Most content (excluding their own) is not available in all regions due to licensing issues.

Actually, even including their own for some dumb reason. For instance, Paramount holds the rights to Star Trek, but there’s no way for me to stream some of the shows legally, because Paramount+ isn’t available where I live.

Which to me makes no sense. It’s just a freaking website, globally accessible, hosting content they own…

I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn’t bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.

Unihertz makes a bunch of tiny Android phones, which are about the size of a credit card (if you ignore the thickness).

… for now. They’ve already replaced the old Notepad with a bloated UWP version, so it probably won’t be long before it starts sending telemetry as well.

IT guy here, the NFC thing isn’t really a concern (NFC doesn’t work that way) or for that matter, any other wireless technology, as it’ll need to authenticate with your phone somehow. If you can somehow simply scan data from a phone without any form of authentication, that would be a massive security hole - something that would be patched by the vendors real quick. Also, if something like that were possible then the TSA/FBI wouldn’t have any issues pulling data from locked phones. Think of all the times you’ve had to put your phone thru the xray machines at the airports. Also see the case of FBI vs Apple for instance.

The other issues you’ve mentioned are valid though. Heck my Galaxy Fold won’t even fit in that slot.

Have you tried installing MTGO using Lutris? Apparently it works fine, but you’ll need some tweaks. The key is to use windowed mode, disable music and card animations:

Runner options: -Use the latest version of lutri-proton if it’s not the default. -Use windowed (virtual desktop) mode and the display resolution of whatever device you are playing on. This was the biggest fix of most problems for me with stuff related to proper rendering of windows. -All else is default from Lutris install

System options: -Uncheck restrict number of cores -Disable desktop effects -All else is default from Lutris install

In-game options: -Disable or silence music and Uncheck play client startup music -Disable card animations(summoning sickness and foil treatment)

I’ve also found that it is always better to close the program using the Stop button on Lutris, there’s a bug where sometimes if you close out of the game via the Close button in the window, it will not properly stop the game, and will prevent starting the game back up again. I also tend to start the game in Lutris instead of via a desktop shortcut.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/101262d/psa_mtgo_on_steam_deck/j9bqck9/

Well, if you’re using Mullvad’s malware/ad filters etc there’s really no need for a PiHole in the first place (unless you’re doing some funky custom filtering).

Mullvad’s DNS. It’s available for non-subscribers as well, and their privacy policy explicitly claims they do not log DNS requests in any way. https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/

They support both DoT and DoH, and also have various servers for blocking ads, trackers etc (if you wish to use them): https://github.com/mullvad/dns-blocklists

I that case, check out Fedora CoreOS.

https://www.talos.dev/

It runs entirely in RAM, administration is super simple, no ssh, easy to update/and upgrade, immutable, minimal distro designed specifically for secure container usage.

That looks like a fun mix of analog and digital, done right. I might have to pop into to our local pinball place and see if they’ve got anything similar.

What do those season 1/2/3 panels do btw?

How about Gogs? The whole thing is < 30 MB, and is lightweight enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. You can even get a native binary package if you want to run it without the overhead of Docker.

Oh. I was expecting Okonomiyaki.

Yep

Yep, just use the rectangular selection from the edge panel and you can save it as a screenshot or extract the text.

Native Alpha is an opensource alternative.

Probably Oblivion and Skyrim. Depends on the controls though, some PC games require a mouse and keyboard to play (like Age of Empires), so it would be interesting to see how they handle button mapping and mouse drags/gestures.

This hasn’t aged well:

I wonder if getting a smartwatch with tap-to-pay, like the Pixel watch could help with that? You could still continue to use GrapheneOS on your phone (assuming the watch has no phone dependencies).

- 2011, HTC Desire

Running ADW Launcher on probably Android Froyo, and the Tron Legacy theme. Tron Legacy was released only a month prior to this screenshot, and I was a huge fan, so I themed everything I had with Tron themes. It was a tough decision whether to go for the Nexus One or the Desire, in the end, I picked the Desire because it had slightly more RAM and physical navigation buttons. Plus, the optical joystick on it was awesome. Also most likely running a custom ROM, not sure which one but possibly Oxygen.

- 2013, Nexus 4

I guess I was testing out TeamViewer for Android here. Not sure about the launcher, but still stuck on the Tron theme lol. Running Android Jellybean, Paranoid Android, with pie controls in the second screenshot (man I miss the pie controls. And old PA, with the per-app DPI, Halo and other cool stuff).

- 2013, Nexus 4

Still on the Tron theme (don’t judge), but this time I’ve switched to Smart Launcher. This is probably the launcher I liked the most and stuck with the longest, thanks to it’s automatic app categorization, which meant I no longer had to create folders and manually organize my apps. I stuck with Smart Launcher until it’s inevitable enshittification started. Running CyanogenMod 11 (KitKat).

It’s November 2013 and I finally got over Tron lol, and started getting more into minimal home screens.

Running XuiMod (Xposed module), which brought back the Gingerbread-style recents. (on KitKat).

Bonus video showing off my entire setup running Smart Launcher, crDroid and a few of my apps at the time: https://youtu.be/2JMBPtKzx2o

I’ve got tons more screenshots and videos, but don’t want to spam this thread. If anyone’s interested though I’ll be happy to share. :)