At least until Big Tech realizes that hallucinations in generative AI aren’t fixable and the whole stock market crashes.

I’m not talking about emulating the consoles; I am talking about hacking them to run unsigned code.

IIRC Sony allowed Linux to be ran on both the PS2 and PS3 so that they could sell the systems as computers in the US instead of video game consoles, since computers have a lower import tax rate compared fo video game systems.

This was, of course, until Sony removed OtherOS support in the PS3 firmware 3.21 on phat models after shipping Slim units without OtherOS and then got sued for it. It was removed because George Hotz found an exploit in OtherOS that allowed for full access to the hardware, as OtherOS did not have full access to the GPU hardware of the PS3. Ironically, this made the PS3 more of a target to hackers, since hackers generally just want to be able to run homebrew on their devices that they bought. This is why the Xbox One and Series consoles were never hacked, since they allow for homebrew via DevMode.

So you’re posting on the privacy community. Point 4 makes things very difficult, as every smartphone by default ships with either Google apps or Apple apps pre-installed, both of which collect data and send them to their respective companies.

What is your threat model?

The only way to get away from Google or Apple is to install a custom ROM, and OnePlus currently has the best phones for that at the moment, not including Google or Fairphone phones, since they offer unlockable bootloaders. The 12R currently has an AOSP port for it, and the 12 has a WIP port that has yet to be released to the public (but can be compiled from source).

Most gas stations are monitored with cameras (often times with facial recognition), so they will be able to see your face and license plate, then charge you with vandalism.

Don’t worry; they’ll just start playing ads in the car itself before you are able to shift gears to drive.

I’ve seen a lot of those. The card gets physically stuck until the machine decides that the payment is completed.

Or Playlet on Roku.

Look up “adb” or “Android platform tools” on your favorite search engine. It’s something you do on your PC with your phone plugged in.

Ah. I guess you have to have root, then.

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.devicelockcontroller

If you’re using Shelter, then in addition to that command, replace --user 0 with --user 10

You don’t need root to do this. You can also uninstall other bloatware using this same method.

If you use foil, it’d be best to connect it to ground. The metal shell of a car is usually connected to the ground terminal of the battery.

Also I’m pretty sure NVK only works on 2000 series and up anyway, since Nvidia only released the blobs for those cards.

Basically, gotta deal with proprietary drivers until you eventually choose to upgrade the GPU in however many years, when you should probably choose AMD if running Linux is important to you. Nvidia as a company is just not friendly to the Linux world, and has never been friendly.

It’s called NVK, but it’s in very early stages right now.

There is no open source implementation of RCS.

People should fully own the computers they buy, regardless of which company they buy from.

This means root access and a replacable primary bootloader, let alone just being able to install apps not on a curated market (what Apple calls sideloading). macOS and Windows both manage to allow root access, and so do certain Android devices (and obviously other OSs as well). Replacable primary bootloaders are more rare, though, especially in ARM devices due to efuse-based secure boot in the CPU that is impossible to turn off. There’s only one phone I can think of that allows for replacing the primary bootloader (Shift 6mq).

We shouldn’t allow for artificial restrictions placed by corporations on devices they sell, because as we have seen time and time again, companies copy each others’ restrictions, especially Apple. Same goes with game consoles, IoT devices, Smart TVs, etc. And before you mention the potential for piracy, DRM is an artificial restriction placed by corporations, and should also be removed from devices.

Anything less means that you don’t own the device that you paid for.

Apple is clearly attempting to comply with the EU DMA in bad faith so that they can maintain as much control over their users and app developers as possible.

The $20 Walmart onn-branded box (2021 version) supports LineageOS. Also the Google ADT-3 box, along with other Amlogic devices.

You will have to build a ROM yourself, since Android TV doesn’t have an open source launcher, and usually comes embedded with GApps. You can replace the launcher with Leanback On Fire, which is a TV-friendly, open source launcher.

https://xdaforums.com/t/unofficial-lineageos-21-for-amlogic-gxl-gxm-g12-sm1-ne-family-devices.4649881/

Voyager is on Android as well. It’s technically a webapp, so you can run it on any device that supports displaying a webpage.

Example: https://m.lemmy.world

Eternity FTW

Even the FBI recommends ad blockers for security.

You can root some head units and disable modem that way. It can get sketch, though, and there’s a risk of bricking the head unit.

Could be A/B testing that Roku is doing.

I already use Obtanium to update Grayjay. It has an HTML function.

Sideloading either Yatee or uYou+

Or use Piped as a PWA

It’s all about dat $$$ for the shareholders. Not a bad interpretation, though.

Every time a corporation or group of corporations ask for regulations to be placed on themselves, that’s a massive red flag that they are going to lobby to cut the legs off of that regulation, or they will make the regulation give them more power.

VPN = tunnel

Element can screen share, but only when both users are using the desktop client. If one user is using mobile, screen sharing won’t work.

It’s also on flathub

You could absolutely have a profile built about you on a VPN. VPNs don’t necessarilly have to be telling the truth when they say they don’t keep logs. You are entrusting the VPN with all of your internet traffic, which just passes the responsability from the ISP to the VPN provider.

I do use a VPN, but I am aware of its flaws.

Tor and/or I2P is what people should be using if they require absolute privacy (like if they’re a whistleblower).

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

Yeah. I don’t think something that requires payment is inherently private. Even when paying for a service with something like Monero, you are still required to log into an account to use it.

So basically, Beeper just hosts a bunch of Matrix bridges and has an app for their server? Can you use their service with another Matrix client?

So why not just use a Matrix client?

Doesn’t look like it’s FOSS, so I’m not even going to bother trying it.

Do you use a VPN by chance? I get really annoying CAPTCHAs with my VPN on.

Google doesn’t like things that make the user less identifiable, so they strike back however they can without it being too obvious.

I have over 600 subs in YouTube (NewPipe). Not sure I can find even half of the people I watch (which varies from popular to super niche) on any other platforms.

I’ve degoogled about 8 years ago now. My only service that I still use from them is YouTube, because there is no alternative. Odysee is also becoming more and more corporate, and barely any creators are on PeerTube, and also PeerTube has no monitary incentive for creators to use that platform.

Maybe focus more on offline gaming. Seems to be much less toxic than online.

Theoretically?

https://ruffle.rs/

SearXNG and LibreX are both meta search engines, which combine results from several different search engines.