WhyJiffie @ WhyJiffie @sh.itjust.works

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Cloudflare's is a corporate solution from the company that man-in-the-middles half the internet and makes me click shit every fucking time. I see it whenever I make the mistake of following a stackoverflow link.

on SO sites all the difference is a single click. and you have to allow scripts and cookies for both, so no difference there.

What's an "important app" to you here?

the app of my bank. it refuses to work if the operating system is not original. they charge you money for each login code and transaction approval code SMS they send, but if I had the app, scanning their QR code would impose no charge.
they also recently ended the support of the new web interface for mobile browsers, to "protect against hackers". WTH! and this is the biggest bank in the country by far according to statistics. the old site shuts down soon.

the new webapp can still be used in a mobile browser if you enable desktop mode. but for how long? and it'll be fine for me, I would use that anyway because I don't want to install their app for other reasons. but lots of people don't want to deal with a website that's been designed for desktop PCs, on a small touch screen,because it's hard to use, it's hard to read, and if your thumbs are big maybe it's not even possible to use it.

for banking apps this is almost expected nowadays.

then another friend of mine has the worked related apl I said above. it does the same: refuses to let you use it because the opersting system is not the original one, unmodified. and mind you that does not only mean that you can't root it or can't replace the ROM, that also means you cannot even uninstall a bunch of apps that do whatever in the background!

I bet there is much more of these, but if I can I avoid installing anything new from the play store at all, so I don't come across these apps. I live different technological lifestyle than most around me. most of my friends' phones cannot be liberated or they are not interested in it because of the dangers, and honestly me neither in supporting an installation that may be unstable as is not rarely the case with lineage, so I rarely offer it. but sometimes I do and they like the idea, accepting that things like this may happen, and then it happens with yet another app I did not know about beforehand.

oh the find with the hash sum is good advice! I would have done this but manually, maybe with the double commander sync dirs tool.

but also, for configs this might be the best time to move your custom config to ordered dropin files for all things that support it.

this is terrible

just wait until they start vibe coding on their brain implant

If Google want to continue to claim Android is open source,

do they want it? what's the benefit for them?

they have to allow for devices that forego any of this crap and boot vanilla non-Google-Services Android.

Sorry but that has nothing to do with what restrictions an app imposes on the user. Currently they allow, and bunch of important apps still refuse to work.

And if you're privacy oriented enough, you will give up on apps that are not.

as I said above, there are apps that you cannot refuse in this world in certain life situations. most of these apps are not about convenience.

And given enough time somebody is going to work out how you fool a modified system into booting.

as in: in half a decade somebody will reverse engineer the bootloader of a single phone model, so that other tech savvy people can have some privacy.

its funny. when its anubis, the common opinion is rightly fuck ai, but when its cloudflare, then it is somehow fuck the website.

what a weird world we live in.

You can run whatever you like in your Android phones. Jailbreaking iPhones is also possible. All these devices are just computers that can run anything within their hardware specs. Hacking some of these things may be against the Ts and Cs or even illegal. But technically possible. The restrictions are mote political, not technical.

unless it verifies itself and refuses to boot a modified system. the logic for that can be in actual read only memory.

but wait a minute. something like that is already happening with google safetynet! baking apps and more are literally refusing to work on non-google approved systems, including any single rom that is even just a little bit privacy oriented

aaand those and the usere will be punished when found

thats like saying a CPU cannot be used to run malicious code and be used against you, because all it does is maths, and maths cant hurt you, and would you really outlaw maths just because someone uploaded a picture of you to facebook?

TPMs have a use, that can be good for users too, I don't doubt that. but because of its capabilities it enables so much user hostile shit. and frankly the tradeoffs are not worth it. just look at what happened, and still is evolving by the way on android, but iOS too. bootloaders that are not possible to unlock were bad already, but this is terrible, that they are literally making it impossible to take ownership of your own devices, to get rid of all the factory malware, if you need to use certain services that most people don't want to or simply just aren't allowed to give up.

Quick glance on my installed programs, and I count 7 apps I heavily use in windows 11 with no linux version, nor a clear equivalent that could replace them without extensive hacks that may or may not work and be a total waste of my time.

if you tell us the names, maybe someone can help

Also a funny thing: I installed Debian with KDE and then GNOME last year on another PC, and guess what? KDE & GNOME came bloated with a bunch of apps, games, office suite, code editor and other shit.

that's the decision of the distribution, not KDE/Gnome. often it is configurable in the installer, even in debian to some level.

The same cleanup & customization did for windows 11 I had to do to Debian KDE and then GNOME.

to be fair if uninstalling unneeded programs is the only thing you do on 11, you're leaving in lots of things.

Let people use what they want.

I agree that insufferable jerks are insufferable jerks, but I don't think most people want to use windows 11, but that's what they can use, for one reason or another, some of which have a solution, some of which not yet. if anything, I would bet money most would rather just stay on 10.

TPM has nothing to do with any privacy invasion, AI, or anything bad really.

are you living under a rock, or have you been not using an Android phone in the past decade? that's exactly what is happening! through the use of the TPM, apps can verify whether you run a google corporate approved operating system, or something else, even if just slight differences, but also if you use a real clean and respectful system.

plenty of apps do this. including banking apps, while banks are restricting their web banking sites to not work on phones (because that "gives us security from hackers", no I'm not joking this is what my bank told publicly 2 months ago, in the EU), pps that use some form of DRM, and even work related apps that show you your current working hours and needs to be used for work related manners!

it is "automated" by some "peasants" they are already paying "too much". maybe they want to reduce those costs too.

also AI serverparks may consume so much power that they are more costly (for now?), but at least they don't question your commands. maybe that's how they see it.

I've seen posts here that admit they run an autoposter on their accounts, mostly for memes.

I disagree. if someone is running AI accounts with whatever reason, including trying to steer opinion, it would be kind of important to find them and know who does it

windows update is known to force updates down your throat, even when it is just not appropriate right now. that's not how things work on linux.

Let me rephrase it : OP sounds super high-maintenance. If i am meeting with another adult, it's not to baby-sit them. It's not to always be wondering whether i am giving them enough affirmation, or whether they are getting agitated because they feel i'm not focused 100% on them.

I don't think OP's problem is the lack of affirmation. I think their concern is somewhat similar to the meeting partner starting to browse social media on their phone, but here not because of bordedom or addiction but because the children needs attention, which is just how children work naturally, with varying frequency. and so, I think it's not about whether the partner actively participates, but whether they are listening or if they are distracted so you are basically talking to a wall.

but you know what, I realized that I don't have enough information to know what OP thinks, and maybe I'm just trying to put into words how I see it.

That is not to say you should meet with someone and completely ignore them. But when adults meet, there's this tacit understanding that everybody's got their own shit going on, and there may be the odd interruption or the occasional shift of focus. Your work phone may ring. A kid may get hurt and need a hug. Hell, maybe someone from your Minecraft group hits you up on Discord for some urgent topic. I don't give a shit, i'm not the center of the universe, and i can look at my phone for 10 minutes while you get your stuff out of the way.

hmm I see. I think these are fine, shit happens, and these don't have a very high probability of happening either anyway. but (without much experience) I feel that with 2 very young kids as in OP's situation, the distractions could easily be frequent, and that is why I think he is right to decline the offer

on the tablet it should work fine in the browser. maybe that would also work on the TV, that's exactly what most TV apps do anyway.

what? It's not like everyone needs to run jellyfin at home. the only thing you need to use is the jellyfin webapp, which I don't understand how is it more complicated than netflix or any other similar service. you log in, pick a movie and hit play. that's it.