Dyskolos

Lol. That dude knew what he needed in live. Anime and a way home 😁

And yeah, informed purchases will often bite you in the ass. I usually take ages to come to a decision after weighing in as many factors as I could. By then it’s often sold out, EoL or more expensive.

Guess we are just sooooo niche that it’s not profitable in the slightest. Though the libretto was a bit on the big side for me. If I carry this around, I could also take my laptop. Which never left the house at all.

Working is cool! I tried it once in the 90s!

Ah okay, i just assumed you’re a kraut. Then again, my Zigbee-coordinators are ukranian, so that’s that :-) I picked the next best, as i never though i’d stay. I would also be fine with something like the nokia communicator from back then. just a bit more modern and open. Or even a blackberry without blackberry. The porsche P9100 (i think?) was a nice thing, i liked it. The thing itself though, not the OS nor the company.

8inch laptop would be something…with one of those tiny keyboards. Lovely.

I don’t actually remember comaps. But those crowd-sourced are usually problematic here, as you already pointed out. I can live with Sygic though. Good lifelong discount for yearly, and it’s european :)

Those too, of course. But it’s parents that both think that infant genitile mutilation sounds plausible. Especially when it’s only done by cults…and US-Americans. How can end up at such a decision for their oh-so-loved newborn?

I remember a vet telling a friend that “uteroectomy drastically lowers the chance for cancer in the uterus” in their dog. Because it’s expensive. Sounds like “teenager pregnancy drastically falls after the age of 20” :-)

Hey! Working is cool! I did it once in the 90s.

Real men never would have had their infant son mutilated.

If my parents would’ve done such a thing, they’d be history. Unless they would be IQ80 or so, then they couldn’t have known better. An explanation, not an excuse though.

I like to plan ahead…my pixel is aging, I wonder why it still lives. A laptop would be great. In the size of an 8" device 😁

I dunno, I only know one vendor that has a broad offering of WiFi. And last time I checked, it needed an app. But I would never use random public wifis anyway. Authoritarian regime? Judging by the Lemmy server you’re on, we’re in the same boat 😉

scroll Lemmy from public Wi-Fi.

Rarely can do, as free WiFi mostly just exist in like hospitals or such. And the apps that exist for other networks of their own “free” wifis need, you guessed right, net to begin with 😁

Not a real bummer for me though. If anyone can see that I went for a stroll in the park or went shopping, that is totally useless data. Should I ever do something where privacy matters, the thing is off. I survived no net as a kid, I will survive it some hours.

Also I do need the app whobird outside or some bug identifier. We like to know new stuff.

Python, which means it brings in 2 gigs of dependencies

Yeah lol. That’s a bit overkill

Some say C++ was a conspiracy,

I wish most would still be done in CPP. The amount of total sluggish, unoptimized, library-relient crap is legion nowadays. I was deep in the demo-scene once. Because they pushed a mashine to their limits. And they often showed what you COULD achieve. Then came winblows. And every clueless Joe became programmer, because it’s sooooo cool. (I’m none, I just code for fun or necessity)

my own solution"s that are piled up at the back of my head while I do nothing productive.

I have the strong feeling you’re all but non-productive. Which also is very subjective. If everyone would be so mindful of (modern) tech, the world would be different. This alone I find very productive.

no longer have a checkbox for MAC randomization per networ

Oh great…I didn’t notice because I actually need fixed macs for my DHCP and for a front layer of security by only allowing known macs. Outside, that’s a different thing

would need root, and I won’t get into details this time but that breaks some of Graphene’s architectural assumptions.

Indeed. Understandably so. But usually I demand to be able to own the device I bought. Noone would accept their Win-PC without privileges. At least not the majority I HOPE.

I am (mostly) fine with the Lineage

I did use it very often. Back then it was vastly easier to root/unlock any phone. Stupid google and the stupid manufacturers kinda killed it. Now only the devil himself is left. I’m tired of bricking and trying for days, just to own the fucking thing. I’m tired, boss. Really tired.

I just use graphene because I wanted to see it before judging it. And as long as my pixel lives, it seems very fine. Zero google. As far as I can say.

ow many of them are doing microprocessors (not a lot), and how many aren’t owned by oligarchs (zero).

Yeah of course you’re totally right. But still. Using a pixel, I publicly advocate for the worst of the worst. One of the destroyers of privacy and the internet. And I loved them when they started. Until the slogan “dont be evil” fell…

But while you’re totally right, what is the practical alternative? I’m not professional enough (or motivated) to do it all myself. What could one buy that is not only decent-ish (I love a great camera without having to carry a DLSR) but also runs android apps (emulated or whatever) and is private and my own? Sounds like a fantasy…

You forgot profits!

At least what i said above. Comfort-features. The open ones are great, don’t get me wrong. But not here and not for cars. At least not for me. Would’ve otherwise prefered open of course.

Really tried. They just totally suck for us. Sygic isn’t great either but way more helpful (with lane-assist or speedcam warnings and such). And the yearly sub costs a tiny fraction of what Bentley would want for a post-warranty service with nav-update 😁

Sadly found no better alternative so far, especially because I effing hate google and have it removed 99,9%.

No it does not. The AA phone is a dedicated one without SIM and a dummy google account. Whatever they track is not only useless, it couldn’t even leave the phone.

And the car itself has no uplink or anything that would need one. The best the onboard system can do is show the time and play radio. Without the phone the car is dumb as a wet rock.

Exactly…that’s why my only viable solution is the AA one. Phone on VPN with a dummy account. Automatically switched to airplane when car off and to my phone’s hotspot when car is on. Google has no usable data here. Not perfect, yes.

Android auto, sorry. I also hate forced onboard navigation that either gets stale or where you have to pay for updates. At least after warranty ends in my case.

It’s a day I wouldn’t even notice something special. As I never used that piece of shit excuse of an app. Fuck Zuck.

Mine doesn’t. Specifically downgraded big time to a nearly dumb car (AA is the only modern feature and this I can control)

I hope for the future those dumb things will still be built or else I’d have a problem…

Yeah I’m fine with that. As long as a line is drawn.

Even with absolute no pervert intention to use them, I would not want them around me. A Facebook thing constantly recording everything? We need to draw a line before it’s too late.

Not that i would like those things, but at least a gopro is very visible and surely not the prime choice of pervs.