Some bank apps work on LineageOS, some don’t. Mine does, and I’ve only used it twice in ten years, but I’d sooner switch banks than run Google’s android.

Port forwarding lets you connect with other hosts peer-to-peer which a VPN would otherwise block if both sides are behind one. For torrents you’d get more peers (which doesn’t matter if you’re just downloading the latest and most popular stuff) and be able to seed more effectively.

The requirement for port forwarding narrows that down to AirVPN and Windscribe, which is an unfortunately small set of choices.

Some investors are betting that once people wealthy enough to buy new cars get over the initial shock they will learn to relax and enjoy fascism, and quickly go back to buying Tesla cars just like they did last year.

I’m sort of tired of articles describing some catastrophe that happened ten years ago and saying “it’s worrying.”

One more idea… If you’re willing to temporarily add the Debian testing “deb-src” repository to your sources.list, which should be slightly safer, then there’s a chance that this might work: https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation

Seems not completely crazy, unless MX has its own way to do that.

Yeah, I see that MX test is not based on current debian testing (trixie) but also bookworm. So I guess you’ll not find the package in MX repos until it makes it into AHS. Apparently there’s a PPA that some people use, that might work.

Ok, it didn’t seem clear if you were on Debian 12 or MX. I’m not sure what the relationship between them is, but mesa 25 seems to be in trixie only since 13 march.

Maybe you could use that package from debian testing on the MX version of testing if you wanted to live dangerously.

At this point in the debian release cycle your easiest course of action would probably be to switch over to debian testing. It’s quite easy to do if you’re in debian 12 and wanting newer packages is a legit reason to do it. It should be getting reasonably close to being stable by now I would guess.

You’ll need a newer kernel than is currently in debian stable as well, but that is actually quite easy to build and install. Building mesa I don’t know about, but it will have many more dependencies and could be a lot of work.

The ones in my garden only eat round inches.

Un-modded Skyrim has health regen (even during combat) unless you turn on “survival mode” but overall it’s a much better game if you spend the first 30 hours installing mods. In particular the melee combat can be much improved with MCO and related things. Or just pick a wabbajack, I hear Tempus Maledictum is one that people like.

Oh, literally unplayable. That’s even better. I was imagining a “lesbian? y/n” toggle in the settings that did absolutely nothing.

The Pirate Bay is perfectly fine for that sort of thing.

I think you’ll find most phones come with a web browser. But I can confirm that I do use Vim to edit the list.

“not that bad” — a very comfortable and well-decorated prison. But you can’t blame pixelfed for every poor choice its users might make in their lives.

Apache and nginx are two of the better-known grocery list servers. Just put a text file in /var/www/html.

Good luck GNOME users! If Xfce ever added a donation button I would not be donating again.

Oh yeah, I remember debian’s Firefox used to be called something else for trademark reasons some years ago. I wonder how much linux market share firefox lost as a result. Not sure what changed, I guess in that case Mozilla must’ve come to their senses. I was mostly an ubuntu user in those days.

… lwn has the story: https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/

Telemetry can be turned off without modifying the code. I don’t know about the legality of it, maybe in the case of Firefox the other things they do are also at most build options rather than code changes. But generally distros are allowed to make changes to the packages they distribute, that is how free software works.

I wonder if mine would’ve been counted there. Even before I switched to Librewolf, Debian disables most of the telemetry.