I’m not very old, but I remember as a kid my big sister would go to the local market and buy burned copies of movies still in theaters (which were usually a recording someone made of the movie in the theater).

Too bad its proprietary

Soulseek supports searching and it’s very simple to share, but it’s almost exclusively used for sharing music.

Who would’ve thought an evil company would mistreat its employees. They literally work for a corporation whose main business involves violating your human rights, if they really care they wouldn’t have worked there in the first place.

I used an LG G3 for around 5 years, and I was in a similar situation to yours when it started dying (but with a slightly different set of features I wanted).

I ended up buying a Xiaomi phone (Mi 9T Pro), but the community support for it wasn’t even close to the LG and I constantly tinkered with the system to keep some stuff working on custom ROMs (mostly MicroG issues, might be fine with Google Play Services).

Now I use a Pixel 7a. It fit all my requirements except for having a headphone jack, but after getting some AirPods Pro for free, which were much more convenient than using my IEMs (I fairly quickly stopped using them with my phone), I dropped that requirement. I’m assuming the community will support this phone for a while, but since you said you don’t mind spending more the Pixel 8 series has more than six years of official support left.

A VM is basically a program which emulates a computer. This emulated computer can be setup to not have internet access.

Wine is a reimplementation of large parts of Windows, for Linux, with the aim of allowing Windows programs to run on Linux. Wine DOES NOT protect you in any way, it has access to the same stuff any other running program does.

With Linux, there are a lot of ways to prevent a program from connecting to the internet. IMO for this kinda use-case, I’ll probably run the program sandboxed with Bubblewrap and just unshare the network namespace.

This is an article about a dumb argument between two random people, not to mention the title is misleading anyway (the Rivian driver only assumes cops were called). Why post it here?

Yeah, that’s why the comment you initially replied to cast doubt on whether the chats are actually E2E encrypted.

E2E encryption means only the sender and recipient should be able to access a message.

These idiots couldn’t manage a country when there wasn’t a war, now they’re making plans to resettle Gaza?

I highly doubt there’s any plan (other than “yo we should totally resettle Gaza”).

Gantz is an idiot. He already betrayed his voters by joining Netanyahu a few years ago (when he was the leader of the biggest opposition party), only to be fucked over by Netanyahu.

He then proceeded to join Netanyahu’s government once again at the start of the war.

I read the article… amending a law doesn’t make the problem go away.

Maybe if more attention was given to the politicians talking about this half a decade ago (instead of focusing on AOC, which honestly realized this issue way too late), something more meaningful could have been done.

It’s too late at this point IMO, you can make AI generated porn on your PC… How exactly are they going to stop it?

Usenet isn’t P2P

Nothing

The current Israeli government (made up of a bunch of religious fanatics and fascists) is very unpopular, the only thing keeping them in power is the war. Also, the war itself is extremely popular in Israel.

This government has already made moves which seriously hurt Israel’s democracy, economy and security, months before the war even started.

Four prominent members left at once, including the lead designer and the game’s artist. They claimed the studio was acquired through a fraudulent purchase and went to court (and the suit was dismissed). There are many more details, look it up if you want to know more.

The studio has since laid off 25% and cancelled a standalone expansion to Disco Elysium and and its sequel.

It’s a good game, but you should know ZA/UM (the studio behind the game) was sold under suspicious cirucmstances; the lead designer and other major memebrs are no longer part of the studio (they sued, but it didn’t go anywhere). Personally I wouldn’t give them any money.

Might be more secure since it’s based on GrapheneOS.

If they didn’t mess anything up (security and privacy wise) in their deriviative OS, then I would feel comfortable recommending this to non-tech savvy people who care about their privacy.

Edit: Also with those specs and that battery without Google Play Services, this phone might last me a week on a single charge.

According to the article, it is installed in a “sandbox”. As their OS is based on GrapheneOS, I assume they’re using the same solution.

Have you tried selling physical PC games lately?
DRM has nothing to do with how you buy your content (DVDs and Blurays also have DRM, for example).

Also some Steam games have no DRM.