In some cases some songs might even be only available in country specific versions of an album

These run on coin cells and have very little power. It is literally just an IR receiver.

Not everything is there to spy on you.

If you have a friend with unlimited home internet, maybe you can just install a raspberry pi there and use that as a vpn server?

Have you tried it?

Yes exactly that’s the point.

NameDrop only shares name, number and picture, nothing else.

NameDrop only shares name, number and picture.

You can select what to share everytime you share your contact from the adress book

That is not true, airdrop can stay on indefinitely when set to „contacts“ which is enough for NameDrop.

The app is literally called „Messages“

The textfield where you type will say iMessage for iMessage contacts and will say sms message for everyone else

What does GenP do? I read it patches the apps. But why does it need patching?

To be fair, the commenter did not suggest that. But a bigger ozone hole contributes to global warming.

From the article it seems to be write once and then it is read only. As reading requires mechanical movement (for now), I would guess that random reads are quite slow.

So I guess the first application would be archives, and then later it could be used like a CD.

Well there is always the possibility to host it yourself (like on a raspberry pi), like SearxNG.

+1 for nodered

As there are currently bo other suggestions: I know that Audiobookshelf has support for non-audio books as well and it will sync progress. I have not used this functionality and don’t know how good it works for ebooks.

Every device they sell includes a dedicated neural coprocessor to power these things, not something you see widespread on other devices

This abbreviation is already used. Controller Area Network

So like dungeons and Dragons then

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