the main way i get music files (320kbps mp3) is through the Soulseek network, which many commenter have mentioned. what has been left out is the best client to get into that network, that is free and open source software, which is Nicotine+. it work on any desktop OS

torrents are still valid but you won’t find many artists there

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I wouldn’t call it a “scam” just manipulative marketing

the difference?

yes, they do (redmi the same as other xiaomi phones) and that’s an important thing I left out.

I did create an account long ago with an alias email that i’ve used for the unlocking of several phones’ bootloader. it also requires a phone number for “verification” when you start the unlocking process, so for anonimity you’d need an unregistered burner phone number

so it does leave a trace in their books

in case you go for a cheap new phone, around here the best option are some Redmi ones. recently got a Redmi Note 9 and slapped LOS on it for a friend, for about 170€. since none are very recent models, sometimes I had to spend a good time searching for them in shop stocks

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i was still on the outdated OpenBoard, this is great. i’m using it right now

there is a fork with proprietary dependencies removed called Signal-FOSS, whose repo you can add to F-Droid if you decide to trust it

came back just to mention an app I found in F-Droid, You Have Mail, for the sole purpose of providing e-mail notifications when your client is unable to provide them, as is the case with de-googled Proton users

omg, thank you. i just learnt about the “tags” function that I’ve always assumed worked differently without even trying it

Feeder is a perfectly functional RSS reader for Android, and the only updated and straight forward one on F-Droid when I decided to set up my feeds, and an app I’ve seen suggested on Lemmy several times when there’s mention of RSS…but why doesn’t it have groups? I’ve got my general news mixed with tech news, cluttered in between the rest of it - it does have grouping and it’s called “tags”

this thread made me re-check and there are some new options in there and at least one will let you group the feeds: Read You

EDIT: dumb take

I wonder about Kyocera, because I haven’t yet used one but I did have a rugged phone that took all kinds of serious beating and drowning (like actually being thrown full force into the wall/ground and spending the night in the rain) and still turns on to this day

and my experience with other brands of printers was never stellar. Brother was the less bad one, even though the one I used the most. HP was awful

all of this was inkjet, though. I have barely used laser in some offices but the one I’m furnishing now asked for one, which I also thought was the best option for durability and reliability

that’s perfect, thank you so much! I’m currently reviewing each tool. I’d heard about Klein Tools and now that I look at them, they seem solid

actually, I’ve only recently learned about pass-through heads as I’ve never used nor seen any. was hoping the VDV226-110 Crimper could do both but it’s not the case. I’ll probably go for a standard one for now but will keep an eye out for pass-through heads

I found also the VDV226-107 as a standard head crimper but on the shape of the 110 instead of the classic 011. both also act as stripper and cutter

hahaha, I just picked a random toolkit inage to illustrate the post. that’s definitely not a trustworthy kit or crimper

isn’t Izzy’s full of closed source stuff?

it could be put there stripped of that dependency, while an alternative is not available

ok, maybe someone else might be able to help you properly, since i’m yet to do my planned Jellyfin home setup

but it seems to me that maybe instead of running the VPN directly from you Pi, you should run it from you router, so your whole subnet is tunneled when going to the internet and inside your home you don’t need those shenanigans to connect to the Pi

if you did this, then you only need to install your mediaserver on the Pi (either Plex or Jellyfin, and although i haven’t used any yet, Jellyfin seems to be the one not currently being shitified, and the complete FOSS route) and that will probably be a much easier installation

what “stuff” are you talking about?

if you want to do some pirating you need a decent VPN, like Mullvad or Proton, that you run on your system (Android/Linux/Windows/iOS), not some random leaky and dubious browser add-on

dunno why dafuq you’re mentioning configuring a webserver (with SWAG) to point the DNS records (A and CNAME). the VPN will act as a proxy for you. but maybe i’m just way out of my depth here…

it might help if first you tell us what exactly are tou trying to achieve

jokes aside, i’m happy for the development. eagerly waiting for the end of beta

really grateful for what they did with the VPN app, also. although, after being a paid user for some years, ditched the service for Mullvad’s because of the linux client situation

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