? is the start of the suffixes, & denotes a change in suffix

Technically speaking they are query parameters not suffixes.

Windows update, at least since the inception of the concept has never required me to go to a browser

In xp it still was an website which required IE due to activex used to do the updates.

Can you give more details? What apps do you use? Anything worth noting? Thinking about doing this myself as well.

Are these available on f-droid already?

Sounds like the drive is FAT32 formatted. Max file size then is 4GiB. Compress it with bzip2 or 7zip or try the @bartolomeo’s solution.

LibreOffice has a builtin pdf export functionality.

+1 for Nebula

https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/

Tor browser can be used to access the site itself but don’t use it for torrenting itself.

systemd also waits 2 minutes for a network connection which already exists but it can’t see it because systemd doesn’t do the networking

Any way to speed this up? On my system in every boot it waits for network for 30s.

Actually it’s Netfilter. IPTables is just a frontend.

Google is lying to you. They don’t want your phone number to “verify it’s you”. They want your phone number because it’s an effective measure against bot accounts.

There you’re correct that they are lying and don’t want the number to verify. They want it so they can link the profile they have to an actual person. That’ll make the profile more valuable to them. Better tracking etc.

My guess would be it’s looking for the removed swap partition. Comment out or remove the entry for swap from /etc/fstab.

It looks something like this:

UUID=b27bc530-5a8f-4160-8814-95679e0f4987 swap swap defaults 0 0

Any message sent in any platform can be read by the admins of that service unless the service has implemented encryption in a way that the message can only be viewed by the sender and recipient.