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fart_pickle , 6 days ago to Privacy in Thought on Graphene?

I've been using GrapheneOS for over a year. I cannot complain about it, it works as advertised and it does it the best way possible. However, here's the list of things I find annoying/missing. Keep in mind, this is a subjective list.

• some (quite a lot of for me) apps require Google Play Framework (or whatever the name is) to work properly
• Aurora store tends to be unavailable randomly, which makes installation/updates difficult sometimes
• some features are wonky, e.g. GrapheneOS has no issues with disabling wifi when leaving my home but I was never able to enable wifi when I'm back home.
• default apps work ok-ish but it's far from good old iOS/Android experience
• Android Auto experience was a shitshow for me

fart_pickle , 10 days ago to Selfhosted in Avoid Virpus VPS

Don't want to be a devil's advocate but can you provide something more than "I'm offended"? Let's say issue ticket(s), status page links, other people complaining, etc?

fart_pickle , 10 days ago to Technology in Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks

Oh no, anyway...

fart_pickle , 20 days ago to Selfhosted in Doorbell kamera solution

I was about to suggest the same thing with a small caveat. From what I know, communication between doorbell and base station is unencrypted. I might be wrong, it's been a while since I read about it, so double check the current status.

fart_pickle , 26 days ago to Privacy in United Airlines launches personalized ads on seat-back screens

That's why you should use "usb condom" when charing your phone from untrusted power source.

fart_pickle , 28 days ago to Technology in Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes

Having plain text secrets, or having secrets at all in a repository is always a bad practice. Even if it's a super-duper private/local/no one will ever see this repo.

fart_pickle , 1 month ago to Technology in Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite

It's just history repeating itself. We've seen dotcom bubble, web 2.0 rush, nft fiasco and now AI. All fueled by VC greed. On top of that in today's world companies try to get as much data as possible and so called AI is the perfect tool for that.

fart_pickle , 1 month ago to Technology in Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza

C'mon. It's non toxic glue. Suck it up and follow the directions. /s

fart_pickle , 1 month ago to Technology in Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"

I would have never expected the EFF to use a lame click-bait headline like this one.

fart_pickle OP , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in How to sync Akregator across devices?

I have not. I will have a read, thanks.

fart_pickle , 1 month ago to Technology in Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

fart_pickle , 1 month ago to Technology in Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees

Working from home proved that most of the people are capable of "self-managing" and don't need a corporate drone telling them what to do. I have a feeling that the push to get back to the office is fueled by insecurities of middle management that became redundant.

fart_pickle , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.

Try Inoreader. I'm using free plan but paid one gives a lot of features you could find interesting.

fart_pickle , 2 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

In the perfect world it would be a great thing to do. Old enough people should remember SETI screensaver. But we are not living in a perfect world and I would never buy a car and participate in expenses just to make some rich clown even richer.

fart_pickle , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Google Feed alternative

I've been using Inoreader for few years and there is no single thing I could complain about. It's good enough that I'm considering buying a subscription.