I’m currently yanking everything over a VPN connection from a provider that I trust and I’m not collecting anything as enormous as entire channels. With this considered along with the fact that this is outside the bounds of a user account (I don’t believe EULA can come into play as a result), I don’t think I could get in much trouble with them outside of having to change VPN endpoints occasionally if they decide to block out some IP (On one or two occasions I have gotten a message back from yt-dlp noting to sign in to prove I am not a bot).

I appreciate the offer on the script, however I think I will build my own as it is not an urgent matter for me and I consider it a good exercise in practicing my skills with programming. I’ve been looking to build my own RSS reader for a while, and I think this is probably a good use case for this as well.

Thanks!

Wonderful, not surprised it exists already, Thanks!

Neat, didn’t notice since they perma banned me for watching without ads via freetube I believe.

Ive just been downloading videos direct with yt-dlp, but I think I’m going to extend it into a bash script which fetches the RSS of the channels I want, downloads them if they haven’t been downloaded, and then deletes them after they have been watched and after a certain amount of time has passed, or if I have marked them for deletion.

I just purchased 18 TB of surplus disks for 200 CAD, the price there doesn’t seem that good to me.

Yea I like to play around with some different distros in virtualization occasionally to see what’s up, but I have found Debian just always meets my needs 98% of the way in addition to basically never breaking.

I know Bazzite is built specifically for gaming, but I can play pretty much everything I want on Debian using my Nvidia card and Proton. The Nvidia drivers were a lot easier to install than I think a lot of people make them out to be, but I might just be lucky with my hardware or something. Armored Core VI runs great for example, and I’m even using Gnome, not KDE.

In my experience I’m kind of hard pressed to see the benefit of Bazzite over Debian when it comes to gaming actually, but I don’t know a tonne about Bazzite so I’ll digress.

I really like Debian stable, and have for a very long time. I’m not too fearful of fucking up the system because Debian stable is more stable than most anvils, and I have timeshift installed with regular backups configured which get stored locally and to a RAID 5 array on my NAS system (which is also running Debian). Anything super duper important I also put onto a cloud host I have in Switzerland.

If I want to do something insane to the system, which is rare, then I test it extensively in virtualization first until I am comfortable enough to do it on my actual system, take backups, and then do it.

I am working to make my backup/disaster recovery solution even better, but as it stands I could blow my PC up with a stick of dynamite and have a working system running a day later with access to all of my stuff as it was this morning so long as a store that sells system hardware is open locally. If it were a disk failure, or something in software, It would take less than a day to recover.

So what keeps me from switching is that I really do not see a need to, and I like my OS.

Sniff the packets and see if you can determine what the data is.

You’re allowed to disagree, but that’s not really what I am doing here in the first place. Regardless of objectivity I’m just surmising the reason you are getting down voted based on my impressions of the thread and communicating that to you as you seemed to have no idea as to why people were doing so. What I have stated is my best possible guess as to the why. I could be wrong as well - I’m just suggesting what I expect would be the reasoning.

People are probably down voting you because pointing someone to fdroid in response to a question asking for specific recommendations for a transit application is also not particularly helpful. It’s like if someone asked what boat they should buy for Alaskan Crab fishing which has navigational equipment and sonar that can detect down to 100 meters, and in response someone pointed at the entire ocean and said “I suggest you look for one there”.

Mine are liking Mint quite a lot. They say they feel its easier to find stuff than windows.

Veracrypt hidden volume attached to an air gapped system. Unless someone kicks down the door and grabs you faster than you can click once, no one is getting at, or will realize that data exists.

https://youtu.be/JsVtHqICeKE

You are correct. Having worked in information technology, I realized pretty quickly that management is always reactive and never proactive.

In the words of pentester Jason E. Street in his defcon talk “kill everyone, destroy everything, cause total financial ruin” - “the best way to get management excited about a disaster plan is to burn down the building across the street.”

If a government got hacked big time because of a back door, they would probably become a lot less interested.

I finally just blew up my gmail the other week and not a moment to soon as it seems. Much happier with my new swiss provider.

Yet

Mi Espanol no es muy bien, pero quiero aprenderlo.

Seriously, super cool language to learn if any fellow Canadians are wondering.

Here’s hoping between us and our Mexican friends, we can literally cut out the middle man.

It’s when people try to have LLM’s generate code and then try to assemble the pieces produced into semi-functional, usually really bad, software I think.

I went and checked out Thunar because of this post, and regardless of the original intention, I have found a file manager I much prefer as a result. Thank you.

“I keep making the tariffs worse, and when you agreed to do what I wanted for border security, I made the tariffs worse, and if you don’t do what I want, I’ll make the tariffs worse, and if you start working together to negate how bad the tariffs are, I’ll make the tariffs worse!”

If this only moves in one direction regardless of what anyone does, prepare for the entire world to just act like you do not exist at all.

Yes, what you said is fair as well. I think we have reached a mutually positive conclusion then. Have a good day.