without deep packet inspection

DPI is being used actively in a lot of countries including where I live, sadly

fyi mspaint should run fine with WINE https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=373

I like Boost except for the fact it has ads and isn’t FOSS. Very fast on my slow ass 2013 phone…

there are a lot more “news” posts than others, so this isn’t ideal if I want to read discussions in smaller communities sadly

centralized, not open source, even if it’s “okay” now it’ll get enshittified sooner or later. tbh I also don’t really get why people like the tiktok-ish ux…

this is actually still very useful for vms, containers, etc. even over LAN it’s quite usable for ~gtk2 programs.

there were game magazines :p

they’re probably disconnected from internet, most likely misconfigured kms server or smth

for some reason, all these devices i see around these days seem to run android (one of 5/6/7/8 based on the exposed ui) or win10… haven’t seen any linux desktop-ish thing here

yeah i occasionally do this with epubs from shadow libraries. it’s not foss but i use Lithium (com.faultexception.reader) for it. only works for epub, but it’s very lightweight/fast and not privacy invading. there’s a pro version but the free one seems to work fine, and i couldn’t find any cracked versions. having my volup btn for next page is very useful for one hand reading in mass transit.

AFAIK iknowwhatyoudownload gets their data from DHT and public trackers. i’ve also had numerous cases where I only seeded literal linux ISOs or some music and have weird porn or random tv show episodes shown on that site from my IP which I had only one machine connected for a fairly long time, not behind CGNAT. it appears to be that some public trackers sometimes report bogus data for some reason, claming some random IP is seeding some random file when they’re in fact not. you can see many items on public indexers where the seeder/leecher numbers shown aren’t accurate (mostly >0 when it’s a completely dead torrent), i suspect this is also the same reason.

exact same first and last seen timestamp, probably bogus data reported by the tracker not a legit download

lol no, these smart watches are powerful as older smartphones, their stock os is already android/linux based.

1. i don’t know, sorry.

2. sadly, yes. the custom rom scene is really dead these days. there are some smaller roms like evolution x, paranoid android, blissos, derpfest (probably a few more) but i’m not sure if using them is a very good idea. honestly haven’t seen much useful feature from those since android 9 days… i just use lineageos btw, but usually an older version (<=android 11 so i can use gravitybox, which gives those customization features)

3. if you can bootloader unlock them, it is possible to install a treble GSI rom, since all android devices released with android 8 oreo and later features treble. try searching phh-treble, these roms are built to work on as many devices as possible and some features may not work properly.

4. sorry, i have no idea about this. maybe you can lock the phone down to the bare minimum by hiding/disabling all the apps except the essential stuff? lineageos stock is pretty much already that, just need to remove the web browser with adb pm uninstall i believe.

you’re right, in fact there are some open source projects that simply release the source code for each release of the program and develop in private, or simply not accept contributions while having their code repository and development process publicly available. (for example, sqlite)

however, there’s a lot more open source projects that are “made by the community” by accepting contributions from people outside the development team. the main example would ofc be the linux kernel. the changes proposed don’t get immediately included, they’re reviewed and gets merged later on.

i recommend reading this page for more details. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1285/can-anyone-contribute-to-an-open-source-project

It’s an open source project, anyone can contribute code. :)

bruh can’t we have this marked nsfw

something i heard is that it’s better to pay during the initial setup for getting the server located in an ideal location and cancelling the payment afterwards (?). just thought it might be helpful

we need more details!

never knew wikipedia accepts bot generated text… what’s the point of doing that?