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We Should Probably Have Another Meeting
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Had this experience today. It was incredibly frustrating. Had to meme about it since I can't get approval for my fix until tomorrow at 9am in another meeting.
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We Should Probably Have Another Meeting
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Had this experience today. It was incredibly frustrating. Had to meme about it since I can't get approval for my fix until tomorrow at 9am in another meeting.
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People Ask Why Some Root Their Device and For Me This is Why
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It was in response to the Naomi Brockwell post she did on Twitter about businesses using WiFi, Bluetooth and Location Services to track you in public locations. You can Google it directly "NBTV Advice from Defcon" or this link: https://nbtv.substack.com/p/advice-from-defcon-turn-off-bluetooth
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Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger.
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Kroger owns a few chains outside of their main name so here's a short list of their sub-companies to avoid as well:
"* Supermarkets – Kroger, Ralphs, Dillons, Smith’s, King Soopers, Fry’s, QFC, City Market, Owen’s, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker’s, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick ‘n Save, Metro Market, Mariano’s
From here: https://www.thekrogerco.com/about-kroger/our-business/grocery-retail/
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Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters
Just wait until you get to Transunion's site. It is a dumpster fire of consisting of the worst sign up I've ever seen, "Contact our social team" and "If you haven't logged in for awhile create a new account. I could not believe how awful it was. I had to just call and do it over the phone.
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Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support
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Lawnchair is being updated it is just only being updated on its Github page.
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Proton VPN now supports WireGuard on Linux
You all are awesome, thank you for your work implementing this!
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Pixel 10 vs S25 purchasing descision
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This used to be the case but Google is actively working to kill unlocking the bootloader on their devices (and all devices really) through their Play Integrity Validation. So while you may be able to install ROMs and add Gapps you'll slowly find that less and less apps from the Play Store will work due to stricter integrity requirements from Google; even if you bought the app. The current hoops required to run a custom OS and not be detected by the new framework is daunting with many landmines like people installing software they don't understand to get "Strong" integrity or paying for keyboxes that ultimately get banned.
Google is quickly becoming developer unfriendly and I would encourage people to look into the mess that is Play Integrity before suggesting Pixels, or any Android for that matter, in the context of custom ROMs.
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Introducing Proton Duo: Unlimited privacy for two
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Sounds like you just need two "Mail Plus" accounts. You get 1 custom domain per account and 10 email addresses per user.
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Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support
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Love this list and I use Pear launcher currently on my Android 15 beta device. It has some quirks but overall I am happy with it over stock. Especially since I can add folders to the bottom bar.
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Debian is a snail and its shell
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Archinstall works until it doesn't. Recently I tried Luks and BTRFS more than 6 times leading to a script error each and every time. Could I have done something simpler and archinstall work? Possibly. But it offers those things out of the box and for it to fail each and every time ultimately led me back to the wiki to do it manually.
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Use a password manager
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I actually came here to echo this exact sentiment. I was on Lastpass until their first breach and then on Bitwarden both cloud and self-hosted until a few months ago when I set up with Proton. I liked Bitwarden so I put off trying ProtonPass. One weekend I set it up and ended up putting my 2FA items in as well. It feels absolutely seamless to use. The email aliasing for websites is so easy for making new website accounts. In my desktop and laptop browser the way it automatically offers to autofill the 2FA is so clean. I can't see myself going back unless Proton gets prohibitively more expensive or the product declines in usability/security. If you are currently using Proton's suite of apps give Protonpass a try. You can easily import from Last pass/Bitwarden and use both to compare side by side.
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/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.
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This is the BEST write up I have ever seen on the topic. Had no idea it was out there and explained a lot about the inner workings for security I wasn't expecting.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/n7yo7u/a_discussion_about_bootloader_lockingunlocking/
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Starfield Update Tonight adds the REV-8 Vehicle.
Genuinely excited for this. I enjoy the scanning and landmark points but getting to them was a chore at anything over 500 meters. With this I'll be able to survey planets faster and hopefully escort some of these random injured NPCs back their base/ship more quickly. Maybe even take Andreja out on the Paradiso volleyball court like they did in the trailer at 0:54. Nice work devs and editing team!
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NR200 with 3D Printed Mods
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You know, actually there was a great RAM overclocking leaderboard for the 5800X3D and my motherboard. The spreadsheet was sort of proof that I think my timings and limitations came down to my mini-ITX board rather than the memory modules themselves. When I spent two months tuning the RAM and finished my achieved speeds were precisely in line with the others who had my mobo/CPU. As for my RAM, both sets were Hynix CJR. They were both GSkill just one was a 3600 kit and the one I have now is "4000" down clocked to 3800 for stability. This was the sheet I used to compare: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dsu9K1Nt_7apHBdiy0MWVPcYjf6nOlr9CtkkfN78tSo/edit?gid=1677627148
Or you can google directly "Zen RAM OC Leaderboards - Google Sheets" and see if anyone else has your config!
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Is there a phone I can buy that out the box is rooted, private, and does not install bloat apps?
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You noted on the phone hardware but not the software so I'll comment on that. Recently OnePlus has announced as of Android 16 that they will restrict bootloader unlocking to only those who fill out an application.
Nothing Phone 3 and all prior Nothing phone bootloader are still unlockable to this day with no call to restrict it. I would know, I have a Nothing Phone 3 running Shizuku and am waiting for Google to move Play Integrity off of its Kanban board so I can root again. Their forums have a strong development presence and as far as I'm concerned this is the one of the last good holdouts on this new restriction standard.
Pixel was the de facto standard for unlocked bootloaders. However, Google is the core of the "registered developers only" movement for their phones, killing sideloading and removing Pixel images from the development models in AOSP. I no longer support new Pixels (certain used ones are still good, don't get the 6 series though they are BAD).
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What do you think of Google's Play Pass service?
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While I agree music service has a lot of good things about it, it is not good for the long term. Lesser known artists are not paid that much, it is endless billing for something you'll never own and it will only ever cost you more year over year. I would considering using music streaming for artist discovery and playlist creation rather than a long term plan for music listening. Look into bandcamp and artist pages you love to find where you can buy your favorites of their music because when music streaming becomes unsustainable, and it will, you won't be left with nothing.
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Nothing will let users uninstall almost all of its new bloatware 'later this month'
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Agree to disagree then, because I wouldn't choose Samsung or their Knox locked phones under literally any circumstances. A series moved to Knox security in 2024. Also, Samsung has kept a proprietary VoLTE implementation that doesn't work on LOS or any third party ROM making it a step down for those who want freedom from the stock OneUI.
Unlockable bootloaders that can be relocked without voiding the warranty and using no proprietary VoLTE technology is a huge reason to support Nothing over Samsung. But you have your reasons and I have mine. Enjoy your A Series, I'll keep my Nothing devices until they go the way of OnePlus and Pixel.
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Anyone On Android 15 Beta and Can Check Battery Health Screen?
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Yeah that was my suspicion. I was thinking it was "100%" in the app but not in reality.
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Been daily driving Arch for 6 months now, but considering moving back to Debian. Not really taking full advantage of the Arch pros
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This is a fine strategy if you have very old or relatively well established hardware. But if your hardware choices are bleeding edge you'll either have to run custom kernels in Debian or necessary repos to get them fully functioning. Not always a problem for most Linux users but I remember trying to use Debian when the 7900 XTX came out and it was not a good time to get it fully supported on Stable. Unstable and Testing Debian? Absolutely. But at that point you are basically recommending the Debian version of Arch.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Release Date Trailer
I sincerely hope this is a return to form for Bioware. I will be cautiously optimistic about this game as I miss their storytelling a lot.