All of the normal Arch packages are pre-built, so the only way you’d be compiling things that often is if you installed a large amount of things from the AUR. Make sure you get the bin versions instead of git versions.

The google-chrome and chromium packages are already a binaries so my guess is you need ungoogled-chromium-bin. You can also use the Chaotic AUR repo to get pre-built binaries of a lot of the most common AUR packages. But ideally you should avoid using the AUR when it’s not necessary.

While using the AUR is common, it’s a bit frustrating you are blaming Arch for your experience. If you only use pacman you would never compile anything, or have very many conflicts. It’s like if you added 20 different PPAs on Ubuntu and then complained about the problems that arose from that.

I have a 3.1 modem but my ISP only has 3.0 speeds as far as I can tell. 1000/100 is their highest plan so the extra doesn’t really do anything.

My modem is 32x8 and I can see in the UI that only 4 of the 8 upload channels are actually bonded to reach that 100, which is half of the 200 that 3.0 can theoretically do.

I already do this. There are several apps for it but I really like Pinchflat because it has metadata settings for Jellyfin.

All I have to do is add a video to a playlist and it gets automatically downloaded. I use it for archival but there’s nothing stopping you from making it the only way you consume YouTube content.

Same here. I’ve been using Lineage since it was Cyanogenmod and I’ve never encountered banking or payment apps not working.

Not at all. I built my NAS in 2020 so it’s been over 5 years and I’ve had 20 drives running 24/7 that whole time. Some of the original ones I have swapped out for larger drives. But some of the older 3TB ones have over 80,000 hours on them and are still chugging along.

I use unRAID so when one does eventually die I can just replace it and rebuild pretty painlessly. Originally I expected to lose at least 1 per year but they just don’t die. Maybe I’m lucky.

Also I noticed even though 8TB has skyrocketed, looks like 6TB are still around $35 and 3TB are as low as $13 if you are okay with smaller sizes.

Just eBay. Unfortunately it looks like prices are way up from when I last bought some. I got 2 in December for $60 + $10 shipping.

Used all the way. I haven’t looked at prices recently but I have gotten 8TB SAS drives for $40 each. Hard to beat that.

Apparently you need to follow your own advice and do a search because it takes 30 seconds to see they are collecting data from their search engine not the browser. So if you don’t use their search (which is pretty shit anyway) it’s not relevant to the browser side of things. The browser is completely open source and everyone can see what the code is doing.

And isn’t using search data to improve search results a pretty reasonable usecase for AI? Seems like a nothing burger. For the record I use librewolf but I find the constant Brave hate to be undeserved.

Aw you are missing out, he’s the most fun character IMO and his VA absolutely kills it.

To be fair it’s the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.

Not that I agree with what is happening but they are defining it in legal terms, which is absolutely their job. A simple example might be killing someone is just killing someone, and the government defines what is murder and what is manslaughter.