Taasz/Woof

Most people using Brave have no idea of those facts I’d bet.

I’ve got my own domain on Zoho mail, not sure if it’s still free for custom domains.

But just for fun I might set up Stalwart with an SMTP relay through SMTP2GO or similar.

IMO on-demand isn’t going to protect you much. Malware these days typically runs and does what it needs to do so quickly that only a system with solid real-time protection is going to have any chance at stopping things.

Not really, there are some AV scanners for Linux but they are more an on-demand thing to scan specific files when needed.

I’m not sure I follow why this would be a big concern. If your drive is encrypted the worst they can do is wipe your data, which would require restoring a backup image. A hassle but it won’t give them access to your data.

SMB often has much better performance in my experience. Plus it’s just a lot easier to use as it supports basically every kind of client.

The built in windows defender is very good, no reason to pay for or install anything else.

The people using free davinci resolve are also most likely to be working with h264 and h265.

It’s bizarre that I can just install those codecs and have resolve pick them up from the system like other media players do.

For DNS? It’s an alternative for that, but not for the huge amount of other services Cloudflare provides.

I’m always curious about youtube music apps, it seems like there are so many of them everywhere, even f-droid has like 20+ clients listed that all look very similar.

Maybe just a fun app to try making so a lot of people do it?

Cryptomator + some cloud storage is the only thing that comes to mind that’s easy to use and cross-platform.

Either that or rclone + crypt, but that’s a bit more of a hassle.

A browser is one example, what’s the alternative to that other than sticking it inside some sandbox or something?

Not supporting a 3+ year old Intel wifi chipset out of the box is kind of wild though, that’s a super standard part.

I always thought that ublock origin in advanced mode was a suitable replacement? Maybe I’m off base with that.

Title is incorrect, it’s not Mullvad donating the money but one of the owners.

Any of them really, there should be very little difference between distros on the latest kernels.

You can try and figure out what’s accessing the array:

fatrace | grep /mnt/mountpoint/

This will show you the process, type of access (read, write, open, etc), and path. If you don’t see anything right away just leave it running for a bit.

TBH USB-C to 3.5mm adapters are better anyways IMO, they’re very small and just stay attached to my headphones, have a better DAC and amplifier inside than most onboard 3.5mm jacks ever did, and it never gets stuffed full of pocket lint which was always an issue on phones that had an onboard jack.

Is there any window in the room (or close by) where you could stick the vent outside when drying stuff?

I don’t see how it could condense the very hot damp air from the drier without an active refrigerant loop drawing a fair amount of power. It would also heat up the laundry room like crazy.