You can toggle internet access per app on stock Android tho…

Wish I could do that too but my email is still tied to some accounts where I can’t change it

Have the same issue on one of my accounts. I can login but when I try to do anything, I need to verify by getting a code over SMS. The thing is, the phone number on that account is an old one I don’t have access to anymore. There is no other verification option, I can’t delete it from my account without verification and I’m definitely not adding my actual number.

I don’t see how your fingerprint could be used for advertising

Idk about that. What data could they get with that, that they can’t already get through other (cheaper) means, that would justify all the network traffic and storage space?

But I think espeak doesn’t sound that great. There is probably better open source TTS now.

Yeah, that makes sense. Does kinda suck.

You can’t really apply that to every messenger and WhatsApp is what’s used almost exclusively

I think they’ll still work without Steam, otherwise you couldn’t play them offline either

Performance isn’t the only issue. This system would also not let you play offline, without being logged in and you couldn’t have mutliple saves or replay the game.

It’s really cool how a lot of Laptops nowadays (including mine) have a feature built-in that covers and disables the webcam with a button press. I can have it disabled most of the time and when I need it, I just press the button to enable it.

That’s really cool. I also heard about a Skyrim mod that does this too and since I’m playing Skyrim in VR (modded ofc) that would make it even cooler.

YouTube Vanced was DMCA’d because they distributed the whole apk, which is why Revanced exists and only applies patches to a YouTube apk you have to get yourself

My bad, for some reason I thought you were using Jellyfin on the Pi but you’re actually using Kodi so that makes sense

They’re probably going to install it through Google Play tho (if it’s available there) so it’d be pretty easy, and probably automatic, to update it

Are you trying to play the video on the Pi itself? Aren’t you using Jellyfin to watch it on other devices?

The UnifiedPush standard is actually so simple, I don’t think a company could even make that proprietary if they wanted to. You need to keep in mind that it’s not sending the notification contents but just that there is a notification for a specific app.

I definitely agree that it’s best when apps support all methods, so UnifiedPush, running in the background and Firebase (that one just for the Google Play build). That way you can use whatever is best for you.

But there’s also UnifiedPush. If apps used that, you could just selfhost that server. A lot of open source apps do use it. I, for example, have a phone with MicroG and I didn’t enable cloud messaging. I also have a Nextcloud server, where I installed the UnifiedPush provider and I use NextPush on my phone as the UnifiedPush app. Works great and that way a lot of apps I have don’t need to run in the background constantly.

Big breakthroughs are still made when it comes to efficiency (so same or better quality for less processing power) and game devs will probably figure out how to best instruct the LLM to do what they want over time. I think there’s still a lot that will happen in that regard in the next few years until it starts to slow down.

But that’s why UnifiedPush exists, an open standard where you can choose what server to use or selfhost it