I would think 'proof of vaccination' could be more easily forged than a passport, and therefore cheaper on the Darknet, but I've not actually looked. I don't do airplanes, and not too inclined to go outside the USA anyway, so not something I'd likely need. Mexico (Tijuana) is as far as I've been, or likely to go, and since I got a lifetime supply of Mercurochrome last time, and since the Mexican Mafia seems in control of Tijuana, I doubt I'll be returning.

Search Engines - which one to choose? (onion service mirror) (eepsite mirror) - DigDeeper website

WARNING regarding :

"guess it could be pick of the litter"

Spooks claim any VPN that well run, domiciled that close to USA shores, is run by the Chinese military via paid proxies.

That rumor is spread by jew Mossad, US LEA, and others, and its a 10% chance that ExpressVPN makes most of its real money from the pension fund of the Chinese Military... but no proof.

The only proof is:

"Express VPN is just too good"

At least though, for a non-chinese citizen and those not planning to visit China, that 10% chance is not dire.

90% of all legacy VPNs are run by nation states (CIA in the mid 2000s in terror war), just like 90% of high speed Tor exit points are run y nation states.

so 10% chance that ExpressVPN is chinese government is no big shock if true.

Just do not use ExpressVPN to undermine china, and use other vpns if needed, and you are fine.

A new-hire Hong Kong VICE PRESIDENT of ExpressVPN "Harold Li" a famous Freedom Fighter, does speak perfect Chinese and ExpressVPN was third largest VPN in China, but the chinese that run ExpressVPN is not proof that the Chinese government pays to run ExpressVPN

https://profiles.forbes.com/members/tech/profile/Harold-Li-Vice-President-ExpressVPN/9fa5774b-54e2-4388-bafb-df66714ce2a1

There are others based outside 14-Eyes, but ExpressVPN ticks more boxes than them, so I guess it could be pick of the litter.

For every rule there is always an exception. Good job! Whenever I go out (seldom lately) I see idiots with pocketphones constantly yapping or texting. Or them that answer a call, put it back in their pocket, a minute later its back in hand, then back in the pocket, then back in hand, over and over. I think it's like smoking pot...some of us can limit use to before bedtime, while addictive personalities have to stay high 24/7.

Not bloated at all.

In fact Steve Jobs put the entire MASSIVE Macintosh Operating System (OS X) and much of its gui libraries on the first 2008 iPhone.

People claimed (almost 99% of computer experts) that the iPhone would never sell even 2 million phones, and the giant huge OS (vastly larger than android OS) was insane to put in a Phone..

Steve Jobs merely responded... "You are wrong. No Compromises. Technology will keep up and its the FUTURE we are building for. The FUTURE"

APPLE over 2 TRILLION DOLLAR MARKET CAP from its "Bloat" ! Proof tonight!

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/

See? Market cap of all Stock over 2 Trillion dollars, and the biggest stock holder is Apple, followed by lucky Warren Buffet (5.04% as of last week).

2 Trillion from using Systemd (Launchd)

avoiding the future will never be a wise strategy in technology world.

98% of all running lunix desktops and servers now use awesome systemd.... for 100 great technical reasons. All 100 together are called bloat by you, and thats just crazy. If it had 49,000 new technologies, it might be bloat, but 100 new technologies to modernize Linux and keep up with Apple, is NOT BLOAT.

Apple did not tell Linux to copy its open source designs and put them into Linux... Linux distros all wisely took Apple Systemd (Launchd) and ported it to all the linux distributions used (98% in volume surveys).

Hurray for Systemd! It Won!

I do admit apple currentloy did NOT put its entire massive OS X (BSD unix) into the womans iWatch. The tiny iWatch needed space for autonomous cell phone chip , wifi, heart beat monitor, fall injury monitor (saved people plummeting off mountains already), auto 911 dialing, speaker voice monitoring, and links to nearby apple devices. No room in 2016 for all that. The Next iWatch may have the entire gigantic glorious 2 trillion dollar market cap operating system shoved into t the womans iWatch.

Apple iWatch has a built-in feature that calls emergency services when it detects its user has experienced a hard fall: https://people.com/human-interest/apple-watch-calls-for-help-man-falls-off-cliff/

iWatch to have entire massive gigantic macintosh OS and a working cell phone, all on a womans watch!

The final giant iWatch OS update for older watches, before going 100% iPhone OS in 2022 , internally has countless features in it including 24 hour Siri AI voice assistant even if no cell towers and no wifi and no blu tooth connection to another apple device :

https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/watchos-8-release-date-3800809/

Wow! All those things on a little watch!

3 Trillion market cap for Apple is their next Target (50% stock increase from now)

And Apple thanks Systemd (Launchd) for much of that current 2 trillion dollars.

In fact, 98% of the linux engineering experts now in 2021 lauch at the luddites and halfwits screeching against the glorious systemd with their emotions instead of facts.

