There's a bank here that refuses to let you log into their app if you have developer options enabled. Their service was getting much better until that point, but I dropped them completely after that.
I use developer options to get better screen density on my large ass screen, and to you know...develop apps 🤷♂️
FUCK THESE ASSHOLES WHO THINK THEY CAN TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN NOT DO WITH MY PHONE
The more I think about it, this may finally convince me to...shudders...switch to an iPhone. I've always stayed on Android because despite the recent Google bullshit, it still for the most part lets me do whatever. Side-loading apks is a huge part of that.
If it's turning into a shittier iOS clone, what's the point?
I used to pirate games because I couldn't buy them. Now I pirate games because the publishers are greedy cunts who do layoffs to appease shareholders, shutter studios that make good games, and pull all the shit Sony's pulling this year 🖕
I know there's still a long way to go but maybe the future won't be as completely horrofying as I thought. Fuck the facists and fuck the nazis, well done France!
This!
APK signatures exist and they're enough for making sure the file you got isn't modified. Warning people when they use apks for stuff like banking, I get, but if they wanna take the risk, it's on them.
Blocking root makes no sense because I'd argue that if the person knows enough to root their phone and got past all those bricked phone/thermonuclear war warnings, the onus is on them to not get their keychain compromised by giving root to some random app. Again, a warning is fine.
Aside from that, people need to understand: THE CLIENT IS NEVER SECURE. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Any self respecting secure API is made under the assumption that all the calls are coming from some malicious state actor using curl until proven beyond doubt that it's an actual user.
I put 1.2k hours into it during lockdown. Not enjoying Destiny 2 is probably the best thing that's ever happened to your wallet tbh
This is the way. The only no-bullshit media platform is the one on your hard drive.
Yup that sounds about right for iOS.
Meant more that if Android ends up in the same boat (and by the looks of it, that's exactly what Google and Samsung want), then iOS starts to look viable because the situation becomes: all the same bullshit but iOS is polished to a shine.
Don't plan on switching phones until my less than year old Note 9 kicks the bucket 😅
All good shows that don't blow up to Stranger Things levels get cancelled and the recommendation algorithm prioritizes mediocre over great. Why would I pay for that 🤷♂️
I recently bought a 5TB hard drive. It's funny how that sounds like a lot of space until you fill it up and find yourself eyeing another.
Whoa, is Xposed still a thing that works? Had to use Magisk instead to get the safety net stuff working on Lineage OS android 11
This PR/meme is my spirit animal
The issue is that "AI" has become a marketing buzz word instead of anything meaningful. When someone says "AI" these days, what they're actually referring to is "machine learning". Like in LLMs for example: what's actually happening (at a very basic level, and please correct me if I'm wrong, people) is that given one or more words/tokens, it tries to calculate the most probable next word/token based on its model (trained on ridiculously large numbers of bodies of text written by humans). It does this well enough and at a large enough scale that the output is cohesive, comprehensive, and useful.
While the results are undeniably impressive, this is not intelligence in the traditional sense; there is no reasoning or comprehension, and definitely no consciousness, or awareness here. To grossly oversimplify, LLMs are really really good word calculators and can be very useful. But leave it to tech bros to make them sound like the second coming and shove them where they don't belong just to get more VC money.
Right?! I can't run it at the moment so I'll need to upgrade first, but damn literally every frame I've see of Alan Wake 2 is just peak Remedy goodness. The not being able to run it part actually kinda works out for me though because I wanna buy it once it hits Steam (although they seem to be taking their sweet ass time, it's like they hate money or something).
Remedy's one of the last handfull of studios still making actually good AAA games that aren't compromised for monetization's sake, or to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Galaxy Note 9. It was the last fully featured phone Samsung made with a headphone jack, an S-Pen, and no display cutout. The only phones that have come out since that are even close to as fully featured are the Sony Xperia phones.
I bought one brand new a few months ago because my S7 died and I couldn't justify dropping $1000 on an Xperia phone. It's an EU model bought from US Amazon so I definitely overpaid, but it's been worth it so far. Definitely holds up imo.
It's obviously not flagship level, but it's still a solid mid-ranger. It doesn't get software updates anymore so officially, I'm stuck on Android 10 and an old security patch. However, I can upgrade to One UI Android 12/13, or whatever the latest AOSP is through the magic of custom ROMs if it ever starts to bother me.
Edit: The only issue I have is that the fingerprint reader isn't as fast as I'd like it to be. I'm not sure if it's common or just a me issue despite searching a bunch so any help would be appreciated :)
Honestly...I'd take it if it set me up for life. Realistically, 99.9% of the people who can't see past the moniker would never have mattered to me anyway and as for the stuff about your life being distilled to just that, who gives a flying fuck as long as you make sure you're good with the life you lived and do right by the people you actually care about and that care about you. Besides "for life" in 2024 means "a year of being inactive, max".
With that being said, someone in this thread said this is a symptom of a diseased society and I think they're onto something.
I have an init.sh file I run from my dotfiles. Pipe my sudo password to it and leave it alone for about an hour. Gets things 95% of the way to how I like them.
