I had to double check that I am not reading an Onion article
jim3692
joined 10 months ago
Is this true also for CPUs? I have 8700G
Fixed it
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That's the price of privacy I am currently paying.
There was, however, a video from The Hated One, that presents a different perspective on this. Maybe privacy is more environment friendly than we think.
A lot of energy is wasted on data collection and analysis for advertising. Devices with modified firmwares, like LineageOS and GrapheneOS, do not collect such data, reducing the load on analysis servers.
So, prosumers, leveraging computers that are not optimized for AI workloads, being limited to models that are typically inferior to commercial ones, are wasting more energy for even more slop?
Just like you can change your Windows PC to Linux, or install a custom ROM on Android, to have better control over your devices, it is also possible to change the firmware on most routers.
OpenWRT is the most popular option for that. It's a Linux based firmware, that has a package manager allowing you to install additional things on your router.
For example, I have a TP-Link TL-WR902AC v3. Out of the box it is just a USB-powered 5GHz extender. After installing OpenWRT to it, I added:
- WireGuard: to route all the traffic over my VPN
- DNS-over-HTTPS: to encrypt all DNS requests
- USBIP: this is because I sometimes use it to connect a webcam for my cat, and I forward the camera to my server in another room
By adding WG and DoH to the "repeater", I can connect this little guy to any public WiFi, and securely connect my devices to it.
Sure, if your router supports DoH or DoT. Most consumer routers don't. I know that Mikrotik supports it out of the box, and OpenWRT has a package for that.
Oh, ok. I am in EU.
He's actually cooking apple pies. Or is it called baking? Is it Tim Bake?