I love tools like this. Thank you for sharing.

ELI5?

How does one find such retired laptops? As an individual hobbyist in the US, would I just monitor eBay, Craigslist, or Facebook?

I was about to ask, wasn’t Mullvad discontinued a few months ago? But I’m thinking of the Mull browser, right?

Should be.

One would think, but so you haven’t actually done it, have you? Because I might be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure I tried to install Windows onto a USB drive one time. I couldn’t get the installer to show the USB drive. I really want to be wrong, though.

It’s possible to install Windows onto a USB? I ask b/c once in a blue moon I need a Windows install for mouse firmware updates or something.

No, no limits, we’ll reach for the skyyyy

Noice! I am able to find this very thread through searxng, which seems to behave like an actual search engine with its own search results page, but I couldn’t find it through fedi-search, which seems to be little more than an auto redirect tool.

https://fedi-search.com/

Hmm, this sounds like a really cool idea, but it doesn’t seem to do what I thought it would. For example, I went to https://fedi-search.com/ and searched for “stop internet searching” expecting to find this very thread, but alas, no dice.

I do this as well—I’m currently automating a repetitive workflow for work using python. What’s the latest project you’ve generated boilerplate code for?

So you’ll copy and paste the URL for an eBay listing and it’ll go out and fetch the price and quantity and calculate unit price?

That all sounds pretty neat. Do you do these things locally or is there a cloud service for that?

Care to expand on sound manipulation? Are you talking about for removing background noise from recordings or something else?

Do you take any precautions to protect your privacy from Google or are you just like, eh, whatever?

Table top games?

Do you run this on NVIDIA or AMD hardware?

Do you self host or use one of the Free™ cloud services?

Would you mind expanding on this? How do you use the LLM to aid in building websites?

Update - using Distrobox, I confirmed the Window Capture option is missing from the Sources menu in OBS Studio v31 (Fedora 41):

It is there in OBS Studio v29 (Debian 12):

You might be right. The OBS kb says Game Capture is for Windows users only and that Linux users should use Window Capture. In my version, I have Game Capture, but not Window Capture. I fiddled with Game Capture, but after a few minutes I couldn’t get it to show anything other than a black screen, so I went back to what I use now, Screen Capture (Pipewire).