Check with your utilities, there’s often an opt-out option for the information sales.

I’ve always moved myself, but I’d just find a locally owned moving company willing to deal in cash. It’s good advice for most stuff. avoid online forms, and there are a lot of instances where you can just use false info.

The only reason to change your address with the PO is forwarding. if you’re worried about missing mail, you should change it. Then go to the DMA Choice site and opt out with your new information. Update your actual business info with each company.

I use an app called PaperKarma to aromatically opt me out of junk mail that comes through. they do a reasonably good job, but they’re a subscription service, so I save up the junk, pay on sub cycle, process the opt outs and then cancel.

I forgot to mention, I also pay for a masking service for masked emails and phone numbers. The free burner options tend to be blocked these days.

What this takes is just diligence and patience.

There’s also some misinformation in this thread:

Banks, utilities, even government and health agencies sell your personal data without your knowledge and to any single one of them your home address isn’t necessarily “protected or sensitive” information.

Partially false. These industries, especially government and healthcare are regulated and can only sell a certain subset of your data, mostly anonymized, if at all. I work in the government IT sector, and PII is serious, even under the current trump nightmare.

I’ve managed it. My name and personals no longer show up in any of the search engines, and based on reports haven’t been in any known data brokers for over a year.

Applying for credit/housing shouldn’t get you listed anywhere. That’s in theory legally private.

1. Delete your socials. All of them. Recreate any you might need with falsified info. especially LinkedIn. Once you’ve got a job, disable your profile.
2. I pay a service too to opt me out of data brokers. They send a report every quarter. This is double edged, since you have to give that company a lot of personal info, so use a less sketchy one.
3. Freeze all your credit reports. Unfreeze for 24 hours when you need credit, then freeze it again.
4. if you own a house, contact the county records, tell them to remove you from public listings.
5. Any junk mail you get, run through their opt out process.
6. Go through your Internet history, start deleting your accounts.
7. Google yourself regularly and contact any hosts with a hit to demand they remove you. (or have your data service do it for you). do this on multiple search engines.

It’s taken about 6 years, but aside from one Instagram post from a motorcycle dealer who’s been ignoring me, I’m virtually invisible.

Trek stories I would watch:

• A show entirely about the Klingon chef’s restaurant on DS9.
• Really anything about the non-warrior Klingon castes. Who wrote all that opera? Who created their warp tech?
• Romulan spycraft
• Bajoran war stories about the occupation
• Data’s life between TNG and Picard.
• Geordi doing trek-tech mythbusters
• Good ol’ fashioned episodic 5 year missions

this isn’t hard. there’s a whole fuckin universe established.

Your job as sysadmin is to adhere to your organization’s policy, no matter how stupid and hindering that policy might seem to you.

You’re knowingly giving your users a workaround to their NDA, which puts all of your jobs and your data confidentiality at risk.

You’ve got no business with root privileges.

Kids are already coming out of school computer illiterate. They know how to use specific applications, but don’t know things like directory hierarchy. Onboarding young people into working with general office productivity like SharePoint, or giving them a real grown up laptop instead of an ipad is like teaching boomers to open PDFs all over again. All the same old training and helpdesk calls.

the solution is the same as it was 30 years ago: computer class where they deep dive into how the things work, not just how Microsoft and Apple decide the things are used.

Woah TIL that because I’m admin, I’m self hosting an entire enterprise of nearly 50,000 users.

Just read Hitchhiker’s Guide. Marvin would count, but there’s also depressed doors and other unfortunately sentient objects.

Not everyone can just rUn DeBiAn on networks they don’t own, and there’s reasons to run the less free distributions.

If you’re not rebooting, even Debian, for kernel, libc, and other low level security vulnerabilities, you’re running a dogwater enterprise.

If you can’t manage vendor recommended reboots and package update cycles on any distribution without causing an outage, you’re a dogwater sysadmin.

No one gives a shit about uptime anymore.

most enterprises who need the kind of scale that a Microsoft enterprise agreement even makes sense are paying just as much for Redhat or similar.

“free” is not really a consideration in the selection.

This is an old take. Modern Linux management includes plenty of restarts and updates. Sometimes just as many as windows, especially with modern enterprises plugging heavy kennel-space agents into their Linux images.

Both ecosystems have adapted to the routine reboot annoyances, so it’s no longer a real differentiator.

The most correct answer so far is Win11 IoT. But there’s a good chance it won’t have enough “windows” for your school needs.

If you’re just trying to get work done and not trying to stick it to the man with the purity test that this thread seems to insist upon, you can install normally and force an offline user. (Microsoft keeps threatening to kill this capability, it still worked last time I tried early last year.)

Then run Chris Titus debloat utility before you set up anything else.

If you don’t have a registration, you can activate it with massgrave.dev.

Self signed for this use case is fine. you know and trust both ends of your connection, and no one else needs to know or trust either end of the connection.

Linux, self hosting, and general Internet nerd tech stuff are the only active fediverse niches. None of my other hobbies are remotely active enough to even mention. I’ve got a photofed account that’s basically dead because there’s zero interaction that would make it worth maintaining.

We’re still stuck with abiding by their regulations, so anything they do, corrupt or not is relevant.

It’s the nut recessed? If not, you can use a splitter on it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Mutternsprenger_0610.jpg

This reply is the closest thing to good advice in this thread.

The only thing that’s going to get that out without cutting a slot is a tack weld. Which will likely burn the wood. Just cut a slot. You can find another aged carriage bolt to replace it.

lol I started to reply, suggesting a recommendation feature to help find non-algorithmic tech feeds but then realized that’s exactly how all this started.

While I support the idea of using RSS readers to break free from algorithmic and/or AI curated feeds, I’ve mostly stopped bothering, since all the content that gets into the feeds has become algorithmic, AI slop.

There’s just no escaping it these days.

… documentation… released soon

On a project geared specifically toward helping the ignorant, documentation and admin guides are probably more important than code releases.

Non technical people will want to see and understand the process before they have to do the process, so don’t really on simple wizards to be your breakthrough to the masses.

yup, I even commented on the previous thread.

I’ll take a look at this safebox out of curiosity, but as I said in the previous thread, assuming this even meets OP’s goal, I expect the project to be another abandoned GitHub repo once the constant security maintenance cycles hit.

I’m generally of the opinion that OP’s target could be better met with well designed and well maintained walkthroughs of the most common use cases. There’s a ton of documentation and tutorials out there, but they’re all either terrible or unmaintained. A system that cross-linked and branched for the various up to date use cases like a choose-your-own-adventure book would be super.