Frosty

One could hope for a hardware kill-switch on WiFi, but those are increasingly rare. I don’t necessarily trust toggling the WiFi slider off actually stops the scanning.

At home I have my PC behind a DMVPN router (being a former network engineer has its perks) and that DMVPN router’s “external” link is further segmented on my home network.

I’m hearing similar complaints from our IT leadership as well regarding Linux PCs. However, Linux is accepted in R&D labs and the cloud because those are network-segmented spaces with additional perimeter controls.

If true zero-trust ever comes to my company, perhaps they’ll be a bit more receptive.

For music there is also Qobuz in France.

I have repos for things I’ve cloned from codeberg or other repositories.

There’s also Nextcloud for files I’ve synced from there.

Just like the UNIX philosophy of old - Write programs that do one thing and do it well.