I love this, adorable!

Piped?

Well at least a Local account doesn’t require internet access.

At least you can use Windows without an account, on MacOS you can’t even install an app without one I don’t think.

Just to be clear, I hate both of them, I’m a Linux user.

You’d better hope that be pretty close to zero before attempting repairs.

From the one time I tried MacOS in a VM, setup is similar to Windows with somehow even fewer options and stronger 1984 vibes.

I’m a Proton slave, all my eggs are in their basket so I’ll go ahead and provide some free marketing for them. ProtonVPN is pretty good since it’s ran by a good company that cares about you, getting Port Forwarding setup on Linux is a bit of a chore but I believe they’re working on automating it, the Windows app does have it automated already by the way.

I do worry about the long-term practicality of ProtonVPN because of this manual process, since as far as I can tell there’s no way to automatically hand your assigned port to the torrent client…

Every OS requires setup.

Oh wow, that’s pretty awesome.

I use Hetzner exclusively and have just one complaint. You don’t get much choice as to where your VPS is hosted country-wise nor the OS it runs. You do get the standard list of options, as you would with any other provider, except that list is quite small on Hetzner. It’s good enough, I use Fedora everywhere and they support that so I’m good. Anyway, it’s obviously free to create an account so there’s no risk in case your setup isn’t supported.

Apart from that, they’re brilliant. The web console is nice, clean and well-designed, great value (1TB of storage clocks in at a few euros/month), room to scale and a decent company. Can’t comment on customer support since I’ve never needed it.

For the services you’ve specified, that’ll run you maybe 3 - 4 euros a month (that’s with automatic backups of your entire server + tax) since you can run all of that under one server.

Printing flip-books for the videos and keeping that in essentially a time-capsule. With a vacuum if you can afford it. Not perfect but will definitely last for hundreds of years. Look at the Magna Carta for inspiration.

For the audio, vinyl and kept in an even stronger container, instruct everyone to use gloves before touching it.

Chris Titus has excellent tutorials/tips on how to keep Windows from being Windows, check out his Youtube (Piped).

I have experience with this, from a friend…

You can download without an account, but if I remember correctly it’s only certain types of media with a quality restriction.

I’ve used it for VR, which is the only thing I keep Windows for. It’s pretty good however I’d say having experience with Linux is a good idea, I definitely wouldn’t treat it as a drop-in silver bullet for Windows minimalism (if such a thing exists).

By the sounds of it you’re inexperienced with OS-hopping, so if you’re going to start looking for things like this just do it properly and give Linux a go. You’ll learn so much more and get a much nicer experience at the end, then if you decide you still need Windows then go and use someone else’s computer to make a USB. I wouldn’t bother trying to make one on Linux, it hardly ever works in my experience.

For clarity, I now just debloat vanilla Windows 11 with Chris Titus’ tool. Still only used for VR and Game Dev.

If you go with Atlas, just know you’re putting your whole system into the hands of a team smaller than most Linux distros that’s doing more work than all of them, so I doubt Atlas is going to be around for much longer. Whereas something like Debian, Mint or Pop! is here to stay.

There’s also far less chance of your system breaking if you go with Linux. Really in this situation there is absolutely zero reason to not go the extra mile and hop to desktop freedom.

I’ve got it downloading non-real time right now cause I was able to fix the Opus issue (PR is open on Github “Effective libopus support”), so I want to stress-test my changes a bit.

I’ll switch it back to real-time soon, and I’ll turn on the archive :P.

So does this mean paying Proton Unlimited users will get access to StandardNotes too? I’d rather not have to dish out another subscription.

Thank you! Seems like Opus doesn’t work though which is a shame. I made an issue on the Github page. I’ll make a script to do that after and preserve the cover art.

I’ve now got it going with real-time downloads, this is going to take days 😭. However this tool is the best out of a set of compromises so I’ll make the most of it.

Seems like most of the tools I’m finding are CLIs, so iPhones or just phones in general are definitely a no-go I’m afraid.

If you listen to popular artists, you could try Soulseek. Not sure on how easy it is to access it on an iPhone though, I’ve never owned any Apple devices since I went off them at a young age so I’m really firing off into the dark.

Yeah I’m aware of Spotify’s 320k MP3 cap, but for the equipment I’ve got that’s fine. Thanks :)