I completely agree. I no longer use cake as my daily driver. Instead I use Monfluo.

Well, if you don't run Google spy services, then nothing is changing for you in September. But if you do, then so help you. I feel sorry for you.

With that said, I am very seriously looking into switching to post-market OS and running mainline Linux on my phone instead of Android.

Limiting traffic already exists, and it's called proof of work. Try it out.

Tor implemented it in August of 2023 and was an extremely successful integration.

That device came with what, Android 11? I think my favorite thing since then has probably been not having to ask whether fDroid can install apps once it's done one time.

Like facials?

Now, turn around and take 'em off baby

Very nice

That's true, but I don't really truly think bots need to be entirely stopped. I think they need to be more limited so that they can't just overwhelm a website. And proof of work will do that.

Just need to add [F] to your titles so the admins are happy with you.

I think that would depend a lot on the amount of servers serving that service.

If you've only got one server, then the proof of work is going to ramp up quite quickly because of the fact that it can only serve so many requests at a time. If you have 10,000 servers serving the same website, then the proof of work would ramp up pretty slowly because then you can serve a ton more requests at once before needing to kick the proof of work up. Tor currently has a zero proof of work if the service is not under load at all, and then ramps the proof of work up as the service comes under more requests. My thought would be to not have any point where there's a zero proof of work and have a minimum proof of work required of one.

Clearly, they haven't heard of proof of work.

Ask tor, it helps tremendously.

Hidden services went from being absolutely horribly unreliable to being very reliable.

I will not bend here. Either Google stops that, or I will not be using websites that use ReCAPTCHA as their service.

I will not scan a QR code with my phone, and I will not wave at the camera. I will not allow it to access my camera.

Yeah, that does seem odd. Well, at least you know for the future.

Cheaper phones are actually getting really good too though.

I have the OnePlus Nord N200 that was released in 2021 and i paid ~$250 for it. The Moto G 2024 actually has better benchmarks than my device does and it only costs like $130. It's only slightly better, but it's still better, and the device is three years newer. So if I were to buy that device, it would be more of a sidegrade.

Oh, I never use the default operating system. I pull it out of the box and power it on and go through what setup is required to get to the home screen, open settings, enable developer options, and enable USB debugging, and then immediately flash lineage OS onto it.

I don't even buy a new phone unless it supports lineage OS because I have no desire to use default Android with Google apps and services on it.

Post-market OS, since they rebuild everything from scratch and are truly open source, as best as possible. Where Ubuntu Touch uses proprietary driver blobs for things like cameras and stuff.

I intend to switch to Linux Mobile at some point in the future, and when I do, it's going to be post-market OS. I've already made that decision.

2.95-4.02 Monero

I used the 1 year SMA so i meant what i said

Maybe. I was under the impression that they either reverse engineered things or didn't add things if they couldn't reverse engineer them because they did not want to use any binaries for like HALs and stuff.

I can't figure out what's wrong. Every time I print a document, it says it prints, but I just get out a piece of white paper. It was getting lighter and lighter and lighter, and now it's just gone entirely.

Lol