Some of that stuff is on https://www.zoom-platform.com/

On Kagi you can block domains from the results, if that’s what you’re looking for.

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html

Click on “If you know what you’re doing, here’s the relevant pinout for you (click me)” and you’ll see the pinout. Keep in mind:

If you don’t know what you’re doing and start bothering the support chat with questions on what to do with this pinout, I will send you pictures of sad kittens. You have been warned.

You can if you have the parts (and the skills). I’ve just recently learned that technically you don’t even need the PCB and can use a USB UART directly on the vacuum’s pins.
However, I don’t plan to become part of a community where the only place to discuss issues is a centralized walled garden which I got banned from and I can’t recommend anyone else does either.

He is/was sending out little PCBs you can use to connect to your vacuum and flash Valetudo. The way this works is you’re supposed to contact him via Telegram and send him a prepaid postal label for him to send the package to you.
I contacted him and told him I was interested but uncomfortable with handing over my address data to Telegram over a non-E2EE connection and asked him if he was using Signal or another E2EE messenger we could use instead. When he said no I asked him if we then at least could use Telegram’s Private Chat feature, but he declined again (I forgot the exact reasoning, something about the chat not being synced between clients and he needs the label on another client that he wasn’t currently on or something. I remember it being a legitimate reason). After that little dialog he suddenly sent me instructions on how to refund the postal label, told me I was wasting his time and immediately blocked me (just in his chats, not the community yet). Keep in mind this is from the guy claiming to free your vacuums from privacy invading China cloud vendors.
After that I went to one of the community channels, told them in the chat that Hypfer blocked me and if someone else was willing to send me a PCB. He then started to argue with me publically (I don’t remember what was being said, but for someone whos time I was supposedly wasting he suddenly was very talkative) which I ended by saying I wasn’t interested in arguing with him and I only came to ask for a PCB from the other people in the channel. He then blocked me from that channel. Then I went to another one to complain about this behavior which was immediately followed by a block in every available Telegram channel.

TL;DR: Guy creating non-privacy invasive firmware server alternative uses privacy invasive platform to manage community, blocks you when asking for E2EE alternative and gets mad when you tell his community how he acts.

All to say this is a really sad state of affairs. Valetudo could be a really great project with many many more users if it was just managed by someone with a slightly different mindset.

Think of Valetudo as a privately-owned public garden.
[…]
But, at the end of the day, you must understand that it is still privately-owned. You’re on someone else’s property over which you have no power at all. You will have to show the necessary respect. And - most importantly - you need to understand that letting you into this garden is a gift and should be treated as such.

https://valetudo.cloud/

Keep in mind the community is solely managed on Telegram and the founder is a bit hard to bear sometimes. He banned me from all channels over a the tiniest little argument and so I can’t interact with and get any support from the community. Made me decide to not flash Valetudo on my Dreame and just keep it offline.
Good thing is this was the last reason for me to use Telegram at all and so I was able to finally delete my account there for good.

If you completely disable transcoding maybe.

I doubt it even has H265 decoding support. I don’t see a viable media player there.

If you want to know my honest opinion then instead of focusing on the operating system you should focus on the hardware. An old inefficient low-clocked six core server CPU is no match for a RTX 3060.

Then you probably want Frost via Hyphanet. Or maybe IPFS.

Heavily gated? What’s heavily gated about Gnutella?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file-sharing_applications

Just search for keywords in p2p filesharing networks?

Is that still done with that Mangos software?

OP’s link works in Raccoon, the threadiverse one doesn’t.

Your best bet is probably a Windows VM and their official software: https://app.8bitdo.com/Ultimate-Software-V2/

Set up a “global” ignore file that gets synced between devices. Call it .stignoreglobal for example and and change the .stignore file (which doesnt get synced) on every device to only include #include .stignoreglobal. Now your ignore state gets synced between devices and you can make changes from anywhere.

Mine looks like this:

// Incomplete Downloads
*.part
*.crdownload

// OS-generated files
desktop.ini
Thumbs.db

// Cache
cache
spotifycache

// Unity analytics
Unity

// LineageOS updater
org.lineageos.updater

// No read access :(
/Android/{data,obb}

You can learn how to write one yourself here: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

Other stuff:

• On Android I use this: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/
• Some Info on how you can reduce battery usage: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/blob/main/wiki/Info-on-battery-optimization-and-settings-affecting-battery-usage.md
• Make sure SyncThing is excluded from your phone’s battery optimizations (varies by vendor).
• To save on mobile bandwidth I have it set up to only sync on WiFi.
• You can set up a symmetric key (basically a password) and sync your stuff to a friends instance. Your friend will not be able to read the data without the key (make sure it’s a long random string). This also helps if you’re running a SyncThing instance on a VPS for example.

When SyncThing is correctly configured (battery optimizations , etc.), you won’t have any issues. (I’ve been using SyncThing for many many years now.)

I’ve got over 1000 hours in the game. I can’t stop. Please send help.

Honestly, the game had so many bugs in its lifetime so far I fear running their buggy code on the kernel level will irreversibly kill my operating system.

TIL