WhyJiffie @ WhyJiffie @sh.itjust.works

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well that's what I'm saying to the parent commenter

does it really matter if the surveillance systems are Chinese or American/Israeli?

what matters here is that chinese influence initiated the project

with a pihole they can easily work around, or proper network isolation?

this sounds terrible

such things should be brought back to the store as defective

a quick reminder that the 5G standard defined a peer to pear peer operating mode for smart devices

what can it do if the TV uses DoH, DoT, or something else similar? I expect that it can do nothing. unless the TV is on a separate vlan with very strictly only access to internal services

tell that to someone who lives in an EU country where corrupt politicians are building out surveillance systems with chinese tech, and bringing the country into other large chinese projects from even larger chinese loans, along with chinese battery factories that are polluting our environment!

to someone, like me.

a neighboring country is also neck deep in this shit

Pretty lame them pretending to not have user names while doing it.

doesn't this essentially make it an opt-in system to user names?

well thing is, they might be searching for a new home

that's true, but op wanted to move threads, not communities, for the purpose of better search. for that it's fine

i think oem custom sata commands, but not sure. what I know is that e.g. seagate releases firmware updates to some of their drives

https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/firmware-updates-for-seagate-products-207931en/

last I checked it was done by a program running on windows

I think N is netflix

well keep in mind that theoretically hdd firmware can hold malware if they get infected

sandboxed Google Play vs microG - no option AFAIK to disable it

you mean disabling microg?

if so you can refuse installation at profile setup. if you make a new profile, you can choose to install it there. then in microg settings there are some toggles for functionality

btw, which of your apps nead google services?

mac randomization is a defined thing in the BLE standard (afaik bluetooth classic does not have it, but maybe that changed in BT 5.1?). It's not truly random, it involves cryptography so that paired devices can recognize each other in the end

I've read that it's because fairphone has to pay a fee for each unlocked device, but it sounds a little weird so no idea if that's real.

but, it can be worked around if you don't want to get logged. the system just wants a 200 OK response from the server, I think through HTTP (not S), so you can set up an MITM proxy or custom DNS and web server to always give this response without using their website. that's what I did too.

you can read more here: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/oem-unlock-input-verify-code/56231

edit: and also here: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/unlocking-bootloader-offline/95573

and the connection is actually HTTPS, but does not validate it against a globally trusted root certificate, so it can easily be served by a local server and a self signed cert

could habe been this one?

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VRoTOE3FqT0

It's an additional [...] point for water ingress.

the whole back panel is a big point of water ingress when that is not glued shut hard

It takes up space which could be utilised otherwise, like with a slightly larger battery or larger speakers or camera modules.

I never needed the additional camera modules, and there were phones with single camera module that made very nice images. the jack is also often at the top of the device where the battery doesn't reach, but in my phone there's also enough place for it between the bottom and the battery for a jack connector. in a fairphone

It's an additional part which needs to be manufactured, stocked, installed and purchased. Extra cost which only benefits a few.

exact same opinion about multiple camera modules. nobody really needs them.