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sabreW4K3

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Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.

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Do you tunnel your usage through a VPN?

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I thought seedboxes were a torrent thing?

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Once again I look at Sundar Pichai and ask, what is the point of you? Under his stewardship, Android has lost all signs of life. The Android community is dead. There's been no innovation and the little bits of innovation they had created in recent years were quickly sunset. The last selling point of a Pixel was the quick updates and long update life but now everyone offers seven years. No identity, no community, no selling point, just blandness! They don't even leverage their money to offer cheaper hardware, the Pixel Tablet with Dock is compelling in its form factor, but upon closer look, it's less than mid-range specs, sub-par speaker performance and all with an over inflated price. At least eat the cost so that you can get one or two of these in every home. The only thing that's impressed me in recent years is bundling the watches.

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I really need to install Graphene and have a proper play with it.

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Samsung committed to seven years before Google and look at the length of support Apple were offering. Maybe we have different definitions of innovation.

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It's a shame. I remember the Google+ days when they were playing with app redesigns. Those days were fun.

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Sorry, I remembered incorrectly and thus my information was wrong. They offered four years back when Google was only offering two

https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-phone-seven-years-security-updates/

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"Boxing Streams", you ask? Hmmm. Maybe try searching for that exact term. Not that I would know.

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Just the other day, me and @rottingleaf "designed" a new messenger to combat things like this: https://lazysoci.al/comment/9619656

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I'm surprised that Slack beat Discord to it.

But yeah, you're right. We need to invest our time, energy and support into self hosted solutions.

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I think that's the issue. We're all so used to the idea of free storage and we're not cognizant of the consequences. If we start holding some of our chips in our own hands, all these corporations won't be able to sell us out and abuse us so easily.

Also thank you!

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Further helping the Chinese? Come TF on and get real. When did America ever help China? In fact when did America help anyone? America got greedy and has sucked all of the possible profit they could from American industry, when they decided to outsource it.

It started off as raw materials and then became wholesale manufacturing and China quickly became very good at making all the things you felt you were too good to make and then became very good at the things you needed them to make and now they're just all round very good at doing all the things that you stopped doing so a handful of executives could have a larger bonus.

Help the Chinese? You're drowning in your own shit and demanding China save you like you're doing them a favour. America, the UK, let's just say, the West in general needs China more than China needs us and its because of greedy CEOs and politicians who only see things in the short term. The idea that you're helping China is your propaganda, it's not reality.

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Without Western outsourcing, China would be economically like North Korea.

Would/Could/Should

I have a feeling you're on of those guys that thinks NK is Wakanda, though, so maybe that's not as useful an analogy as I'd hope.

Ad hominem attacks, really?! Have a good day.

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I remember I used to use Winamp then Sonique then Foobar 2000 and that's when I switched to Linux.

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Yep, the press release says opening the source code. It also says they're inviting developers to contribute.

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I'm assuming that they don't have enough revenue to continue paying developers, so they're trying to find free labour and this is the last gasp attempt to keep WinAmp alive.

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Google under Sundar Pichai is a terrible company that only succeeds based on its size and monopoly. Let's be honest, they're saying that search results will become secondary as they push their service. How do you, as a CEO and board, sign off on an idea that kills most of your (ad) revenue pursuing something that you haven't even figured out how to monetize? Make it make sense.

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Whittaker —a former Google employee— argues that the entire premise of the anti-scam call feature poses a potential threat. That’s because Google could potentially program the same technology to scan for other keywords, like asking for access to abortion services.

“It lays the path for centralized, device-level client-side scanning,” she said in a post on Twitter/X. “From detecting 'scams' it's a short step to ‘detecting patterns commonly associated w/ seeking reproductive care’ or ‘commonly associated w/ providing LGBTQ resources' or ‘commonly associated with tech worker whistleblowing.’”

Absolutely. I'm just surprised that they weren't doing this already.

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Settings shortcut: Settings > Account settings

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Are they really telling us that what they're adding is launcher enhancements?

You know what's sad, Mishaal has done a better job speaking up Android 15 than Google.

And holy fuck, I'm tired of this bullshit about mature systems. They could bring back Jedi hand gestures, they could improve bubbles, they could fix notifications so the new one is easier to find, because holy fuck how often do I look at my phone and can't find the new notification. They could link Monet on phone and watch. They could enable me to start something on one phone and send to another and not via their shitty nearby send.

There's a tonne of room for improvement and they advertise locked apps and making search results even harder to get to.

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Google said, "yo, we heard you liked search, so we gave you AI with a slither of search and we will ram it down your throat until you feel like you can't live without it, because walled gardens are the best and we can't figure out a way to trap you in ours" 🥴

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Google will be sued again by the big publications and will pay out. But little independent publications will die as people get used to not leaving the search engine.

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In my grandpa's thick Jamaican accent: "you fucker, you!"

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😂

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Jeff, you're alive! Welcome back!

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Mishaal Rahman is the hardest working person in Android. I wish him all the success and recognition he should get.

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I beg your pardon? 96 terabytes every twelve months?

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200€? 🤯

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You're my favourite person of this thread so far. Way more information than I need, but the type of post you can come back to and learn things from over and over. Thank you.

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Thanks actually quite reasonable.

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Realistically thinking, my domain name, email, VPN and IPTV are the only things I'm gonna be paying for in the next few months. If that came to £200 a month, I'd die 😭

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Stop, I'm starting to get excited! 😭

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Those man hours rack up, but I bet you still feel exhilarated when you get something working or fix something.

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😂😂😂

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It seems a few people are using them for more than just self-hosting, which is quite cool

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Is the firewall something you've needed?

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    sabreW4K3 ,
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    I hear what you're saying, but you're essentially aiming for it 4chan. Lemmy is very much a social media network with emphasis on social. We are a community, you can't build a community without being accountable and that happens with post history.

    That said, the suggestion to have member only profile pages is a cool one. It wouldn't stop anyone from searching for your username and finding your posts that way, but it would make it just a little bit harder for them.

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    I'm a newbie, so my answers may be wrong. Forgive me. Someone will correct me though 💪

    To take full advantage of my ISP's 2.5G ethernet port do I need a router AND a switch capable of 2.5G througput ? Or only the router and the switch is going to divid it accordingly between all connected devices on a 1G switch?

    You need a switch capable of 2.5 too

    I have no idea what's the best bet, a SBC (bananapi mini, orange pi, raspberry pi...) a fully fleged router (like TP-Link AX1800 and flash it with opensense/openwrt) or an Intel N100 Celeron N5105 Soft Router ?

    This one is 100% preference and it comes down to what you want to run. The Banana Pi RPi-R3 has good OpenWRT support. N100s have PfSense support out of the box.

    But given your requirements, you need OpenWRT/PfSense/OPNSense

    Any good recommendation I should look at for a managed switch that would work great with the same capabilities above?

    There's some decent recent cheap ones from AliExpress, but if you can afford, grab yourself a UniFi 8 Lite POE. That said, the switch you linked seems a good purchase.

    Probably last question, is regarding wifi APs. Is it possible to make an access point from my router even tough it hasn't atennas? If I connect an access point directly to my router, will it be capable of giving away wifi connection?

    Depends on the router, but some old routers you can stick in AP mode. Some you can flash OpenWRT and then make an access point. If it works, it's usable.

    But again, take everything I said with a grain of salt. It just so happens I've been asking similar questions of late and am just telling you what stuck.

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    Let me rephrase. What I feel is that downvoting should be used for legitimate content interaction. i.e. That doesn't fit this community, that's not a good post. Not, I don't like this opinion. I'm saying it should be saved for legitimate communing.

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