You can always treat stuff as science fiction and enjoy regardless. What’s the harm!

Oui. C’est correct.

Crown is progressive?

Mind you I love pocket casts but I always have had the need to install another podcast app such as Google podcasts, castbox or fountain to have a search that works beyond the show name at the level of episode names.

Sometimes I love listening to various podcasts about a topic or I’m just curious and use it like an user uses youtube search.

Elections are around the corner.

When not rooted I have two main free solutions.

You can use nextdns on your home network. They have around 200,000k free requests. For 2 people it seems to work out to around 20 days of ad blocks. This particularly helps with the ads on the TV as well.

Otherwise you have the options to use Firefox with extensions or Brave without (I know it’s not popular around here). You can also use ReVanced for youtube blocks.

For most usage that free combination suffices for me.

Kerala has been using FOSS for a long time now. It’s a good step. In Kerala computer literacy centres actually teach Linux so hopefully this increase Linux usage in education sector as well.

There is a good cracked Spotify apk out there.

I didn’t even think about this lol.