i think it was less than 50GB but my memory is hazy… it’s in my backup drive somewhere, i’ll make a post here if i get to upload it

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.

for mobile distros theres also droidian (basically mobian with downstream kernel and halium) and maemo leste (continuation of nokia’s maemo fremantle)

unfortunately i can’t get new batteries, the battery life isn’t good but it’s usable as i don’t really use my phone much. also have 6 replacable batteries that i carry sometimes.

for now my group will migrate to zulip and their app works on my phone, i was just trying to attempt xmpp too since it’s always great to have more options (and possibly setup xmpp as a backup to the zulip room with matterbridge on physically distant server)

cydia.vn and repo.hackyouriphone.org are the ones i use(d), seems like HYI is down rn, maybe gone? I do have a full backup from 2022 and they haven’t had updates in years so guess i should share it somewhere…

it runs like crap on my phone since it’s 12 years old. conversations.im works but it’s features can’t completely replace discord, at least for my friends.

thanks. i guess it’s as good as the other electron/web based clients on desktop, but on mobile is PWA okay to use? my phone is too old and suffers with everything but well optimized native apps, so my experience doesn’t match others’.

weird, try changing archive.is to archive.md or archive.today. /latest/{url} redirects to the latest for that url, and /{url} redirects to the list of captures for that url

i believe it really depends on the region you’re on sadly :(

i live in a fairly small country and i usually source my drives from a marketplace in some server related internet forum, maybe there’s something similar. i guess you gotta try stuff like ebay, facebook marketplace or your equivalent local 2nd hand market platform.

AFAIK iknowwhatyoudownload gets their data from DHT and public trackers. i’ve also had numerous cases where I only seeded literal linux ISOs or some music and have weird porn or random tv show episodes shown on that site from my IP which I had only one machine connected for a fairly long time, not behind CGNAT. it appears to be that some public trackers sometimes report bogus data for some reason, claming some random IP is seeding some random file when they’re in fact not. you can see many items on public indexers where the seeder/leecher numbers shown aren’t accurate (mostly >0 when it’s a completely dead torrent), i suspect this is also the same reason.

exact same first and last seen timestamp, probably bogus data reported by the tracker not a legit download

lol no, these smart watches are powerful as older smartphones, their stock os is already android/linux based.

fyi you can just do something like https://archive.is/latest/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-02-16/ty-article-magazine/.premium/your-car-is-spying-on-you-and-israeli-firms-are-leading-the-surveillance-race/0000019c-6651-d2f0-a19c-7fdd81920000

KeePassXC ftw

with the lack of persistent text chat

i was under the impression their UX is just like discord and they use the matrix protocol underneath, seems like it’s not :( that’s a dealbreaker… thanks for sharing

if you tried TS6 may i ask how it was? it still seems to be in beta and i couldn’t find any easy setup guide or demo…

the clients still feel extremely buggy to use and has poor ux, there are too many frictions overall. surely it works for some people, but it feels not optimal for me. i even tried it with a quite techie friend once and they had extremely bad experience with it that they’re now skeptical of any alternative chat systems i ask them to try out with…

my solution is Zulip/XMPP/IRC/Jitsi, none of them can replace every functions of discord but they partially can and it seems like they’ll work for my use case.

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.

you’re right, in fact there are some open source projects that simply release the source code for each release of the program and develop in private, or simply not accept contributions while having their code repository and development process publicly available. (for example, sqlite)

however, there’s a lot more open source projects that are “made by the community” by accepting contributions from people outside the development team. the main example would ofc be the linux kernel. the changes proposed don’t get immediately included, they’re reviewed and gets merged later on.

i recommend reading this page for more details. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1285/can-anyone-contribute-to-an-open-source-project