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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • Finally a good, nuanced article on this topic, thanks for sharing. Only drawback is that the author doesn’t seem to be aware that degoogling your phone is a viable alternative, especially with manufactures like Fairphone offering this out of the box.

    Lots of people (including myself, previously) fall for the narrative that Apple can financially justify not spying on their users because their hardware is expensive. Versus Google, who have always been about ads and data mining.

    This logic unfortunately fails to consider that a publicly trading company will always use all methods at their disposal to keep up profit so shareholders are happy. Expensive hardware was probably enough a decade ago, but the golden rule is: as long as a company can fuck you over in a way that increases profits, they absolutely will, given enough time.

    We need federal privacy law in the U.S. and we need it fast.







  • This is the correct answer. If you don’t need notifications:

    Make sure you enable the auto frost service in Shelter’s settings, enable auto frost for WhatsApp in Shelter and replace the icon on your home screen with a Shelter shortcut.

    You can also use a trustworthy VPN to route traffic from the entire work profile or only from WhatsApp.









  • Got Flexlauncher on my setup (Debian running on an old laptop) too and was hoping you could share some advice:

    • what’s the best way to launch websites as “apps”? Bonus points if I get to keep uBlock Origin :)
    • currently using a wireless keyboard only and running to the trackpad when it doesn’t suffice, what air mouse would you recommend?
    • that wallpaper looks great, could I have a link?

  • First had Kodi on a RPI, but I got fed up with Kodi, partly because there are too many moving parts and partly because there’s no great way to watch YouTube.

    Then found Flexlauncher, which has already been suggested by someone else. Slapped Debian on the RPI and then realized that getting smooth HD YouTube video playback is impossible outside of Kodi, because of hardware (?) limitations.

    At this point I decided that enough is enough and just got out the old laptop in the household no one uses anymore, same Debian + Flexlauncher combo with Stremio and Freetube. Set Debian to do auto login and start Flexlauncher automatically. Works great, but controlling with Keyboard only (and using the laptop trackpad when nothing works) gets a bit annoying. Looks like an airmouse is the way to go.