Did not put it that way but okay… But now thinking about it, if I were ever to get myself in a bind where I can’t afford something just a few bucks a month, I don’t think any off-time would be on my list at all.

In my younger years we hid an RPi with a large USB stick in our library. A seedbox of sorts, connected to wifi with semi-random schedule (public hours mostly) and random mac address to avoid detection. Worked like a charm!

Focus on fixing the most obvious issue then. Don’t waste you time on watching some dumb content, pirated or otherwise. Unless of course you plan on pirating stuff that would actually help you sharpen your skillset, helping you land a better job. But to ease the pain by watching some dumb shit, just don’t.

I’d be more interested in finding a project that is not folder structure based like all these tend to be, but instead the files would be managed by metadata/attributes (and of course based on these you could still present the files in a classic folder structure when needed). So more of a database approach like in many Document Management systems, f.ex. M-Files.

Good to know! *-cert is definitely something I’d need to setup in my self host setup, though a little complex as my (free) domain provider does not let me edit TXT records for DNS-01.

I’d say basic = good but now that iOS has had more and more options for everything in each version, I think it has approached Android in too many ways. There is now bajillion different ways to do stuff, when earlier there was one (albeit sometimes little limited). And you can configure so much stuff that it becomes difficult to see what affects what.

But I would not describe iOS as ”basic” anymore, perhaps limited in some niche use cases but if you find yourself hitting those limits too often, just jump to Android. When I can run x86 Linux apps and services constantly on background on my iPhone (iSH w/ location services forced on) or even Windows XP for the heck of it (UTM), I don’t see much limitations in what can (theoretically) be done. Sideloading is also an upwards trend on iOS, when Google is now set to kill it on Android.

That’s what I do to get our company ”protection suite” to open up the firewall when I’m outside company network - just set the same Wifi SSID and IP range.

Umm, wildcard certs from ZeroSSL seem to run at $52.99 per month, billed yearly. Free plan does not have those, neither does Basic.

OpenRed perhaps? Don’t know if it requires an account to browse certain parts or Reddit.

This reminds me of the days of first mainstream touchscreen phones and how so many of my friends cried how terrible the touchscreen is to use in different scenarios, f.ex type an SMS without looking at the phone while driving. How superior the physical keys are. Did we get physical keys back, no, and neither we are going to get them back to cars at least in the extent they used to be.

The touchscreen is just so cheap way to implement stuff compared to actual buttons. You can dump most of the costly design and engineering work to the software guys, configure endlessly without any of it affecting the assembly line. Hopefully the backlash against touch controls still brings at least the very basic stuff back (indicators, heating, volume, drive…), and not in the worst-of-both-world form from hell that is the ”haptic buttons”.

Furthermore, I’ve found the answer to this being not just ”yes” but ”yes, most of them”. I think I’ll just give up.

All your points are a bit questionable:

1. Sure, you should click no to almost everything Microsofts asks anywhere, but that hardly helps. Use privacy tools like O&O Shut Up to actually disable spy stuff.
2. God no. Vivaldi is nice if you must have Chromium (this is made by the guys who used to build Opera, before it was sold to shady new owners), otherwise Firefox.
3. See point 1.
4. Just uninstall the damn thing, or some tools of point 1 might do this for you.
5. If you must, sure.

Using Enterprise version of Windows is the best option, it already has most of the malicious stuff left out.

Having cleaned a bunch of old folks phones in the past years this is far more common than we ”advanced” users think. It often starts with clicking an advert or some spam mail or message from (infected) friend, which to them, looks absolutely legit. Then the installed app spams the user with notifications to install more ”PDF readers”, ”phone cleanup apps” and whatnot. In best case these just flood the user with ads but just as easily can do more malicious stuff.

After some schooling (”never click anything that is offered to you” etc.) and putting up defencew like AdGuard (system level) the instances of ”my phone is slow”, ”what does this message mean” etc. have radically decreased. Apple devices have their own issues but this kind of troubles are next to non-existent there.

What?

Just let me know when I can install heavy Windows-only apps to Linux and I will make the switch in a second. A couple of examples: SOLIDWORKS CAD or PTC Creo (and related apps), Adobe CC (well for this there at least are foss alternatives but not fully compatible/comparable).

For a company, switching a CAD system for example would cost major $$$ and any automatic conversion is nowhere near complete, so you’d basically have to redraw everything relevant from scratch with the new system. Also there simply does not appear to be any major CAD system supporting Linux, NX used to but not anymore.

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Can’t read ”Linspire” without this starting to play in my head, dammit:

https://youtu.be/IIYtKHnU4mQ

We had a few good Linux phones back in the day but Nokia / Microsoft killed them trying to compete with iPhone OS and Android: Maemo / Meego were great but did not get a proper chance.

Jolla continued the legacy and Sailfish OS is still something worth checking out if you can find suitable hardware, or idk how complex it is to port it.

Seems to be new Jolla phone coming up at some point too: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-jolla-phone/23882

Also, aren’t some critical apps like banking apps starting to ban unlocked / non-stock systems? Heard someone complaining about this a while ago.