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From my personal ethics standpoint, intellectual property is a form of private property which I’m against, also a form or artificial scarcity, which I’m also against.

If you want to support a small artist? You can maybe donate to them directly? Is that a thing? Maybe they have a patreon or something? In my case I have way less money than the artists I consume from so donating would make no sense.

Also, the act of making a copy doesn’t remove the original, the artist doesn’t get poorer because you pirate their content.

Because not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.

Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don’t wanna risk it.

It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it’s going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.

With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.

For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn’t get any attention besides the average “my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer”. Tech companies know this so they exploit the user’s ignorance.

Unfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.

I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.

I did my research before buying my current phone, but turned out all phones that could run lineage OS were too expensive, not a single affordable phone was supported. (With the exception of really super old discontinued models that are too slow to even open a webpage and battery past it’s useful life)

Tried, but at least in Europe the only cheap pixels I could find were old unsupported ones where the batteries where probably either dead or dying.

For real, when this thing rolls out, I’m going to stop updating and try to still use my foss apps for as long as they still work, once my phone eventually becomes useless I’m not going to spend 400 on an expensive phone just so I can run custom roms. I will have to just get used to not having a computer in my pocket all the time again.

What? Graphene OS only runs on Google Pixel devices.

Even ROMs with wider hardware support like Lineage OS only run on expensive devices too (Or very old discontinued ones that you can’t find anywhere and have no firmware or kernel updates).

You know that not everyone can shell out 400 Euros on a phone, right?

This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth.

And how do you suppose to do that?

Beam the power from space like they do in Mirai Shounen Conan? Or space shuttles with batteries? Or a giant cable that somehow doesn’t break?

It’s not possible.

Sure THIS will protect the children!

/s

I’m not defending satellites, I’m saying fiber is much superior at all the things I mentioned above.

Ofc they can, but they don’t need to, they just seize the server and jail the operator.

Until the go government starts blocking entry nodes, then there will be a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

Also, this doesn’t affect only people under 18, any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

Unreliable, high latency, slow bandwidth and data caps?

Don’t worry, the way things are going the star link satellites are going to shoot themselves. Unfortunately together with everything else in the low orbit.

Best way to detect that?

For airtags there’s airguard and similar apps, but more advanced locators? Maybe a SDR to analyse traffic?

ikr? I have a friend who literally sold a cat in return for chickens.

If you are speaking about soundproofing I’m assuming you live in an apartment and have neighbours, I will be making my recommendations based in that assumption.

Also, note that I value audio quality more than video, so if I have a limited budget to setup a home cinema most of it will go to the audio.

For home cinema surround systems are usually the standard, however in my personal and subjective opinion surround adds much to the cost without really proving much value to the experience.

Cheap surround systems like those trendy soundbars will sound like shit comparable to a stereo system for the same price. Yes, they come with a subwoofer so they have bass and provide that wow factor, but you may notice it to be unbalanced the middle or upper frequencies to lack clarity.

If you have a small room and plan on watching films just yourself (and maybe an occasional friend)I recommend a setup similar to mine, a small LCD TV (32" or a bit bigger) and a pair of 8" studio monitors.

From my understanding cheap projectors have quite a substandard image quality and brightness, I understand that you prefer a projector for easier transport, but a small TV is also easy to carry it, you can literally carry it in the backsit of a small car. And will look much better than a cheap projector.

So with your given budget you can get a quality TV for about 500 dollars and a quality pair of near field speakers for another 500 dollars.

This is the perfect setup for a single person intimate setup, however fails short when you put multiple people in the room.

However if you have a big room with many people on it then you will need to compromise on quality, a bigger screen, maybe a projector and maybe a pair of loud used pair of HiFi speakers, since studio monitors aren’t really meant to fill the room and 32" TV will look tiny from a sofa.

As that is technically true, a doctor who earns several times the minimum wage, has enough money saved up so he can quit his job at any moment and can even afford to open his own clinic if he so chooses to, isn’t the same as someone who earns the minimum wage and has a rent to pay or become homeless.

Sure, both technically work, but one has a completely different level of freedom than the other.

I would spend the money on a VPN instead because:

1. DLL links are always down, torrents can die too, but overall they are much more reliable, you can just have your torrent search engine to organise by seeders.

2. Much more content on torrents

3. Much higher quality, DLLs at least back when I used those had terrible quality.

4. Much easier to manage 100 downloads at the same time, sure Jdownloader exists, but…

5. RSS downloaded, you can get your favourite anime torrent or RSS and qbittorrent will download it for you every week.

6. Security, if you download software, popular torrent websites are much more trusted and moderated and you have less probably of getting malware.

7. If you subscribe to a DLL site you can use that single website, if you torrent you can download from many websites.

8. You can use the VPN for other stuff.