Nobilmantis

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

RiscV! RiscV!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

A lot of android apps rely on GCM (google's notification servers), I assume Whatsapp is one. Signal does too, but I think it can use its own websockets when gcm is not available, same for telegram. Whatsapp probably not.

Some ROMs with no google services restore the gcm funciinality via microg. Graphene os, as far as i know, does not have microg.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

This is the definition of an artic-ad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

They don't make them money, actually quite the opposite. They need them to be the tool throught which they can avoid actual changes that would reduce their money, and thus, in a political system in which you can buy cough I mean "lobby" cough politicians, their power.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

"Learn" linux not even a requirement, a lot of distros work fine as a normal-person-os out of the box (Ubuntu & any of its spin-offs, Manjaro, Deepin, etc), with maybe some minimal youtube/forum troubleshooting, probably comparable with the amount you would do on windows.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Huh? But I am assuming you do, so what is the issue here in counting it as a separate country?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Because there is too many ads

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is this a Mob Psycho reference?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I mean, it does balance out .world sent-by-my-dad memes, otherwise this place would basically turn into reddit.

I have to agree lately tho I've seen a lot of very low-effort political/ideological memes. They should get better.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

This. It's a sensor, detecting only a specific air type. Not a camera, not a microphone. It doesn't have to do with privacy, this is not "scan and collect data about all to punish one" and cannot be turned into one.

I'll agree it's a fuc**ing dumb idea. Like utter useless garbage. Classic capitalistic "fix behavioral trash-consumption issue with overpriced fancy tech products that sound amazing in theory and are garbage in practice, without fighting the problem at the root". Screenshot comment said tax moeny but I'm willing to bet this is some kind of private school.

 
 

Hello sailors,

as a long time FireTV stick un-enjoyer, I finally decided that the time has come to get rid of this piece of crap I was baited into buying because of the low price. The number of streaming services keeps increasing (splitting content among different servives) and each and every one of them is demanding for an increasing amount of money for a monthly subscription; "buy this movie only" services dont actually give you shi except for the right to stream it for as long as it stays in their library, even though af course you pay 13,99 as if it was a physical copy of a movie. In addition to that, the FireTV is now completely filled with ads. I am tired of this shitty customer treatment, im sailing.

I am not experienced into local media-sharing and management, so I am looking for advice... What's my best move to replace it?

I thought a good idea would be to buy an unexpensive MiniPC that i can put behind the TV? Is that overkill? But what OS would i put into it? A linux distro I am guessing or Android TV? Is there a way I can interact with it using a remote? Are there instead "better" FireTV sticks (no ads and let users install and watch what they want)?

Gimme advice or share your secret setups please :)

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