liliumstar

Purelymail. Really good and cheap it all you need is email. No extra cost to bring your own domain.

I meant in the context of the VPN. It slows down the network for everyone on one which is run by donation. For commercial companies, it incentivizes them to further lock down what users can do or what speeds they get.

You can get into private trackers and trust them. Not recommended, but some do.

Generally speaking, the copyright trolls only target public trackers and DHT. There have been some instances of them making way into TL and others. Your ISP could also identify torrenting on private trackers if they wanted to, even with mitigations. In my experience and from what I hear, most ISPs do not go to these lengths.

So, there a risk doing the above. Whether or not it's worth it until you can afford a decent VPN is up to you.

Aside: Please do not use a free VPN for torrenting (or tor, for that matter). They are either like RiseUp and run on donations for people who really, really need them, or Proton which is commercial and specifically try to block or slow down the traffic. Either way, if ruins it for everyone else.

Reading through the info on the main page is concerning. It sounds like AI slop, or someone writing in that style. No developer writes like that about their project.

If it actually does all the things it says, great. Let me know.

For most of them you can get 720p on Linux with basic stereo audio.

It was possible to play Netflix 1080p on Chrome, but I think those days are gone.

Unfortunately, I don't see a user-controlled Linux system ever being properly supported in the current DRM / copyright paradigm. There isn't really a solution that satisfies the "rights holders", and even if there were, there is little to no incentive to implement it.

Follow up: this is the calculator I use on Linux. I didn't realize it had Windows builds available.

https://qalculate.github.io/

I'm guessing that pfBlockerNG is using the IPInfo database to query what IPs the ASNs own, so I think it would be required. ASNs are not static, so it wouldn't make sense to ship a database of them, it would immediately be outdated.

I would check out Lapce and CudaText. They are both solid editors. If you are comfortable in the terminal, then nvim as well, of course.

cudatext as a notepad replacement. It's closer to a full featured text editor, but is very quick to startup with no extensions installed.

I have no idea about replacing paint, but irfanview for simple viewing, cropping, resizing, swapping formats, etc.

For calculator stuff I sometimes just open the Python REPL. If you know the language (even a little bit) it does all the things and more. Every time I try to use the Windows calculator it annoys me trying to find the right button and them accidently putting another operator instead of equal or vice versa.

Like many others, I switched to Jellyfin years ago. It is way, way better for me. It does what it says on the tin, sometimes more, but not less.

I wrote this little webapp thing some time ago. It's not exactly what you asked for but is a good example.

All it does is base64 encode a link and adds the server url in front of it. When someone visits that link it will redirect them to the destination. The intent is to bypass simple link tracking / blocking in discord and other platforms.

There are also checks for known bad domains and an attempt to remove known tracking query parameters.

https://git.tsps-express.xyz/liliumstar/redir

Edit: I forgot to add it also blocks known crawlers (at least at time of writing) so that they can't just follow the 302 and figure out where it goes.

That is a good idea. Think I have done that before but it's been so long I forgot. These days I just have one windows machine that runs on separate hardware. Keeps everything isolated.