The Rock64 has all this and more. I have one - 1gb model was $25. Took almost a month for it to arrive in the States but was what I needed - specifically AES decryption in hardware. They have a cool $99 notebook based on a pi-like board too: https://www.pine64.org/
I use Linux when I don't have to use Windows. I have a Razer Blade Pro that is not at all Linux friendly that I really wish I had not wasted my money on. At least a hundred people a year ask me what computer they should buy -- I don't tell them to get a Razer.
Besides their almost going out of their way to NOT support Linux, their software absolutely sucks. The 17" Blade Pro has this cool touchpad and function keys that all have their own little LCD screens. Also the touchpad is off to the side, which I like and I don't think any other notebook manufacturer is doing. The problem with it is the software - it is very unreliable, has constant huge updates that will break it almost every time, usually needing to be deleted then re-installed., and it's is not at all open. At one time they at least had an SDK kit that you could download, but not anymore. Any apps for the touchpad hardware are only developed in-house. On top of all this, the software requires an on-line account to function??? I don't know who is making the decisions at this company, but you would think that a gaming notebook would at least try to support SteamOS, if not have it as an option as the default OS.
In a nutshell, the problem with DuckDuckGo is that it sucks. Or at least it did, a few months ago, when I used as my only search engine for two weeks. In the end, I had to go back to Google - they are just on an altogether different level. I really hope that DuckDuckGo will improve, and will eventually become comparable to Google. It is not there yet.
I've tried DDG a few times and always go back to Startpage.com for the same reason.
This works in my area. I'm in a fairly rural area in Washington State, but still have 12mbps DSL, 120mbps cable, two wireless providers (45mbps) and fiber (up to 1gbps). The fiber is provided by the local power authority on their power poles, but our fiber isp is a different company. We have 12 fiber isp's we can choose from, all with different plans and speeds.
I mine Monero with a bunch of computers in my shop that were not doing much else. A couple of fileservers, an email/web server, nextcloud on one, another for downloading, one more as a VM host. None of them had much of a load.
Since I started doing this last February, I've upgraded all these computers to near their max (new CPU's / RAM), and added a couple of fairly high-end video cards to each. These upgrades were completely paid for by what I've been mining. Currently it still isn't quite enough to heat my shop so I will be adding a few more. This means I'm not using any more power right now that what I would have been using with my shop's heaters (at least in winter).
Spending Monero for me means using a coin exchange to get it into my Coinbase account as bitcoin, then I head over to newegg and spend it (they accept bitcoin). Overall I've bought over $11,000 in gear this way, tax free as it was never converted to USD.
I look at bitcoins the same as I do iPhones - they're not worth nearly what they cost, but lots of idiots just want them anyway and they don't care how much they have to spend to get them. Non-miners buying bitcoin as an investment are the ones driving the price up. Some of these people will exchange their coins in time to make a profit, but probably not many. The exchange price will continue to increase until the buyers of bitcoin (not the miners) start to exchange their coins for cash or goods at a large enough rate, then it will plummet quickly. I don't feel like this will happen for quite some time.
Nevertheless, I'm just heating my shop so whatever happens I'm not out anything really.
Personally I would rather not have the FCC involved with the Internet at all. Next thing you know they'll be taking over the DNS system, then will come 'licenses' for websites and email addresses. The FCC licenses for TV and AM/FM radio can be a significant amount of money, for which they really do nothing.
In socialist countries anything not considered a necessity costs at least three times what it does elsewhere. I would be pirating shit too if I lived there...
I highly doubt that Microsoft has many non-replacable workers from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia in their employ that are actively traveling to their homelands. I also doubt they are going out of their way to hire refugees from these countries. If these people like their jobs then let them become citizens.
We've used thousands of RE4 and hundreds of RE3 drives over the last decade and have had very few failures (15). We run them 24/7 but they do not get worked very hard - storing a very small amount of data at a 15 minute interval. We always use them in mirrored arrays. All but three failures have been within the first day of using them, with one being DOA.
