<story><title>Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship</title><url>https://tails.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmwilcox</author><text>Love Tails, but I haven&amp;#x27;t used it in ten years. I have had Tails and Qubes disposable VMs on my mind though.&lt;p&gt;I switched off of Qubes last year to my own Alpine chroot with a hand crafted kernel and initrd that lives only in memory. I find turning off the computer when I&amp;#x27;m finished and having it forget everything to be a very peaceful way to compute. I owe the internet a write up.&lt;p&gt;I feel like ramfs for root filesystems is an underused pattern more broadly. &amp;quot;Want to upgrade? Just reboot. Fallback? Pick a different root squashfs in the grub menu&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justin_oaks</author><text>&amp;gt; I owe the internet a write up.&lt;p&gt;I would definitely be interested in reading more about this.&lt;p&gt;I love the idea of being able to prevent an application from writing all over my disk to random places. If I can&amp;#x27;t prevent it, I can at least remedy it by having all those changes go away with a reboot.&lt;p&gt;One of the things I love about Docker containers is that they can be ephemeral or persistent, short or long term, have full network access or no access, allowed to write to the host system or stuck writing to its own file system only.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in control instead of the application.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship</title><url>https://tails.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmwilcox</author><text>Love Tails, but I haven&amp;#x27;t used it in ten years. I have had Tails and Qubes disposable VMs on my mind though.&lt;p&gt;I switched off of Qubes last year to my own Alpine chroot with a hand crafted kernel and initrd that lives only in memory. I find turning off the computer when I&amp;#x27;m finished and having it forget everything to be a very peaceful way to compute. I owe the internet a write up.&lt;p&gt;I feel like ramfs for root filesystems is an underused pattern more broadly. &amp;quot;Want to upgrade? Just reboot. Fallback? Pick a different root squashfs in the grub menu&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omani</author><text>Same here. Dont understand why not more ppl switched to alpine on the desktop. It is my daily driver. Plus LXD for stuff I must do (typically spawn ubuntu, etc.)&lt;p&gt;my whole PDE (Personal Developer Environment) is within a container. Need python? Shell into (via dmenu) python container. All with complete neovim setup. Need a GUI? No problem. Spawn a container. My lxd profile is set up for this. Use chezmoi for heavy automated stuff.&lt;p&gt;My base alpine system always stays clean.</text></comment>