lol no, these smart watches are powerful as older smartphones, their stock os is already android/linux based.

1. i don’t know, sorry.

2. sadly, yes. the custom rom scene is really dead these days. there are some smaller roms like evolution x, paranoid android, blissos, derpfest (probably a few more) but i’m not sure if using them is a very good idea. honestly haven’t seen much useful feature from those since android 9 days… i just use lineageos btw, but usually an older version (<=android 11 so i can use gravitybox, which gives those customization features)

3. if you can bootloader unlock them, it is possible to install a treble GSI rom, since all android devices released with android 8 oreo and later features treble. try searching phh-treble, these roms are built to work on as many devices as possible and some features may not work properly.

4. sorry, i have no idea about this. maybe you can lock the phone down to the bare minimum by hiding/disabling all the apps except the essential stuff? lineageos stock is pretty much already that, just need to remove the web browser with adb pm uninstall i believe.

bruh can’t we have this marked nsfw

android tv might indeed be good. something like nvidia shield tv that is officially google certified for those drm bs…

afaik those torrent streaming stuff are based on leeching, i believe having a proper seedbox+jellyfin is a much better choice

afaik you can’t get high resolution or something. i think it can be partially mitigated by running google chrome instead of firefox or (open source) chromium but i never attempted these.

it’s user friendly, used by many normies, better than some alternatives (whatsapp, etc), advertised as private, etc. at least until recently they also mostly ignored governments’ request for data, so it kinda was private for criminals as well.

yeah i do this quite often. tar gz the home folder and pushed it to the phone with rsync/termux

maybe tunak tunak tun

imperialism, facism, slavery, torturing, … can’t pick one

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

nah there are hacked/sold accounts

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

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

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.

it’s generally a good idea to not have your home folder accessible to windows programs running under wine. other than that, i don’t see the need for an antivirus. keep your system updated, and use virustotal for the occasional suspicious file

plastic clothes doesn’t seem to get wrinkled as easily, and i guess they shouldn’t be ironed.

last commit 3yrs ago… seems unmaintained