lemmy_user_838586 @ lemmy_user_838586 @lemmy.ml

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They might have pulled the luxury brand "buy once, cry once" approach and made all those upgrades a single insanely high fee. "Base model is this, but if you want seat heaters that's another $8,000, if you want lane assist, that's another $5,000" etc etc

So its not just me? My deck hard resets trying to stream to my HTPC, and has been for a while now, can't tell if its their software causing the crash, or I have a hardware issue and need to RMA

Why were they backing her to begin with? They allowed, encouraged and orchestrated the rise of Trump, by helping and controlling the republican party any chance they could get, the past what? 30 years or more?

Until we got the inevitable: Rise of Trumpism.

shocked pikachu face

Huh, TIL about PackageKit.

I mean, it's not the OS, its the hardware support that's needed. A Linux phone just has to support the hardware of the phone, and then it can run waydroid to run apps from android ecosystem, until the Linux app ecosystem catches up. Hard part is all the hardware is proprietary with no help from manufactures on drivers and firmware, so people have to reverse engineer everything which takes an incredible amount of skill, and time. Hence why we don't have a viable alternative to iOS and Android yet.

Huh, TIL.

That's really weird the CLIMATE is acting like this. I wonder if it's CHANGING...

Someone who wants to buy google stock on the cheap?

I've been paying for Prime Video and Netflix and watch them through a HTPC hooked up to my TV with a user agent switcher extension in Firefox to trick the sites into thinking I'm on ChromeOS, so I can get somewhat near 720 or 1080p.. Just started sailing the seas, and seeing content in 4K, was jaw dropping. I've known the difference, but I just forgot because I will never be served 4K, much less 1080p as long as I'm on Linux.

Also I could see what the fuck was happening in dark scenes like horror movies because it didn't have Netflix's shitty data compression showing me large moving grey blocks as the background of a horror movie.

I haven't, I use my phone as a medical device, so I haven't taken the grapheneOS plunge yet as I'm not sure if the medical app would work. Yes, you'd have to wipe your phone to install GrapheneOS. For authenticator, if the app you used doesn't allow exporting them, you have to disable 2 factor on all services and websites that use the authenticator 2 factor codes, switch to the new phone and new app, and re-enable on all services to get the new authenticate code. Pretty shitty, that some authenticator apps don't give you a way to export (I don't think the google app allows you to, correct?)

Pretty close to Michael Crichton's book "Next". Without the persons consent, they steal the cell line of someone who's cells naturally fight off cancer, create a cancer fighting drug, and then patent it, so the company legally owns that persons cells, and has a legal right to them with or without the person's consent.

Oh boy. First off, unless you're a high profile activist, a high profile government agent, or a high profile hacker, your threat model isn't really targeted to you specifically. For a regular person, you usually just want to try to keep some amount of privacy on the internet and not be the lowest hanging fruit for bots and scripts.

Any of the big name Linux distros will all be fine, Ubuntu, Debian, fedora, Linux mint, etc, etc. With exception of arch, its fine, but make sure you're in a position to update regularly, and possibly deal with some breakage and fixing after an update with arch. (don't use it for server)

Anyway, these are the things I do, if you'd like to take inspiration:

I use LUKS for full disk encryption on my laptop. Not because of paranoia about the government, but because its nice to know if you're in a cafe working and someone steals your laptop while you get up to go to the restroom or something, your data is safe from prying eyes.

I use an opnsense firewall for my network, for flexibility and control over my devices and connections.

I use an openWRT WiFi router,again for flexibility and control over my WiFi connections.

I use a Firefox based browser, (firefox, fennec, ice raven, etc) its hardened enough I'm sure there's some crazy hardened version of chrome or whatever, but for the safety of the web, I like supporting a browser that's not chrome, there's really only 3 big players and one of them is Google, they alllmost have a monopoly on the web. All the other browsers are using Chrome's rendering engine except Firefox and I think safari.

Use Ublock Origin firefox or chrome extension for ad blocking

For a phone, I'd probably use a pixel device that supports grapheneOS, but right now i'm just using LineageOS, again in use Firefox for android with ublock origin extension.

For passwords, I use keepassxc, and sync it across my devices with syncthing

Oh, and don't use google for your search engine.

Sure looks like we're gearing up for a further dystopian future. Yay.

I guess I should have capitalized the R.

Unexpected (...but Expected) rage

Yuuup. Has always been this way.Have you seen anything less patriot than the patriot act? "We're gonna strip the rights and privacy away of all our citizens, and treat them like terrorists."

Very true, and Its also kinda too late. (at least in the USA) we have an election coming up in 9 months that has been raging since the last election with misinformation surrounding it. Kinda too late to pull all those Facebook memes and fake articles and go "just kidding! That was all lies!" Everyone who's been spoon fed that crap has already made up their mind on who they're voting for, you're not gonna change it last minute, damage had already been done.