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 ====== Software and Services ======
-Software and Services / Websites I use.  I have a strong preference for open source software because it means you are the on controlling your data and it gets out of the cycle where someone makes a good app and then makes it progressively shittier to "monetize it". And if you dont own the software do you really own your device? Consider donating to the ones marked open source if you like them they're run mainly by donations and volunteers.
+Software and Services / Websites I use.  I have a strong preference for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) because it means you are the one controlling your data and it gets out of the cycle where someone makes a good app and then makes it progressively shittier to "monetize it". And if you dont own the software do you really own your device? Consider donating to the ones marked open source if you like them they're run mainly by donations and volunteers.
 ===== Guides/Info =====
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 [[https://www.torproject.org/|TOR]] - The Onion Relay Networks Browser.  Open source firefox based.  For improved anonymity and circumventing censorship.  Don't use it to download big files if you don't have to it has limited bandwidth.  If you're going to use it for crime make sure you read all the info you can and actually understand what it can and can't do. Consider using it legally just to add some cover to people who need it. (you won't find CP unless you look for it)
+[[https://www.7-zip.org/download.html|7-Zip]] - Open Source Compression.  Refresh that free trial of winrar no more.  This can open and make them all and 7z format is actaully better compression.
+[[https://www.retroarch.com/|RetroArch]] Open Source and basically all the emulators from atari to n64.
+[[https://dolphin-emu.org/||Dolphin Emulator]] Open source wii and Gamecube.  Amazing how good some of the old games still look with upscaled graphics and framrate.
 ==== Android Only ====
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-[[https://jellyfin.org/|Jellyfin]] - FOSS Plex replacement, a selfhosted netflix.  Has some issues but seems to work ok. Now just need some bandwidth.  You might have to fuck around and read some docs to get transcoding working.
+[[https://jellyfin.org/|Jellyfin]] - FOSS Plex replacement, a selfhosted netflix.  Has some issues but seems to work ok. Now just need some bandwidth.  You might have to fuck around and read some docs to get transcoding working.  Also handles a music library.  You can download files for offline but annoyingly they download one at a time so not amazing.  Why I'm working on the torrent of my library.
 [[https://wiki.servarr.com/|*ARR's]] - Automated Media Libray Management. These used to be a bunch of different projects but they've recently united to share codebase and syntax making my life way better. I use:
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 [[https://grapheneos.org/|Graphene OS]] - Best privacy focused OS no google services by default but you should be able to run almost everything but bank apps through their compatability layer. Only works on pixels
-[[https://lineageos.org/| Lineage OS]] - Has the most devices supported based on android open source project. Allows root and customising anything you want I noticed my samsung camera performed significantly worse. Apparently thats because a lot of cameras use closed source drivers that the open source devs cant use.  So if camera is a super important thing for you that might be a problem.
+[[https://lineageos.org/| Lineage OS]] - Has the most devices supported based on android open source project. Allows root and customising anything you want I noticed my samsung camera performed significantly worse. Apparently thats because a lot of cameras use closed source drivers that the open source devs cant use.  So if camera is a super important thing for you that might be a problem.  You can install the microg packages to get most of the functionality of google play without needing an account.
 Stock android is pretty much a privacy disaster.  Funny enough iOS is very secure but you still have to trust Apple.
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 [[https://archlinux.org/|Arch Linux]] - If you want to know exactly whats installed on your system and why and if you want the very latest pacakges set up exactly how you want it.  I used to use this as my main but I couldn't be bothered to keep up with the updates.
-[[https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve|Proxmox]] - Debian based for running multiple virtual machines and managing them remotely easily, even has options for load balancing between different location or machines if you manage to get fancy. It will nag you to upgrade to pro but you can just remove the package that does that  the community edition has all you'll nee and is completely opensource.  melm.xyz currently runs on this as it's base.
+[[https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve|Proxmox]] - Debian based for running multiple virtual machines and managing them remotely easily, even has options for load balancing between different location or machines if you manage to get fancy. It will nag you to upgrade to pro but you can just remove the package that does that  the community edition has all you'll nee and is completely opensource.  melm.xyz currently runs on this as it's base. The FOSS answer to VMwares Hypercube or whatever the hell they call it.
 ==== Specialty ====