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It's maybe the best if the next thing you do is backup your data. If you have access to a Linux shell on the phone, through adb, the recovery or something, you can make a copy of the data partition.

If you have adb access (not too rare for the installed recovery system to support it), turn ADB on, connect the phone to your PC, and download the data partition with the adb pull pathgoeshere command. Partitions should be under /dev, but details are device specific.

If you don't have ADB but have a shell and you can run the dd command, you can use that to copy the partition to an SD card. Maybe to a USB storage if it supports that, but that's questionable.

In old days there was a single data partition, but also there was a different place where the "internal storage" resided. Maybe there are now even more partitions, but I'm not that familiar with current android.

Good bot

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Proton and photon is just the Firefox browser's GUI style. Proton is the previous one, photon is the current one where everything is bigger and curly.

Well, tracker2.postman.i2p just told me upon loading it that it's under heavy load. In the past few days it seems to have a steady 1-2 dozen new torrents a day. The site has statistics but seemingly only for the past day, however this is roughly what I expected, or maybe less.

Hmm. I'm new enough that I don't know past trends, so possibly. How far in the past you mean?

It would be interesting, if there was some kind of metric of activity, to see what effect it had when qbittorrent added support. Unfortunately it's still very clucky and incomplete, but that's mostly on libtorrent as I understand. Sometimes I wonder how would it be if it worked better, with DHT support.

packages don't update with operating system updates using native package managers like apt or yum so updates are clumsy and in some cases have broken my system.

Sorry? AppImages shouldn't be able to break your system, at all. For example it does not affect the installed system packages, except a tiny bit when you install AppImageLauncher because that comes as a system package.

packages don't integrate with operating system menu hierarchy.

Check out AppImageLauncher.

It is for these reasons I urge the developer community to avoid using snap, AppImage, or Flatpak and stick to releasing binaries for specific distributions like .deb or .rpm.

I think you are in the exact opposite here. These solutions are exactly for protecting the system from package dependency inconsistency. Installing such an app won't install any more system packages, and especially won't possibly lock system package versions to some old version. They don't affect the system package manager's state. The entire reason for these being manageable without sudo permission, as a regular unprivileged user is that they don't modify the system, but only the installation in your home directory.
As much as I don't approve of snap, and dislike the resource consumption of flatpak, what you are saying is simply not true.

Mostly all officially endorsed invidious instances work in my experience. They are using at least one, maybe two techniques for evading youtube rate limiting restrictions that piped does not (yet?) use.

I don't use biglybt because I don't have that much RAM. That is, I do have, but fucking windows is fucking aggressive with swapping for some fucking reason.

What's with "anymore"? It's still actively developed, there are regular releases of both the original Java I2P router and the 3rd party C++ router, if you mean that.

If you mean that it lacks content, please do upload there if you have something. If you already have the content on disk, it should only really take effort while you're just starting to create torrents.

Don't forget that

• I2P is the only semi-popular mixnet that's suitable for torrents
• nobody will know it's you who are uploading, so unless you upload info about yourself or you're living in an extremely nonfree country (in which case the Java based router will set itself to restricted mode), you can't really get into trouble for that

Is it, though?

I mean, robots.txt is the Do Not Track of the opposite side of the connection.

To me it seems more nuanced.

First, a VPN won't solve much because this garbage will still be able to log connection periods (when you are home), signal strengths changing over time, (where are you in your home), and traffic bursts (when are you doing something on your phone or other devices). A VPN will just help a very little bit, by the devices having less visibility into what sites you visit. But this "solution" is like if people would have forced cameras into your house, and from that on you would only be going around while holding a towel in their line of sight to "disguise" you.

Second, this is not about mesh WiFi, as I understand. Install OpenWRT, and the mesh function of that won't do any of this.
The problem is with new (but probably preexisting too) router brands who's sole purpose is making all the unknowing customers into a product, but stealing their private life and giving it away for money (or anything else).
The problem is basically that a facebook-like company has got deep insight into your network, which you can't avoid using, especially if your ISP forced you to use these garbage.

A VPN wouldn't even help there. The spies are not in front of your door, but directly in your house.