yeah i occasionally do this with epubs from shadow libraries. it’s not foss but i use Lithium (com.faultexception.reader) for it. only works for epub, but it’s very lightweight/fast and not privacy invading. there’s a pro version but the free one seems to work fine, and i couldn’t find any cracked versions. having my volup btn for next page is very useful for one hand reading in mass transit.

1. i don’t know, sorry.

2. sadly, yes. the custom rom scene is really dead these days. there are some smaller roms like evolution x, paranoid android, blissos, derpfest (probably a few more) but i’m not sure if using them is a very good idea. honestly haven’t seen much useful feature from those since android 9 days… i just use lineageos btw, but usually an older version (<=android 11 so i can use gravitybox, which gives those customization features)

3. if you can bootloader unlock them, it is possible to install a treble GSI rom, since all android devices released with android 8 oreo and later features treble. try searching phh-treble, these roms are built to work on as many devices as possible and some features may not work properly.

4. sorry, i have no idea about this. maybe you can lock the phone down to the bare minimum by hiding/disabling all the apps except the essential stuff? lineageos stock is pretty much already that, just need to remove the web browser with adb pm uninstall i believe.

there’s pending and uncorrectable sectors, stop using it. is this an external drive? considering the read error rate it might be caused by a cable issue, or possibly even the power source.

back in the days when i had no drives i’d zerofill the whole drive and perform a bad sector check, then partition it so that the bad sectors are skipped then use the remaining parts. i don’t recommend doing this if you can afford proper replacements though, and it’s also very likely to get worse over time.

i’ll be fully migrating, tho i still occasionally login to the old instance due to muscle memory… lol gotta setup a redirect

lol. i moved from lemmy.sdf.org because their servers had issues too often. seems like it’s back now tho @hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org

can confirm there’s at least a few of us

we need more details!

never knew wikipedia accepts bot generated text… what’s the point of doing that?

android tv might indeed be good. something like nvidia shield tv that is officially google certified for those drm bs…

afaik those torrent streaming stuff are based on leeching, i believe having a proper seedbox+jellyfin is a much better choice

afaik you can’t get high resolution or something. i think it can be partially mitigated by running google chrome instead of firefox or (open source) chromium but i never attempted these.

it’s user friendly, used by many normies, better than some alternatives (whatsapp, etc), advertised as private, etc. at least until recently they also mostly ignored governments’ request for data, so it kinda was private for criminals as well.

not in english but you might like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFguYNU4E8g

yeah i do this quite often. tar gz the home folder and pushed it to the phone with rsync/termux

maybe tunak tunak tun

it’s just GPL that’s incompatible with ZFS’s CDDL. FreeBSD has ZFS support built in (OpenZFS). Linux is also supported by OpenZFS.

imperialism, facism, slavery, torturing, … can’t pick one

my thinkpad is haunted, it sometimes boots up by itself

probably a faulty power button

A Galaxy S7 is still fairly powerful. It should be able to do everything a phone does. Put LineageOS if you need a more recent android version. Are you on a bootloader permalocked variant?

well i could block people/insance if i want, on my account level. unless it’s a moderation problem i prefer having the server not blacklisting certain accounts/instances based on their view.

it seems like lemmy.today is decent, especially since there are no blocked instances. i moved from lemmy.sdf.org recently since their servers were down too often.