Cigarettes and meth are both bad for your health. One is much worse than the other though.

The best way would be to use a VPS to proxy your traffic to you. You can achieve this for pretty cheap, just set up an wireguard tunnel to a cheap VPS. That’s exactly how I access all my services from outside my home. As long as the VPS has a publicly accessible IP (most of them do), you being behind CGNAT should not be an issue.

Qobuz and Bandcamp exist. You can buy drm free music from there. Head over to [email protected] for free options. It’s not that hard.

You can already do it. I have Signal create daily backups, sync it to my NAS using Syncthing with versioning enabled.

My Lemmy blocklist has literally tripled since yesterday lol.

I personally use https://desec.io/

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Yes, it just does what cp does. Only difference is that it makes hardlinks instead of copies. Unless you’re using a COW filesystem, this might be better for most situations.

I usually just let the files be where they are and cp -l to a directory where I can manage them however I want. This creates hardlinks, so you don’t use up any extra space.

Nice try, FBI.

I know about Jellyseerr, but I find it not worth it since there are very few people that send me requests. Messaging apps are enough for that.

I also teach college students lol. People can’t even figure out how to upload assignments from their phone. Had a student tell me that she broke her laptop, so can’t submit an assignment even though it was already written. She was gonna scan it from her phone, airdrop to her laptop, and then upload the files to Canvas. I tried to explain that she can do it on the mobile app for Canvas instead. I eventually had to give up and asked her to drop it at my office. It literally felt like explaining stuff to my ma.

I think the gap stems from need. Most people only learn what they absolutely need to. My sister and I are just 3 years apart in age. Yet I am pretty familiar with tech, while she knows next to nothing. I was always there to fix whatever broke. Even now she knows that if she needs to watch something, she can just ask me to add it to my Jellyfin server. I often have to remote into her system to fix stuff.

The Gen Z we’re talking about here mostly grew up using phones, and phone OSes do their best to hide any complexity away from the user. So they never learnt anything. I’m also technically Gen Z (very early), but growing up in rural India, I had to teach myself how to pirate since streaming wasn’t a thing yet (our internet was too slow for that anyway), and the local theater didn’t play anything except local mainstream cinema.

Or put some effort into finding new music? The algorithms have never suggested me anything good anyway.

Only way to watch good quality content on Linux is pirating. So, fuck 'em media houses. Imma sail my ship to the high seas!

For now H.265, but I really hope AV1 support improves in the near future.