HumanPerson @ HumanPerson @sh.itjust.works

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Are they numbered the same way as reading? If so, I agree.

What I heard was that they can have cold but not hot caffeine. Does that mean they can use Java only on well cooled computers? Or does java refer to a specific kind of coffee (that is not cold)? Well apparently Java is an island in Indonesia where Java coffee is grown. That would mean that Java could be cold brew and that they can so long as their computer is cool enough for it not to be considered hot. The exact definition of hot is tricky, though cold brew is typically served at refrigerated temperatures which would mean the computer would need sub-ambient cooling.

Tldr: they need a computer with sub-ambient cooling.

I don't have VPS recommendations, but may I suggest using a VPS as a proxy to your home server (running gramps) through wireguard? The lower system requirements would allow you to choose a cheaper server, and the fact that the server is only a proxy would simplify the process of moving to a different VPS if you need to.

Idk for the how but airvpn does for comparable prices. This coming from a fellow multi-tb Linux iso torrenter. Also I assume you mean VPN unless mullvad does VPS stuff I don't know of.

Are you familiar with the network effect?

My advice for finding torrents, so long as they are not insanely obscure, is using qbittorrent with tons of search plugins. It may be hard to find av1 but if you have a new GPU you can transcode quickly, or if you don't you can always use software encoding.

Quite easy. It automatically starts in qemu when you build it.

I have a static IP and I didn't recognize the stuff after the top few things.

Yeah I am not familiar with mobile data, but I suspect mobile ips are dynamic or shared. Apparently my mobile-data-neighbor downloaded porn.

I accidentally clicked on one of the similar IPs links without realizing and someone with that ip happened to have gotten some of the same stuff I did. I was briefly quite worried.

As a rule of thumb, the vpns you see the most ads for are the worst (assuming you see ads). I like airvpn, but mullvad is good if you don't need port forwarding. NordVPN, as far as I know, is one of the worst.

Sorry no. I just use it once a month or so for one website and I think it works with FF now.

Going straight to Debian isn't hard. LMDE might have newer packages, IDK. I used Debian 12 for a bit and still use it on my server. Mint offers a great stock experience but Debian has a hard to explain vanilla coolness if you will. I would also recommend considering OpenSUSE if you haven't looked at it.

IIRC it means a binary large object. Typically a proprietary part of firmware. Commonly needed for WiFi cards but there are other things too.

You can try ungoogled chromium. That is what I use when librewolf won't work.

Why not lmde if you want something closer to Debian?

I tried that. I woke up at 1:30 and couldn't get back to sleep for no reason. Same thing happened yesterday too.

First, I am writing this on 4 hr of sleep. Apologies if I get stuff wrong. I would say there are 3 main levels of privacy for OS.

1. Normal OSs - Stuff like windows and macos. I might put Ubuntu here too, that one is somewhere between 3 and 2.
2. Decent stuff - Most Linux is here. OpenSUSE and other mostly free distros fit here. Best mix of privacy and daily drivability for general use.
3. Extreme privacy - I don't know much about this one but it is for stuff like Tails. It offers the best privacy but unless you are a darkweb drug lord / whistleblower / journalist it is probably not for you.

My point is for the most part, anything in 2 should be fine, and that is most conventional Linux distros. A quick list of stuff I would put in 2 in no particular order:

• Debian
• Fedora
• Nixos
• Arch
• Endeavor os
• Opensuse
• Mint (or lmde)
• Slackware
• FreeBSD

There are tons more but you can probably get the gist from that.

Most Linux distros will be fine except Ubuntu and probably some others. What you run on your OS is much more important. I personally run OpenSUSE but any (mostly) FOSS distro will be fine. If you run Tails with Chrome that would be worse than Ubuntu with a few tweaks and LibreWolf.

Thanks for letting me know about LibreY. I switched it over now.