Ah, hadn’t came across it. Thanks!

And about the post itself, first paragraph is a bit concerning. Wonder if we will be able to uninstall the official spyware. But at least they are transparent it will be there and put it right in the beginning of the text.

Android stuff on PC

To have an alternative for BlissOS.

I see, what I shame =/

Thanks though

Sadly not what I’m looking for. I’m looking specifically for the system as a whole being Android, not a system running inside another.

Cynical as I have become in recent years, I can’t help but to think it’d be due to a VM seldom carrying interesting data for data brokers - your real machine is usually where the “good stuff” is.

Depending on what you work on, maybe there’s an alternative FOSS or at least paid DRM free software?

Or, if you work for a company and it demands this tool, maybe you could ask them to provide the software for you?

On a 3rd point, I’ve seen official softwares detect when they’re being run in VMs or similar, so maybe that’s what happened.

On a 4th point, if you must use a crack, maybe do so on a less usual Linux system, so if it’s a functional one but packaged with virus, the virus breaks either because it runs under Wine or similar, or because the less usual system lacks some needed dependency for the virus if it can run on Linux as well?

Found a few candidate tools though can test neither now, mutool (part of the mupdf tools), PDFtk, qpdf, pdf2txt (name sounds familiar though it might be memory playing tricks).

If any of those could be found as a single portable exe around 2020, chances are it is the tool I used for it.

Iirc, tested it out quite a few years ago, and I had to use a software that would both decompile and recompile the PDF, and while it was decompiled, I had to remove the repeating pattern I didn’t want with something like Notepad++. File got recompiled a bit over 50% bigger iirc, maybe different compression methods, but the pages themselves didn’t seem affected.

Sadly can’t remember the name of the program I used for compiling and recompiling, only that it’d do both and that I looked for how to remove watermarks from PDFs. Also the program was certainly offline.

Some times it isn’t about the destination, but about the journey itself.

cd command.

No joke, when I started, it was the thing I stalled on the most as it’s so basic no one explains

Don’t like Youtube’s design choices, too bloated and the little you can configure is all over the place. NewPipe from the little I used it was a bit noisy, but felt like it better used the space than YT, and also had integration to a few other services.

I like learning and the thrill of tinkering, my computer’s HD had died, remembered a system a teacher had commented about and also a friend suggested to recover some needed files, tested and was positively surprised.

The ones I tested on Linux that I remember:

• Original PS3 controller on Ubuntu 20.04; cable works great, bluetooth is extremely temperamental
• PS2 controller with adapter on a handful systems; works well but maybe due to age of the adapter, has some ghost inputs
• Xbox Series X controller on recent Mint systems up to iirc 21.3; works great on cable, can’t get bluetooth to work
• Previous controller on an Android 13 phone; bluetooth works great, didn’t look if you can run on cable
• 8bitdo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller also on Mint; can’t get bluetooth to work, 2.4G adapter needed a small change in the system env to work
• 8bitdo Ultimate C 2.4G Wireless Controller also on Mint; bluetooth same story, 2.4 adapter and cable work out of the box
• Previous controller on a Raspberry Pi 5 with Android (KonstaKANG’s AOSP fork) and Recalbox (independent Linux distro according to distro watch); Android didn’t work on either cable, adapter or bluetooh, and Recalbox iirc tested with both the adapter and bluetooth and both worked fine

First time I hear of this. Can it be backed up for usage even past all discontinuations?

I have a similar situation and have a repeater but that also gets blocked by an wooden door. Don’t know if it’d be a good solution for you, but in case it is or it gives some ideas, my solution was using an ethernet cable that comes straight from the router and that I wasn’t using (installing it iirc required a few small holes to be made in the walls and also pull it through a crawlspace), plug it on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ I have but also wasn’t using, and use it as an alternative repeater with a program, “Wi Hotspot”, installed from Pi-Apps on the Raspberry Pi OS.

And on a note, signal with the PI3B+ ain’t the best, or rather it is quite weak, but from what I’ve been using for some weeks now, it’s far more consistent, the signal now seldom disconnecting, specially when more people are using the internet for traffic-heavy stuff like watching streaming services.

Not familiar with Chinese writing for typing, but through Fcitx, I could configure both Japanese and Korean phonetic keyboards, and that helps a bunch.

From what I can observe, usually older companies don’t have direct means of monetization, the option instead seemingly being preferred for smaller/independent groups. I’d expect the team behind South Park to be no different given how long the show’s been around.

And if no means of direct support can be found, best I can think of is to purchase merchandise from the series from official retailers, like DVDs, toys, etc. Some cut will go to other parties, but at least the SP team will be financed, and you’ll have a tangible item too.

One of the tips I’d give is the same for Windows, the best anti-virus is the user to know what he/she is doing. Linux is a better in that regard because it obfuscates very little, unlike Windows.

Also in line with viruses, given how many variants of a base system there can be, unless the virus is compiled in your machine, to my knowledge chances are higher for a virus to fail to function properly, or even at all. A way for a coder to circumvent it would be to bloat the code with system-specific instructions, which would be harder to create and optimize, but if a big enough group in resources take on the challenge, it could potentially be achieved.

On another point, something I expect to become a problem in Linux is that you need the admin’s password, which is pretty much the master key of the system, for way too many things, even to install a web browser or the equivalent of 7-Zip. With scams usually involving social engineering, having the user hand a key from a system that depends mainly on it makes the system far more vulnerable.

Now, given Windows is still the bigger desktop system, scammers and virus distribution still focus on it, but as Linux grows, more ill-intended people may focus on it.

But still, Windows has far less variants, barely anything there uses passwords or more adninistration-oriented safelocks, and is much worse for troubleshooting (and having used most systems from 98FE onward, I also think it’s getting worse), so I’d say Linux still has the advantages in those points I could think of.

(Thinking aloud) Wonder if it works in ARM devices and with programs that require constant connection… 👀

Thanks! Will be cooking something now =D