Eh the authoritarian capitalists who love the CCP generally seem to embrace the fact that China is authoritarian - they see it as a good thing!

Also depends on where the servers are - latency probably won’t be great if you’re on the literal opposite side of the world from the servers that you’re streaming the game from!

How long until Apple adopts RISC-V?

Lol I hardly think that companies like EA or Microsoft are “honest businesses” or “small artist[s]”, fuckers have made billions of dollars through their anticompetitive monopolistic bullshit.

It’s also on F-Droid if your TV doesn’t have the Google Play Services - I run LineageOS on my TV box!

Kinda hard to buy a Framework when they don’t sell to your country! Framework laptops are only available in a handful of areas, whereas Macbooks are sold in almost every country on Earth.

I used to be a big fan of Opera back when it was good but I wouldn’t recommend using anything made by them since they got bought out by a shady Chinese company that makes their money off of predatory payday loan apps with exploitative interest rates in a few developing nations. Firefox (and Mull and the like) are the best Android web browsers but if you really want a Chromium-based one then I’d recommend looking into using one that’s open source and not owned by an unethical corporation.

Not sure if it works for this specific gDrive error but usually when I wanna download something but Drive won’t let me I add a shortcut to it in a folder in my own gDrive account alongside a dummy text file, then I right click on the folder and download the whole thing as a ZIP.

That probably depends on the program and the specific crack that you’re trying to use. These things vary drastically depending on the DRM used and even the person/team that wrote the crack. Could try putting a bit more information in your post?

You’ll probably have to use containers or VMs if you want to be able to control Kodi via the HTTP API (eg. remote control apps or the web ui) while also being able to access the Pi-Hole web ui.

For pirating with Kodi I’d recommend looking into a Debrid service combined with an addon like Umbrella or Seren and a nice skin such as Arctic Horizon.

IIRC Flatpack is also FOSS whereas the Snap server software is proprietary

Been a gnome guy for the past ~13 years with a bit of unity thrown in back when it was relevant! I’ve tried to love KDE repeatedly over the years but it’s never quite clicked with me - the customisation is great, but using it just feels kinda wrong personally!

There are already a handful of relatively old right-wing lemmy instances, you’re just unlikely to see content from them without specifically seeking them out as most other instances do not federate with them.

You could in theory but hosting it on dedicated hardware will be a much better experience.

As an aside, it is technically possible to disable uploading/sharing when using torrents though it is generally frowned upon. There are also service such as debrid websites and torrent boxes that can download a torrent for you to then directly download over HTTPS from their servers.

I’ve played a decent bit of 0ad over the years, I’m a big fan of Thrive, and NZ:P is a pretty neat open-source PSP clone of CoD’s Nazi Zombies.

Honestly that depends on the specific hardware and what your walls are made of! And the power consumption would also depend on your power plan, could be anywhere from a dollar to $5-10+ a day.

Shipping any server here from overseas would prolly cost a small fortune, and TradeMe is garbage these days. Could be worth checking FB Marketplace and any local e-waste facilities or the rummage section at your local landfill.

Honestly though if you think that your needs would be met by a few Orange Pis then you probably don’t really need dedicated server hardware - that stuff is expensive, uses a ton of electricity, and is extremely hot/noisy.