Just set up a TCL and it has a “basic” option which makes it work without anything. I’m still trying to decide if I should buy a Nvidia shield to pair with it so I enabled it “fully” for now, will probably switch it back. It’s basically android so many of these behaviours are just like on android phones

Thoughts and prayers for the CEO 🙏

Ubuntu server just asked me if I want to upgrade to V24, I don’t know when I’ll take time to do that :p

It’s on fdroid so I don’t think

You could redirect invidious to free tube

This is what I think: You cannot be 100% private, but you can be 95% private. Most of the tracking I want to avoid is from websites, mail and my devices OS.

With ublock origin in advanced mode, thunderbird + Protonmail, Linux (I’m dual booting and also have a windows VM for the things not working on Linux) and a VPN I can reach a satisfying amount of privacy without wasting too much time and effort. I’m also hosting an unfederated matrix server for private communications but I rarely use it.

To have better privacy than this I’d need a lot more effort, but the return wouldn’t be big enough, so I’m good. The only other thing I’d like to do is switching to a phone with grapheneOS or something like that.

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Search engines such as Google need to rank results in some way, to decide which ones to display on top.

This algorithm changes depending on new developments, both cultural and technical, see Google recently putting results from reddit firsts.

One typical way to do this is checking “how many other websites are pointing at this result”, and since traffic is money, people try to game the algorithm by creating fake websites which links to the one they want to push.

I had the Soldier of Fortune original game disk, but lost the box with the CD key. Mailed the devs/publishers asking for help, sending a picture of the disks, and they basically told me that I should have been more careful. Googled “soldier of fortune CD key” and ended up on one of those now-defunct websites which collected cracks and CD keys, discovering that not only you didn’t need the key, but you could also just download free stuff.

Now I pay for Prime Video, Netflix and Spotify and buy lots of games on steam/gog, but I also created an app used by thousands of people every month to help them sail the four seas

Fire stick and the shield are both android devices so you can just install whatever you want

That must mean it’s working! :D

I use a self hosted vpn because my main reason to use a vpn is avoiding monitoring from my isp and whoever is managing the local network, and I don’t want websites to know where I’m located.

Yes. I used it too for a year but the clients were bad

Put ublock in advanced mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-user-features and test if it’s enough for you. I use it this way and I’m pretty happy with it

https://xdaforums.com/t/unlock-root-twrp-unbrick-fire-tv-stick-4k-mantis.3978459/

But no idea about the latest firmware support

I rooted my fire stick with a piece of aluminum, you had to open it and bridge two points on its board to make a reserved memory area writable, and then run a script to root it. Have no idea about new models/firmware but XDA developers is a click away. It was the 4k model at the end of 2019, I think it’s just one or two generation behind the current 4k stick

Deezer sent out a mail that they are closing the free service so it may not work anymore (without a paid Deezer account)

Before this website I used to download from dauphong or mercs215 on the pirate bay

It’s normal to track crashes and utilization to make software better, I don’t think they tracked to sell data for advertising in bitwarden case

Movie “The sound of Metal” talks about this