The old lady was arrested in 2015 for a few days for doing Falun Gong, which was an important motivation to Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China.
Setupsetup with TP Link ARCHER VR2800 for longer range wifi, too hard:Get IP Using Unicast DHCP
- on Hub 3.0, go to modem mode. Light turns purple: www.reddit.com/r/VirginMedia/comments/c703t6/purple_light_on_the_box/
- on TP Link Archer 192.168.1.1 > "Operation mode" > "Wireless router mode" (was "DSL Modem/Router mode" by default)
Home 2017 TalkTalk 38Mbps nominal, Google M-lab speed test:
- 36.4 Mbps download
- 9.15 Mbps up
- 58 ms latency over 80km of first world
2019-12-26: applied Ronseal mould killer on external north east living room walls, had widespread light brown mould spots, and more localized black mould spots. The water insulation here is bad, possibly due to being on the last floor. Also applied next to window sills on those walls.
Bought: November 2023 during Black Friday sale for £1,323.00 to be Ciro Santilli's main personal laptop.
Six years after, and we are 2x on every key spec (except processor Hz ;-) at about 1/2 the price and 1/2 the weight (though smaller 14" screen for greater portability), so not bad! Customized to max out each hardware spec:
Specs:
- Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 7840U Processor (3.30 GHz up to 5.10 GHz)
- Operating System: No Operating Systemselected upgrade
- Operating System Language: No Operating System Languageselected upgrade
- Microsoft Productivity Software: None
- Memory: 64 GB LPDDR5X-6400MHz (Soldered)selected upgrade. Specs at: www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/memory-and-storage/memory-and-storage-hard-drives/4xb1d04758 quotes "64 Gbps", i.e. 8 GB/s.
dd count=1M if=/dev/zero of=tmpgives only 255 MB/s however. - Solid State Drive: 2 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC Opalselected upgrade
- Display: 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200), IPS, Anti-Glare, Touch, 45%NTSC, 300 nits, 60Hz
- Graphic Card: Integrated GraphicsThe Ubuntu 23.10 "About system GUI describes its graphics as: Radeon 780M Graphics × 16, which e.g. www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-780m.c4020 documents as running the RDNA 3 microarchitecture.
- Camera: 1080P FHD RGB/IR Hybrid with Microphone
- Color: Thunder Black
- Factory Color Calibration: No Factory Color Calibration
- Wireless: Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6E NFA725A 2x2 AX & Bluetooth® 5.1 or above
- Integrated Mobile Broadband: No Wireless WAN
- Ethernet: Wired Ethernet
- Near Field Communication: No NFC
- Fingerprint Reader: Fingerprint Reader
- Keyboard: Black - English (EU)selected upgrade
- Battery: 4 Cell Li-Polymer 52.5Whselected upgrade
- Power Cord: 65W USB-C Slim 90% PCC 3pin AC Adapter - UKselected upgrade
- Electronic Privacy Filter: No ePrivacy Filter
- Adobe Elements: None
- Adobe Acrobat: None
- Adobe Creative Cloud: None
- Security Software: None
- Cloud Security Software: No Cloud Security Software
- Warranty: 3 Year Courier or Carry-in
Identifiers:
- Ethernet MAC address: fc:5c:ee:24:fb:b4
- Wi-Fi MAC address: 04:7b:cb:cc:1b:10
Upon arrival:
- Weight: 1490 g
- Charger weight: 323 g
- Firmware according to
sudo dmidecode -t bios:Vendor: LENOVO Version: R2FET33W (1.13 ) Release Date: 09/08/2023
Buy research:
- www.phoronix.com/review/thinkpad-p14s-gen4 says Ubuntu running fine
- Intel vs amd: the Intel ones could come with a discrete rtx A500 GPU. GPU likely makes laptop heavier and less power efficient. And both have basically the same benchmark which is crazy:So the only downside is not being able to run CUDA.
- thought about Yoga or other Ultrabook options, but 2x price at same specs, so nah...
Log:
2024-01-17: firmware update:Actually fixed performance mode: askubuntu.com/questions/604720/setting-to-high-performance/1343879#1343879
Vendor: LENOVO
Version: R2FET36W (1.16 )
Release Date: 10/24/2023Bought: 2017 for approximately 2400 pounds to be Ciro Santilli's main personal laptop.
Specs:
- screen: 15.6 inches, 16:9
- weight: 2691g (self weight in 2023)
- charger weight: 700g (self weight in 2023)
Identifiers:
- Ethernet MAC address: 54:e1:ad:b5:5b:08
- Wi-Fi MAC address: 44:03:2c:a2:27:81
With pre-soldered male pin headers.
>>> machine.unique_id()
b'\xe6ad\x08C8%$'As of 2018-12, I believe that I might have fried the UART on this board when I burnt my last UART to USB converter by connecting ground to 5V.
