At one time, it was the responsibility of parents to supervise their kids online and prevent them from accessing anything they weren’t ready to see. I wish we could go back to that.

aMule is also available on Linux.

Many of the old file-sharing networks are still around and actively in use. MuWire has a lot of interesting books and recordings. EMule is a good place to find music, including obscure remixes. Gnutella is mostly porn, including child porn that’s so open I feel like it might be part of a law enforcement operation.

Retroshare seems like a p2p Facebook rather than a file-sharing network. I’ve always wanted to get into it, but I don’t know anyone else using it.

I love the way it seems to glow.

Gorgeous. What model is this?

You can use Invidious or Piped as a frontend, and there will be a link you can click to download, no need to install anything.

Online discussions may only lead to small changes in a few people’s lives, but small changes can add up. In an interdependent world, any subtle change can have wide-ranging consequences.

Books can go on z-lib. Everything else, bittorrent?

Very interesting! I hope this will be able to run locally.

Hunters have been diagnosed with the human equivalent shortly after eating infected venison. There’s no proven causal link, but it seems like quite a coincidence.

And get into the plants growing from that ground, infecting animals who eat them. Prion diseases are seriously scary, and I wish we were putting more effort into finding a cure.

If someone asked for EU-based alternatives to a computer or phone they already owned, I would make suggestions based on my knowledge of the quality and performance of the products without giving any special consideration to the brand. I do absolutely consider all computers to be alternatives to each other and all phones to be alternatives to each other within this context. Finding a product that meets one individual’s specific needs is outside the scope of a chart like this, I think.

You can set your phone to do that, of course, but I prefer not to have to unlock mine when I’ve just used it.

Reporting people who are unhelpful, though?

I don’t want people posting just to make a number go up. If you don’t have anything you want to say, don’t post. If you don’t feel motivated to engage, that’s fine. Just lurk, or log off and do something else.

Mine was a green Motorola that my dad bought for $5 at an auction.

I use Paranoid’s Pal, a similar app. It’s great. In addition to locking in response to motion, I have it set to automatically lock the phone a few minutes after the screen turns off.

Maybe start using tor or i2p. You can use Lemmy over tor, for sure.

The Arch Wiki is very in-depth and helpful even though it doesn’t always apply 100% to other distros. Stack Exchange is also helpful, as well as forums such as linuxquestions.org.

Or tor, if you need a solution that doesn’t cost anything.