And chances are it’s all cloud work that they’re doing on the computers.

I don’t know about yts, but last time I checked 1337x is totally safe as long as you download from trustworthy sources.

On lemmy default UI, it lets you automatically replace the link with an archive link.

Is there a viable replacement to google assistant that’s self hosted or local?

I think roku has a dev mode but not like adb, it’s still pretty locked down. Read more here

Edit: Requires agreement to a license and an internet connection

I wish those laws that california makes were federal, they would greatly benefit the consumer

I wish I had a better experience with Kodi, I mainly use jellyfin for media streaming and jellyfin+kodi just don’t seem to work right.

Do you have lineageos or similiar on the android boxes, or just stock? How do you modify the boxes for privacy, and what brand do you use?

same issue here

Yeah, but that factory reset might make them update the TV and then force the arbitration. I don’t feel like risking it for now, I’m just using my pi to consume content on.

Yeah, that’s a very useful setting. Thanks for letting me know about it.

Thanks I’ll look for this

Yes, I’ll look into how hardened that unsafe browser is, because that would be an ideal solution for me. Thank you very much.

Is that browser hardened to the extent the tor browser is? I looked this up and have seen conflicting reports. If it is, that would probably be a viable solution.

I appreciate your attempt to help, but I do also realize that what I’m asking for is rather niche and may not exist.

It’s frequently blocked by CloudFlare and other “web security” services. I find that I don’t need the anonymity that it provides as much as I need working websites.

I would like an already hardened environment from boot. That includes the kernel hardening and browser hardening that Tor has.

I get what you’re saying, a live USB does 80% of that with a bit more work, but I would still like to find a solution to this out there.

If there isn’t one, I’m ready to accept that and come up with my own solution.

Do you need it to be amnesiac? The very thing that defines Tails*.

Yes. A persistent storage feature would be nice but isn’t a requirement.

What’s wrong with Tor? Is your threat model so paranoid that you (somehow) don’t even trust Tor? Or, are you not in favor of its (relatively) low bandwidth? Or, is privacy and/or security not even a thing you seek after to begin with? Or, at least not beyond what your average distro provides already*.

The reason I don’t want to use Tor is because I will only connect to plain web websites where I don’t care if they know my IP. I also find that CloudFlare and other services can block Tor which sometimes causes issues with my work.

What do you intend to do with it? Daily drive it? If so, do you need persistence?

I mainly plan on isolating certain browser-based work I’m doing with other work on my computer. As I said before, persistence would be nice but is not necessary.

What does “Tails without Tor reliance” provide/offer you beyond a LiveUSB from any other distro? Or, rather, what do you hope it will provide/offer you?

I hope it would offer me a highly hardened environment to do work in, without the requirement to set it up every time on other liveusb OSes.

To put this all together, I want an amnesiac live USB hardened(browser, kernel) environment that does not use Tor.

That needs tor, like I said in the post I don’t want tor reliance.