516: The Fixer-Upper

Chris tears into two old PCs, and builds a surprisingly powerful multi-monitor Wayland workstation.

Plus, Wes has a new device, and Brent wants answers.

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• Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard — Black. Wired, Comfortable, Ergonomic Keyboard with Cushioned Wrist and Palm Support. Split Keyboard.
• Magic TrackPad
• NixOS Remote Desktop
• FOUR Displays
• U.S. Intelligence Has Admitted Amassed Data on ‘Nearly Everyone’ — A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech.
• DNI Haines Statement on Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
• ODNI Senior Advisory Group Panel Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
• Millions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hack
• US government agencies hit in global cyberattack
• Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear by Michael Bazzell — This textbook is PROACTIVE. It is about starting over. It is the complete guide that he would give to any new client in an extreme situation.
• Have I Been Pwned — Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach.
• Stalkerware Resources and Help – Darknet Diaries — It’s a nightmare scenario that’s alarmingly common. Your spouse, partner, ex, co-worker, or vengeful person is determined they want to spy on you. To follow you everywhere you go digitally. They might have access to your location, the cameras in your home, your emails. It’s extremely violating and horrible. Here are a few resources that can help if you’re in this situation.
• Darknet Diaries — True stories from the dark side of the Internet.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Surveillance Self-Defense | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We’re deprecating SeedVault and will be replacing it with a new implementation. SeedVault was created by a member of the GrapheneOS community in 2017 based on our design for it. Unfortunately, it has been taken over by an untrustworthy group of developers without aligned goals.
• GrapheneOS/platform_external_seedvault
• SeedVault - Calyx Institute
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• How to use SeedVault Backup for Android
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