My new Bible Study computer is now born.
I just built a "new" computer that will never be connected to the internet, using Window 7, with an old copy of MS Office, free from the prying eyes of the deep state. Of course this post isn't coming from that computer, but on this new machine, there will be no need for "updates" and no concern for viruses.
Most importantly, I will be able to run my long lost copy of Quickverse 4.0g Bible software that became impossible to run at one point when Microsoft abandoned backward compatibility. This program is the best program I've ever seen for searching the scriptures.
Anything that goes onto this computer will come and go via memory stick or CD. No network connection at all. We will see how this goes.
It may be a lot to ask, but id bet it would run on wine in linux...
Build a faraday cage for it.
Exactly. The internet of things doesn't care about cables or wifi.
I like books
Hahaha! I tried running Quickverse on wine. It wouldn't run.
The hardware is an old, but not too old, retired computer snatched from a recycling D container at work. I had to put in a new HDD and memory. Windows 7 Ultimate came off eBay. The windows install was a PITA because the machine has USB 3.0 ports, but Windows 7 has no driver for that. The windows install had to be transferred to a USB memory stick using a utility that works around the installers gripe about the lack of a driver. There's also no driver for the WIFI card, so windows can't connect out. Even though it was a sealed, unused Windows 7 OS, with legit validation number, windows bitches about it being "non-genuine". But it still runs.
We have an off-grid property in NH. This feels a little like that. I could remove the WIFI card, or just disconnect the antennas inside if I got paranoid.
Ugh. This morning the computer forced me to go through activation. I was happy that I could use my cell phone to dial in and use the numbers the computer gave me to get an activation code from Microsoft.
How about a dead tree copy of the Bible. My favorite type.
Just run TempleOS on bare metal. Terry Davis has your back, bro.
You wish hahahahah like it needs a cord.
How did you do it OP? Built out of modern components or old circuits or a mixture? Very interesting, good post. I heard they’re putting wifi chips or receivers in everything nowadays, for example the voting booths that were supposed to be stand alone were all found to have wifi or cell transmitters in them. I don’t know anything about this stuff but I’d figure anything hardware that’s modern would be able to be tapped into on some rudimentary level. I second that users advice that said build a faraday cage around it
I’m sure you know this as well but for anyone else, memory sticks can catch and upload viruses discreetly which depending on their function could still cause issues for a stand alone unit