Don’t rely on the VPN kill switch for torrenting. It’s not fast enough to prevent your IP from leaking if the VPN disconnects. The torrent client needs to be bound to the VPN interface. Transmission doesn’t have an option to do that, so you would have to run it in a container instead.
The clock is only useful if the time is correct. They could at least put a small super capacitor in there to keep the time during short power outages.
I wish they didn’t even have clocks. The darn thing resets every time there’s a big gust of wind.
Gaming on Linux has been really good for the last several years. The main issue is certain multiplayer games that intentionally block Linux users.
Nobara and Bazzite are gaming focused distributions, but they are both based on Fedora. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed will give you the lastest kernel version if you want a rolling release distro.
Mint has a software manager and you can also install Synaptic.
Gaming on Mint works fine, but it’s based on Ubuntu LTS releases, so you won’t have the latest kernel or mesa versions. If you’re using an RX 9000 series GPU, you should probably pick a distro with a newer kernel and mesa version to get the best performance.
It’s good for basic things like cutting, merging and transitions. It can be used to blur something as long as it’s not moving.
It still works in Firefox if you switch to the desktop site. You can also use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock with it to get rid of the ads.
There’s always KolibriOS. It’s small enough to run from a single floppy disk.
I’ve got some games that are choppy with mitigations on, but they run smooth with mitigations off. I do temporarily disable the mitigations when playing those games, it’s just inconvenient since it requires a reboot.
I’m still running a 1950x in my desktop. It works fine for most stuff, but the gaming performance is a bit low now with all of the spectre mitigations. I was planning on upgrading, but that will have to wait a few more years now.
I ran my previous laptop from 2012 until it died last year. I used it as my electronics workbench PC for several years because the battery wouldn’t hold a charge, but it still worked fine for running KiCAD and programming microcontrollers. I replaced it with a used Thinkcentre that I got dirt cheap on ebay just before the RAM prices went crazy.
As long as you are using your own domain, you can move to a different host and keep your email addresses.
Because of all of the blobs it contains. That has caused a lot of people to not trust it.
The executives need prison time. That’s the only thing that will get them to stop their bots from killing people.
Yes, adb pull transfers from the phone to the computer.
Adb is a command line program. To copy your music folder from home on your PC to internal storage on your phone, you would just open a terminal abd type adb push ~/Music /sdcard. Pressing tab will autocomplete folder and file names. For some reason /sdcard on android is actually the internal storage. If you have an SD card, it will be in /storage/card_name, where card_name is the UUID of the partition on the card.
You do have to enable USB debugging on your phone before you can use adb to transfer files though.
Yeah, MTP is worthless. I always use adb push if I need to transfer a lot of stuff.
It crashed a lot when I played it on windows too. I tried playing it a couple of times, but always gave up partway through because it kept crashing. There are some mods that are supposed to help with stability, I should try it again and see if they fix it.
There are seedboxes that start around USD $5 a month.
Hidden junk that a person wouldn’t see would likely be picked up by a screen reader. That would make the site much harder to use for a visually impaired person.