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…

Does a WoW subscription count? I’ve played on private servers for a looooong time, that alone would’ve been some 20+ months of sub.

It’s tricky for me to estimate because the majority of my piracy happened around 2004-14, so lots of stuff I don’t remember, plus some of the games I pirated back then I ended up buying later on at a discount (Jazz Jackrabbit, SupCom, UT2004, X3TC). I still don’t own a legal copy of Age of Empires 2, so you can add that one to my debt.

Oh, that reminds me, if I add the many, many, MANY emulated roms to that list, boy, that’ll be a lot of debt. Some 500 games times ~40 dollars average, that’s 20k.

There are also the many anime episodes that simply didn’t exist as available for purchase, so “at original price” I guess it’d be zero.

Offer it some weed

Go for release order. People (including me) can complain about episode 1 all they want, I think it’s better to get a good grasp of “what was intended” first before understanding the whole fan recommendations

“It was for my kids, I swear!!”

Somewhat related, I recall Michael Bell talking about his experience with Soul Reaver, shortly after release. The voice of Raziel couldn’t get past the jump part of the tutorial and just gave up

Nearly everything is priced in dollars and I’m too fucking broke and Brazilian to pay the asking price most of the time.

So instead of having problems getting the fucking program to run, you have problems getting docker to properly build/run when you need it to.

At work, I have one program that fails to build an image because of a 3rd party package who forgot to update their pgp signature; one that builds and runs, but for some reason gives a 404 error when I try to access it on localhost; one that whoever the fuck made it literally never ran it, because the Dockerfile was missing some 7 packages in the apt install line.

And if you don’t want to be gay, be a straight criminal and pirate all the science

Kurumin, a brazilian offshoot of Knoppix, sometime in early 2007 I think. The distro has been discontinued back in 2008. I was completely amazed that the whole OS would boot and work straight out of the CD, without needing to install anything.

Oh my fucking god, I’ve been using qbit and never went beyond setting up the barebones basic. Thanks a lot for talking about this feature!

For anyone interested, it’s in the View menu -> Search Engine (should be 5th option). It’ll ask to install Python if you don’t have it already.

After that, you should see a new tab on the upper left: Transfers / Search. On the bottom right, click the “Search plugins” to let it download/install some. Presto!

If you enjoy playing your switch online for whatever reason, I don’t recommend jailbreaking. Mine spends all time in airplane mode and only a game or two complain they want to connect to the internet, but I ignore

The same is true for I2P

It’s illegal everywhere, but not every place will actively hunt out civilians that torrent. Brazil is one such example, since pirating for self use, without trying to profit off the work, gets you fully ignored by the police, they only ever go after sites (PirateBay is still blocked here). I expect other parts of Latin America are similar.

Reminder that “self hosting” media is an extra step, you can do the same with “saving media locally and playing it”

My dummy understanding is that each instance could be considered a “client”, in the sense that they’re always on the lookout for data from other instances whenever the latter generates new content. Either that or, when one connected user checks what’s on a different instance, it downloads to the local cache, ie: if I, from programming.dev, am the first to check this thread, a copy gets saved locally (cache) in the programming.dev server, which might check back on the original source in the case of any edits.

See if it runs either Menuet OS or Kolibri OS, they’re about the smallest non-linux OSs I know of.