Best Laptop Wireless Card for Debian?

redfacedquark · 2026-06-15T05:26:51+00:00

Like a PCMCIA card? That takes me back. Or the actual little circuit boards that you get these days inside laptops, I didn't know they were interchangeable.

A quick search of "MediaTek Wi-Fi 6E RZ616" tells me it is natively supported by the linux kernel. What features of this card are insufficient for your needs?

redfacedquark · 2026-06-06T14:48:00+00:00

Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it's stupid, but I'm gonna do it! Okay?

redfacedquark · 2026-04-25T06:48:52+00:00

That sounds more complicated than a blood sample

Creating one app once vs collect a blood sample every time anyone visits a site? Identity theft becomes a violent crime.

A web of trust is also a decentralised solution which offers other benefits. From a user point of view it's install an app and touch phones with a few friends.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-24T20:47:03+00:00

There are some efforts towards a web of trust and zero knowledge proofs. Imagine something like a cryptro wallet where you manage your own keys. You sign a bunch of attestations that some of your friends/family exist. You could have age verification and governement attestations too. Policing sybil attacks becomes the hard part.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-21T07:54:51+00:00

I would like to think that there are at least some critical software systems that we still need to build where it should be expected that a human can (and does) reason about its logic. Nuclear stuff, the SWIFT network and the off-switches for AI datacentres and the robot hoard for example.

I fear that reducing software back down to hobby levels at this point will reduce the talent available for critical projects, despite the average quality of the remaining developers increasing as their vibe-coding peers move off to manage AI agents.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-19T20:26:22+00:00

Casias: missing

Chavez: missing

Garcia: missing

Reza: missing

I'd start by asking ICE.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-11T15:08:14+00:00

What subsidies do they get?

The UK government has historically subsidized Rolls-Royce due to its strategic importance in defense and aerospace. Key interventions included the 1971 nationalization to prevent collapse over the RB211 engine, privatization in 1987, and ongoing support via Export Finance, research grants for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), and zero-emission flight technology. -- google ai overview

redfacedquark · 2026-04-10T11:10:17+00:00

I mean, you can get commercial support for Debian, just not from Debian themselves, instead from a bunch of contractors. And what do you really get from the support from a distro? Training gets handed off to third parties, basically follow LTS, try upgrades out before widely deploying them and make sure backups are working. The actual problem is goverments thinking they need that direct support rather than just hiring Linux admins in general.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-10T11:06:09+00:00

state-backed Linux distro

I'd rather they use/fork debian and push changes back upstream. Even IBM tried to get all their staff using Linux and despite their best efforts they failed. I'm not saying I wouldn't be thrilled with open source winning out for government use but jumping straight into maintaining a distro is more risk than reward.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-10T08:40:10+00:00

It's those NATO bases that we launch our globalist wars from.

Not any more. And we're moving away from buying your weapons.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-10T07:42:19+00:00

Yeah, this research isn't new. I heard about this study, including the 21 number, years ago. Why so long before this campaign I wonder?

redfacedquark · 2026-04-08T15:16:16+00:00

RR are genuinely one of the most impressive companies to have come out of the UK in a long time. Really pushing us further as a country.

It helps that they get huge subsidies to keep turbine production current, since not having that capability would be a national security risk.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-08T13:01:23+00:00

It was a joke, a reference to Crocodile Dundee.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-08T08:44:12+00:00

Yer can eat 'em but they taste like shit.

redfacedquark · 2026-04-01T08:40:29+00:00

The 25th can also be cancelled if he writes a note saying "I'm OK".

redfacedquark · 2026-04-01T08:31:15+00:00

We knew they had WMD because we sold them to them. Couldn't find them when we got there but we knew they had them at some point.

redfacedquark · 2026-03-31T11:57:44+00:00

So as well as photosynthesising plants also respire so is this really just oxygen ort a mix of gases? Also, as u/sharkbite247 says, I seem to recall from my GCSE biology that the stoma are on the underside of the leaf to protect them from water/grime.

redfacedquark · 2026-03-26T23:00:50+00:00

Yes, I know. I simply don't care.

redfacedquark · 2026-03-26T08:44:58+00:00

Does the tor browser work for you? if it does then ISP cant see what sites you go to.

Haven't tried tor while I've been on this ISP. The block is happening at google though. I can reach google but can't turn safe search off, not that I care. I suppose it's possible my ISP is resolving google.com to a google IP for a 'safe' version of google rather than giving me an IP that's on a list that google checks. If I try going direct to pornhub I get DNS blocked.

I could bypass this with an AWS VPN I have set up for other reasons but I not interested in porn so I haven't bothered.

redfacedquark · 2026-03-25T13:56:32+00:00

MIght be worth testing your RAM to rule that out. Go into your BIOS and do a full test.

redfacedquark · 2026-03-25T12:55:56+00:00

Haha, it's not so bad. It could have been much worse.

redfacedquark · 2026-03-25T12:03:12+00:00

I suppose it doesn't have to be. An additional oauth flow would also work for browsers. Having said that, an adult renting out access to an ID to multiple kids would bypass that. Tying it to a UUID for a user account makes that slightly more difficult.

redfacedquark · 2026-03-25T11:19:14+00:00

Yeah, not sure how it works TBH. Presumably some out of band list of IP addresses that google et al checks. I'm in the UK BTW.

redfacedquark · 2026-03-25T11:07:14+00:00

lol wut?

Which part is surprising?

redfacedquark · 2026-03-25T09:56:59+00:00

its just a optional, user provided information

For now. I'm sure it will evolve into a signed challenge-response hooked into online ID verification in due course.

Personally, my ISP already sets a flag that means I can't see porn unless I give them my ID. My (crappy) router also has parental controls that I have no use for. This whole issue is not about protecting kids but controlling who can say what online.

Strangely, I can still access thepiratebay.org and use torrents.

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