Its the Hi-res direct output to your DAC. Its under Settings - Backend. It’s Clementine reworked to allow this. If you don’t use a DAC in your setup, there is no real advantage.

If you use a DAC, I can recommend Strawberry for the USB to DAC support.

I will hold my breath and cross everything! The UK ministers have a nasty habit, especially in the last 15 years, of giving it away for free when aligned to the Ministers personal interests. Bent AF in Northern terms.

They also still use WhatsApp for their wider connections, but still, progress.

It’s what I did 5 years ago. All family and friends now on Signal.

Thanks really to the chap who similarly brought it to my attention. I use it in the car and at work.

If you’re on Android, try InnerTune via FDroid. No subscription required, easy to find music. It has reasonable recommendations for music, but not the same standards as Spotify. If you buy a DAP and microSD card, or a mobile phone that takesmicrSD cards. After that, just download any and all music you like and play anytime, anywhere without neededing a data connection.

Plays flac. Hopefully the player will be able to output to external DAC bypassing Androids resampling machine (in the future).

I try for minimum 3 for fast or slow uploads. Generally my max is 5. It depends upon the total number of concurrent seeding files Slower torrents, I’ll just leave seeding. Some may still be below 1 after a month. If they have such low use, I can afford the small bandwidth and data impact.

The lowtech option is to connect your device physically. I do this in hotels and at home. USB C to HDMI output. Connection cables are relatively cheap, and easily long enough for most use cases.

For flac albums, try galxytorrent2 or RUtracker.

If my date had a long beard with soup in it, I’d think that she wasn’t the one for me

And so the last steps to privacy are removed.

In any scenario the brand of smart TV is irrelevant as thet all impair your privacy. Cost and effort are sadly now a feature, but not too much of a challenge. Never connect your TV to the internet directly. The easiest step is a Chromecast. I recently needed to replace my dumb TV with a smart TV. For me I just bought a TV at a price point that allowed me to also buy a used old PC box plus a wireless keyboard a touchpad. You could alternately use a Raspberry Pi. Either way, you ultimately have control of what is shared or escapes for your privacy.

Does Usenet require VPN or similar?

What would we suggest as a realistic alternative? Sears? Startpage? Brave? (I am no expert by the way, just looking for tips)

FOSS s such a wide area of practice. There is no detriment in supporting a FOSS keyboard or image editor. Perhaps for these, or for software that might sails across the lines you might consider Monero, or similar.

Yes yes and yes! These people are a lifeline for people like me who can’t code. People like me gain so much. Free is fun, but if you can donate, even one $, €, £ or other.

Thanks for the guidance. Bromite now replaced with Cromite. Mull remains my primary browser based upon comments. Also, far better experience already

Not a FB user, yet my firewall and DNS filters at home and on my devices stop a LOT of FBs continual monitoring and profiling. $10/month to stop ads suggests a price to be paid to me and everyone else for using our data, OR they need to let us have an easy way to opt out