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Disagree—better to have space allocated in each project where they can be easily deleted at once. Rather than half hidden in your home folder somewhere with random names and forgotten about.

If for some rare reason you wanted to delete all venvs, a find command is easy enough to write.


Indeed, there's an additional problem as well. There are settings, and then there are settings that allow one to change the settings. Not only are there hundreds of settings but they are duplicated in this way.

Configuring them from scratch is a minimum 20 minute job, and then you need to double and triple check to avoid mistakes. More like a half hour.


Our kid breaks through the screen time regularly, even with new passcodes. Have a theory it is done from the wife's macbook, but not entirely sure. Gave up; would not recommend or use again.

Buy and support vendors that ship proper Linux laptops. I know of Star labs and Nova Custom in the EU, both use coreboot as well.

Defeatism; alternatives don't have to be perfect to be useful. In other words, it's a journey, not a destination.

Totally get what you're saying, and improving personal security can also be fun as a mental exercise. It's just there's a lot comments in this thread (hundreds) about how you can migrate EU to escape USG surveillance, which is just not realistic.

It's plenty realistic, just not perfect. Extradition is different than real time surveillance, for example.

    s/2000/1995/

I have a casio pro trek. It’s fantastic in general, though the band is unfortunately getting gooey after five years or so. No wifi or telemetry.

Last week’s episode of enshittening dystopia:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351239


Sounds like a lot of work. Are Groucho glasses effective, perhaps with obscured lenses?

Perhaps another “container,” for the basic system.

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