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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
try installing 5 random apps per week from the google app store and report back to us with the results. make sure to change your phone to mandarin and look for apps from china. repeat in japanese and cantonese. this is what my wife does. s
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
>Do you also run all your programs as root on desktop? Wtf. yes. always have. same in windows where I also don't use antivirus. and this is what most tech people do for their personal equipment. because the one issue I had, in my 3
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
for those times when I run that terminal application on my phone. which is already rooted, so it's doesn't need the kernel bug to get root. it can just run.
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
your phone is not a linux server. yes, if you install a virus or an outdated app, someone can daisychain a priv escalation using a kernel bug. no need for that though - my phone is already rooted. Your car has pieces that run linux too. Gu
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
It is different for phones made by the people who also make Android. Google. Which is why I was specifically talking about the pixel and the nexus phones sold by google. For example, kernel version 4.9.3 - the latest one (yes, originally
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
I'll start by saying I spent a full 5 minutes reading through those and gave up. I asked for an example, you pasted twenty pages of random garbage and said "here, maybe you'll find something in this dump I took - why don&#x2
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
We are not talking about datacenter servers - we are talking about smartphones. you can run a 4.9 kernel with all security patches applied, just like you can run windows10 with all security patches applied. You can update bluetooth and wif
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
You're ok w/ a pixel5 size (6" screen) but you're not ok w/ s10 size (6.1" and has headphone jack)? And the actual phone size of the S10 is smaller than the nexus 5 you mentioned.
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
I completely agree with you. If you want simple, if you want OTA updates from the people who made your phone, if you don't want to worry about it - iphone is perfect, i buy them for my wife. But the discussion in this thread was speci
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
Alright - I'll bite. This is a smartphone, not a windows PC with a bunch of services. There is Zero listening on any port. There is no attack surface for any kernel - the only thing there would be a bug in mms. Please share your sou
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
it's def not for the iphone crowd though. also the crappiest lineageOS support ever - but lots of other roms. I got the panda version. after 2 months in my side pocket, the white paint that for some reason the google geniuses decided s
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
Samsung S10 and S10+ looks to me like the place to be, flashed w/ a custom degoogled ROM. Nokia Maps (here wego), Open Camera, something like Aptoide, K9 mail. https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/samsung-galaxy-s10.
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
I love the iphone. I get my wife the latest and greatest every two years, and I forget about it. If she had an Android anything, I'd be spending at least an hour per week on tech support. It's absolutely worth the inflated pric
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
One doesn't have to dream. Flashing a rom on google-branded phones is so simple, a non-tech person can follow a 5min youtube video to do it. The Nexus 6 from 2014 can have the latest android running on it - not just security updates.
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
...which will simply make you more deaf. hearing aids do not simply amplify volume. you know, because they're not headphones and a microphone. but your idea is great too. if you can't hear one frequency, let's amplify all f
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
The RTX 3090 - literally the top performing card available, that doubles as a space heater has 24GB of VRAM. Either you're wrong, or Apple built a Civic with a huge exhaust. Which will sound like a vacuum cleaner... Here are the top
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
Ok, I believe you're being sarcastic, because this little paragraph is ridiculous, so I'll address it as if you are - because then you have a very good point. This is Apple's Pro line. There is no more performant laptop that
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
Yeah, the entire piece reads like it was written by a who took AP Econ in high school, majored in Philosophy, then joined superbonk or whatever on reddit two decades later. This article is him telling the apes why they're wrong. Infla
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
This only sounds ridiculous because you replaced the things the OP was talking about, with your own, to make it sound ridiculous. "Is it about being a decentralized caching layer? Is it about permanently storing content? Is it about re
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
Based on assuming I talk at the office to my coworkers the way I talk to some stranger with a really bad opinion online, you have deduced that coworkers at my presales job in data storage are not treated well. Based on how you talk here, yo
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
I am speaking as if I have no idea about your work and what you do. I am speaking as if I am addressing the specific incredibly stupid thing you said, from a user point of view. You know who does not care about your music "industry&q
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
I did not suggest anything. I very clearly stated what I stated, in plain English that is very easy to understand. Your qualifications are irrelevant. Your point of view on the issue we are discussing is wrong for long-term product succe
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
That last part is the most important point - the main point. Your comment shows the exact issue as the "you don't need a dislike button because our AI knows better." You read my post, you read all the comments on here with
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
You are exhibiting google's mistake, caused by over educated people with zero real experience thinking they know better. Or, I should correct that - some code they wrote knows better than the complex brain of the actual person. This r
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
> why aren't our ears affected they're affected listening to the raw microphone capture. that's because the noise generated is much louder than the speech. so listening to raw microphone capture with this thing on, you c
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
No, I'm saying that does literally nothing but add noise. It does not block or change the original signal in any significant way for human ears - only for consumer-level voice recognition software. Which is extremely crappy even withou
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
No one is going to buy this. It doesn't jam your voice at all. It introduces enough distortion and noise so that computer speech recognition software gets 4/5 words wrong. Let me make a comparison. Claim: Those capchas with &qu
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
I never claimed page 346 was breaking the law. I claimed after you discover that the action reveals private data, and you repeat that action a bunch of times for the explicit purpose of getting more private data, you are now a criminal. T
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
So as to not discourage people - right to work does not prevent you from going after a company that mistreated you in a civil lawsuit. If they ask you to do something unreasonable that was not in the job description, you can sue them for t
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by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
..and you're not allowed to walk into someone's house if they only have a door frame instead of a locked door. they are for preventing criminals from forcefully breaking in. but you don't have to break in to commit the crime

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