🚨 New Video: I Ditched Razer for a 4-Year-Old Keyboard (And You Should Too)

Stop buying products designed to fail. After four years on the market, the Keychron Q1 proves that hardware should be a tool you own, not a disposable product you rent. In this video, I break down why I scrapped my Razer Huntsman Elite, a $200 piece of planned obsolescence, for a heavy, modular, and open-source aluminum chassis.

We dive into the hardware, the hot-swappable switches, QMK/VIA open-source firmware, and the three questions every piece of tech must answer before it earns a spot on my desk.

Is it repairable?
Is it modular?
Is it sovereign?

100% human made. #NoAI 

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFT5smuPhU

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Analytics check: 80% of you are here for the #FOSS advocacy, 100% are here for the industrial strength Windex.

Stay clean, everyone.

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🚨 New Video: Fluxer: Passion Project or AI Vibe Coded?

I joined @ReignOfRaining on her Linux channel to talk about why "trust me bro" isn't a valid security policy for #OpenSource software. We talk about erased histories and the hidden role of LLMs in development.

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEvsrfxzxU

100% human made. #NoAI 

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I have hit 2,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. It is encouraging to see more people value #NoAI #OpenSource #RightToRepair and #DigitalSovereignty

My latest review of the Nitrokey 3 is live now, exploring why doing things the right way is often inconvenient, but always worth it.

The video is here if you would like to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I65RPlxqdY

Thank you for your support!

Lets keep fighting to make the world a better place!

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🚨 New Video: Virtue is Inconvenient - The Nitrokey 3 Review

In my last video, I crowned the YubiKey 5 as the "King of Keys" but it has a fatal flaw. It is proprietary. For those of us who believe in digital sovereignty and the right to audit our own hardware, blind trust is not an option.

Then there is Nitrokey 3A NFC. It promises open-source firmware, transparent design, and code written in memory safe Rust. But does "open" actually mean "good?" Today, we look at whether the moral high ground is worth the inconvenience, why the Android experience might be a deal breaker, and who should actually buy this device.

Part 4 of the Sovereign Authentication series.

100% human made. #NoAI 

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🌿 Happy #SolarPunkSunday ☀️ 🌱

To me, Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic of "green cities." It is a protest. It is the punk of digital sovereignty and the right to repair.

Fun Fact: The movement was born out of a desire to move past the doom scrolling of Cyberpunk.

Tech should serve the community, not the corporation.

Supporting open source, keeping old hardware out of landfills, and building local resilience.

Adam Flynn wrote in 2014: "There’s an oppositional quality to solarpunk, but it’s an opposition that begins with infrastructure as a form of resistance."

Solarpunk is a future with dirt under our fingernails and open-source in our pockets.

Source:
https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/Solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/

#Solarpunk #DIY #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #TerminalTilt #AdamFlynn #FOSS #OpenSource #GNULinux #GNU #Linux

Fediverse friends!

I am officially launching the Terminal Tilt community on Stoat.

Stoat has a good record with #NoAI The project removed any AI code and swore to never use it. It is familiar if you have ever used Discord.

If you are tired of algorithmic feeds and want a space built on digital sovereignty and the right to repair, this is it. No big tech, no tracking, just us on an open source platform sharing memes and anything else we feel like.

Here is the Stoat invite link: https://stt.gg/GgB6HBTv

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Today is my super productive "get shit done" day. Got the voice over for one video done. I will probably spend the rest of the day editing a video and setting up our future Stoat community. Invites will be posted in a little while.  

#TerminalTilt #Audacity #Debian #Linux #Stoat #Discord

🚨 New Video: YubiKey 5 Review - Security Essential or Overpriced?

The "Industry Standard" is usually a warning sign.

In this video, we are looking at the YubiKey 5 NFC and 5C NFC. These are arguably the best engineered security keys on the planet. They are injection molded, "violence-proof," and they work with just about everything. But for those of us in the Linux and FOSS community, they present a problem.

Can you trust a security tool if you aren't allowed to see how it works?

Part 3 of the Sovereign Authentication series.

100% human made. #NoAI 

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44zJm-UwJQ

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Razer in a nutshell: Expensive, flashy, and anti-repair. 🗑️

Swapping this Razer Huntsman Elite out for the Keychron Q1 V2 was one of my best gear moves. One represents Big Tech’s planned obsolescence. The other represents a tool built to last a lifetime. Choose the tool, not the brand.

#Keyboard #TechFreedom #TerminalTilt #OpenSource #VIA #QMK