Of course that all falls apart if the display doesn’t use a normal subpixel layout. OLED displays usually have an unsupported subpixel layout. Some of them even have a white subpixel that’s not controllable by the computer, which makes subpixel anti-aliasing impossible.

I would like RS-232 and RS-485 modules and a full size SD card reader would be nice too. It’s probably something I would end up building myself if I get a Framework laptop.

Edit: It looks like they have an SD card module now, nice.

That’s the way to do it. I just wish Framework had a better selection of modules available and had more module bays on their laptops.

Almost everything I have has a USB A or a DE-9 plug. I don’t have a single peripheral that plugs into a USB C port. I don’t want to deal with dongles and I’m certainly not going to replace my perfectly good hardware.

I use rsync to transfer files between my VPS and computer. Don’t torrent on Oracle Cloud without a VPN, they will terminate your account.

Torrents are more reliable too. Every block gets its checksum verified automatically. If there is any corruption, the block will be downloaded again. With a direct download, you have to verify the checksum yourself and if it’s corrupted, you have to download the entire ISO again.

The other option is to use hardware from any other company.

That works 99% of the time. I’ve run across a couple that refuse to extract, so I had to run them in a VM and copy the files over.

SSDs are not suitable for long term storage. Modern consumer grade SSDs are only rated for 1 year of data retention without power. Only SLC flash is suitable for long term storage, but those are very expensive and low capacity.

Considering that there was an assassination attempt there not that long ago, it’s not surprising they increased security.

We really need to strip back copyright protection and limit it to 10-20 years.

You can do almost anything with a website that you could do with an app. The only reason they are pushing the apps so hard is because they can collect a lot more data than a website can.