When you torrent you can only connect to peers that have open ports, if your ports are closed. Which means it makes it a lot harder to upload if you rely on private trackers and maintaining a good ratio. One can still download and upload, but for especially older torrents it has a good chance to affect your speeds and ability to download.

This is to be honest a huge barrier for me.

If Mullvad only allowed port forwarding…

NMS is great! A fun, casual game to relax with for sure

Apparently it’s been shown (I don’t have any sources on hand though) that most Proton games run better than native Linux games. While this probably just shows how badly made most Linux ports are, it does also show how great Proton works. Most of the time I’m able to run at Windows-levels of performance and in some cases the games run even better with Proton that in Windows, due to not having any additional bloat. I agree with you that there should be more games made natively for Linux, but gaming on Linux is super feasible nowadays.

Agreed on all points!

Works through Steam Play/Proton, right?

Lol. An e-Reader was actually one of the best purchases I’ve done. Started reading waaaay more than before. Also great that one can start digesting all those old out-of-copyright ebooks from like standardebooks.org, on a screen that resembles paper. I can never read a book on an ordinary screen.

I recommend MComix for reading on Linux. I only use it on the PC, but nonetheless it’s great.

Yeah if the library supports Overdrive, it’s possible. I’ve used it and it seemed to work fine.

If one doesn’t want telemetry etc being sent to Rakuten.

This looks really awesome actually

I think the person asked for e-ink device recommendations. Reading on an Android vs e-ink screen makes such a huge difference

No ads. Easy to buy. It you’re really concerned about privacy, just flash KOReader on it which is an alternative backend. The easier alternative is to never connect to the WiFi and manually transfer ePubs to the device through Calibre.

Buy a Kobo, never connect it to WiFi. Or flash KOReader on it. Either way much better than the alternatives.

I ran Qwant by Alibaba locally, and these censorship constraints were still included there. Is it not the same with DeepSeek?

I want to live there!

I’ve never heard of someone sharing university course material on a tracker or similar for people to download. But have you checked whether there are any MOOCs from reputable universities that are similar to the one you linked? They are often free.

I wish PeerTube was a reasonable alternative to YouTube but I have a hard time imagining it will ever be.

I’ve found that there’s a few common themes to the posts that pop up… not that many. I have like 10-15 at most.