Yeah, in my case it’s really easy, just like the other commenter said. Some time ago I’ve been configuring new laptop for my mom. I just installed Firefox with uBlock Origin with default settings and I don’t think she has ever seen YouTube ads.

Well, I’d say to support content creators directly if they provide such option rather than through YouTube ads or YouTube Premium. I think that even donating 1$ one time is more that channel would have earned from like thousand of your views.

Yeah, not sure if it’s my ROM (DivestOS) or just Android 13, but in Settings > Screen lock I have Enhanced PIN privacy toggle that does just what you’ve described.

At least CalyxOS, DivestOS offer Android 13 builds for FP4 (and obviously LineageOS, but it doesn’t have OTA updates, afaik)

Well, IPx5 is technically water resistant for water jets and up to 12.5 liters per minute. I think that sounds enough to be used it rain. I also saw some reviews of other devices that even IPx4 is fine in rain.

In my setup I still use reverse proxy even though all of my services are inside a VPN. IMO it is just more convenient to have services accesible as subdomains or subdirectory than as different ports.

Just remembered that Bitwig also exists. It seems it is quite popular DAW and also kinda similar to Ableton (IIRC it was created by some former Ableton employees), so there should be a lot learning resources for that and it runs natively on Linux. It also comes with a library of sounds and MIDI clips AFAIK, just like the other comments pointed out. The downside is that it’s a paid software.

If you want a DAW with bigger community and a lot of tutorials then obviously you could go with FL Studio or Ableton on Windows/macOS (or maybe you could try to run those with Wine), but on Linux it seems that Ardour is the most popular one. Most tutorials should be quite easily applicable to other DAWs/plugins though, you will just need to put a little more effort into it, but I guess it also means you would learn more. So I wouldn’t care about DAWs too much, because it doesn’t really matter and it’s obviously kinda hot topic in music-making community (just like which distro topics in Linux community haha). Just play with some of them and pick whichever you like the most. Maybe later you will feel that your DAW limits you in some way, but then you will already know what to look for.

Regarding learning resources, just off the top of my head I would recommend watching some videos of unfa. It is a really good channel about making some music on Linux. There are probably some more channels that focus on that too, but I don’t really remember any right now. There are also sites like linuxmusicians.com and linuxaudio.org that may be helpful, especially when looking for plugins and stuff like that. And there are some related communities back on Reddit. Other than that I’d just go and watch some “general” tutorials, e.g. how to make bassline, how to make kick, and try to adapt them to your Linux workflow, as I said earlier, and just try and have fun.

But pretty much in the same way as the YouTube’s frontend requesting content from YouTube’s backend. This is an equivalent of you loading a video on YouTube then going to developer tools and copying links from the Network tab. AFAIK all tools (Invidious, Piped, yt-dl) work this way.