well yeah, it surely is. win10 iot ltsc itself is defo getting support till 2032, but massgrave’s hwid/tsforge may get blocked at some point, though most people highly doubt that since m$ doesn’t really care at this point. (heck, the massgrave repos are hosted on m$ owned github) in addition to that, massgrave’s hwid mode generates an hwid on microsoft’s servers just like genuine windows licenses, so i’m pretty sure it’ll remain working, even if the method to generate hwid gets blocked somehow…

i do believe switching to a gnu/linux distro is a much better choice, but this is also an option if your relatives really prefer using windows or need to.

i would do vnc through tailscale or reverse ssh

massgrave.dev

bro isn’t using butterfly to flip bits?

Gulim (default font for korean windows before vista, so similar to Tahoma) with font smoothing disabled :)

signal is more like whatsapp/telegram than slack/discord

jitsi is actually kinda being used in zulip. theres a button to create and send a new jitsi meeting.

matrix should theoretically be ok but the ux is still too bad imo

that looks like the control panel(?) has full access to the target device already. usually when talking about security of communication softwares we don’t consider this kind of attacks…

i always use their latest nightly build, so maybe that helps. also i generally don’t watch youtube a lot, so my ip probably didn’t get flagged yet

i just use yt-dlp to download the video these days. i have lots of filters in addition to ublock’s default ones, somehow they’re clashing with youtube and i can’t properly play any video. yt-dlp+mpv is also much faster on my potato system, and makes me save videos.

i’d rather spend time actually learning and doing things instead of being an LLM slopper lol

as a student, this is much more interesting than studying

not sure if it’s very related but apparently spotify is killing their api. hopefully annas releases proper dumps that can replace it…

https://old.reddit.com/r/spotifyapi/comments/1qxv9wm/spotify_api_changes_were_doomed/ (screenshot attached)

Maybe I should retry it, but I had very bad experience with Matrix in general (Element.io and FluffyChat, web and android) so I’m honestly thinking of it as the last option. Search feature was also pretty mediocre.

I’m honestly not sure. there’s a call icon below the message input box that generates at Jitsi meet link when clicked, however there doesn’t seem to be much integration than that. There’s no indicator that shows there’s a Jitsi meeting going on on Zulip side. My friends frequently use Discord’s voice chat feature to see if there’s anyone already in the room and whether they’re sharing screen/mic on, so this is a quite necessary feature.

I used instaloader to scrape about 5 profiles (my friends, ofc i have their permission) every day (was it called story? the 24h expiring thing). occasionally the token(?) saved in instaloader would expire and display their warning saying there was “Suspicious activity” or something, so i setup a simple script to run firefox to login and extract cookies from it every time. Had that running for some weeks and it was permabanned

it seems like a really good program. sadly they don’t have voice chat/screen sharing…

for some older pixel (pixel 2) there was some sketchy chinese dude that remotely bootloader unlocks the device for USD$30, tho i haven’t tried that myself. most likely using some leaked engineering bootloader binary.

devuan is a solid distro that just works, not sure what’s your problem with that

i used an instagram scraper tool with an account, at some point they suspended the account and required my ID. I obviously refused and just let it rot, at some point they deleted my account.

if you have the storage, just dump the whole drive. you can then boot that windows installation again, or even use it on a vm under linux.