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  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • Hail Corporate!

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  • Buy more so that their economics and capabilities can be improved so they can sell better for cheaper.

    So you do that and I buy when the price makes sense, thanks. Sorry, not paying a 60% premium for three year old hardware so "in the future it can become cheaper for others"

  • Hail Corporate!

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  • My biggest issue with the alternative phones is I'm not paying a massively inflated price for bad hardware just because it's using free software, sorry. Same goes for Framework laptops. I will tolerate paying a premium, but everything about the device must match the price tag.

  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • A "certified Android device" is a device running Google Play Services, Play Protect, Google's WideVine DRM scheme and a few other requirements. If you purchase a device from a known manufacturer, like Samsung, you're falling into this category.

  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • Hasn’t he admitted to changing his opinion after learning about the effects on children?

    He did. The argument against him was half based on misquotes and incomplete sentences, but the other half was indeed once his opinion - he argued that age of consent was a dumb concept and that instead it should be based on what the child wants to do and any harm they were subjected to.

    He later on said he regretted this view because it was explained to him that there's no ability to consent and this always causes harm to the child. His original arguments were, in typical Stallman fashion, quite obsessed with definitions themselves, almost as if the subject at hand didn't really matter he was just bothered about how the definition had some flaws.

    But even with that in mind... I can't feel comfortable knowing he defended this point of view, and it does significantly harm my opinion about him.

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  • FFS Plex, the server is on my local network

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  • the benefit of it is just not bloating my 128gb phone to it´s limits

    That's kinda the thing though, using modern codecs there's no way you'll get anywhere close to facing this issue. A song encoded with Opus at higher than necessary quality is 2.5 MBs on average - that's over 20 thousand songs in 50 GB, not even half of your total storage gets you 50 days of continuous audio.

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • Whaaat? There's Android for jailbroken Kindles? Back in my day the only thing you could do with a jailbreak was installing a slow version of KOReader that didn't really work very well.

  • TIL When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

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  • This was only a controversy because GIFs were falling out of favour

    They were never falling out of favour, and there's not a single human being out there using WebP, only Google and bots touch that format.

  • Samsung fridge subscription fee

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  • Or … just don’t connect it to the internet?

    It is not because it has a wifi antenna or an ethernet port that you need to connect it.

    This is increasingly becoming a false statement, unfortunately. Companies are indeed forcing customers to connect in order to use the regular features. For instance, Roku TVs won't let you change to a regular HDMI input without first connecting and accepting their ToS and updates.

    Secondly, even when the forced connection hasn't been implemented yet, the problem is not entirely fixed. These fridges with digital panels are notorious for randomly having that panel fail, and then the ENTIRE FRIDGE stops working, even though the actually useful compressor and refrigeration loop is intact. Of course, the company will also refuse to sell you a replacement digital panel.

    A smart appliance disconnected is still significantly worse than a dumb appliance.

  • FFS Plex, the server is on my local network

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  • The Homebrew Channel for LG WebOS is got three pieces of absolutely essential software:

    A YouTube app modified with built in ad blocking and sponsor blocking. The Jellyfin app. The Moonlight app.

    With these three plus the toggle to block system updates your TV gets 1000% better for free.

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  • for music: not streaming.

    Music is a solved problem, the files are small even at FLAC quality and can be tiny with Opus whilst sounding transparent. Any SOC made in the last 15 years features a more than fully capable DAC.

    Why even bother with streaming? Have a local collection of files. Even syncing is easy.

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  • Remember when Plex tried to sell you a subscription to use outdated versions of open source game console emulators?

    Plex wants to be a profit-driven company, but their business model is piracy. They'll squeeze you for subscriptions, while making your experience worse to try and broker a peace deal with content owners.