Is there a single phone made in the last ten years that will run postmarketOS at all?

Using a mouse is invaluable if the screen shatters and the touch panel stops working but you still need to get data off it.

I can do full fledged software development complete with fully desktop-equivalent Neovim on my phone.

That said, it’s really not a pleasant experience. The CPU in my phone is pretty fast all things considered, but it still takes several times longer to compile a project than my laptop does; having this little screen real estate sucks; and since Termux doesn’t enable predictive text on the onscreen keyboard (and predictive text is worse than useless when writing code anyway), the best I can hope for productivity wise is a keyboard like Hacker’s Keyboard or Unexpected Keyboard that at least has functions like Esc built in. When I have a Bluetooth keyboard, I’m about half as productive as I am on a laptop. When I don’t, writing the same program takes ten times as long. But it does have all the same features my desktop setup does, and it is usable in a pinch.

The system isn’t closed though. More people join the tracker all the time, and that’s to say nothing of the people who already have access to the tracker downloading a new file.

Huzzah! A Linux phone with specs that wouldn’t have looked pathetic five years ago!

Actually, those specs are comparable to the Pixel 7a I’m writing this on at a slightly cheaper price! Has the era of the Linux phone begun?

have a >1 ratio to download anything which is impossible by definition

They give you a bit of leniency after you first sign up. All that share ratio means is that you leave your computer seeding for a while after your download finishes, and when your torrent client has uploaded the file you got from them to e.g. 5 other people you can stop seeding it. They’re asking you to give back, is all. If you download a 3GB file from other people in the swarm and then immediately close the torrent before anybody can download it from you, after enough repeat times of you doing that, they’ll stop letting you download new files.

Trackers cannot read, and are not interested in, the number at the bottom of your torrent client, or your history with other trackers. They just care that you seed their torrents after you’ve finished downloading them so other people can download them too.

Everybody always says this, but I’ve yet to talk to anyone who even has an anecdote of talking to a Gen Z person for whom that’s true.

That’s fair actually. I was more worried about Minecraft hosts that allow you to upload your own game executable (which I sincerely hope don’t exist)

Unless you’re using Linode or something other general purpose VPS which you have installed a Minecraft server onto, having to use anything other than a WebUI to exchange files with the server really strikes me as sketchy. A dedicated can’t-run-anything-else Minecraft hosting provider even giving random users SSH access is sketchy enough but requiring you to use it to update the game… that level of not having an IT guy is just a security nightmare waiting to happen.

Guessing by your comment that you’ve actually rented a general purpose Linux VPS and not gotten suckered into Honest Pete’s Discount CreeperHost. In that case, carry on.

if your hosting provider 1) is not yourself and 2) requires you to use anything like filezilla, get a new hosting provider

Show me one counterexample. One.

Be real here. If you were saying “science is a process” in 2022, you were following it up with “and that’s why we shouldn’t trust the results of any of these thousands of studeis until they’ve had several decades in which to be proven wrong, by which time I won’t have to wear a mask or get the shot anyway. I therefore reserve the right to do neither, immunocompromised people who happen to be standing near me be damned. Remember when we thought cigarettes were good for you?”

IPv6 is already backwards compatible though. There’s a /96 of the IPv6 space (i.e. 32 bit addresses) specifically for tunneling IPv4 traffic, and existing applications and IPv4 servers Just Work™ on IPv6 only networks, assuming the host operating system and routing infrastructure know about the 6to4 protocol and are willing to play ball.

I learned a lot about it from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-oLBOL0rDE

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if you want to date people for their money and influence and not for who they are as a person, suffice it to say I don’t expect your relationships to be particularly fulfilling. Or to last very long.

I doubt Taylor Swift would take kindly to being used.

ah yes because all americans are rednecks

Just got my Framework in the mail today. I’ll report back soon and let you know how it is!

I’ve never heard of Wormhole before now but by the looks of things:

• croc is open source
• croc does not store files on the server at all, ever – it waits for both ends of the connection to be open to start the transfer
• croc cannot do true P2P – the sender uploads to the croc server which then streams it in realtime to the receiver
• croc does not work in the browser :(

for a true browser based p2p solution that uses WebRTC I’d suggest www.sharedrop.io

I use GrapheneOS. What’s it to you?

Almost like mobile operating systems that are open source so I can check for myself that they’re not spying on me exist or something.

…is this the part where I remind you that what we now think of as a British accent and British spellings were added by the British after the American colonies declared independence, and we kept the old way while British scholars were talking about how the word “color” didn’t look French enough without a U, or are you just here to troll