/tech/ - Technology

>>3292
Qubes OS is good. its like a meta os. you can run something like 'whonix' linux distro on qubes will will force all traffic through tor.

if you're going to buy an x200 make sure to use libreboot as well

>>3296
isnt the thinkpad an old laptop? might not have the power to run VM based OS?

>>3297
that’s the main problem with trying to go full FOSS. nothing is powerful enough anymore.

>>3300
That simply isn't true.

>>3292
X200 won't be able to run Qubes.

Anyway, your general and perfectionist approach will make you fail for both technical and psychological reasons.
What you need to do first is develop concrete threat models, and a hierarchy of priorities. I assume that in your case you should probably concentrate more on software than hardware, and specifically on networking, which also splits into many different low to high level tiers, anything from your machine connecting to anything else to what you do on which website.
Using Tor only, as well as modifying and limiting use of the Internet in the first place, will for most people bring more benefits than all other measures combined.

What about x220/x230?

>>3292
>archeological computery
Bad strategy old stocks will run out and old CPUs have documented security flaws that are unfixable because they are etched into the silicon. Get into opensource hardware if you want a secure computer. Even something like a community developed Risk V chip produced on a relatively dated lithography process node will run circles around ancient processors that are over one or two decades old.

X200 can't run Qubes, but it can easily run TAILS.

>>9447
>Even something like a community developed Risk V chip produced on a relatively dated lithography process node will run circles around ancient processors that are over one or two decades old.
And where can OP get this now?

>>9447
heads only works on x230((

Just pay $2000 to have someone else install Qubes on a thinkpad.

>>9455
what's the market here? tech-illiterate schizos?

>>9457
Maybe journalists who don't need to know how to partition a drive

>>9455
They also have some hardware tamperproof evidence thingy.