Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
The Pi should be able to handle torrenting no problem, but, note that you’ll want to use a separate hard drive as the Pi uses an SD card as its primary disk and those things aren’t known for dependability under the load of constant IO from the torrents.
Croc can be especially good for this.
Weirdly, I do have a “special permissions” section in my phone (Fairphone 4, which basically runs stock Android 15), but there’s nothing about adding links to the homescreen in there, just:
I actually went through all of these, enabling Firefox’s permissions wherever it came up, but still nothing. I’m starting to think that this might be an Android (b)locking rather than a Firefox shortcoming.
It doesn’t appear on any site. Note that I’m not looking for an “Open with the app” button, but rather one that creates an “app” that just opens Firefox at a particular URL. This used to exist, but doesn’t seem to happen for me anymore.
Well it’s good to know it hasn’t been removed, but I don’t have that. Did you install from the Play store or from F-Droid, or somewhere else?
Here’s my build info:
146.0.1 (Build #2016132551), 86bb7f6af6312ba3c0161085f854bcdff68f1a91
GV: 146.0.1-20251217121356
AS: 146.0.2
OS: Android 15
The dominance of MIT and Apache over FSF licences like the GPL is really disheartening…
Ooh! Has anyone managed to do this with Majel Barrett’s (the Enterprise computer) voice yet?
It sounds like they’re trying to be as transparent as possible while leaving lots of flexibility and freedom for users. I honestly don’t understand all the butthurt and hate.
You get a whole browser for Free (in both senses of the word) FFS. All this contempt is unjustified.
It’s been roughly a decade since Firefox began shipping with DRM available. The kill switch is still there.
Basically the IP stops responding to any traffic. At one point I set up a constant ping, and every once in a while I got something like “destination host unreachable”. It doesn’t happen often enough for me to move the service onto a physical device though. That’s work and I’m tired like, a lot.
I installed a Pi-Hole largely to serve as a local DNS, but enabled the ad-blocking 'cause it seemed silly not to. My wife got very upset. Apparently she likes the ads.
With that aside though, it seems to work quite well. Just make sure to (a) use a reasonably-powered device (my Pi Zero appears to be taxed by it) and you should probably use an Ethernet connection 'cause my Pi Zero regularly flakes out so DNS requests fail due to the IP being “unreachable” for a half second.
What’s the recommended VPN for a case like this?
To be honest, it’s nice that he’s focusing on trust and points out that AI should be optional. My main concern here is the fuzzy language around data use and the proximity to talk of revenue.
Sure, bolt on a bunch of features I don’t use if you think people want it, but if you try to leverage the trust built on the Mozilla brand for data mining, we’re gonna have words.
What is(was?) Crimeflare? It’s a great name.
They’re all on the high seas and they’re all excellent.
Oh joy, another rebrand. Maybe they’ll redo the logo again too. Send like a reasonable use of time and resources.
Your math is waaaaay off. Let me help you.:
Let’s assume that you commute a rather conservative distance of just 25mi to work. That’s 50mi/day, 5 days/wk, plus let’s say half that over the weekend. Assuming an (again, generous) fuel efficiency for your truck at 25mpg, given a ballpark 300mi/week, that’s 12 gallons of fuel/week. The current average price of gas in the US is a remarkably low $3.071, and that adds up to $36.85/week.
Now consider the costs of maintenance. If you’ve really had zero problems in the last 20 years on a pickup truck (honestly this is far from average), you likely did an oil change every 3 months at the very least. These days it’ll run you about $100.
In terms of insurance, I asked this site for the average cost of insuring a Toyota pickup truck for one year: $1937. Let’s be grossly optimistic and pretend that those rates will never go up.
Initial cost: (Provided) = 11000.00
Fuel costs: (50 × 6 ÷ 25 × 3.071 × 52 × 20) = 38326.08
Oil changes: ($100 × 4 × 20) = 8000.00
Insurance: (1937 × 20) = 38740.00
Parking: = ?
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Total 96066.08
Excluding the cost of parking, the purchase of your miracle never-needs-repair truck if purchased today would be roughly $100,000. Note also how very conservative these values are. It’s entirely possible that your real costs are well above what I’ve stated here.
The total cost of the rental was $1000 plus fuel costs, so using our above figures, that’s a grand total of $1042.99 assuming you drove it roughly 50mi/day for all 7 days of the week. That’s assuming that you don’t opt for the much lower rates that appear to be available to you in the area of $250 - $350/week.
So, if you didn’t own a car and instead only rented one when you needed to “move a couch”, you would save just over $95,000. In other words, your insistence that you absolutely must own your own vehicle has cost you the equivalent of a downpayment on a house.
Car rentals are exceptionally cheap compared to paying to own and drive a car capable of hauling a couch for that one time 4 years ago when you needed that.
That can come with its own problem that’s worth looking into. I’ve got 2 USB3 SSDs attached to mine, and the minute I add another one, I get complaints in the logs about insufficient voltage… even with a powered USB hub.
It seems that there’s a limitation in there somewhere, though I’m not clear on what it is. To be safe, I’d make sure that each drive is independently powered rather than relying on getting enough juice from the device or hub.