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Pretty sure calibre makes this easy if you don't wanna reinvent the wheel

It's probably just not worth it. MS makes the vast, vast majority of thier money on Windows licenses from the corporate sector and OEMs. Any revenue "lost" to MAS is a rounding error on thier toilet paper budget for thier offices.

Both those posts on reddit are people being paranoid (especially the pchelp post, that user is self-admittedly ignorant), perhaps not wrongly, but it is open source and used frequently enough I'd imagine someone would have said something if there were issues.

Personally, I've used it probably 3-4x without any issues. Take that for what you will.

EDIT: Manual instructions are here if you wanna be really, really sure.

It's getting up there in years but I'm running a Dell T5610 with 128GB RAM. Once I start my new job I might upgrade cause it's having issues running my MC server.

I have no particular suggestions for the Pi, but for the x86 box I'd go headless Arch, install docker and go from there.

Also, I'd personally suggest switching to something that's not Manjaro. Arch has an install script now which I really like, but there's also distros like EndeavorOS that don't have a history of letting thier SSL certs expire multiple times like Manjaro does…

each CPU core goes to >100% which is not good for the system for long periods of time

If you don't have effective cooling, maybe, but I've never heard of any reason to keep core utilization under any specific percentage. Are your temps an issue?

As far as I'm aware, but a good VPN used well is rarely a bad idea.

That's the funniest thing about this whole conversation: I do. Quite regularly. It works fine. Better than HTTP for my usecase. No clue what the fuck you people are on about.

That which is asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence.

Virtual Machine Manager is what you're looking for I think

I'm very much not an expert, but I'd imagine it's similar to how AES-NI works: the task is CPU/GPU-intensive until specific instructions are designed to do whatever blackmagicfuckery level math is required, and once it's in hardware it's more both power efficient and faster.

If there's a market for christian shit i'm sure he'll capture it

There is and he absolutely will. The market for "Christian" specific everything is huge. People that buy that sorta shit also generally don't know what a good product actually is so costs can be cut and noone's the wiser.

In case anyone is curious, it's essentially the same as the PC version on release. 4 apps total (If there are more I can't find them), 0 other features worth mentioning besides an "install" button.