pyr0ball

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[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Late stage capitalism. You can't expect year over year growth for eternity without running into a resource cap. Profit growth is all the shareholders care about because it's literally written into United States economics laws that investors get paid first. All these dirty tricks and bad decisions are coming from CEO's with limited understanding of the effects of their policies, trying to push for an extra 2% on top of their already obscene margins

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok so, replacing the head unit might work?

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is there anything a mildly competent electronics enthusiast could do to disable any outbound data?

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Certainly! I'm not sure when I'll get around to actually doing it, but my intent was to create an emergency boot drive to send to my elderly family members that they could plug in if the system ever started acting up, and I'll build it in such a way that it'll be able to be booted as a Linux live USB, and also have a Windows partition for any tools that I might need for remote access and in-system diagnostics.

I've built a few scripts for the Linux bootable but I can't seem to remember where I stored that particular repo at the moment, so I'll share later.

Some of my stuff is up on my GitHub (same username)

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks a ton for all the advice! 👍🏼

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This sounds like a perfectly workable solution!

I assume getting a persistent environment in a USB recovery stick is a bigger task? I'm imagining that, with your method, I would need to repeat this process any time I wanted to update the image or load specific new kernel modules/drivers?

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Customizing a base distro sounds like a good place to start 👍🏽

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hijacking for my own idea: what if I wanted to make my own updated version of say, hiren's Linux environment that included tools for data recovery and drive administration among other things. I would love to basically build my own custom recovery environment preloaded with all my favorite tools.

Tbf, with a few hours of googling, I could probably figure this out for myself so don't go through a bunch of trouble unless you want to document for others. I'm mainly posting because I saw OP and wondered if something easy already existed?

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

The dad jokes are strong with this one

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

Think you might be a little lost my friend....

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 31 points 1 year ago

Lol so he put even less effort into it than we thought

👏⏱️👏

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Let us know how it goes!

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