You’ve got to be kidding me man, I wanted to buy a phone that I could put a custom ROM on for years to come, I originally got an ASUS Zenfone for the same reason, and JUST as I get them both, they start locking things down. At least I was able to get lineage on my pixel for now, but who knows about updates!

Oof, very real

I use the built in wireguard VPN in my router. If you just need local network access elsewhere it’s usually really easy to setup if your router provides it. I would look into it!

That’s literally just racial discrimination

I hate that!

Oh wow, that’s upsetting

Indeed

I looked him up, you’re right, this guy is just a really weird black Republican. Just about all of his tweets are inflammatory like this.

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Nvidia shield

They also serve you their version of the show with ads if you have the same show on your Plex. I have Ghost in the Shell S.A.C on Plex and I’ve never watched their version but it sure as shit showed up in my “continue watching”. The same thing happened when my gf was watching Midsomer Murders.

Yeah that’s because vendor lockin for hardware had already started. It’s kind of a miracle we got everyone to agree to USB. Look at cars, same thing. Everyone agreed to the same gas pump, but it’s been decades and we can’t agree on a standard for electric car chargers. That’s what happens when industries mature under capitalism

It’s why SMS still exists too. It’s from an era where everyone just used open standards instead of trying to create their own thing for money. Big tech conglomerates like we have now didn’t exist. The state of the tech industry and it’s proprietary standards is absolutely fucked.

It’s still the most widely used browser, even if it doesn’t individually effect you doesn’t mean it’s not bad

When I read the very first bit I was like “oh is that a new kids tv streaming platform from the same creators as kidpix?” Then I was immediately hit with the reality of the grim world we live in

Vacuum chamber transparent wood filled with resin. Ok yeah sure that’ll “replace plastics”

If you’d like a real demo of what this article is talking about check out this NileRed video

https://youtu.be/uUU3jW7Y9Ak

I definitely agree, it’s advertised as private, when really it’s more “open” so that it’s not profitable I think

I definitely think it’s important to make people aware of the difference in the fedeiverse. Especially since that is not how it worked in non-federated social media

I agree