Wow sounds like Quax is a dumbass. "A lot if you're not a pussy." is my usual answer

Ya they can fuck right off with 250 watts

Looks great! Do you have any close up shots of the lugs?

Fair but thats your choice to upgrade. No one says you have to, and they don't lock games behind needing insert current gen CPU or gpu

I can vouch for airvpn if any of you poor saps need to get one. I've been through several and settled on airvpn in the end.

General rule if you see YouTube sponsor ads for a VPN steer the other way. (IE Nord, Surfshark, etc.)

Its called the steam deck

Umm what? Most of the comments there are telling them to get lost? Seems like them defederating for every little reason rubbed the rest of the fediverse the wrong way

Browsing the internet without it these days is like fucking a methed out hooker bareback. I don't understand why anyone even considers the prospect.

"Fully anonymous"

"will track IP"

"Have my word I do no track or log IP address"

"I will track IP addresses"

Wow is this the first time a dev advertising anonymous software has admitted they plan to sell their userbase (once that userbase builds their content for them enough) right off the bat?

Its like a enshittification speedrun

Up until December I was still using my old S10 without slowdown. Never factory reset, just debloated via adb and used KISS launcher (minimal mode). Since it was a snapdragon one, I couldn't unlock the bootloader to install a custom rom. Had I been able to, I wouldn't have bothered switching to a pixel and graphene os yet. Point being, if you debloat your phone using adb you should be fine in terms of slowdown. There's guides on GitHub for what packages to remove safely.

If you are able to unlock the bootloader and use a custom OS, even better.

Damn FOSS Android Auto development is starting the new year off strong! First grapheneOS successfully implementing it on a non-stock OS and now this too. Too bad I got rid of my vehicles last year and no longer have a use for it on my ebike.

For the downloading media part:

The *arr stack is what you're looking for + Jellyfin for streaming (Opensource, 100% free, and much better than Plex).

Prowlarr: manage your indexers

Radarr: find/automatically download movies

Sonarr: find/automatically download tv shows

Jellyfin: streaming your media

Look up trashguides for setting up all this stuff, very detailed guides. They are compatible with torrents and Usenet. I like using docker with portainer for easy management and if you use a VPN container you can selectively route these containers through the VPN so your other services that dont require the VPN dont need to route through it.