Linux kernel logs don't show, but do show with the exact same components on the Pi 3 (SD card with
enable_uart=1 + image Raspbian Lite 2018-11-03 and UART cables).Serial from
cat /proc/cpuinfo: 00000000a50c1f69Datasheets: Raspberry Pi 2.
Bought in the late 2010s.
Mentioned at: raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/3867/ssh-to-rpi-without-a-network-connection/53823#53823
Official product page: www.dsdtech-global.com/2017/07/dsd-tech-usb-to-ttl-serial-converter.html
Sample Amazon link: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072K3Z3TL
2021-08 bedroom battery out, 7.29V out of 9V duracell duralock. Buying pack of 12 Energizer nine-volt batteries. Measurement on new battery: 9.68V.
Bought May 2024 to be my clean crypto-only computer. Searched for cheapest 1 TB disk 16 GB RAM not too old on Amazon with Ubuntu certification, and that was it at £479.00.
Some reviews:
- the keyboard is kind of crap. Notably the key "a" is very hard to press!!
- the lack of a sleep state indication LED and "I'm powering on LED" compared to Lenovo is really sad
- it gets way too hot doing work (Monero bootstrap) with lid closed, likely brought system down
OPSEC: will run only cryptocurrency wallets and nothing else. Will connect to Internet, but never ever to a non clean USB flash drive.
The OPSEC for this machine supposes:
- no supply of chain attack on USB hardware, Laptop hardware, pre-installed Windows and Ubuntu ISO
- connecting with browser to a few well known websites to download stuff (Ubuntu ISO, Monero software) is safe
Bootstrap OPSEC:It must have taken about one week running full time to sync the Monero blockchain which at the time was at about 3.1M blocks! I checked on system explorer, and CPU and internet usage was never maxed out, suggesting simply slow network. But the computer still overheated quite a bit and froze a few times.
- turn on from factory, start Windows 11 Home 23H2 build 22631.2715, connect to home Wifi during setup process. Considered skipping WiFi, but I'll want to download the Ubuntu ISO later on anyways answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/bypass-lets-connect-you-to-a-network/2ce188f6-1b28-45a0-97d2-bfccfa3c9188. Don't sign in to online Windows account, and turn off all spyware requests.
- on preinstalled Edge browser, download Ubuntu 24.04 ISO from ubuntu.com, check sha256 with
Get-FileHashon powershell even though that is pointless security.stackexchange.com/questions/1687/does-hashing-a-file-from-an-unsigned-website-give-a-false-sense-of-security, download balenaEtcher portable from etcher.balena.io/ (currently recommended burner at ubuntu.com/download/desktop#how-to-install) from etc, and burn Ubuntu into a SanDisk Ultra Flair 64 GB - install Ubuntu from USB flash. No internet connection initially, default everything.
- notice that Ubuntu 24.04 is too broken, install Ubuntu 22.04.4 on the previously used USB from Ubuntu, and then install 22.04 instead... minimal installation, encrypted ZFS
- Ubuntu 24.04 "The application files has closed unexpectedly". This likely terminated uncompression of the bz2 halfway, and led to a corrupted monerod...
- askubuntu.com/questions/15520/how-can-i-tell-ubuntu-to-do-nothing-when-i-close-my-laptop-lid fix the eternal laptop lid issue without GUI solution...
- copy view only wallet private key by takinga picture of the QR code with Android cell phone. This gives it to the CIA immediately, but that's fine as we're going to publish it publicly.
Bought 2021-11, grey, size EUR 44.5, 80$ (later found cheaper online): www.sportsdirect.com/nike-run-swift-2-running-shoes-mens-121052
Ciro Santilli's full birth name is "Ciro Duran Santilli", with mother's last name "Duran" in the middle as per Brazilian tradition.
But Ciro's usage of "Duran" got gradually dropped to "Ciro Santilli", Ciro's official Italian name, as Ciro moved more and more definitively to Europe.
It can still however be seen in certain online places where Ciro didn't have the patience or power to change it e.g. some old École Polytechnique stuff: gitlab.binets.fr/ciro.duran-santilli/china-dictatorship
Also, don't have multiple names if you can avoid it, it is confusing!
Best ones:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg Amish Paradise
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw White & Nerdy
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU The Saga Begins
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHnTocdD7sk Trapped In The Drive-Thru
Being a complex holomorphic function is an extremely strong condition.
The existence of the first derivative implies the existence of all derivatives.
Another extremely strong consequence is the identity theorem.
"Holos" means "entire" in Greek, so maybe this is a reference to the fact that due to the identity theorem, knowing the function on a small open ball implies knowing the function everywhere.
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