So this morning I was trying to get this Tails OS working. Not many people have heard of a Tails Operating System, but I’m sure everyone has heard of a Windows Operating System, right? Well, have you heard of a Windows-to-go Operating System that runs off of a USB? Basically it’s Windows 10 on a USB and you can plug n’ play where ever you go. Tails OS is just like Win-to-go only that it’s built for anonymousity just like a Tor Browser. (I THINKING IF I WILL BE TEACHING AS WELL HERE, I WILL NEED TO START ADDING LINKS.)
So I was trying to get the internet working from within the Tails OS this morning just like I got it working last night. Only this morning there was no option for wifi. Not sure WHY last night there was an option to pick a network and today there is not. I’m thinking maybe because last night I used a verified copy of Tails then I tried to clone the Tail from within Tail on another USB and somewhere along the way I just scraped both USBs and started fresh again, but using the same Tails ISO image to flash the drive. Maybe I need to use a new image? Or maybe it’s because I have my router set to a limited number of IP addresses by minimizing the DHCP server pool plus I have attached a specific IP address to a specific MAC address meaning that when a device wants to connect to my router my router will read the MAC address (with is like a serial number) and assign it that specific IP address I gave. If the router get’s a request from a device that I have not programed in it will not hand out an IP address and let that device connect. Of course you can pick an IP address and manually put it in this way if you know of the gateway address. So I also have my router set to MAC filtering which avoids the issue of a device finding out my DHCP pool and putting in a random IP within that pool. This could also be the problem I’m having with Tails OS because it creates it’s own MAC address every time it boot, so it seems.
I think when I get some…..energy to play around with it again, I will just need to add 1 extra IP address to the DHCP server pool, make a guest network specifically for that extra IP, that has no MAC filtering on and see where that goes. Of course I will need to spend an couple hours downloading/installing a new Tails OS along with changing the router.
If your wondering why I do all this I guess it’s from boredom mostly and the fact that I love learning and doing things out of the norm. It actually all started when I saw that documentary called ‘The Social Dilemma’. I first started deleting my google and Microsoft accounts and using programs like win10privacy that deleted all the windows 10 bloatware along with the windows store (with I was only able to get back doing a clean install). With this new social movement on ‘privacy’ I learnt about many new things and was in a new world I had yet to put my foot in. Long story short I created a new gmail and am back to using the Microsoft store because it was torturous trying to get away from the grips of Google and Microsoft. At least facebook now gives you the option to be anonymous in the dark web which I was thinking about, but I have thousands of family pictures and hundreds of family videos that I would need to download from facebook and then remove all the personal information off of them using a program like EXIF Remove then re-posting them to a new facebook account. I just think it’s more work than what it’s worth.
With the Tails OS I just want to get it working and say I have/had it. (Learnt it, know it). I think maybe the only purpose for Tails OS is for billionaires and government officials that need that secrecy. For people that want to use Tails OS for shopping in the dark web, I say cellphones are so cheap now a days you might as well just pick one up over the counter at a 7 eleven and go to your friendly neighbour hood coffee shop for free wifi, download Tor Browser, and shop that way then dispose of that $50 cellphone.
For me, I love to learn and play around with things that are new to me in. What gets me there? Who knows. This time it was the documentary that got me on to facebook, Google, and Microsoft which through the study I stumbled upon Tails OS.
Okay, so having said what I was up to this morning and how I play around with the router I can explain how I am falsely accused a lot by my wife especially when we are in an argument, like we were this morning over a text from my mother.
I got a notification on my cellphone from my mother saying ‘It’s $90’. Meant for my wife I started explaining to my wife that my mother is going to lose her job and that not many people in this covid crisis can afford extra income. You see my wife just got this strong will all of a sudden to upgrade her education. I mean, that’s so fine, but why now? Why during this world wide crisis? She wants to borrow money from my mom for e-cigarettes, education classes, and to send money back home overseas to her dad. That’s at least $200 a month for her smoking habit and classes which is more than a car payment for most people, I explained. I said to her ‘How about you hand out resumes and see if you get even one phone call back during this covid crisis and then decide on spending other peoples money. Especially my mom, who is going to lose her job as a teacher because of her school closing down due to students staying at home. The classes are not going to go anywhere so you can take them when covid dies down and society starts to stable itself.’ She didn’t want to hear none of it. Meanwhile I was messing around with the router/internet/Tails and she came in saying ‘can you stop blocking the internet on me’. She like to say this so I have been trying to teach her what to do when her phone disconnects so she doesn’t falsely accuse me of this over and over and over again. I am really getting tire of this type of abuse. Anyways, I told her to forget all her networks, then manually connect using the IP address ending in .9, DNS is 94.140.14.15, and make sure to use the phones MAC address and NOT a random MAC address. She will get connected every single time if she learns this. (Oh ya, I have the router set to DNS filtering as well. Kids devices go through 2 to 3 DNS filters while my wife uses AdGuard to get rid of ads).
Anyways I think spending $100/month on courses during a world wide crisis is, not very reasonable and I think it’s just the wrong time for anyone unless your bill gates or a millionaire. So many people are out of work, looking for jobs and she wants to get certificates hoping she will get a job in these times? Highly doubtful, but hey I’m thinking if I can’t bet her join her lol. Maybe we can take classes ‘together’. Do not have the money, but hey if it means she’s happy and not sending financial hardship towards my mother then let’s do it…….what does this coursera offer anyways? Not that a person like me will have any better chance at getting work with my criminal record.
HUH, maybe I’m interested lol. Yale University? If I was to take something I would take Introduction to Psychology, DeepLearning.AI, Google IT Support, Machine Learning, Social Psychology, Successful Negotiation, and way more. I think I’ll register for that Successful Negotiation because it starts today. Not that I need it. I think my salesman skills are top of line, but you can never know too much, right.
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