We almost had to mention standard cars, which are also half the size.

In GrapheneOS, there’s a new RCS activation setting in “Sandboxed Google Play” -> “Play service permissions”.

I didn’t have RCS for years, and this feature fixed it. The fearure was just added in February.

Come to Australia. A legit carton of fags is about 90% tax, and dodgy darts are outselling them. Vapes are prescription-only. No doctor will prescribe it, and no pharmacy will dispense it. So vapes are effectively banned too.

The black market is huge.

At the current exchange rate, a 20 pack goes for £25 GBP:

They didn’t look all that advanced…

Yes.

This is my preferred one. Just paste one command into a powershell console to run it.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Run a Win11 debloat script. It will remove a lot of privacy-invading windows components.

Apart from that, install a browser that isn’t Chrome, and use an ad blocker.

Don’t install any garbage that gives the Uni IT department any control over the device.

Way to stand up to the man!

The inbuilt VPN is a red flag. A VPN isn’t private unless you own the server. It’s channeling all your data through a third party. They could be watching it in the same way your ISP can.

She’s the woman who kept the dream alive.

That sounds like a bit of a ride. I just selfhosted everything. There’s still things tied to my gmail, and probably always will be. However they’re not seeing the important stuff like medical, school, banking and services.

NGL; selfhosting is quite a commitment too. Especially for email. There are a lot of hoops to get trust as a server, and full text search took me years to get working right. Hosting a keepass database on a personal webserver is not as convenient, but there’s 100% control.

I inherently don’t trust any company that sells trust or privacy as a product. I’ll only fully trust open source software running on my own metal.

I wonder if anyone ever wrote an update aggregator that would find all package managers, containers and git repos and whatnot and just do all of them.

Some are a right pain to update, such as Nextcloud. Installing a monthly update should not feel like an enterprise prod deployment.

It’s kinda ironic that package managers have caused the exact problem that they are supposed to solve.

So, ChatGPT can’t match any function of a Casio wristwatch. I’m concerned that when it can, it will consume the power of microwaving a turkey just to tell a user what time it is.

We need to lock him in a cell then flood it with shit.

GrapheneOS and LineageOS don’t ship with any Google services at all, so Google’s policies shouldn’t affect them.

I just peel it under running cold water. Fast and easy.

That’s about the same as Australia. It’s $2.50/L and AUD is typically close to CAD.

Ahh. That’s usually among the red stuff in dmesg. I glad to hear you solved it, but a failing hard drive is a pricey thing to endure these days.

This is no different to the meta pixel localhost listener exploit.

This is absurd. They know we can go all the way to the root servers, don’t they?