A project ending as abandonware is always a possibility. One reason projects get abandoned is losing funding, which can be secured by using dual licensing and selling some features to businesses.
They use AGPL so even if they broke their promise and restricted features, it could still be developed further (even if no new features got added). NGINX also uses a dual license.
Well I do like new Reddit. It has a dark mode and works well with different screen/window sizes. Sadly it's slow and equires JS to load the content (makes it slow).
Imo Lemmy web is most of the good parts of old Reddit and some of good parts of new Reddit. Though it's not the best UI. My favorite UI for Reddit is Redlib [1]. It's fast, works well on desktop and mobile, and looks great imo.
Given streaming is so ubiquitous, private music trackers have a hard time having a big enough library to meet all of a users needs.
OPS is great but even they don't have all the tracks I search for. RED is better since there's more incentive to upload and more users.
Lucida and other DDL sites listed on fmhy are likely your best bet, aside from maybe rutracker.
After a quick read over some parts of the article, and looking into the Bottles flatpak manifest, I don't think the sandbox escapes listed apply to Bottles - as long as you are exclusively using Wayland-compatible apps besides your games.
Sadly electron is still a pita, so closing Discord and VSCode while gaming would be necessary (or restrict their host access, which would break sharing files in Discord and many more things in VSCode).
So yes, I sadly have to agree, don't rely on a sandbox, unless your not running X11.
Luckily wine will soon support Wayland, so removing X11 access from Bottles would break this specific sandbox escape. Otherwise I do think flatpak/bubblewrap sandboxing is pretty solid.
Businesses using VPNs is an entirely different matter. It's possible to outlaw VPN services or rather make them usable for piracy. E.g. requiring VPN providers to know who their users are and providing info to law enforcement wouldn't impact businesses at all.
A similar example are emulators: Depending on how laws are interpreted it's entirely possible that there's no way to legally emulate Nintendo Switch. This wouldn't prevent Nintendo or any other company to emulate their own hardware.
Outlawing encryption unless your a politician is also something which gets brought up from time to time. Laws are full exceptions.
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There're many ways to outlaw only a specific use case without
can't imagine a client that would ship an ip2geo db
qBittorrent shows country flags next to the peer IPs, so they likely do have some ip2geo db.
Before you do that I'd first try out a few cheap capture cards. Especially the cheap no name ones sometimes don't implement HDCP (copy protection), so recording Prime should work well.
I haven't seen anything except the safe pdfs, epub etc formats. Similarly to movies there shouldn't be a risk to downloading malware unless you execute the files (e.g. double click).
CAD and other professional engineering software typically only runs well on Windows.
There's exceptions like the Linux-native Blender but especially Autodesk was a bad experience (a few years ago).
That's just a guess from my side: If you want to try Autodesk use the Windows version. Bottles makes installing wine/proton and it's components easier. You'll likely need DXVK for good graphics performance.
It's sad to hear about his passing. His videos about the Pi3 were great for me at the time. It's been about 8 years and looking at the thumbnails of his videos brings back memories.
Interesting. I thought Lightning was a fork like BTC Cash, not a feature compatible with BTC itself.
On another note I just noticed it's gotten harder to buy Monero in the EU, at least Kraken no longer offers them (damned money laundering, sadly the laws are necessary). Luckily thanks to legalization I no longer use it.
Mindfactory is selling Factory Recertified Seagate Exos and Ironwolf Pro.
They were also reportedly one of the shops (unknowingly) selling used HDDs with SMART values reset as new.
https://www.mindfactory.de/Produkte/Seagate_Factory_Recertified/