Bluetooth audio works pretty well these days. I just pair my headphones and set the profile to A2DP in PulseAudio Volume Control and it works. SBC and AptX codecs should just work, but LDAC and AAC may need additional packages installed. All headphones should support SBC, but it has the lowest audio quality.

Any decent password manager should handle generating TOTP codes. A phone is not needed for that.

There are also rolling release distros that never need upgrades. You install the system once and normal updates are all it needs.

I’ve never had any issue with file transfers apart from being a bit slower than NFS. The main issues I have with it is lack of Unix file permissions and not allowing all characters in file names.

Unless you need compatibility with windows, you are better off using NFS or SSHFS.

I haven’t really noticed any obvious bot activity, at least in the communities that I’m subscribed to. I’m sure there is probably some, but it’s nothing like reddit.

There aren’t many VPN providers that have port forwarding and allow P2P. Proton is about the only choice if you want to seed.

Have you tried doing a factory reset and not connecting it to the internet?

Printing services are not good if you’re designing your own parts and need to make test prints to get things to fit. It will take a month or more instead of a day to go through several iterations and cost a lot of money too.

Are you using anything to defend against bots?

There’s still tons of content available on public trackers. Just be sure to use a VPN so you don’t get nasty letters from your ISP. It’s not hard, just connect to the VPN and bind your torrent client to the VPN interface.

We already have to do that to install older apps. It’s inconvenient, but not as bad as having to boot up an ancient phone every time you need to use the app.

People probably tried it, found out that it’s crap and stopped using it.

Luanti is significantly lighter weight than modern versions of Minecraft. It doesn’t need a dedicated GPU and will run on almost anything.

FAT32 is still a very common filesystem for flash drives and memory cards because it works on everything. Lots of people are likely to run into the 4GB file size limit.

Yeah, as long as they don’t discontinue them.

I would much rather have 1080p content at a high enough bitrate that compression artifacts are not noticeable.

If it doesn’t burn wood, then it’s not a pizza oven.

Sure, their gear is a bit expensive, but their layer 3 switches are energy efficient and quiet. You can get an old, used switch for a lot less, but it will be expensive to run and the fans will be loud.

I’ve never seen a single youtube ad with uBlock Origin. SponsorBlock takes care of most of the sponsored segments that a premium youtube account won’t get rid of.

I’ve never used tap to pay. I don’t want any banking info on my phone. In the US, we don’t need any payment apps. Cash and cards work just fine and never run out of battery power.

There’s no way I would ever connect my phone to a modern car with anything other than an aux cable or a bluetooth adapter that plugs into the headphone jack. They gather up all the data they can an do who knows what with it.