending on resolution.

Someone even got 700Hz, although at just 120p on an old CRT

How are you doing it?

I only tried X11 forwarding over SSH. It was slow and ate up a Gigabit.

Either that or Linux, PostmarketOS seems most interesting to me. Not perfectly daily drivable yet it seems, but that’s what Android is destined to become for me as well, just likely even worse.

Honestly, I kind of even just like the idea of saying “I don’t have a supported smartphone” when someone pushes me to download some stupid app, but would you look at that, it’s not some ancient device.

Although it seems there’s no way to access SIM Toolkit on Linux, which I kinda need.

We need reboot of N900. Although it lost support long time ago as it was launched in 2009, you can still install latest PostmarketOS onto it: https://postmarketos.org/install/

A commercial Linux phone with backing from some larger company could succeed.

I’ll drop a knee-breaking one:

I was born in 2006.

It still looks like that, aside from the datk mode issue, but only in landscape orientation.

I hope there will be at least some bypass using ADB like with older apps.

Why do we even call it “sideloading”? I can install whatever I want on desktop, even whatever OS, so why not my phone? It is my phone, right?

By default you choose between Cloudflare and NextDNS.

It is going to cost money to buy phones, unpack them, upload the OS, test the product, then repack them and ship them. I would expect that to cost at least $20, probably more.

Well, proxysto.re does that with GrapheneOS: https://shop.proxysto.re/de/i/pixel/

€50, based on the discount on stock ROM, although €20 out of that goes to GrapheneOS apparently. Based on donation amounts, they sold 67 of them in 2024

Like Fairphone shipping with e/OS? https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system

You didn’t say which signal.

No. Originally it was a testing username for UNIX shell. I just hit the keys randomly for numbers. Well, somebody verified my account, giving it higher value and making it not temporary.

Then SDF also made a Lemmy instance, and not understanding that being a separate product, I re-used the same username.

Meanwhile this was a stupid proposal over here in Slovakia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/slovakia-targets-wealthy-book-buyers-with-steep-vat-rise

Announcing the new VAT rate this week, Slovakia’s finance minister, Ladislav Kamenický, claimed studies had shown that books were “primarily purchased by wealthier segments of the population” and could therefore be taxed at the new basic rate of 23% rather than the current rate of 10%.

Linux

I control and monitor everything they do in them

Some software recommendations? I mean, I don’t have kids, but I like Linux and it doesn’t hurt to know where to perhaps point someone.
So far I only seen Veyon in action, but only for monitoring and remote control of multiple PCs, which probably doesn’t fit home environment.