i had a cheap made in china consumer router with mt7621 on it, porting openwrt was surprisingly easy and its been running well enough for the past 5 years. adguard home runs on it and handles dns adblocking

kinda agree with what you said, but even if that’s what’s gonna happen we’re not there yet. ethical concerns aside it’s still mostly slop. especially those ‘vibecoded from scratch’ stuff like the adobe clone you mentioned

as other mentioned theres many kde programs with windows builds, wsl is also an option

but doesn’t dopus and mobaxterm run well enough in wine already?

tailscale. and then use vnc(tigervnc-server or x11vnc) and ssh

there was a non foss one i used (iirc nodevideo? smth like that) but it wasn’t great.

i recommend kdenlive in termux

debian. friendly and large community, no weird antifeatures like ubuntu

that’s a downgrade from m1 pro

never get L or E series, only get T/P/X series

panasonic letsnote (not the toughbook) is actually also quite decent. but it’s hard to get unless you’re in japan

upstream linux does accept AI “assisted” patches. if this gets properly mainlined, why wouldn’t it run Nura?

soulseek is very easy to use. everyone shares a folder on their computer, and one can query keywords on everyone’s directory listing and download off of them.

install the client nicontine+ (on desktop. if on android, use ‘seeker’. there’s none for ios), choose a nickname, set a shared folder, optionally fill it with some media you already have, and you can start using immediately. i recommend setting the shared folder the same as the soulseek download folder so you get to share what you download.

since soulseek is P2P and requires direct network connection, at least one of two peers need open ports. so if you have open ports you can download from everyone, but with closed ports you can only download from those who have their ports open. so, port forwarding is optional and not strictly necessary.

i haven’t ever heard of receiving letters from ISP because of soulseek, since it’s surprisingly quite under the radar for some reason. ISP letters are usually because of torrents. but still, soulseek protocol is unencrypted so it’s not impossible. because of this i don’t recommend usage on public wifi. use it through a VPN if you can.

the F-Droid repository IzzyOnDroid has pretty good AI policy. (#)

We are strongly opposed to apps which are fully or in part created by generative AI tools.

i used to download from deezer when public ARLs were extremely easy to get and use, but they got more restrictive recently. these days i just soulseek.

this is true, refurb drives should be avoided unless it’s a very good deal. used drives are fine as long as the conditions are clear.

slackware?

just tested now, it works

well then i’d try annas, they have all zlib’s stuff and their download is slightly faster for me

maybe try zlibrary telegram bot

wait why are there 2024 cves?

needs root, but you can just write 0 to the sysfs brightness file (/sys/class/backlight/…/brightness or smth like that)

mostly no, but they may still get net access if you’re rooted and allow root perms for that app. otherwise i’d say it’s fine.