I honestly love KOReader for all things reading

Remember: big corpo trains you to depend on them since childhood in schools, which all use Office.

lmao I remember getting schooled by a math teacher when I tried to use libreoffice calc instead of excel on an assignment back in highschool

detail: all the school computers ran linux. fuck whoever didn’t have a pc with windows at home

she brought her windows laptop and attached it to the projector and expected everyone to have the assignment files in a format excel could read

problem is, at least going 12 years back, not all calc functions and/or param names translate directly to excel ones

so when she opened the file, which I made sure was one excel could read, there was a bunch of gibberish on some cells

when I told her it worked as intended on libreoffice, she said something along the lines of: you don’t go to church using the same clothes that you use when going to a nightclub

anyway, at least the school was trying not to depend on windows

Big(gest?) piracy forum

Mostly steam stuff, each game has its specific forum post with info on who cracked the latest versions of a game and whatnot, links to download methods and there’s also plenty of piracy related projects (like creamapi, goldberg, etc)

I’m not sure if you’re familiar with fitgirl-repacks, but most of her repack pages actually points to the cs.rin website for game updates

if it makes you feel any better, I did a couple semesters on math college plus a couple years on computer engineering and recently went to a therapist… When they asked me how old I was, I couldn’t calculate my age for the life of me

I stayed about 2 fucking minutes trying to calculate it… And in the end it wasn’t even the right age lmao

Wait until you find out 0,99… (repeating nines forever) equals 1

Was on Fedora for 3 yrs now and decided to distrohop to EndeavourOS like yesterday. Reason: jc141 releases were finnicky on Fedora; very very probably my fault lol.

Gotta say, I’m impressed with the system and makepkg is just so comfy to use wtf.

Might go back to Fedora eventually but EndeavourOS has been a smooth sailing so far. I think I’ll stay a while.

Okay wutelgi, have a good day

Yeah, if you use a relatively new device. Or you make sure your device is encrypted.

Big chunk of old android phones (pre 2016) came unencrypted by default. They could be encrypted if the user wished/knew how.

I remember having a motorola (moto g4 I think) that after flashing twrp it didn’t ever asked for my pin. It was officially supported by LineageOS for a long time too. Still, damn fine phone lol

I mean, you might cover some vulnerabilities that were discovered after the manufacturer stopped updating your device, which is nice. But only time will tell what new vulnerabilies will be uncovered next; but be sure, they will.

Only a frequently updated device will have constant state-of-the-art vulnerability protection. That is, until the maintaner (someone with the know-how to make stable lineage-os builds and mess with the device’s vendor tree doing all this work for free) decides to stop updating that device. Which sounds bad but that doesn’t stop another maintainer from rising up to the task eventually.

Anyhow, with lineage and, generally, any custom OS aimed at phones that can’t relock their bootloader safely you’ll always lose device integrity (can be circumvented with things like magisk) and very likely IMS features (VoLTE and the like).

Another thing to consider is if your device ends up in the hands of a malicious party. If its bootloader is unlocked, you can be sure they’ll have easy access to any personal data inside it.

If you wanna be safe for a looong time I’d consider a pixel phone from this list and flashing grapheneos and then relocking the bootloader.

In any case, good luck and all the best to you! :)

Sidenote: if you are on a Linux system and do intend to flash a custom recovery (necessary step before flashing a custom OS) on a samsung phone, take a look at the Heimdall tool. It’s an open source alternative to Odin that runs natively on Linux.

Looks like Samsung Galaxy S9 is still receiving updates. Last build (nightly) was like today.

I mean, it doesn’t matter what you use when the operating system already comes with a built-in keylogger enabled by default.

this is the way

you can even tweak folders to either send or receive only on some devices

plus if you really want to be safe you can set file versioning and ignore deletes on a folder to make it strictly backup on more than one device

no internet connection required, you can set it all on lan

I think it is my favorite open-source project after Torvalds’ creations