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Source? I don’t believe it.

Why else would the US be working so hard to ban it and make it very difficult to obtain?

GNU was founded because Richard Stallman was frusterated with a printer’s proprietary software.

That looks like exactly what I need. Seems to work pretty well already.

Thanks!

Yeah. I find myself using Google Maps on a web browser to look up the coordinates, then copypasta-ing that into Organic Maps.

At least until Big Tech realizes that hallucinations in generative AI aren’t fixable and the whole stock market crashes.

So you’re posting on the privacy community. Point 4 makes things very difficult, as every smartphone by default ships with either Google apps or Apple apps pre-installed, both of which collect data and send them to their respective companies.

What is your threat model?

The only way to get away from Google or Apple is to install a custom ROM, and OnePlus currently has the best phones for that at the moment, not including Google or Fairphone phones, since they offer unlockable bootloaders. The 12R currently has an AOSP port for it, and the 12 has a WIP port that has yet to be released to the public (but can be compiled from source).

It’s a false equivilence

Women are not property, nor are they software

Most gas stations are monitored with cameras (often times with facial recognition), so they will be able to see your face and license plate, then charge you with vandalism.

Don’t worry; they’ll just start playing ads in the car itself before you are able to shift gears to drive.

I’ve seen a lot of those. The card gets physically stuck until the machine decides that the payment is completed.

Or Playlet on Roku.

Look up “adb” or “Android platform tools” on your favorite search engine. It’s something you do on your PC with your phone plugged in.

Ah. I guess you have to have root, then.

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.devicelockcontroller

If you’re using Shelter, then in addition to that command, replace --user 0 with --user 10

You don’t need root to do this. You can also uninstall other bloatware using this same method.

If you use foil, it’d be best to connect it to ground. The metal shell of a car is usually connected to the ground terminal of the battery.

There is no open source implementation of RCS.

People should fully own the computers they buy, regardless of which company they buy from.

This means root access and a replacable primary bootloader, let alone just being able to install apps not on a curated market (what Apple calls sideloading). macOS and Windows both manage to allow root access, and so do certain Android devices (and obviously other OSs as well). Replacable primary bootloaders are more rare, though, especially in ARM devices due to efuse-based secure boot in the CPU that is impossible to turn off. There’s only one phone I can think of that allows for replacing the primary bootloader (Shift 6mq).

We shouldn’t allow for artificial restrictions placed by corporations on devices they sell, because as we have seen time and time again, companies copy each others’ restrictions, especially Apple. Same goes with game consoles, IoT devices, Smart TVs, etc. And before you mention the potential for piracy, DRM is an artificial restriction placed by corporations, and should also be removed from devices.

Anything less means that you don’t own the device that you paid for.

Apple is clearly attempting to comply with the EU DMA in bad faith so that they can maintain as much control over their users and app developers as possible.

The $20 Walmart onn-branded box (2021 version) supports LineageOS. Also the Google ADT-3 box, along with other Amlogic devices.

You will have to build a ROM yourself, since Android TV doesn’t have an open source launcher, and usually comes embedded with GApps. You can replace the launcher with Leanback On Fire, which is a TV-friendly, open source launcher.

https://xdaforums.com/t/unofficial-lineageos-21-for-amlogic-gxl-gxm-g12-sm1-ne-family-devices.4649881/

Voyager is on Android as well. It’s technically a webapp, so you can run it on any device that supports displaying a webpage.

Example: https://m.lemmy.world