Copyright. If you say “You can find X at Y” US copyright has gotten so out of control even linking is infringement like hosting, even via magnet link. The megathread is pretty old and doesn’t even have old things that are still useful like the saved google searches, so your point is apt… Have you tried watchsomuch or OG piratebay? Piratebay has more old shit still with seeds than you might think.

Hope whoever leaked it has FIRE opsec

There are also lists one can find of open proxy servers, they’re all probably malicious but if just getting a single file via https… it would be non-incidental to override the certificate check, so these gutter proxy sharks are probably not at that level unless a major state actor wants you.

Pika Backup does backups. For testing Windows, you’ll want to run a VM, QEMU is best for that (There’s a KDE wrapper I forget the name of for it with a better GUI) but you can probably do some level of testing running your app with Wine. You can run Excel with Wine (also the Office365 web Excel runs in browser)

Wow, you’re deep!

As a worker with real skills, I stand by my judgement of you leeches.

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True, sacrifices on the altar of the God Sysadmin, and their divine mount Er’orreport

I started nearly 30 years ago and cannot count the dead systems I have left in my wake. Just on the 2000-ish thing where Dell first offered Linux but it was inherently unstable after booting the pre-written disk image if you touched it, alone… So many kernel sanity failures…

Probably Linux Mint. If you have a hardware support issue on Mint, Fedora.

As a n00b I’d go Mint, unless you have hardware concerns in which case Fedora is the only option these days (Ubuntu is bad now). I have used Linux since 1996 and would not dualboot in 2025. Microsoft will fuck your shit. Just roll with two boxes.

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Tor “installed” via non-flatpak updates via the same manual mechanism, so it’s no worse than the non-flatpak. The flatpak is just the installer. Also, the point of tor is not to avoid fingerprinting, it’s to blend in. You are no more tracked by Reddit than you would be with up to date tor. A publicly traded company is not going to actively try to exploit your browser with a hack to fingerprint you extra via an exploit. You should never use tor for 1-1 you things comingled with anything you don’t want associated with you. That’s why there’s an easy to use new identity button. Tor is not magic, its on YOU to engage in best practices or not.

If you have the permissions, make an encrypted room and only invite yourself

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