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  • Nothing, if you want. You can disable network permissions on play services. Google DDG first to make sure that won't break the game. Depends on what the game uses play services for... if it's some local functionality it will be fine, if it's remote functionality then it will break.

  • It's the Mongols who allowed Ghengis Khan to commit his shit.

    Uh oh, now you should be worried considering his lineage is in most of us. Those damn Mongol ancestors of yours. Why were your ancestors so complicit in the rape and pillage of continents? I think that makes you complicit, too, by your logic.

    Pitchforks at the ready everyone.

  • It may be a conversation worth having in a 1 to 1, but internet denizens crave hate and hate as much as they can when they can.

    Usually I get downvoted for "let's come together" comments that say things like all Israelis and Russians shouldn't die in a fire, because they are not all bad, when people are calling for culling them. The internet is weird.

    A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Agent Kay

  • Ironically, GrapheneOS is pretty much that (minus the hardware) unless you want to get an iPhone or Windows phone. You'll have to have Play Services to play the games you want to play; may as well use the only sandboxed version afaik. The reason the Pixel line was chosen is because it's essentially what iPhone is for Apple... There will be no vendor add-ons or modifications, just stock android which can be modified into things like GrapheneOS. But it's more for security and privacy than it sounds like you need. Just keep in mind whatever you choose, cracked apps have a much higher chance of containing malware unless you learn to crack them yourself, but then you'd have no time to game.

    https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services

    Since the Play services apps are simply regular apps on GrapheneOS, you install them within a specific user or work profile and they're only available within that profile. Only apps within the same profile can use it and they need to explicitly choose to use it. It works the same way as any other app and has no special capabilities. As with any other app, it can't access data of other apps and requires explicit user consent to gain access to profile data or the standard permissions. Apps within the same profile can communicate with mutual consent and it's no different for sandboxed Play services.

    ETA: It looks like there is a modified open source Play Services client called MicroG, which is basically a rewrite of Play Services that allows things to work, but things requiring payments or payments via NFC etc may not work.

    I think you just want to play games without play services, not actually learn apk reverse engineering (which is a very complex skill), so MicroG is probably what you want. https://microg.org/

  • She used her car wreck claim from the year prior as a way to get disability payments. It's right there in the short article.

    Car wreck in 2017. Tree throwing contest in 2018.

    The court had previously been told that the married mother-of-two, from Ennis in Co Clare, had spoken to doctors days after winning the Christmas tree-throwing contest.

    She had claimed that she could no longer lift a heavy bag without suffering a shooting pain. Grabska quit her job and received disability payments, the court heard.

  • Thank you for that tip! I'll scratch out my Tesla battery idea, this seems much cheaper than that, and much easier ignition than my nanothermite FireSuit™ idea. Much easier to obtain raw components from AliExpress as well.

  • Yes, but with the amount of darknet markets and CSAM hidden services that have been taken down within a relatively short span of time compared to the last decade of tor's more widespread history, it seems they may have a new vulnerability (or perhaps just a new covert post-snowden-acceptance surveillance court ruling) that allows them to identify hidden services real IP addresses. It's speculation, but they wouldn't use it bluntly or everyone would know there was a vulnerability and thousands more eyes would be on the tor code (or awareness of nation-state level traffic omniscience in the case of something as simple as a timing attack). A CSAM hidden service has been run by the federal governments of a few countries, so there's no question of ethics or law in that case.

  • All of that is taken care of with tor browser. It's a modified version of Firefox writes nothing to disk. There are a few hidden places in the OS itself where some random memory might get stored until reboot or an app switch thumbnail, but with a reboot they should be 99.999% good to go even with forensic analysis.

  • I don't need to read someone's both-sides (or single-sided anger baiting) comment history to see the propa glow (or the drunken red chubby cheeks of useful idiocy).

    Edit: but now that I have, it's random American pop culture with vile hatefilth every few posts. I always should give the usual idiots the benefit of the doubt, because it turns out it was you that was posting "traitorous Republican filth" all over which prompted my original comment. How nice.

  • I almost never trust any site that advertises any kind of VPN service (it's always ranked by the best paying referrals) but this mirrors what I've seen in discussions.

    From https://www.cloudwards.net/best-vpn-services-for-china/

    Preferred VPN Choice: The general consensus among VPN users in China is that Astrill VPN is the most reliable option. However, it’s an incredibly expensive VPN, so it’s worth trying other cheaper options first. Surfshark is our top choice for best VPN for China as it has a solid reputation for working in the country while also offering affordable plans.

    Alternative VPN Options: Other good options for China include CyberGhost, Proton VPN, Widscribe and Mullvad. NordVPN is also an option, but it’s not as reliable in China as the other six, so we only recommend it if you already have an account.

    Censorship Evasion Strategy: Since VPNs are in a running battle with censorship, we recommend subscribing to multiple VPNs to ensure you have coverage at all times. No matter which VPNs you use, make sure you download them before going to China, as the download pages are often blocked.