Let’s start mirroring and torrenting full ROMsets!

Image from https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 by Nina Paley

would you remove the battery during those 20 years?

Simplex.chat is promising, with great privacy/anonymity concepts at its core:

• no identifyer like a phone# or an email address needed
• little to no metadata transiting by the server
• identity management (“incognito” identities generated in one click when joining a group for instance, management of several identities), all database/client-side.
• works with any server, through tor by default. different servers used to send/receive messages.
• android/ios/linux-tui/linux-desktop/macos/windows versions available
• in Haskell, so no node/electron shtf#ckery (just a different shtf#ckery… ;)) )

As many people mentioned backups before, I would only add this: Maybe check -in your favourite search engine- if the very same model of computer that you use doesn’t have know quirks (hardware needing some tweaking, not being fully recognized, etc.) with gnu/linux, like for instance searching “$model linux” or “$model $distro” (with the distros you plan on trying, etc.

Also maybe if you connect only via Wifi, check that wifi chip for compatibility first, and maybe get as a backup a USB wifi dongle that is know to work on gnu/linux… juuuust in case ;)

Guitarix? https://guitarix.org/

…You wouldn’t download a car?!

same here.

my first switch from x to wayland was on the pinephone and that convinced me to make the big jump elsewhere. that feeling of snappiness you describe, from not having all the screen refreshed all the time i gues…?

check wayfire :)

https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire

I already have everything. I use Sway… :)

I think it should always add:

"I am sorry*, Dave,* but i cannot … "

do you think a company like cloudlare.com, that injects its javascript in between given site and you, will hesitate one second before transmitting its data with the FBI (or any other police), and help them tracking users down?

WARNING: contains some cloudflare.com

archive.org has a flourish of ROMsets for old machines!

sounds like pure intimidation to me.

1/ one could have “never received this letter”

2/ one could decide not to pay, and then what? will they go to court? based on what evidence?

3/ if it ever goes to court, “i don’t know, i wasnt even home that day” should always work no?

i don’t understand while in some countries (actually only one that i know of, Germany) people seem to be terrified by this lawyer’s spam…