There’s also GhostScript, which feels like advanced tooling for dealing with PDFs. I used it to scale down the images in some game PDFs I have and save as a copy, so that my old phones could actually open them. The Warcrow free PDF from Corvus Belli went from a whopping 623MB to around 111MB. Still way too fucking large for my phones. The PDF for Mantic Firefight went from 65MB to ~20MB.

Having an account won’t solve the problem with A, since spam accounts are a problem even in the fediverse

I suffer with seeding unpopular torrents and rarely see my ratio even each 1.0

Google has continuously faced bad press for having a nearly non-existent quality control for their play store. Apps loaded with malware, or updated to become malware, are super common. The majority will attempt to inject ads every-fucking-where, like press back, SURPRISE AD! Press home, AD TIME! Close the ad, HERE’S AD 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!

At this point, the “best” solution might be buying one of those SBC (single board computers) that also has an android image, like orangePi or ODroid and “build” the rest of the phone on top of it. Might be the only way people can get a screen smaller than 6" as well. I say Android in this case because it has access to all the apps without needing emulation or Waydroid

OOOOORRRRR, just buy an used older phone that you know is easy to unlock and install a custom rom. Did that with a motorola G6, am happy with lineage. Not the fastest phone by a long shot, especially as newer versions of many apps just introduce more bloat because fuck you, but perfectly usable for messaging and video watching. Also has a headphone jack!

MenuetOS or KolibriOS

Maybe Haiku if you’re feeling fancy

The idea is for that, yes. I suppose buying up a bunch of low (4gb and lower) capacity cards off aliexpress won’t be too expensive, and would be ideal for the smaller games like Celeste or stuff from 2008 and earlier

If only the builtin SD card readers from most computers could last more than 1 year… Either they’re all shit, or I’ve been really, really unlucky with them.

clankers make the end result that sloppers (meatbags) eat up ;)

Because people no longer visit those sites as much, since “everyone is on tiktok/instagram”. One of the problems of a centralized internet.

If that works with silly mobile games as well, maybe I can get my mom on Linux

In my uneducated view, the main problem is that ads are served by third parties, instead of the domain’s owner. There is zero curation because said third parties literally don’t fucking care, someone paid then it gets in the rotation.

If ads were like in 1998, where the person messing with the site offered space on a specific part of the site and selected which ads would run, being responsible for them individually, offering a fixed position that didn’t get in the way of the meat of the site, things wouldn’t be such a shitshow. In other words, cut the ad server middleman. Yeah, lots of extra work on the maintainer and the ad-interested parties, but that’d result in a lot less blocking.

Gee, maybe if sites weren’t 80% bullshit scripts and ads, MAAAAYBEEEEE, people wouldn’t need adblockers so fucking much?? Crazy thought, right?

Even South Park gave them a jab back then. S07E09

Ah, so that’s what apt stands for. Gives a new meaning to apt-get!

Last few times I checked, half the content is reaction style shit (with and without vtubers), 30% is reupped stuff with online bet adverts plastered all over, and the rest is what you’d expect.

Speaking of terminal emulators! - https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-emulation/

Any influencer that relies on YouTube ad money won’t make the full jump.

Other than that, they’ll very quickly find out that keeping a video focused service running and serving 10k views daily (300k/mon) is very expensive both in storage and bandwidth.

LineageOS works on a bunch of non google phones

Depending on the specs, I might be paying more for those, even used, than a SBC. The joys of Brazilian tech markets…