Venia Silente

Am the numero 4 / bottom right (except too poor for fursuit yet). Sometimes pretend to be a 2. Have two colleagues who work IT at a municipal service. The first is a 1 who pretends to be a 3 and the second is a 3 who pretends to be a 1. Even I find myself at a loss at them sometimes.

It also somewhat says they know the new games are nowhere near as good as the good ol’ ones, which is one of the big reasons to pirate older stuff.

Wait, serving a legal notice can be made transitive to people not part of the legal system?

Like, I could just sue someone the other end of the country and then arrange things so that the notice is delegated to my landlord if (small if) they’re being a jerk?

Poor grandma, receiving a visit from the Yakuza for Xmas…

Shame on Nintendo. As per usual.

Well, on my phone that back in stock could only do up to Android 10, Lineage gives me Android 11 (maybe 12, haven’t checked) so it’s still a serious win.

Now, if you insist that I shall have an up-to-date device from the official manufacturer with all the bloatware, same planned obsolescence and zero control, or even worse a 4× overpriced Pixel, maybe you are so assured of this superiority that you’d be willing to fund it?

Security-wise you’re better off using whatever OS comes with your device

So, Android 9 / 10?

I’m sure not as heck going to spend zillions on a new phone (or a hard-to-find used one) when the one I have still works perfectly.

(IIRC) it’s even worse than stock because you can’t lock the bootloader after installation.

That’s a problem with the phone manufacturer, not with Lineage.

An used Pixel, assuming I can find one in my country, still costs four (4) times what I need to shell out for a in-market Lineage compatible phone.

Theoretical security is cute, but it has to be adjusted to practical feasibility. The most secure computer in the world is useless to you if you can’t boot it up.

Nothing too hypothetical nor an “insane” level of work. Didn’t Israel do just that with some beepers to blow up children?

that is not required to access the internet

Tell that to the 12345678x captchas and “unblock challenge” notices I get whenever I try to browse common sites on the internet!

You mean for fucks sale (or, well, they do)

How could I? Even saying “hello world” in your format is like, what, 35 MB?

Yeah, that’s, like, incredibly wasteful. 720p is fine. Where are the 540p ripcorders at?

Never have been. </astronaut-meme>

Boot it once, don’t let it ever fully power down (suspend is fine).

If your V1 is on firmware 3.1 or 4.1 but does not work with the RCM jig and you have run your serial ID through the test site and it comes up as “possibly ipatched”, you might be able to use “online boot” via Pegascape, which you can also host locally (eg.: in a raspberry pi) and there is at least one alternative frontend. It’s pretty much the only way to boot an ipatched > 3.x into hekate without a hardmod, and even then it’s only limited to firmware 4.x that I know.

(On such a setup, you’d then install an eMMC partition for CFW with the firmware you want, eg.: 16.x).

So basically they balked, went for a “more of the same”, then balked off that and went back? Can’t imagine why.

Then again XMPP / Jabber is so much easier to host, you can do it in the cheapest Linode VPS, yet communities don’t use it either.

isolate your identity! avoid leaks! avoid payments! don’t use tracking! avoid analytics!

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…something… does not compute.

Why don’t you speak what you truly believe instead of copy-pasting the same gaslighting everywhere? We already made you, anyway.

Ok, but I would say that these concerns are all small potatoes compared to the potential for the general public gaining the ability to query a system with synthesized expert knowledge obtained from scraping all academically relevant documents.

If any of that was actually true, yeah. But it’s not, it can’t be, and it won’t be.

As with all world-changing technology, “the general public” will never truly obtain its power, not until it has been well squeezed by the elites for gains. Not only that, “the general public” obtaining this power would be devastating on the simple physical principle that this kind of technology depends on ruining the ecology. And this whole “synthethized expert knowledge”… man, that’s three words that mean absolutely nothing when chained together because it’s all illusion: it’s not actual knowledge, it’s not expert, and it’s not even synthetized, at best it’s emulated. It’s all a tangle of lies and make-believes sold on bulk with zero accountability.

But sure, nice dream. I want a Lamborghini, too.

This puts a whole new spin on “running out of IPv4”.