https://feeds.leonid.codes/hacker_news.rss or https://hnrss.org/frontpage for Hacker News are great to get an overview about what’s happening. And then specific sites I like to follow, e.g. MacStories. Most websites still have an RSS feed albeit sometimes hidden very well.

My go-to is a flash drive with Ventoy and then System Rescue CD and a few other ISOs (Antivirus scanner (Desinfec’t), Windows installer, Linux installer, etc.) on it. But I’m mostly using System Rescue CD and it can be installed directly to USB, too, if you want. Not really for novice users, though, as it boots into the Linux command line. But there’s X11 with GParted and other graphical tools available.

That’s because 90% of the issues happen on Arch first and are then prevented on the other distros. 😉

Shreddit and PowerDeleteSuite were last updated years ago. I’ve used redact.dev which can also edit your comments to random strings before deleting them as “deleting” on Reddit doesn’t delete anything but only hides it from public view.

I’m now also doing a manual pass by using a Google search for “mbirth” (incl. quotes!) followed by site:reddit.com and a date filter for everything of like 10 years ago and then manually delete all the comments the deletion tools didn’t catch via the API.

That depends on your hardware. It was very fiddly to get it going because the WiFi module in the Spectre wasn’t supported at first. But then someone released a driver for it. I also had to read a lot into the documentation and discussions to get my config together. But once that was done, it ran almost like a normal Macbook Pro and I barely had to touch the OpenCore config.

(OpenCore is a bootloader that changes things in memory so your laptop appears like an Apple device to macOS. You then use the normal macOS, can download macOS updates, etc.)

Here’s my config for the hp Spectre x360 13-4104ng for reference.

Had Ubuntu for a decade then got bored and turned my hp Spectre laptop into a Hackintosh and got hooked. So it’s macOS now.

I’ve read comments from some people that got their requested data only several months after the request. In the meantime, I’ve used PowerDeleteSuite to pull a backup of everything it could find (read their issue tracker for how to work around some export quirks) and will let it replace all my posts with

[This comment was deleted due to Reddit’s new policy of killing the 3rd Party Apps that brought it success.]

as long as the API still works.

Panic Nova on macOS.

USB-Floppy emulators from GOTEK are available for as cheap as £15 on AliExpress. They’re not certified for aviation use, of course, but for everything else they’re awesome. Old computers, oscilloscopes, etc.

In Germany there’s Tauschticket where you offer the stuff (books, DVDs, games, etc.) you don’t need anymore for up to 20 “tickets” and once somebody wants that, you send it to them (at your own expense) and get the amount of tickets added to your account. With these tickets you can then “order” stuff from other people in the same way. Similar concept without the hubs.

If it’s copyrighted material he still needs to get something to filter out the Macrovision protection. I don’t think they have this in public libraries.