As always, I got the username wrong…
Just don’t buy OLED and it won’t darken, if you buy OLED get ready to replace the extensive TV every 5 years no matter what brand you buy.
As for removing bloatware I have no idea since my TV is from around 2010 and I only use it connected to the computer, but you can always just get a raspberry pi and install kodi on it and use the TV as a normal dumb TV. It’s also good for your privacy.
IMO locked bootloader isn’t that important as graphene OS devs make it sound, but I would NEVER trust a software “found on telegram”.
I have used unofficial lineage OS before, but that phone was just an entertainment machine, with no personal information on it.
Graphene OS however has security features that other ROMs don’t have like improved encryption.
However Pixels are too expensive, I can’t afford them either. I’m thinking as an alternative getting a Nothing phone cm 1 (or something) which is much cheaper than a pixel and can run official /e/ OS
I used to download and seed torrents 24/7 directly from my shitty consumer smr drive.
Not only speed was very slow but I think I killed the drive because of that.
I’m still thinking how I’m going to proceed now that I’m setting up my NAS again, I think I’m going to have to torrent to some smaller, cheaper but higher quality drive and then copy to the smr archive, until I can afford an enterprise drive.
It’s also possible that I killed the drive due to bad heat management, but in the datasheet it says something that I’m only supposed to use it for 2h a day per year and not 24/7.
From my personal ethics standpoint, intellectual property is a form of private property which I’m against, also a form or artificial scarcity, which I’m also against.
If you want to support a small artist? You can maybe donate to them directly? Is that a thing? Maybe they have a patreon or something? In my case I have way less money than the artists I consume from so donating would make no sense.
Also, the act of making a copy doesn’t remove the original, the artist doesn’t get poorer because you pirate their content.
a Fairphone 5 with Android installed. So obviously, this means I can’t escape Googles clutches
If you have a Fairphone then you can escape Google, Fairphones are one of the few phones that support third party ROMs. If they weren’t so expensive I would buy one myself.
Because not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.
Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don’t wanna risk it.
It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it’s going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.
With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.
For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn’t get any attention besides the average “my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer”. Tech companies know this so they exploit the user’s ignorance.
Unfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.
I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.
I did my research before buying my current phone, but turned out all phones that could run lineage OS were too expensive, not a single affordable phone was supported. (With the exception of really super old discontinued models that are too slow to even open a webpage and battery past it’s useful life)
Tried, but at least in Europe the only cheap pixels I could find were old unsupported ones where the batteries where probably either dead or dying.
For real, when this thing rolls out, I’m going to stop updating and try to still use my foss apps for as long as they still work, once my phone eventually becomes useless I’m not going to spend 400 on an expensive phone just so I can run custom roms. I will have to just get used to not having a computer in my pocket all the time again.
What? Graphene OS only runs on Google Pixel devices.
Even ROMs with wider hardware support like Lineage OS only run on expensive devices too (Or very old discontinued ones that you can’t find anywhere and have no firmware or kernel updates).
You know that not everyone can shell out 400 Euros on a phone, right?
This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth.
And how do you suppose to do that?
Beam the power from space like they do in Mirai Shounen Conan? Or space shuttles with batteries? Or a giant cable that somehow doesn’t break?
It’s not possible.
Eww, no, it’s not Arch
Sure THIS will protect the children!
/s
I’m not defending satellites, I’m saying fiber is much superior at all the things I mentioned above.
Ofc they can, but they don’t need to, they just seize the server and jail the operator.
Until the go government starts blocking entry nodes, then there will be a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.
Also, this doesn’t affect only people under 18, any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.
I like simplex a lot on android, it supports e2ee calls which afaik xmpp doesn’t.
However simplex is still buggy, and sometimes messages don’t get through until the other party restarts the app. And the desktop app seems to be even buggier and has no native Wayland support.
I’ve used xmpp + otr for many years, it seems to be the most stable solution if calls aren’t a concern.
There are many clients to choose from, many of which are modern enough to support Wayland and are written in save languages (in the Whonix wiki there’s a nice xmpp client comparison you may be interested in)
Nowadays omemo seems to be the replacement for OTR, it’s a shame it doesn’t support Socialist Milionares Protocol like OTR did.