Tor browser wasn't the best example. Maybe torrents are a better comparison: nobody expects to download torrents through a centralized website that does the download for them and gives them the file. Instead, you install a torrent client. Or you rent a "seed box" from a specialized provider.
If I imagine a decentralized forum client, it doesn't have to be restricted to only one forum: many different forums could be accessed from the same client, and every user could create their own forum.

So, hypothetically, the forum could be accessed through a browser through one of many centralized servers (which together provide decentralized access), just like you "access" Electrum servers through the Electrum client. That sounds good to me!

If many individual "points of entry" are competing for SEO, users can just choose the one that doesn't add too many ads. Or the fastest server with the best uptime. I hope to see this in reality some day.

I can't help you with your problem, but (to state the obvious) I can recommend to create a backup first: create a disk image (or more than one). The image will still be encrypted, but at least disk failure won't mean losing the data if you ever recover the password.

I've never used Feather wallet in combination with a hardware wallet (the dust amounts I keep aren't worth it), but I'd expect Feather to keep working once the hardware wallet disconnects. If it takes hours to synchronize, keeping the hardware wallet unlocked all that time is a security risk.
That's why I was surprised to read it needs to connect to synchronize.

Meanwhile, I have 4000 sMerits waiting for worthy posts.

How about Newbie abuislam?

I noticed him because he posted this:
Which was a response to a topic that started with this:

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I'm discouraged from reporting it, after this report was marked as Bad. It's a generic and off-topic Pavlov response to the word RAM that doesn't answer anything OP asked for, but apparently the Mod disagreed.

I didn't know that. How about a workaround: don't turn off your computer, but put it in sleep mode when you don't need it?

We'd get millions of virtual nodes created by the same person to get a larger piece of the pie, and nodes will become as centralized as mining pools are now.

I don't think there's ever going to be consensus on the Trust system.

I think it's okay:

I assume Administrator Cyrus also has server access. I have no idea if there's a backup plan for the domain name. Short-term, this will probably be okay (the chance of Admin dying this year is no more than 1%). If the inevitable happens, there may be time to get a new domain name.
For loyce.club, if I would disappear, the domain is still active for a while. Hosting will keep going until something fails or someone pulls the plug. After that it's gone, and a domain squatter will claim the domain.

For what it's worth: .onion sites aren't decentralized either. They all rely on a server with an owner, even when it's hidden.

It looked like a pyramid scheme when I checked it years ago, designed to make the first "contributers" money, and needing more people to join. I just looked at it, and it's still showing how many dollars each article raised.

I'd expect a truely decentralized forum to work without website. Just a program you run, maybe like Tor browser, with a local database (or blockchain) containing all posts ever created. If most of the users use "light clients", I wouldn't call it truely decentralized.

I am, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

You're linking to a locked topic with a Merit earning quiz. If he has done great work, you should post links to those great posts.

Then you can no longer validate a block that includes one of the pruned UTXOs. That's why I don't think UTXO pruning will ever be a thing. If they're unlikely to be used, they don't need to be in RAM. But in the unlikely case you need one anyway, it's nice if you still have it on disk.
For normal nodes it's 2% of the total blockchain. But I can see a problem for pruned nodes: the UTXO ("chainstate") is already 20 times larger than the blocks stored in the smallest possible pruned node.

That's probably why there's not a single decentralized forum yet. And without centralized server, everyone will need to keep the entire database of all posts. It won't run in a browser, so no advertising for SEO either. Search engines don't visit decentralized forums.
Theymos wrote about the possibility of a decentralized moderation system, kinda like the current Trust system. So if you trust me, you won't see posts I've deleted. But if someone creates a billion spam accounts, that's still going to be a problem.
I expect to be stuck with a centralized forum for a very long time.

Please nuke Brand new user RiktigRegnskap for plagiarism. It's been a very long time since I last saw a word-spinner in the wild!

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With Feather wallet, you have to wait until it's synced. If you don't want to wait (for hours), it's better to keep the wallet running even if you barely use it.

Feather wallet may look like Electrum, but it works very differently: Electrum syncs in seconds if you turn it on after a year. Feather wallet needs to download hundreds of megabytes (if not gigabytes), and takes hours to do so (if you haven't used it for a long time).

That sounds like you're downloading from Blockchair, they have speed restrictions. Try my mirror.

As long as my (donated) server is only using 20% of it's allowed bandwidth, I won't bother.

Compare the msgID in both URLs from my code-tags. Then open both URLs. I don't get where the "new" msgID comes from.

How to you find someone who's trusted, anonymous and capable?

Speculation on future value may be the reason why testnet4 is already plagued by ASIC miners:

I can confirm this, 32 GB RAM and HDD works just fine

If you have enough RAM, you're right. But if your system is short on RAM, doubling the RAM could improve the performance a lot more than just doubling it.

I'd like to have more, but my laptop can't handle it.

Many laptops are still sold with 8 GB nowadays, and from what I've seen, memory stopped following Moore's law in the past 10 years. It's no longer doubling every 18 months, it now takes a lot longer to see "standard" new laptops double in memory.

I never claimed 8 GB is enough forever. I'm saying it's what many people use (and many others use less than that). I haven't checked the hard data, but I think the UTXO set has increased several gigabytes in just the past year. That's not scaling well with RAM-upgrades.

Maybe you should try it. There's a reason Bitcoin Core downloads and verifies blocks at the same time, and it works quite well.

That's what I expected. I'll just give up already, there's no point to try mining against ASICs.