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Here is a dump of thoughts I had about setting up a new iPhone: Disable Advertising ID For the Apple Account: Enable Advanced Data Protection (make sure you have a good password manager) Enable Two-Factor authentication Add a recovery contact Install / set

These days crawling the web1 is becoming more and more difficult with websites trying to ensure that “only humans” access them.

Updated on 1st of September, 2026 with feedback about the recommended cables.

On the one hand it has some pretty nice security features, decent hardware (although the effort for disassembling / fixing is higher than other laptops – and the insistence of soldering memory / storage to the mainboard is also annoying).

It’s nice that more and more devices have USB-C interfaces.

Noting this here in the hopes that it will be useful for somebody (or even me :)) in the future, since it took me longer than I expected to figure this out.

To start with: good ad blocking is the best one can do for their security / privacy online these days!

(under GNU/Linux) Noting this here because all the information I could find on the Interned told me “use MakeMKV for it”.

The wonderful parkytowers.me.uk website doesn’t detailed photos of both sides of the HP t630 thin client, so – in case this would be useful for anyone – here are some photos I’ve made: It’s a very useful little fanless (!)

It was fun to see