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I think mullvad might be the cause of that

IMO browser is superior. What do you feel is better in an app?

I’m not taking about me personally using it or not using it

Myopic take. Generally projects are healthier when they have a larger userbase

There’s almost always a backstory for why the makers choose the name they did, but that doesn’t change the harmful result. A bad name seriously limits how much the software will ever get adopted. Heck, if there was a FOSS project i cared about enough then i would fork it and keep everything the same except give it a more palatable name.

Why do useful FOSS things always have the worst names that make it hard to spread.

It’s sad that optical media storage is essentially dead now. I burned a zillion cds over the years, and 99% of them were perfect even 10 years later. And at some point i started adding 10% PAR2 files to the discs, which made it so even if up to 10% of the cd was totally unreadable you could still recover 100% of the data. Heck, PAR2 file software becoming abandoned hurts at least as much.

Does anyone know of a modern version of PAR2 files?

I understand your guess, but no, that essentially isn’t possible

iirc battery function management is supposed to happen at a firmware level. So hypothetically it shouldn’t be effected by what os you install. I think what you experienced was just a byproduct of keeping it plugged in 24/7

I tried to install it on a friend’s 2012 macbook air, but the wifi didn’t work even after trying different distros and trying suggested answers like installing several additional wifi drivers.

I realize 2012 is a quite old machine, but the reality is that many (most?) people are going to be trying Linux for the first time on their very old computers. So having showstopper failures on old machines probably leads to a good amount of people thinking Linux doesn’t work well.

Screenshot works on my phone

I now have individual files that are over 1 GB

Great list! And according to your list I’m right. BBSes aren’t internet, and usenet is a synonym for newsgroups

It’s old but it’s not even close to the OG. I believe the OG is newsgroups, and after that was p2p file sharing apps like limewire and napster, and only then did torrenting become a big thing

Source?

And after the ai bubble bursts the prices will come down, right?

The price will go down, right?

Just looking to learn, who told you that?

Context is needed. What is that site? And why do you believe search results about it are being censored?

In the US that’s true, but it’s not true in every country that has those 3 things

I’m ok with all 3 of those, but in incredibly more limited ways than they exist in the us today