I should migrate to ansible like u/djehuti@programming.dev but time :(
It's been years since I've used YouTube without Revanced, SponsorBlock, and uBlock Origin. The vanilla experience when I see it on other people's devices horrifies me every single time.
I went Control -> Control: Foundation DLC -> Alan Wake and now I'm a thurd of the way through Control AWE DLC. Can confirm, what a ride.
Plus both games have amazing soundtracks. Got multiple songs from both on my regular rotation.
A 5TB portable hard drive only costs as much as three months and can hold most of the stuff you ACTUALLY wanna watch. To be fair, DVDs and BluRays can get expensive but at least that's yours forever and you don't have to worry about the studio suddenly deciding you need to subscribe to THEIR bullshit too. If it's not available outside of streaming, well Gabe Newell said it best.
I've used Magisk with the safetynet module + hiding root from apps with like a 95% success rate. Quick search for "magisk safetynet" and look at the xdadevelopers threads
Already switched to Firefox for work on linux and I'll switch on my "entertainment" windows install as well soon... just need to find time to do the sync stuff
The beatings shall continue until morale improves
Jellyfin isn't perfect, but by god it's incredible! I've trued to contribute but the obly stuffeft is stuff I don't fully understand :(
Maybe one day...
Hardware isn't everything. Apple has a couple of advantages over iPhone that let them do more with less:
The selling points for Android (at least the way I've seen it over the years) have always been full control (talking about non-root, I'd rather not go down the root rabbit hole here) and (since iPhone 11 started doing firmware blocks on parts) reparability...but both seem to be going out the window lately.
Prices are crap though, but then again Android phones on the top end don't seem much better. 1-2 gen old iPhones are usually a bit more reasonable though tbh.
30 seconds in and subbed because "man rants about DAW UI/UX" is a genre of video that I never knew existed but suddenly can't live without.
Oh wow, I liked watching his speedruns, and this makes me respect LilAggy even more.
Honestly, dark theme is how they got me with that one. Haven't used the site aside from search results since the API changes went live but I like to think I'd leave if a new redesign was worse.
Feels like home
This may be more involved than most people are willing to go but just wanna add:
Bonus: Look into Jellyfin for a streaming service like interface
When you say "hardware encoding", are you talking about using your GPU for stuff like transcoding when streaming to devices?
I ask because I actively disable all transcoding because I run jellyfin off my laptop and don't wanna overwork it so to speak. I just assumed it was using the GPU.
Huh...the more you know. I just assumed Magisk was a spiritual successor, apparently I misunderstood how any of it works.
On I 100% agree with you here. But here's my (and I think a lot of people's) logic:
It's slightly different in the case of YouTube. The shop isn't putting Karen (and everyone else) under a microscope the second she walks into the store, and using that data to tailor what she sees in their other branches so she's more likely to buy. They're not creating what's effectively a gigantic influence market out of the data, and I don't think you are doing that to your clients either (although to be honest, I'd be pretty impressed if you were).
YouTube is free because "we are the product". They're harvesting our data whether we block ads, skip ads, watch ads, or pay for premium (as far as I know, please correct me if I'm wrong). It may not be profitable on its own but it sure as hell is bringing value to Google's other services. All the while, it's actively getting worse for end users (more and more ads, no more dislikes, not respecting video quality choices as well as it used to, hiding quality settings behind obtuse menus on mobile, no home page without watch history...)
Ultimately, "line no go up big like last year grug mad" is what matters to Google's shareholders and what ultimately drives their decisions. I firmly believe that we'd still be having this conversation if YouTube somehow making a profit with ad blockers on, so fuck em.
Yooooo I also had an S3. That phone was a TANK! I dropped it on some rocks and smashed the screen once so I had to get a screen replacement but that was the worst of it (and completely understandable). Aside from that it was a fantastic phone and very durable! I had it on LineageOS Android 7 (or 6 idk) before it got stolen :(
I'd vote for ya
That may be to speed up the download using multiple connections. Other downloaders do it on other sites as well, doesn't mean the files are split on the server.
Agreed, souls community is definitely one of the most wholesome communities I've seen/been in on twitch. Drama free (afaik) and everyone's super nice and supportive of everyone else even when they're in direct competition. It's great.
Fair enough, just saw the "if you're not an IT worker" comment haha
The good main stories are Forsaken (can't play this anymore afaik), The Witch Queen (may be worth it), and The Final Shape (from what I hear, no context on this one). There's also some good stories in specific seasons but I don't know how they're handling older seasons and whether or not you can still play them. Back when I was actively playing they were cycling them out every year.
A lot of the value in these is the endgame content though. Unless you're interested in the loot game, lost sectors, exotic missions and/or plan on getting a group together for dungeons and raids, I don't think it's worth it. If all you care about is the story, I think you can get much better stories elsewhere.
I set my parents up with YouTube Revanced because they watch YouTube a ton. Now they complain and ask me to fix it whenever it gets out of date and some ads start to slip through...makes me so fuckin proud 😄