VAT is applied to all goods irrelevant of origination. Think of it as a federal sales tax instead of a state sales tax.
There are different rates dependent on the goods and some items are VAT free (again this has nothing to do with origin but to do with the product} i.e. I’m fairly sure that in UK children’s clothes are either exempt or VAt at a lower rate.
My home media server is an old nuc mini pc i5 16Gb RAM with attached usb storage running on a Linux distro, runs Jellyfin and a few other applications for the household.
In short yes, an old pc will work fine.
Sadly voting didn’t fail you. US is in the same predicament UK was in after Brexit. Complacency at the expected outcome, a belief that some people couldn’t be so stupid as to vote for Trump/Brexit and yet, they did in the majority.
Regardless of how fucked up the election process is, inany countries I’m not singling out the US, that is the reason that you feel failed, look at your countrymen that swallowed the snake oil and ask the question why?
5th Nov 2024 - was the chance to prevent this. Trump’s team made it clear on the direction they were heading and no-one heeded the warnings. 35% didn’t vote and the majority of those that did voted for him, which either means they agree with the direction or were deluded into thinking it wasn’t going to happen.
I’m all for protest but I don’t think you have a chance of changing anything, he owns the legislature and the voting public allowed it to happend.
I’m not American or a resident of US but that’s just my opinion as an outsider.
At this point your guess is as good as mine. I e also set up Jellyseer for discovery and ability for users to request stuff but still a reluctance to move.
Sadly I still pay for a service I don’t use because I have members of my house who are relucant to embrace the change. I, on the other hand, am more than happy with my Jellyfin and assorted apps to provide my content from whichever source I choose, now if only I could cadjole the others into embracing the freedom of the high seas.
Honestly, anything below the age of majority is sketchy (excepting a romeo and julet clause) IMHO and I was surprised the average was 16.
Uh, no. World wide average age of consent is 16.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/z450ti/age_of_consent_worldwide_world_average_is_16/
The only superior Linux distro and DE is the one that works for you and meets your needs.
This is different for each user and, frankly, the joy of Linux that it has such a variety as to be able to meet almost everyone’s needs.
For me , personally, thats Debian/Gnome with minimal tweaks but just because it works for my workflow does not make it superior.
In fairness for non-US this makes even less of an issue as my birthday is 20/4 and 4/20 as a date is meaningless.
This for me has been a work changer:
https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/
Can open in tab or sidebar. Honestly, can’t recommend highly enough.
It’s exciting news for them 😀, money money money
If you want ad-free use Instander on android
I use DNS ad/tracker blocking on android.
I use either libredns or MullvadDNS
Headquartered in the US so I wouldn’t guarantee it.
This was against Google specifically but I would imagine it would hold up against any US based search engine they felt someone was using.
Vivaldi if you want a chromium privacy experience. Not fully open source but works well, has desktop sync and a good tablet UI which is my biggest reason for not using FF.
I only have a tablet and a phone and until FF creates a viable tablet UI I’m staying away.
I also use Thunder but voyager is my go to app. I’ve tried most of the others but always end up back with voyager.
If you view those sites without adblock you’ll probably find it’s filled with ads DailyMail I’m looking at you.
Not really and some would argue that from a local network perspective HTTPS is preferable.
The main difference is that HTTPS routes through a standard port so gets “lost” in all other Https traffic whereas TLS uses a distinct port so whilst it’s encrypted you would be able to see at the local level that you’re using DNS over TLS but not what you’re doing.
All well and good, but realistically and backdoor can be exploited by unfriendly as well as friendly actors.
Also does this mean government agency communication would also be unencrypted or just Joe schmoe?