I bought two of these a few years ago and they are really reliable. USB 2.0 so they are slow as shit, but I still use them to install linux.

validating the integrity of the installation

The ISO file should be validated, and many installation medias check hashes.

it can be disastrous if you don’t pay attention to what you type in

Valid point, even I get nervous when entering dd.

I don’t think that dd alone should be used as a backup

Absolutely it shouldn’t. I said primitive backups, which are not a replacement for things like snapshots. DD backups are space-inefficient, easily corruptible, and often result in broken systems.

Already switched to linux. I still have one windows drive that I haven’t booted for about a year. Haven’t relied on virtual machines or anything.

I bought a wear os watch deliberately because I thought I would enjoy modifying and customizing it like a regular android phone. In reality, I don’t use it much more than for fitness tracking. I’m going to buy a garmin instinct and not change for the next 4 years.

I don’t understand how people can use Gemini. I have always had bad experiences with it.

I miss old mrwhosetheboss who was more technically knowledgeable. He was talking about android modifications like roms that he probably would never talk about today.

I feel like for the most part though using something like balenaEtcher is so much easier.

Take 5 minutes to learn to use DD, and you’ll never need to install etcher again. Also DD can do primitive backups of drives, and so much more.

I’m not a vandal, but…

The "smart"ification of stuff has got to stop. Nobody asked for wireless connected robots that don’t let you connect to your own server even. Maybe if these worked with home assistant this wouldnt have happened, because home assistant devs are more competent that big corporations.

I hope google gets fucked up the ass with this, because the play store is a cancerous app store thats giving android as a whole a bad name. I trust F-droid about 50x as much as I trust the play store just because of it promoting honesty and transparency from app developers. At this point, if I want an app that’s not on f droid, I usually just won’t get it.

Anyone know about lineageos tv? It looks cool, but there might be some issues I dont know about not using it yet.

Just curious do you know why the F-droid repo says the app has trackers?

typing this from firefox on a tablet ;)

Hope he has a spot in the wilderness to hide out.

Ice Universe is generally reliable as a leaker but this didn’t seem fact based, it just seems like a random guess. Hey, I’ll bookmark this post to see if it comes true…

Is there something about chromium that makes people stick to it? I’m sure the kiwi browser is good, but why not just use firefox or Mull Browser from the creators of divestOS.

Manifest v3 extensions*

Yes. I know it’s not realistic, but it would still be cool

It’d be cool if they applied to all of android not just googled android.