#Google looked at the fact that people can use Android without ever needing to link their entire devices to a Google Account which is just a fansy way of saying Google ID, and thought.. well.. time to end sideloading by requiring developers to register to new platform submit their #government ID and pay a fee as well (i know right!🖕), link all the IDs of their apps so then their apps can be sideloaded to Android by users
This is not about security, this is about ending people ability to not be linked, I have set up people's devices to be more private and secure without ever needing a Google account, in fact I told people.. many people I met.. you don't need to have a Google account just so you can download apps
I used #Fdroid, nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgzqtdq0 and Aurora, enabled private DNS with Mullvad, used #DuckDuckGo Tracking Protection (it takes the #VPN slot), disabled all telemetry settings and sometimes i even deboat their ROMs with Adb.. It makes their phones usable (no on screen ads), less bloated, less power hungry.. people often ask me? well what about my Gmail account or Yahoo or whatever? Here's the solution: Fairmail
with this upcoming change, even if the user turns on: allow installing from unknown sources, their sideloaded app will not install because the developer hasn't verified themselves with Google and paid them for the privilege to do so 🙄🤬😾, the Os will just refuse to install it
This can be mitigated with a custom ROM, but c'mon how many people have the technical know how? I'm a nerd and LineageOS wiki still scares me..
Also, custom ROM support is slowly fading in the Market, Evil companies like #Samsung and #Xiaomi go out of their way to lock the boatloader.. and completely remove alternative OS support
#Monopoly is a curse to mankind
#privacy #bigtech #rom #evil #surveillance #control
Ruby I’m not a dev and GrapheneOS could not be easier. So easy, in fact, that the first time I thought I had done something wrong. Still have this iPhone for work, but the real deal is on GOS. Try it.
I’ve read quite a lot about it and this is the first time I understand the issue. Thanks for bringing it down to retard-level
I understand what you mean now. Yes the common culture is huge. But the States *could* have gone independent and North America would be a land of 50 independent countries.
In fact, in Europe I tend to think of countries as equivalent to states (Portugal has the same population as Michigan, etc)
But is true that Europeans focus a lot more on what makes them different, centuries of war w
ill do that to you.
I know the president is elected of course, but if you are from Wyoming your chances of affecting the elections surely are pretty close to zero?
And yet, that is exactly what the States did
when they United under de feds, isn't it?
Do you have a guide to start with Wasabi? I see many webpages but im afraid of falling into a kind of BCH vs BTC....
Sai, your heart is in the right place. Unfortunately your economic theory is not. Who gets to decide who are "legitimate billionaires"? You? Because that's an impossible task by definition. Each person has a set of values that will affect the decision.
Is Bezos a cantillonaire? Not by my definition, he has recreated the world's commerce and deserves his riches. But I've read that many of his warehouse employees need coupons to make ends meet. Unfair in any book.
The only solution: take the money printer away from politicians, and cantillonaires will go away. BTC doesn't fix it all, but does fix this.
Thst depends on family, your age and net worth. Exit taxes now a reality in many countries and take 5-10 years to clear so start yesterday. Family of course the most difficult to handle if you have teenagers or adult dependants. But in summary your are late already.
Tried them all:
-Umbrel: quickly dropped because I read several articles where it was not as secure as others, for BTC this is important
-raspiblitz can't remember why stopped, could have been HW issues
-RoninDojo awesome whilst Whirpool worked, robust. BTC only, very focused. Will come back to it soon.
-Start9 is awesome, as soon as clear net is out of testing will become my main server.
-Mynode is the underdog. Has been running for years without looking after it. Poor thing only gets a click now and then for updates, unloved in the corner, but keeps doing its job year after year on a basic RPi4 8gb
I would say go for Mynode if BTC only and want easy interface. Ronin for a punk style, and Start9 for BTC and general self hosting of photos files etc.
I think you forgot the shadowy supercoders....I'm grateful to all of them because without them we wouldn't have anything.
Travel to live in crazy places. It will educate your mind in ways that nothing else will. I mean places like Burma, Niger, or Antarctica. London and Paris will still be there in 20 years when you want a more leisure pace.
Pay great attention when selecting your life partner. Most important decision in your life, think "do I want to be with this person in 50years and smell their feet and farts all this time?" If the answer is not a resounding YES, then pass. A lot of people settle for second class. Don't.
Of course it is safe and wont harm you. It is only water. Good luck with treating cancer with it!
Seriously, stop pushing homeopathy as a cure. If one person stops having a real treatment to use homeopathic treatments you will have seriously harmed them.
I like Big Pharma as little as anyone else but homeopathy is laughable. Do some math, by the time you stop diluting things there is **absolutely nothing**, sometimes not a single molecule of the active principke in that glass of water. And no, water doesn't have "memory".
Yes, precisely. I'm OK with using it as placebo...as long as you fknt use it instead of real medicines that really work. OK for terminal cases etc only. But that is not how the homeopathic snake oil sellers present it. They are either dumb or have bad intentions.
Because homeopathy is a scam, only sugary water. There are yearly homeopathic suicides all over the world. After committing "suicide", participants go out for drinks.Hasve a look at:
I find that usually "steak on a plate" does the trick and they get the message.
Careful with the labels, they don't translate well across the Atlantic. The "nationalist" is wearing the T-shirt of a far-far-right party that wants the return of the dictatorship that run Spain for 40 years. A bunch of gym bros with a peanut for brain.
In Europe "liberal" means like Mises et all, Austrian economics and small government, unlike in the US where I frequently hear it used with a leftist flavor.
That said, I'm all for sun, steak and steel! But that doesn't correlate with the pic or what you were inferring from it.
I lived there pre-Brexit, and still have friends there. It is a failed empire that will take a generation before it realizes that it is only a small island in the middle of nowhere. That's OK, all empires have the same problem, Russia is still going through it too. Also, as long as you have money you can hace a nice lifestyle even if the whether does suck. I love your part of the country!
You are being disingenuous. No student will make a better movie, because a movie is a plot, but also the work of thousands of people and hundreds of millions of dollars. No student has that, no matter how good are his ideas.
Why would anyone risk millions if everyone can watch it for free?
Also, there would be no R&D if people (companies are just that) didn't risk millions or billions. No new drugs, as manufacturing them has a negligible cost. No new robots, no new software nor new vehicles....don't get me started on aeroplane development costs....
I don't know about art, but in every other realm, people that say "copying is not theft are either lying or don't understand basic economics.