+1 on Tiny11 and you can make your iso through winutil too, making it easier.

Not THAT far. But 32GB RAM is getting more common, though I haven’t heard of many people using 64, let alone more than that.

Also, storage is usually not that extreme, though multiple terabytes are also getting more common on the higher end.

Just this month, I upgraded to 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD so it isn’t that extreme for most people.

CPU and GPU - wise, most people aren’t running the best of the best, and there are still plenty of people using 10-series Nvidia GPUs, with most people seemingly using 20-series or 30-series GPUs, (and usually not the best cards for these generations)

Here’s my advice for Installing Windows:

1. When getting an ISO from M$, select “English International” even if you’re in the US, to avoid a lot of bloatware.

2. Use Chris Titus’ Winutil. It’s open source and really easy to use.

You make a good point. I guess I didn’t even think of that. Certainly likely.

To be honest, there seem to be many stories of such content, but not so many of such people. And I find that quite interesting. So either they hide themselves well, or there are less of them but they distribute the content widely, or as you said, the gov is simply using it as an excuse.

Cool, but is there any reason to use this over Searx?

My XManager app works so I don’t care

Can confirm. I’m basically running the same setup except I’m using a managed Nextcloud instance cuz I currently can’t self host.

I still use the one on Reddit (courtesy of r/ piracy), but I know there is a mirror of it hosted somewhere else. I just don’t have the link for it.

It was on the megathread, direct downloads for films and tv shows.

It got brought down because it shared a server with another service, which was used by some “Epstein friends” to upload you-know-what illegal material and that’s what brought it down.

Update: I managed to get it. I still haven’t even gone through S5, I just had Seasons 5-7 downloaded so I wanted to make sure I have it all. I wasn’t the biggest fan of S4 either tbh. So we’ll see where things go from here.

Edit: Also, I really appreciate the lack of spoilers!

Now that you mentioned it, so can I.

Either it’s back to normal, or he struck a deal with the Feds.

I second that. Even my lower-midrange laptop from 3 years ago (8GB RAM, Integrated AMD GPU) can run a few of the smaller LLMs, and it’s true that you don’t even need a GPU as they can run in RAM. And depending on how much RAM you have and what GPU, you might find models performing better in RAM instead of on the GPU. Just keep in mind that when a model says, for example, 8GB Memory required, if you have 8GB RAM, you can’t run it cuz you also have your operating system and other applications running. If you have 8GB video memory on your GPU though, you should be golden (I think).

I find vertical tabs to be more useful specifically when I have more tabs. Currently using vertical tabs on Vivaldi and I can see 28 and a half tabs without scrolling, which is pretty alright if you’re asking me. And Workspaces are quite helpful for the same reason.

For anyone curious, I currently have 2 workspaces at 8 tabs, 1 at 20, 1 at 25 and one at 82, which comes up to 143 tabs , plus 1 more tab in the default Workspace Vivaldi creates, coming up to 144 tabs.

I completely forgot about the Linux Upskill Challenge! I should have mentioned I’ve been running Linux as my desktop operating system for almost 3 years, and I’ve been tinkering with it quite a lot throughout so I’m quite familiar and very comfortable with the command line. I shoukd go through the Linux upskill challenge so I can fill in any knowledge gaps though. Thanks for reminding me!

The Megathread is a godsend from the god who took pirates as his favourite creation: The Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Now that I’ve said that, it actually makes a lot of sense, so… R’Amen. lol

By “Developer of the Newpipe app”

Hmm…

Unverified

It’s a “No” from me. I’ll stick to Freetube.

For those unaware, being verified means it is packaged by the official developer/team.

Out of interest, which fork are you using? I used to use newpipe-sponsorblock but it was too slow to update and use Tubular now.

Wow, I do the same thing! How great!

Wow, people are selfish bastards who will almost always put their needs before those of others. Who would have thought? I’m not defending him, I’m attacking you for expecting more of people.

And don’t pretend you wouldn’t have done the same. Put yourself in his position and tell me you wouldn’t have done the same thing, or maybe even handled the situation worse than he did.