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The Rock64 has all this and more. I have one - 1gb model was $25. Took almost a month for it to arrive in the States but was what I needed - specifically AES decryption in hardware. They have a cool $99 notebook based on a pi-like board too: https://www.pine64.org/
I use Linux when I don't have to use Windows. I have a Razer Blade Pro that is not at all Linux friendly that I really wish I had not wasted my money on. At least a hundred people a year ask me what computer they should buy -- I don't tell them to get a Razer.
Besides their almost going out of their way to NOT support Linux, their software absolutely sucks. The 17" Blade Pro has this cool touchpad and function keys that all have their own little LCD screens. Also the touchpad is off to the side, which I like and I don't think any other notebook manufacturer is doing. The problem with it is the software - it is very unreliable, has constant huge updates that will break it almost every time, usually needing to be deleted then re-installed., and it's is not at all open. At one time they at least had an SDK kit that you could download, but not anymore. Any apps for the touchpad hardware are only developed in-house. On top of all this, the software requires an on-line account to function??? I don't know who is making the decisions at this company, but you would think that a gaming notebook would at least try to support SteamOS, if not have it as an option as the default OS.
No more Razer anything for me.
In a nutshell, the problem with DuckDuckGo is that it sucks. Or at least it did, a few months ago, when I used as my only search engine for two weeks. In the end, I had to go back to Google - they are just on an altogether different level. I really hope that DuckDuckGo will improve, and will eventually become comparable to Google. It is not there yet.
I've tried DDG a few times and always go back to Startpage.com for the same reason.
This works in my area. I'm in a fairly rural area in Washington State, but still have 12mbps DSL, 120mbps cable, two wireless providers (45mbps) and fiber (up to 1gbps). The fiber is provided by the local power authority on their power poles, but our fiber isp is a different company. We have 12 fiber isp's we can choose from, all with different plans and speeds.
I mine Monero with a bunch of computers in my shop that were not doing much else. A couple of fileservers, an email/web server, nextcloud on one, another for downloading, one more as a VM host. None of them had much of a load.
Since I started doing this last February, I've upgraded all these computers to near their max (new CPU's / RAM), and added a couple of fairly high-end video cards to each. These upgrades were completely paid for by what I've been mining. Currently it still isn't quite enough to heat my shop so I will be adding a few more. This means I'm not using any more power right now that what I would have been using with my shop's heaters (at least in winter).
Spending Monero for me means using a coin exchange to get it into my Coinbase account as bitcoin, then I head over to newegg and spend it (they accept bitcoin). Overall I've bought over $11,000 in gear this way, tax free as it was never converted to USD.
I look at bitcoins the same as I do iPhones - they're not worth nearly what they cost, but lots of idiots just want them anyway and they don't care how much they have to spend to get them. Non-miners buying bitcoin as an investment are the ones driving the price up. Some of these people will exchange their coins in time to make a profit, but probably not many. The exchange price will continue to increase until the buyers of bitcoin (not the miners) start to exchange their coins for cash or goods at a large enough rate, then it will plummet quickly. I don't feel like this will happen for quite some time.
Nevertheless, I'm just heating my shop so whatever happens I'm not out anything really.
Personally I would rather not have the FCC involved with the Internet at all. Next thing you know they'll be taking over the DNS system, then will come 'licenses' for websites and email addresses. The FCC licenses for TV and AM/FM radio can be a significant amount of money, for which they really do nothing.
Why exactly would FB have Talarico's credit card information in the first place? Is FB not free anymore?
In socialist countries anything not considered a necessity costs at least three times what it does elsewhere. I would be pirating shit too if I lived there...
I wonder how much this judge is costing Microsoft?
I highly doubt that Microsoft has many non-replacable workers from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia in their employ that are actively traveling to their homelands. I also doubt they are going out of their way to hire refugees from these countries. If these people like their jobs then let them become citizens.
We've used thousands of RE4 and hundreds of RE3 drives over the last decade and have had very few failures (15). We run them 24/7 but they do not get worked very hard - storing a very small amount of data at a 15 minute interval. We always use them in mirrored arrays. All but three failures have been within the first day of using them, with one being DOA.
I say put Edward Snowden in the position.