Roughly from high level to low level:

1. uBlock custom filters
2. Make pages unusable or less attractive by wonky per-site browser or extension settings
3. IP and DNS blocks on your local machine
4. Run a DNS proxy on your local machine and block domains with it
5. Host a pihole server on a different machine, make it your DNS server and block domains there
6. IP and DNS blocks in your router (if your current one has no option for this, consider buying another, preferably used)

Best apply the methods arbitrarily, so that you get even more confused about how you might restore access to a given website.

Options 5 and 6 may be the only viable ones for locking down certain smartphones or tablets.

In Firefox & LibreWolf it’s native:

Settings -> Privacy and Security -> section “Cookies and website data” -> “Manage Exceptions”

You may want to start using Tor especially for your current Librewolf use case. Compare fingerprinting

You should add permissions for select sites to store their cookies permanently. This reduces the annoyance dramatically.

Sweet. A question though: Why on Microsoft GitHub and not on Codeberg?

In case someone needs an alternative, the SambaLite app by edgels from F-Droid is pretty easy to use (requiring a Samba setup on your PC, of course).

That, and just how the publicity in either case helps to get people on board for right to repair initiatives.

Now, if you’re one of the lawyers for Bambu labs, … I sincerely hope that you are not taking this case on contingency by the way—please charge an hourly fee

Nice.

What’s much easier than dual boot on the same hard drive, see if you can install a second hard drive (not too expensive if you buy used), so that Windows can have its own little quarantine cell.

With permissive licenses, companies can co-opt the fruit of volunteer labour to build a proprietary fork. With sufficient resources, they can bring that fork to wide adoption, leading users and potential contributors away from the free ecosystem. This is why I vastly prefer copyleft licenses, either GPL 3.0 or AGPL 3.0, and preferentially AGPL, given how many things nowadays run as web services. Always remember: The GPL is what gave us OpenWrt.

Also in contributing, I strongly prefer projects under a copyleft license. That’s because of this:

People who contribute to the development of a program released with a permissive license must be aware that the program could become proprietary at any time. For example, when a company hires the original team of developers.

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/licensing/#copyleft-vs.-permissive

SyncThing only syncs when both devices are online at the same time.

So a comon scenario is: You change the DB on your laptop, then shut it down. You open the DB on your desktop. Since the lapotp isn’t online at the same time, you are working with the old DB version. If you change it, you have two competing versions.

I don’t know exactly what happens then; I’m facing it and am procrastinating dealing with it ^^

Konversation is pretty nice

+1 for Kate

+1 for used Brother models. Mine is a MFC 27XX YY, which has decent Linux support and accepts third-party toner without complaints.

Yeah, unless one happens to have one of the beefier Raspi 4 or Raspi 5 variants (which, of course, would be an overpriced choice if their sole purpose is to be a home server). To give specific recommendation for cost-effective beefier home server hardware: Used Thin Clients. For example, Dell T530 Wyse (or T520, or T540, or the 6x0 series).

Non plus ultra: Download the video and then upload to whichever PeerTube instance you use. At least if you’re confident enough that this won’t cause you legal trouble (e.g. cases like “fair use” should be safe).

FreeTube has a neat function to download comfortably (but make sure to pick an option with both audio and video).

I LOVE Freetube, but can it be linked to?

I think nothing stands in the way of doing this on local metal, as far as technology goes. Something similar has already been achieved for personal photo sorting, e.g. https://ente.io/

A few months ago I wrote out some recommendations around the same theme here. Extracts:

A good start is to install tldr. You use it like man, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.

Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven’t use Fish yet, but it’s said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.

Also, I hugely recommend reading at least one book about Linux. I’m now almost through with the O’Reilly book “Classic Shell Scripting” by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). Despite the fact that it’s 20 years old, it helped me hugely – primarily with the shell and its commands, but also with understanding things like file structure.

It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one’s just starting out, the book “Learning the Unix Operating System” may be better.

I think so, yes.