The smear word "bloat" without logical argument, is laughed at the same way Steve jobs laughed when selling the iPhone in 2008 with entire giant mac operating system inside it.

NO COMPROMISES. Its not Bloat, its the FUTURE.

I prefer the electric chair....much more painful, doesn't always kill on the first try, and watching sparks shoot out the eyeballs is way more entertaining than a rolling head.

Oh joy...Mozilla has figured out how to do what 'Self-Destructing Cookies' addon was brilliantly doing for years, before they sabotaged the addons en masse? Well ain't that special!

Try MX Linux:

https://mxlinux.org/manuals/

https://forum.mxlinux.org/

https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=FFrG7FAeQ-A

I found it to have slightly more intuitive layout than Linux Mint, which required less searching to find what I needed. For example, I was easily able to figure out how to ditch the gawd-awful Firefox, and replace it with Waterfox...I have yet to successfully do the same in Linux Mint.

https://nosystemd.org/

https://www.slant.co/topics/18348/~linux-distros-that-don-t-use-systemd

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-replace-systemd-with-sysv-init-on-debian-linux#h4-difficulty

All these 'improvements' were done (and done better) via "Self-Destructing Cookies' addon, and 'Flush Flash' app. I don't know if Firefox/Mozilla is any better than Chrome/Google, but if there is a difference, it ain't much of one. Rather like trying to decide which TLA is the least obnoxious. Mozilla has a long and nasty history:

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/mozilla.html

Considering Reddit is now a den of commies, socialists and leftist-libtards...I applaud any move to make their lives a little more bleak....whether that grief comes from within or without.

The nerve of Google (read this carefully):

The judge demanded an explanation “about what exactly Google does,” while voicing concern that visitors to the court’s website are unwittingly disclosing information to the company. “I want a declaration from Google on what information they’re collecting on users to the court’s website, and what that’s used for,” Koh told the company’s lawyers. The case is Brown v. Google, 20-cv-03664, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose).

---> cause the Court's own website is bugged with Google tracking bullshit.

Okay, so why do they dress this way?

(not that I am complaining)

I have one... and not real thrilled that I do. Smartyfone that is.

I mainly have it just for text / secure messaging and keeping track of of things (read monitoring, security, shipments, etc.).

It mainly lives on wifi only.

More and more I am dividing into two devices though. One that does the internet connecting and 4G... and one that is free of the overt spyware and only wifi... Might opt for something like a rooted Asus Transformer model tablet for this.

Only time I am face glued is in limited sips in the day... infrequent... Winding down pre sleep, yeah, transition from workstation to putzing around via phone.

I really try to use the portable devices for productive things. I swear.

With all the easily available info floating around on all the ways pocketphones invade your privacy (and basically violate your rights), I'm at a loss to explain why nearly everybody has one superglued to his/her paw....an adult pacifier for Peter Pans?

I have never had one; don't expect I ever will. Not being on a short leash when I leave home is no big detriment, but not having a answering machine to screen calls would be. Having to wait til I get home to make calls or return call is no inconvenience. I guess from what I've seen, its an effective little pocket-toy to waste time with, but given the high price (money, privacy, and nuisance of constantly being yapped at) I'd say the cost far outweighs the benefit.

(popcorn)

Ya'all are too damn bright to go the ad hominem attack route.

Just saying. Merits to both sides and reason to have distros with and without certain things.

Won't catch me near Windows. If I could get it all out of my LAN I gladly would :)

Left using it back in the XP days. Quite an ugly and counter-intuitive OS on desktop. Probably same boring Windows on the Server side though.

So incognito still tracks everything.

Google says they tell you that in voluminous Terms that no one reads and most are incapable of understanding.

How about simplifying this. Law... Precedent...

Terms of Service --- must declare everything. If Terms are longer than one page in length, they are undecipherable and therefore illegal.

You can't claim contract or agreement through deception.

Saying people knowing agreed is utter tripe. They and the brethren in Silly-con Valley have created this low IQ, inability to focus and unwillingness to read form of blind trust.

Time we declare the Trust illegally formed, the contracts done under deception, and hold these people liable for damages.

We want our reparations. Time for victims of the tech slave plantation to revolt.

Hmm yes, totally not a post showing that you're just an angry Linux fanboy trying to defend something that hurts you.

systemdestroy DOES make Linux less free because you're dealing with big corpo software, and it DOES make Linux owned by big corpo because init systems plays an important part to do anything.

No, I won't click the video to "learn". I'm not even going to talk about the fact that you didn't use Invidious as the proxy for NotYourTube.

Also, I'm educated, that's why I know the reason behind systemdestroy being the most used init system: it's because this is a big corpo software. It takes no effort for a big corpo to make something that becomes a dependency for 99% of things to then start harming it and therefore harming the things it has a dependency for.

