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No but it does show how much capitalism relies on the absolute exploitation of the labor market and the double-standards from the US in that regard. Free market good but only when US companies are the ones fucking everyone over.

• US companies buying cheap stuff from China and marking it up 500%: good, American values
• China cuts the middleman and sells the same product for the same price they would sell it to the reseller: noooooo we can’t compete with that, China bad, it’s so unfair! Waaaaaaa

At least the EU doesn’t constantly brag about muh freedom and how the free market is the best thing ever and you’re a commie if you don’t agree that capitalism is the best.

You need to unlock it to pair new devices, you can only turn Bluetooth on and off while locked. That could be really exploitable otherwise: just pair a keyboard, wait for the user to unlock their phone and install a remote control app via keyboard sequences.

If it’s USB-C, either you plug it straight in, or you get an adapter or a dock or anything that converts USB-C to an A port. Most laptop adapters for that will work just fine.

If it’s USB micro B, there’s a thing called an OTG adapter that gives you a regular USB-A port as well.

Then you just plug it in.

The only thing I wished worked with it is Android Auto. I tried developer options and everything, it refuses to run in the car, at least the F-Droid version.

I consider it to be AOSP. It’s not super usable, it misses some important apps by default. But base means bare minimum to have a launcher and being able to install your own apps, even if that includes providing your own dialer and camera and music player and stuff. AOSP does that well, it’s the base, the starting point to make a ROM.

KWallet most likely

Google is the only one implementing the full spec for bootloader relocking with custom keys, so as far as I’m concerned they’re the only viable manufacturer now (RIP OnePlus, you used to be good).

The default UX on most phones just plain outright sucks. I keep hearing Samsung is better, IMO modern OneUI sucks just as much as TouchWiz sucked. Everyone tries to differentiate themselves by how much bloatware they load up on the phone so customers go wow it’s got so many features! Lately they’re all in on the AI fad as well, and subscriptions, and their own store.

Been a custom ROM user forever, and I have no intention of letting go of that. My phone is almost 5 years old now, and it still runs better than the out of the box experience of any phones on display at the stores. Raw hardware performance is utterly useless if the stock OS immediately wastes it all and some more.

So I’m not excited about the Pixels but they’re also the only viable option.

Heritage President Kevin Roberts made news last week when he said the American right was “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

They’re really not hiding it anymore, they straight up want another civil war.

What distro I’m using isn’t that helpful of a question because it’s largely a matter of taste and technical needs. I use Arch in large part because I do some rather exotic things that would be harder to set up on most mainstream distros whereas Arch just gives me a completely blank slate to work with and configure my system the exact way I want it to work. My desktop also has some server duties, it runs VMs, it has multiple GPUs and also drives my TV room independently of my main workstation area.

I usually recommend whichever distro gets you the closest to having everything the way you like out of the box as a starting point just because it’s less frustrating when most things works out of the box. The Arch experience is nothing works out of the box because it doesn’t even come with a box. Arch isn’t necessarily a bad choice even for beginners, but the learning curve is much steeper as a result and some people do like to just learn everything whereas some others prefer to start with the shallow part of the pool rather than diving it headfirst. It’s not like you have to commit to any distribution forever, you can start with something simple to use, learn your way around Linux and then you can upgrade to another distribution as your needs and wants evolves.

What makes you think it’s not really closed?

Just because it shows the Force Stop button doesn’t mean it’s running, merely that at least one of its components is loaded. That can be just about anything. I have apps I know for a fact cannot run in the background that shows the force stop button.

Mainly, it boils down to battery management and the Android architecture. Android apps are very modular, so the Java class for handling push notifications might be loaded but none of its screens or other services would be loaded and it uses negligible amounts of memory. It’s way more battery efficient than reloading it from storage, and if the system needs memory it’ll clear some caches.

Worth a shot, make sure to censor any IDs and numbers. We’re mostly looking to see if it sees the SIM/eSIM card properly and if it thinks its provisioned and what network type it’s trying to connect to and all.

You can dial *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer to bring up a screen with advanced settings, might be able to wake it up that way or at least see what’s wrong.

Is it true that he can still run for the office even if he’s in jail?

The presumption is normally the people wouldn’t vote for a criminal let alone one that’s in jail.

I have none of that on my phone, just plain old keyboard.

But the reason it’s everywhere is it’s the new hot thing and every company in the world feels like they have to get on board now or they’ll be potentially left behind, can’t let anyone have a headstart. It’s incredibly dumb and shortsighted but since actually innovating in features is hard and AI is cheap to implement, that’s what every company goes for.

The guy that manages Kbin has been having personal issues and stepped away from the fediverse so yeah Kbin is kind of in limbo at the moment and indeed not well moderated. There’s mods but there’s just so much they can do. The software doesn’t federate the deletions so even if they’re gone on Kbin, they remain everywhere else.

And using loads of sensitive permissions to pull it off, like accessibility to read the screen. It’s not stealing the auth cookies from the app nor throwing exploits at Android to escape the sandbox.

Headline definitely makes it sound like it’s a drive-by exploit, but no it’s just the usual social engineering everyone is familiar with.

Because you can, pretty much.

That’s the nice thing with an open platform like that, everyone can make another just as good. Valve did a great job making it good and reliable for the average gamer, but it’s also just a PC. A PC made to run Linux. There’s no reason you can’t… just install another distro, replicate some of the configurations, and run your favorite distro on it!

And it’s good, people experiment and make cool mods and tweaks. Valve has taken a lot of things the community did to their deck and made it an official feature because it’s cool and fun. People make cool themes, they figure out how to make some games work.

It’s just like any other Linux distro choice: which one do you vibe the best with for what you want to do on it. For some people that’s a handheld console that just works and plays your games and runs SteamOS.

I’ll never understand the people that fake these kinds of things. Fake watches, fake followers, fake views, fake likes, fake jobs. Why?

What’s attractive about likes and views anyway? Why would I care that my date has 0 followers or a million followers? If anything it means they’ll constantly be busy streaming.

At this point every new Android feature people get excited about is stuff we had even in the CyanogenMod days. But gotta generate hype so people get FOMO and buy new devices, maximizing ewaste.

Kbin is not currently maintained due to the guy that makes it having personal issues and not having time to keep up with it. Some instances are even defederating kbin due to spam not being cleaned up and also some bugs sending the same activities over and over again.

No spam on my end on Lemmy.