The main reason is that libtorrent, which is the literal backbone of most torrenting clients, has implemented supported for I2P only recently in its latest v2.x branch.... It takes time for libtorrent to iron out bugs and stablize and it takes more for clients to upgrade their embedded libtorrent to v2.x.

Basically the sequence of events as claimed by the author is that:

1. XMPP, niche, small circles
2. Google launches Talk that was XMPP compatible
3. Millions joined Talk that could coop XMPP in theory
4. The coop worked only sparingly and was unidirectional, i.e. Talk to XMPP ✅ but XMPP to Talk ❌
5. Talk sucked up existing XMPP users as it was obviously a better option (bandwagon effect + unidirectional "compatibility" with XMPP)
6. Talk defederated

This demonstrated exactly the importance of reciprocity. If they play dirty, kick them out asap.

I have been using immich. It supports user accounts and album sharing. And recent updates on the machine learning part have made it a even more potent replacement of Google Photos imo.

Chrome has DNS-over-HTTPS enabled by default. Firefox, however, enables that by default in certain regions only.

Cloudflare has a comprehensive guide on how to enable it in various browsers.

P.S. If you dun wanna use Cloudflare as the resolver, quad9 can be an (maybe better) option.

As stated on the sidebar,

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck).

Is Proton/Wine a tool on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems? Yes.

I hate to put it this way because libtorrent is a wonderful piece of open-source software maintained by volunteers but as is typical with its history, releases are going to be bumpy.

The only edge Adguard Home has over PiHole I can think of is its out-of-box support of encrypted DNS upstream and downstream queries (e.g. DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS).

The last commit was made March this year (2023) right?.... That's fairly recent at least by the standard of open source software. Also if the app runs, why bother?...

P.S. Btw if you check the develop branch, the most recent commits were made last month.

Mission accomplished I would say. They have proposed a new form factor, kept on making and selling machines conforming to the form factor and showed the market it is feasible. And now when everyone is on board and the form factor is not so new anymore, it's time to leave.

Steam Deck seems to be the wrong device if you are docking it to a TV most of the time... The SoC is optimized for low-to-mid quality on the 800p screen. The situation is similar if not worse than docking a Switch to a large flatscreen TV.

1. The first PCIe x16 slot should be 4.0 only. PCIe 5.0 is not supported until AM5.
2. Most AM4 CPUs support ECC memory. So you can use DDR4 ECC UDIMM with this board. The problem is that the ECC feature support is incomplete.
3. Half of the 8 SATA3 ports are from the chipset while the remaining half is from AM1064.

Typical web servers like Apache and Nginx support virtual hosts (aka server blocks in Nginx terminology)

CD Audio came way earlier than mp3.... It is CDDA, Compact Disc Digital Audio. For its spec, please give wiki a read. FLAC is a good lossless alternative to WAV. I have most of my collection in FLAC too.

The case with XMPP is that Google Talk introduced addons and intricacies that were unique to them. So they could federate with you in full with additional bells and whistles while you were stuck in an eternal catch-up. They presented a better alternative regardless of the eventual defederation. Even if we have some viral clauses as in GPL in open-source software that ensures protocol compatible software to be compliant, we can only do that to a certain extent plus enforcement is always an issue. Who are going to spend the vast sum of money in court to defend the "federation"?

This aside, enforcing federation alone does not ensure decentralization. These zero-marginal-cost fixed-cost-intensive businesses of the internet has a tendency to centralize as serving one more seat costs no penny plus one more seat diluates the fixed cost altogether.

A selfhost option: Bitwarden frontend with Vaultwarden backend.

qBittorrent ftw. It is open source and is being maintained and developed.

For such a small load, you may consider those surge protectors/power stripes with battery backup, e.g. APC Back-UPS 600VA. Or you can take a more DIY route and try those DC UPS circuits if your low-power NAS supports direct DC input, i.e. it has a barrel jack for power.

Given how Respawn has been doing lately, I dun think the modder should take it even if they do really make the offer lol

1. You can try creating a torrent with the file(s) you have at hand and try to search with the info hash. You need to be sure the metadata (e.g. name, size, directory stucture, etc.) of the file(s) in question is identical to the original download.
2. You can try adding the torrent into a client. Pause it and then copy the file(s) to the download destination. Rename the file(s) accordingly. Ask your client to recheck/rehash the file(s). If the file(s) is/are identical, it will work.

You are spot on. The difference between the products/services/values offered by XMPP and AcitivtyPub based fediverse is a very crucial distinction.

XMPP's value is derived from its connectivity. It is bandwagon effect at work. A single fax machine makes no sense but what about another one? Or another 100 ones? Now you have a positive network externality.

The bulk of the AcitivtyPub based fediverse works very differently. The value is from the content, be it people shitposting or memes or cats. As people who frequent online forums and communities can tell, the majority of members are mere readers. They are content consumers. Content producers are often the minority. The reason why soneone will stick to a particular platform is because of the content and the expectation that more is coming.