Also, yes, that Without Systemd site is dead. However, there is an archival link from Wayback Machine, which, GUESS WHAT, allows archiving websites to cite them in future, even if the original site is long dead, so your "argument" doesn't make sense. Also, no, it's not written emotionally, the original author, whoever that was, written this wiki in good faith.

Also, you know, even if the bugs were fixed...

...there are other things that technically aren't bugs, but they still make your life inconvenient. Of course, you being a Linux fanboy, and probably even a freetard, makes you not notice those things, even though you should.

Also, unprofessionalism is actually a valid point; why would you say that the Journal File Format is stable since 26, but then take it back on version 44?

Doesn't it work like that?

Does it, freetard?

Yes, I did read that link. And yes, those launchd operating systems did make a mistake: switching to launchd, which is an init system owned by Apple, the big corpo. Seriously, every open source software owned by a big corpo has problems such as:

• threatening one who was daring to stand up to them (clear net only):

Kay Sievers and Lennart Poettering often have the same response style to criticisms as the GNOME developers [read other Red Hat developers] — go away, you’re clueless, we know better than you, and besides, we have commit privs and you don’t, so go away.

• "no abuse" (clear net only) unless we abuse (tilde club clear net mirror, Tor v3 mirror, Tor v2 mirror, Freenet mirror, I2P mirror), otherwise known as doublespeak, and also disrespecting contributors

• Jesus Christ, just Mozilla. I think they're a perfect example of a big corpo that only does harm. Thesis is available on Dig Deeper

Not understanding computers 101?

Absolutely. I'm laughing at you.

Also, maybe that link doesn't mention RAID, but do you know what it mentions? Checksums.

systemd might have won by fucking our arses, however, me and other people that actually think will go against it by using and recommending Linux distributions that don't use systemd, such as Salix OS

Linux servers/desktops might use systemd, but the faster booting is just the placebo effect, which is caused by a disease you have: freetardism.

Looks like people hold a very strong opinion on systemd.

It's all I know, so I'm going to experiment with alternatives for now.

I think Android, or at least Samsung devices do this too. I don't recall resetting my home network but but if I recall correctly, even resetting the device or changing it with the same SSID and password will result in you having to re-authenticate to use the network, even if the details are the same.

I've got a friend who does Windows networking for offices, local factories, etc. He's dabbled in Linux and tried to convince me to get my Windows certs some time back because "networking just works" with Windows.

He may be right, I wouldn't know. But for the cost of licenses and software used it better work out of the box.

It's still bloated as fuck and avoidable.

I can still tell you are not an engineer and also did not watch my video link.

All the linux world now has finally switched to systemd!

Systemd nearly default everywhere!:

• Arch Linux - October 2012 switched to Systemd
• CentOS - July 2014 switched to Systemd
• CoreOS - October 2013 switched to Systemd
• Debian - April 2015 switched to Systemd
• Fedora - May 2011 switched to Systemd
• Linux Mint - June 2016 (v18.0) switched to Systemd
• Mageia - May 2012 switched to Systemd
• Manjaro Linux - Nov 2013 switched to Systemd
• openSUSE - September 2012 switched to Systemd
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux - June 2014 (v7.0) switched to Systemd
• Solus switched to Systemd
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - October 2014 switched to Systemd
• Ubuntu - April 2013 (v13.04) soon mandatory
• Apple (launchd, the thing systemd copied)

Hurray for progress!

nothing systemd does makes linusx less free, or corporate owned.

watch the video link i offered and learn something.

you sound deranged and not educated on why systemd won and is now in all linux.

your one dead link is practically a parody of itself based on emotion, not modern facts.

That archive of a dead site is a list of emotional screeching about bugs.

bugs long since patched.

it also includes "Unprofessionalism" as the reason.

Unprofessionalism?

What the ever loving fuck?

Did you even read that link? If so, tell me a reason all those operating systems made a mistake in switching to Apple's launchd (systemd).. i bet you cant find a logical reason that stands up.

Ignorance of fundamental operating system concepts?

laughable linked examples.

in fact the link does NOT cover RAID at all :

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028514.html

That example only discusses turning off journal control of a binary log file. And everything discussed is 100% factual by Lennart Poettering, but not the means or meachanisms entirely. For example a journalled atomic file system only protects VOLUME BITMAP and FILE SEGMENT SPANS and STATE OF FILE... not CONTENTS of data. FS_NOCOW on or off has no relevance on CONTENTS of a crashed log other than its possible new spans, and even then, those, if not flushed, would not be on disk anyways, and as Lennart Poettering stated... it uses its own sanity checksums to detect corrupt logs and to restart a missing log :

https://systemd-devel.freedesktop.narkive.com/lCPb8KVG/announce-systemd-219

Anyways that section has NOTHING to do with RAID.

Launchd/SYSTEMD won the battle, and is now 98% of all linux servers and desktops

98% of linux servers and desktops use the modern and wonderful launchd, and boot far faster as a side-effect.