BTW, except for the GRUB/boot loading phase and its possible useful aspects relating to ToG-L (which I haven't found the time to study), I would say that 80%+ of the whole project I have already implemented with my lousy bash scripts skills and in java/GRAALVM as a first "proof of concept" and of the rest of it I have kept a thoroughgoing functional mental map. I have had to fight such issues for a long time and I initially thought of such things as ad hoc momentary solutions to be able to use the Internet, but at some point I started to think of it in an articulate and comprehensive way.
> 2.5)* where are the knoppix-like boot options: "toram", > "tohd=<partition>", "fromhd=<partition>", "myconf=<...>", "home=<...>" > in Debian Live? We all know that a DVD caddy could be easily bugged as well (the USPS keeps stocks of all kinds of equally looking things which are bugged) and a DVD caddy is more of a mechanical, more power consuming thing, so it would be ideal to go the knoppix-like "toram" way. Knoppix these days is based a debian, so figuring out the grub hack to pass start up arguments to the kernel at boot time shouldn't be difficult. You would also be freeing the DVD port in case you need it. > 6.1)* you will have to keep one in your backpack inside of a > protective box or use a partition of your USB pendrive to boot your > computer (ideally if some sort of knoppix-like fromhd boot option is > used, there should be an option to check the size, type and sha*sum of > the iso) "bootfrom" would be also nice (I think in knoppix you can even combine the "bootfrom=<...>.iso" and "toram" start up options!). These days it doesn't matter much because you could use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), but for whatever reason you may want to just use Linux. > ... that thing they used to call "privacy". I am old enough to remember the times in which telling someone that: "you care about their privacy" would have been taken as an odd joke. It would tacitly mean that -you have no privacy whatsoever-! Privacy is one of those things you would have to take care of yourself! (ToG-L would enable "we the people" to do so) In some European countries not just the government has implanted chips in military personnel, but your boss would make it a precondition to be hired even though it doesn't relate to your job description in the least! "We the people" would get chipped just to be part of a dance club! Some government have had ideas about chipping everyone which makes you wonder if people have started to lose their senses "in the end of times" ... Einstein who made his main occupation the mathematically measurable aspect of the it, mind you, said: "two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe". I am not trying to be persuasive anyone. I actually think in the times we are living things have gotten more than half way off for way too long and we, scientists, tech monkeys and Mathematicians could and should inform "we the people" and help them more actively have their stand on, way out of such issues. lbrtchx