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Yeah but for blur tooth in the car it’s no problem for me

128 is perfectly fine / it’s What you are getting most movies you download and way better than FM and most DAB.

I pay for family spotify - we all use it a lot and the Daily Mixes, Release Radar, Discover Weekly playlists are unbeatble. I've used Tidal, Deezer, Youtube music before but their playlist creation is nowwhere near as good.

However I do download from Deemix as a backup . For me 128kbp is totally fine for what I need - yes its not the highest quality, but through bluetooth speakers in the car or bluetooth headphones it sounds absolutely fine for me. It might not be CD quality, but its better than broadcast radio, which is perfectly good enough for me.

I beleive its in Cyprus now - but fair point - NextDNS might be a better option in that case

Mint - it was my first one, and the one I come back to, having tried Manjaro (ooops), Endeavour, Fedora, MX, Garuda, Nobaro and probably a f ew more.

Yes packages are not bleeding edge, but flatpaks are good for me if I want newer versions. I don't want to spend time restoring backups in the event of an Arch based release going wrong (happened to me on Manj and Endeavour - yes it can be recovered but its a waste of time).

iOS users have plenty of options here too

• AdGuard Pro (paid)
• AdGuard DNS (free)
• other free dns blockers - NextDNS, ControlID etc
• Safari addons
• browsers with blocking built in (eg brave)
• VPNs with ad blockers built in

DNS and VPN blocks will work on most apps and all browsers.

I prefer Asguard dns and then Safari extension or Brave

Yeah Thats the ad supported version - you dont get that once removed.

Yesh - the huge majority of malware in relation to piracy is from people deliberately running 'setup.exe' from some untrusted source, ignoring or overriding AV warnings and then wondering what went wrong. Its not from movie files and it certainly not from movie files on Linux.

Kindles can read epubs now anyway. You literally don’t have to do anything.

You don’t have to whine -literally just get on a chat and ask them ‘please can you remove these ads’ - they’ve done it for two kindles for me no charge, no question.

It’s not about a media player ‘attempting to execute random code’ - an exploit is found which lets it run a command that it shouldn’t. You used to be able to jailbreak phones by loading a .pdf file that used an exploit to gain root privileges and execute code. It wasn’t a feature of the PDF reader. It was a bug that could be exploited when a specific string of characters was entered to effectively crash the pdf reader and let it run its own code instead.

A txt could easily contain malware - any file could.

We don’t - but the risk is minuscule compared to windows. The actual chance of finding some working Linux malware in the wild is practically zero.