janguv @ janguv @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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This would be my preferred option, but: I do applaud OP's enthusiasm and dedication. He's learnt a lot of things about it, whereas because of my setup (as you described) I know fuck all. Plus, having his sort of setup gives you your own library over time (should that be desired).

Thanks for the suggestions!

Thanks! Re switching - yeah, I agree. What do most people do in this situation – buy second hand or find older devices and just boot Linux off those? Use separate drives and boot off those? Like, what are the typical range of hardware decisions facing someone who thinks they wanna give Linux a real go?

Quick question: What's the goto distro for newbies these days, is it still Ubuntu? Back in the day (like a decade ago I think) I played about with both Ubuntu and Mint. I'm curious to try again, but no idea where to start. Also, is it possible/feasible/okay to dualboot on MacOS?

Basically: American teenagers/kids think Android is backwards and uncool, even though this is false; Android historically and presently more capable than iOS etc. But big problem for Google in this market. Partly driven by fact that most popular Android phones are cheap and full of bloatware. Some optimism in the Pixel sales and Google should push their own hardware more to address the problem /end

Right but zlib is full strength at this point, and libgen remained unaffected. Annas archive gives an extensive coverage of it all.

This makes the most sense. Converted into a webapp also

Think you've missed the point a bit of OP's comment. They're asking not how the end-user is protected from copyright claims, but how the debrid service itself is.

That was actually a correct usage, fwiw (said as a native speaker with a penchant for caring about language – so that's all but confirmed).

What about the actual files there – risk of malware/viruses?

Forgive my ignorance – what's REX?

Yeah likely cause is something outdated. All working fine on my end

Here's hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh...

Does their gpodder sync thing work again yet? That's the main reason I tried it out before, but it was inactive when I checked. NextCloud requires your own server, right?

This was gonna be my recommendation also.

Think it's possible if you can install via KDE/Macports

And when it comes to morality, that's something you can only define for yourself.

Well the point of his coming here to discuss the ethics of it was to go beyond his own starting moral intuitions, to consider arguments and perspectives that pertain to the ethics of the act in question. The view that morality is a personal matter is a non-starter as far as moral philosophy goes. The ball is in OP's court over who/what to consult to find relevant ethical considerations, and it's up to him to reason those out and whether to follow them, but that doesn't make the ethics itself something for him to define.

I tried Floris recently. It looks really promising, but I found the swipe input to be maddeningly frustrating - obscure words chosen over common alternatives etc. That was the reason I most wanted to migrate from Gboard. Alas. There's still nothing out there in this respect which beats the old Swype back in the day for me (though of course it wasn't FOSS).

That strikes me as really out there. I think the reality is that there's a lot of people into CP sadly – as an absolute but not relative number – and you don't need many out there to have a prolific amount of content, which we know from our own special interest cases.

This is what always unnerves me about privacy tech. I always feel the pull of using high level encryption with whatever I'm doing – file storage, communication, etc – but a part of me is always saddened at the same time with how much abuse is effectively facilitated by anonymity and privacy.

But as the horrors of the dark web have shown, it's a battle that law enforcement will never win – our most effective weapon as a society against CP and related abuse is Chris Hansen (I shouldn't joke) ...is engaging with and changing the material causes of this phenomenon. There will always be tools for sickos; the challenge is to prevent people from becoming as sick as they are, and when sick, finding ways to prevent them from abusing others.

Sorry for slightly OT rant lol.

Ha. Had no idea Azureus/Vuze kept going/forking. This BiglyBT sounds decent (name a deliberate play on Trump's "big league"/bigly thing?). I see stuff like this and wanna try it, but since I only DL video these days and use RD with Stremio, I don't really have a use case lol.