How have I been online for 25 years and NEVER heard of this? I’ve always wanted to see someone threaten the ICANN namespace monopoly.

I’d just say its overkill. Torrent sites exist on the public Internet still largely by being behind ISPs that ignore US IP imperialism. You lose a huge part of what makes youtube-dl et al successful by hiding it on TOR and making it totally inaccessible to user feedback and organic developer engagement and contribution.

The only problem is here is large US based corporations are not where you put information hostile to the IP regime of the host country. Its unique to the US to be able to DMCA takedown anything you want with impunity, even just hosting youtube-dl in almost any European jurisdiction alone would be enough to stave off baseless attacks by media mafias.

Its also a source of profound wealth transfer upwards. All of FAANG but moreso the web companies are built on foundations of a billion lines of non-AGPL code they could use for profit.

Its insane how much software development is incalculable waste due to the inefficiencies of capitalism. That every corporation reinvent the same thing over and over trying to eke a slightly larger siphon of profit off of whomever the present market leader is devouring.

How many hardware manufacturers write the exact same code, reinvent the exact same Verilog designs for SoCs, solve the exact same math problem across a thousand near identical parts just because they are all proprietary and in competition with one another.

And how much human capital is spent on the pursuit of a dwindling pile of ad and data extraction money. Because a supermajority people don’t actually have any money left anymore and the only value they have left is their future potential earnings claimed by addiction and their personal information to more effectively target them for addiction.

There is certainly an alternate universe where paradigm shifts around the realization of digital computers borne an ideological revolution to overthrow archaic institutions of intellectual property and the profit motive as the driving force of labor in society. And the resultant world was all the better for sharing their sources and collectively working to help people rather than hurt them. They would have certainly reached the singularity by now.

There are only a few actual flash manufacturers and of those the ones with first party brand name SD cards are Crucial, Sandisk, and Samsung. and Kioxia. Most of them have their own online stores you can buy direct from, like this.

You can use pacman -Qo in a recursive loop on directories under /usr, /etc, /opt, and /var and see if any package owns them. Note that many packages generate entries all over the place post-install or as part of their setup procedures on first run but an unowned folder under /usr is generally suspect of orphanage.

Its a shame were at the point where AMD have the better chips at better prices (a 4800U “ultrabook” is great value) but because we still cannot disable their backdoor subprocessor (despite bios support for it being leaked last year?) its a non-option when me killer exists for Intel systems. Also that nobody has invested the engineering effort to make coreboot work on any Ryzen platform yet outside ChromeOS.