Pretty sure they blocked that no internet option too, though Rufus has a checkbox to re-enable it.

Did you maybe respond to the wrong comment? I was just making a joke about a user here “dragonfucker” or smt, with pronouns drag/dragself. Idk if they’re still active, I blocked em ages ago

Yes, before long there will be people basing their entire identity on wanting to be fucked by drago… Oh wait

Edit: I stand somewhat corrected, according to what I can find after diving into the slsk rabbit hole a bit, it basically is like torrenting, except each “request” only goes to a single client instead of the swarm, so while the below comment still applies to the speed of making a connection, the downloader won’t have gotten it from somewhere else as they’ll have been waiting for you.

It is required to initiate a connection from the downloading side though. If your port is closed the only way a connection can be established is by periodic polling by your client… And unless the content you have is really niche, by the time you reach out the downloader probably will have gotten it from someone that was available.

The EU actually was working on a system described above based on some sort of zero knowledge proof (so verification via your gov’t id, but without the verifying party being able to assert anything other than age > 18 or whatever data you want to verify)

Unless you are talking about a future where the surveillance state has outlawed basic privacy your statement is just straight false. Sure they are getting there with backdoors in encryption etc, but we’re not quite there yet.

Just because criminals value their privacy doesn’t mean that everyone that values their privacy is a criminal.

Depends on the private tracker too, most of the ones my friend is in have some sort of bonus point system rewarding for just keeping torrents alive.

It’s kinda cool as in you can compile a bunch of languages to wasm, so instead of being locked to JavaScript (/typescript) you can instead code in e.g. rust, have all the advantages of the compiler and still run in the browser.

Illegal but not being enforced at all. Just like the big green ‘Track me daddy’ button next to a small grey ‘refuse’ button. Or the ones that force you to go through a list of every partner and disable each separate one. Or etc… All those are illegal, but companies love testing the limits, and with the level of enforcement… Yeah

Even software that does not require back-end resources has a cost if it’s actively supported and/or receiving new features. These hours the developers put it are often unpaid when talking about open source, but it’s not something anyone should take for granted.

That sounds like a great feature ngl

Then you’d need to run adb once for the first install of fdroid/shizuku. Admittedly not great, but doing that once will not stop many OSS enthousiasts. It would widen the gap between power user and normal user considerably which also isn’t great.

You do not, it can connect with your own wireless debugging session. https://shizuku.rikka.app/guide/setup/#start-via-wireless-debugging Works since android 11

At least with something like shizuku one can effectively adb to your own phone, so even if adb became required to install non-google-approved apps on one’s own phone… It will not block FOSS for long.

Wires are annoying as hell, and a proper desktop wireless headphone will have basically no loss in quality as they have a base station and are not using Bluetooth.

Same with the mouse, for things like gaming latency can be an issue, but a proper one isn’t using Bluetooth either so no issues on that end (or at least the difference is lower than my skill issue, which causes me to lose games)

Which is anywhere between 5 seconds and 10 seconds. At least for the popular content.

You should go read the blog post explaining how everything works! They basically pull out a shipping container of tricks to establish a connection when necessary. (Depends heavily on firewalls/NAT on the path)

For Visual Studio, the new release (2026) has improved the startup times. As for your other points… They still stand I’m afraid. Actually it got worse in terms of AI if you hate it, basically half the release notes were about AI this AI that.

Tailscale with a subnet router running for my home network makes it so that I can just connect to 192.168.50.57 from wherever I like.