I haven’t used Soulseek in 2 decades. IMO, this sort of behaviour is not legit.

Thanks for the suggestion. This looks like a very powerful tool. Curious to see how well it works.

For movies/TV shows, try rutracker.org. The interface is in russian, but the torrents almost always include english audio tracks for US/UK movies. Movies from other countries typically do include the original audio track and english subs.

They have a tone of older torrents, with some relatively rare content. There are some strange nuances such as SD rips are often posted with Xvid encoding (even new ones) and HD releases have a rule where they need to include all known russian Dubs/MVO/DVO/AVO audio tracks, so a large part of the file is audio.

But the good thing is that, even low health torrents often eventually have a seed appear. They have a massive networks of seeds/peers that are actually “federated” with lots of other trackers).

For relatively high seed/peer content you can also basically stream the release via “Download in sequential order” and “Download first and last piece first”. I regularly essentially stream movies via this method.

They are decent for music too. Video games will likely be challenging if you don’t speak russian and many releases actually don’t include the original language.

Gemini is “AI” which is good for the share price and executive bonuses. Product development does not necessarily offer such benefits.

AppleTV had a web interface? I am surprised…

I think in this case, they might actually put some effort into it.

Service revenue is major (and fast growing) revenue line for them.

Yeah, I can’t imagine using a smartphone without a custom launcher and file explorer.

Android OS updates have been somewhat lackluster since Android 8/9. The OS and smartphones in general are increasingly becoming mature products with little true differentiation.

They will try to leverage “AI” to accelerate upgrade cycles, but we’ll see how that goes.

It’s been a while since I used custom android kernels or even LineageOS (last used it on my Mi A1), but regarding this point:

However, I am unsure if I build LineageOS 21 with one of these custom kernels if I will be required to build each update with the custom kernel, or if the updater would update my build.

I believe you will need to stick to the kernel branch that you are on (i.e. wait for the maintainer to push out a new kernel), I don’t think there will be any automatic patching that would account for kernel customization.

Apologies if I behind times and I made a mistake regarding the point above. :)

While I am a big supporter of having the headphone jack (I see no reason to have another device requiring charging), I feel like this is one smartphone feature that unfortunately doesn’t stand a chance to survive in the future (I think SD card support has a somewhat better chance, but I could be wrong).

But yes, the headphone jack is a good differentiator relative to the A55.

On Windows, Thunderbird requires the Protonmail Bridge application, it’s pretty easy to setup. I wonder if this is even possible on Android.

I wonder how this compares to the Protonmail app. I use Thunderbird on desktop, might check this out if I have time.