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This is precisely one of the perks of rooting. Unless you mean as a right, without needing to root? I'd disagree (from a corporate/warranty perspective), but I'll bite
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There's some hiccups when you first set GrapheneOS up, but after that it is as smooth as, and blends in with, any other Android device. I've never used Librem or PinePhone to comment on them
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> And why do we have to accept that phones just turn into garbage after a few years? Even my old 2009 laptop* still runs an up-to-date OS but my 2016 phone is obsolete after 2-3 years? It is because computers run one of a few available O
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3y ago
Can't we just disconnect the transmitter physically inside the car? Assume we don't care if we void a warranty. This is my plan for when it is no longer practical to buy old/bricked cars.
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When I first started playing I had the same reaction as you. I was trying to win and the rules didn't seem clear. I continued not because I liked the game, but because I enjoyed the company of my friends, even if the activity didn'
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3y ago
> I rolled a 15 sided dice 15 sided die? Why didn't you also roll a 58 sided die then? > I will be reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar Great luck! I loved that book as a child. It may have been what led me to HN...
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3y ago
Their pay should be what the contract agreed it to be, regardless of how popular it was. Imagine someone makes a popular show. They are hired by another company in hopes of a repeat, but it flops. The company doesn't get to hold back t
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3y ago
Yes, however most people have google accounts. For example, with an android, it is impossible to download an app from the Play Store without a google account (assuming you aren't using a mirror, and other stipulations), so that alone e
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I deleted my history several times back when I used a google account. It can be done in two places, but the easier is, starting from any google application, click ProfileImage > Manage your Google Account > Data and Privacy. On that p
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> I'm going to get the Qwitzatteracht discussion going on the three internet forums. I used to play Qwitzatteracht with my friends as a schoolboy and love following the stats of players as an adult. With it being dropped from Sky ne
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3y ago
> And then I use libredirect ( https://libredirect.github.io/ ) to avoid hitting the actual Twitter website so I don't have to log in (don't have an account anyway) and don't see nonsense recommended posts.
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Obviously there's going to be some abuse of this system (by the homeless), but overall I think this is really cool, and I fail to see how this makes bank for any of the orchestraters involved. Cities that deal with high levels of homel
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3y ago
I considered buying a xiaomi 5 years ago and this makes me glad I didn't
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> I get the order of the words mixed up to the other language. I'm trying to piece whether this would be anicdotal evidence for or against the previous statement of > All brains work that way. Since there are many ways this could
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3y ago
I have dreamed of ditching the phone but haven't because so many sites that require a phone number to make an account, and some that use that number to validate your identity. How do you get around this?
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15 seconds isn't very long. By making those seconds not boring (engaging the user), I feel that would cause the opposite effect of the intended self-reflection and friction the 15 seconds are supposed to create
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3y ago
I have two email relays from DDG and have never installed their extension nor even knew they had an extension when I got their relays. (I know now but at the time I didn't) If you download the app on your phone, you can get a relay an
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I've had the same folder system for nearly a decade, which is a while for me, as I am young. Four main folders which are: -Activity: social planning, ideas, games, holiday stuff, etc. in respective subfolders. -Education: gradeschool,
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4y ago
Most war operations are nonviolent - what you are thinking of is called kinetic warfare. What determins if it is a war or not varies by country policy but can usually be boiled down to whether there are militant operations involved or if a
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4y ago
Although difficult and not well known about, fingerprinting can be randomized[1]. I have been successful creating a random fingerprint on only Brave so far, but I did need to tweak some browser settings. 1 check your fingerprint details her
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4y ago
Love your perspective. It reminds me of the technological advances from the space race to the moon as well. We aren't taking casual trips up there ever, but the tech that came from it was revolutionary
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4y ago
As a user of GrapheneOS, I strongly recommend. I did a few tests to check that it is doing what it claims, and as far as I can tell it is, and better than I expected. I will be staying with GrapheneOS for the foreseeable future.
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For personal stuff, it is daunting but degoogling is definitely sustainable. I have been unsuccessful getting every person to contact me on my new email no matter how many times I remind them though. There are great ecosystems out there for
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Just generic spoofing. Like you pointed out watching for google.com.evil instead of google.com, and theres also email phishing where they try to replicate a companies email and get you to click links, etc. Theres so many ways to spoof thing
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I just realized you are the author! That explains your curiousity, and I'll get into the nitty gritty details. A part of my previous comment isn't clear: when I say I didnt have 2FA, I meant I didnt have it enabled at all, not tha
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I mean the devices themselves. When you visit a site, details about your device are sent to the webserver, such as screen dimentions and resolution, processors, gyroscope information (orientation of screen), location, default language, and
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FEA Solver that doesn't need defeaturing
(coreform.com)
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4y ago
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I don't work at this company, but know some of the people involved and I think it is really cool. For those not in the know, most FEA programs require the model to be simplified and a custom meshing put on it. They also have difficulty
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Lol sure. I've never worked in design so I really am not the best source of insight but I will give the best advice I can as a casual internet user. Feel free to email me at eks391@opayq.com
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> I asked a good friend who started learning to code a few months ago to try it, and she was way less successful with it versus reading documentation. This was my experience. As a learning programmer, I determined it is easier to read th
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