They need $5800/month in recurring donations to fund a full time developer to be working on Accrescent, implementing new features, creating new tooling, etc. The blog post clearly says this.

What would you use instead? PayPal? Which was literally founded by fascist Elon Musk and democracy-hating Peter Thiel?

Anything that involves banks? Literally centralized financial institution that are subject to extensive KYC/AML regulation?

GitHub Sponsors at least doesn’t charge fees, so it’s the best of these options. But crypto, especially XMR, is objectively better for accepting donations online.

A lot. Including significant security issues. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

Thanks for your feedback, might be useful for other users

If I remember correctly you can download a profile from https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads#wireguard-configuration

You can choose if you want to use a free or premium server (obviously the premium server is only gonna work if you also have a premium subscription)

I know I’m kinda late, but I used to use a site called BlackSpigot years ago

I think you can bypass this by using the WireGuard profile instead of their official app, haven’t tried this for quite some time though

Would you mind sharing how you found it?

Anna’s Archive has a full mirror of SciHub called SciDB

Please let me know if you ever find a good solution, I’d appreciate it

I remember using mktorrent a few years ago.

A friend of mine used to live right above a McDonalds and used their free Wi-Fi all the time.

Found something that might work: https://github.com/sotiris-bos/qBittorrent_to_Transmission

@FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone

You know what’s even funnier? There’s even an official mirror on Azure DevOps. https://dev.azure.com/massgrave/_git/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

All of this can easily be circumvented by using a VPN or seedbox, as well as an adblocker.

+1

“Proper” mobile Linux has never been a serious thing except maybe during the Nokia N900 era (It was released in 2009.). So I don’t really get what you’re trying to say with that statement.

I’m talking about developments such as postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch/UBports, Phosh (mobile GNOME), Plasma Mobile, etc.

I see so many people here on Lemmy who are desperately waiting for Linux phones to replace their iPhones or Android phones, without realizing that idea is absolutely utopian and unrealistic.

An image-based system would be the bare minimum to achieve basic security, but there would still be so many security issues compared to Android and iOS, that I don’t think Linux phones are worth putting time and development effort into.

AOSP is a fantastic base for open source mobile systems. The FOSS mobile development community should rather shift its focus to AOSP, develop a good understanding of it and get familiar with the code, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with mobile Linux distros.

your (very expensive) license is tied to a USB stick

Not true. You can link it to your Unraid.net account using Unraid Connect: https://docs.unraid.net/account/link-key/

Sure, it’s not perfect, but still the best option for beginners.

Unraid is great for beginners.