I would recommend formulating your threat model before doing anything else. There is a lot of materials on the topic on the world wide web, but for starters, ask yourself and answer the question, what information about yourself would you like to keep secret and why.

Again, before anything else, subscribe to an email alias service - maybe there are free ones out there too, I don’t know. This way, you don’t have to share your real email address and you can turn off or even delete that attack vector at anytime.*

Finally, regarding Bandcamp, I have never uses it myself so my understanding of your situation is poor to say the least, but are not able to simply save the links in a text file? Again, I’m not trying to play down the situation, I just don’t understand it.

*This is basically what I do with almost all my services that need registration: I give them an email alias, a randomly generated cyberpunk name and create a 30 characters long password with a password manager. The only services where this doesn’t anonymize you are those that require your payment information, which is often tied to your real identity. Had I been living in the US, I would have used those anonymous prepaid debit cards that work like email aliases, but for your debit or credit cards.

Good to know that I can mess up other devices than Samsung’s too xD

Sweet! This taught me some about those modes. Do they perhaps also reside on their very own eeproms or similar chips so that they are not easily erasable?

Is it? I just assumed it was Samsung, since the download mode was displaying an error saying something like “failed to verify Samsung recovery checksum” as if it was expecting a Samsung image.

Personally, I don’t hate this book:

https://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/intro-linux.pdf

It’s somewhat outdated, for instance, it still assumes that your first process is init while most of us have transitioned to systemd, but I still find to book very educational in terms of… “Linux mentality”? Give it a try! :)

While I do - genuinely - appreciate the effort and the post, I disagree with its general implications. I may be too much of a sad libertarian, but I believe that education is the way to go, directed at both kids at risk and at the general population who are all potential perpetrators. Control is not the way to go. Thanks again for taking your time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MwJbRq3-rM

Also, there is nothing noobie about Linux Mint. Everything that you can do on, say, Arch Linux, you can do on Linux Mint, with some minor adjustments. That’s what’s Linux is all about. :D

LOL AdAway blocked liberux.net wtf😂 but thanks! The specs are surprisingly good too! :O

Right, then I’ll just stay on my current build, being careful not to flash an OS update 😈

But in all seriousness, couldn’t one manage without OS updates - relying on only proper cyber hygiene and opsec - until a more viable solution comes up? 🤔

It would also be nice to see the Commission reach out to and making good use of all the talented software engineers that reside in the member states, perhaps even trying to evenly distribute outreach, not just focusing on states that produce economic wealth. It would be even nicer to see the Commission realize the benefits of and invest in open source software and hardware in creating the EuroStack.

Thanks! I’m doing this on Linux, which I failed to mention in the post. I terminated the program with ctrl + c, but it was still interesting to me how such a short, seemingly uncomplicated snippet could tax my Ryzen 7 5800 X3D so much that the fans needed to increase their speed. Couldn’t a malicious actor theoretically disrupt a target machine by having an unnoticeably insignificant program loop in the background, taxing the CPU to it’s usable limits? This is off topic of course, but still interesting.

https://uwuntuos.site/ obvi?

But seriously though, Arch all the way, because it teaches me about Linux and computers, because I can customize all the packages at OS install (without the need for lengthy compiling like Gentoo) and because my Steam games work flawlessly on it.

Thank you so much! :D Yeah, I noticed there were no remainders. I’ll try with float and see what I can come up with.

Thanks! Really important to have fun with it too! :)

This is amazing(ly curious)! I put in a letter, the program went into an infinite loop and my chassi fans sped up like crazy.

Checking it out now. Thanks!

Thanks! I really appreciate the more advanced steps too! Now I have something to do next weekend! :D

Looking into it now! Thanks! :)

Signing off now, but I did have the strength left to do this:

else if (choice == 4) {
                        if (num2 == 0) printf("\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero\n\n");
                        else {
                        memory = num1 / num2;
                        printf("\nThe quotient of %d and %d is %d\n\n", num1, num2, memory);
                        }
                }

Cheers!

Thank you! I really appreciate your guidance! It almost feels like you could have experience from teaching or the likes, since you are so good at explaining! Or maybe that just comes with being a senior SE? Either way, thanks again!