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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news

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I've been doing the same. The issue is finding high quality feeds with full articles. Most are just a snippet of the article with a link saying "read the full story at..." (The Verge, PBS, The Guardian). Others are even worse and just link directly to the shit-laden website (Ars Technica). The best quality news feeds I've found are Techdirt and The Intercept. Would you care to share some good RSS news feeds you've found?

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Volkswagen now blocks grapheneOS

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Judging by the error message: the map relies on Google Play Services (which, you can definitely install and run on GOS through the Graphene "App Store"). But installing Google bullshit kinda defeats the whole point of running Graphene. You could also revert to an older version of the app (if you had no issue seeing satellite imagery prior to the update).

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Optical illusion

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Close, but the best estimates are there are 470 million guns in US civilian hands. With a population of 338 million, you're looking at approximately 1.4 guns per person in this crazy land of free-dumb. 😂

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YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures

I finally had to update (19.16.39 --> 20.12.46) and repatch my YouTube on Android via ReVanced. I'll probably need to do that again in 6 months. I use uBlock Origin and LibreWolf on PC and SmartTube on my TV. I hope Google understands I won't be watching YouTube with ads.

https://github.com/revanced

https://codeberg.org/librewolf

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin

https://smarttubeapp.github.io/

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Cellphones went from cool form factor mini computers to mandatory personal identification and spying devices

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I just got a huge nostalgia blast of the days running Cydia on my iPod Touch 3rd gen. I'd customize Winterboard, install emulators, pirate games. The little, touchscreen computer in my pocket truly felt like it was mine! Then I got a Nexus tablet, hopped on early Android, and felt even more free to use my device how I wanted. Fast forward to today and I feel like some sort of criminal running Graphene and just hoping F-Droid repos exist after Google locks down Android. Tech is way less DIY and hella dystopian, as we move into a full surveillance state and compulsive identity verification. But I digress. Now I'm just rambling and depressed about the future of tech. Thanks OP. 🥲