Of course there is, but the K400 just does its job very well. You can get all kinds of Bluetooth and RF remotes. I have a generic one also meant for HTPCs (Rii brand) and it literally requires line of sight within 3 meters to work at all. The K400 is recommended for a reason.

Agreed. I started to wonder what happened to my passion. But the thing is, I still really like electronics and that sorta thing, it really is just the monopolization and various anti-consumer practices that killed my love of computing. So now I’m considering an EE degree instead.

Archived version?

Newpipe still works fine for me. What’s the issue? Are you running the current version from Github?

Google works the way it does because it has basically unlimited resources. You will never find something that does EVERYTHING Google does, because running Google is like shoveling thousands of dollars into a fire constantly.

You have to choose either convenience or privacy.

Yes, it is. It’s the reason Graphene says themselves. Graphene is all about reducing potential attack vectors, de-googling just happens to be in line with that goal. An unlocked bootloader is a massive security vulnerability.

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Yes, because they allow you to re-lock the bootloader after flashing a custom ROM. They’re also pretty trivial to unlock the bootloader on in the first place.

Then they shouldn’t be called lifetime subscriptions. This seems like a really smarmy justification of a shitty business practice.

I actually prefer the Jellyfin client to the Kodi client by a lot. Using Kodi on top just adds more unneeded complexity and reloading libraries in my experience.

It works pretty well for me but I separate anime and TV/movies, and make sure the anime library is only scraping data from anime-centric databases. But I’m also not watching too much new or obscure stuff.

Yes, Microsoft has no qualms about bending to governments, same with all other corporations.

Same in Canada.

Weirdly, Pixels are actually the best Android phones for installing custom ROMs, at least out of the major manufacturers. So for me, there isn’t another choice, because I can finance a Pixel, and I can’t finance a Fairphone or something.

GrapheneOS is really the furthest away from Google you can get on an Android phone and it’s mainly developed for Pixel.

There’s nothing wrong with Graphene. I’ve been using it for months now on my Pixel 7.

Nope. Creative Cloud requires internet access for DRM.

I don’t care for LTT anymore after the whole Gamer’s Nexus thing. I wasn’t invested in either channel, I occasionally watched LTT, but it was exceedingly obvious that Linus fucked up management of his company to the point where it actually unjustly damaged a small company.

2 things, the project exists and is called ReactOS. 2nd, the kernel in the versions of Windows anyone thinks about is the NT kernel which they will never release to be open source. The NT Kernel was built specifically so that they didn’t have to use DOS to make Windows work.

This is not new. Feds asking website hosts to give IPs and identities is not even close to unique to Google. Anyone not expecting this hasn’t been paying attention in the last 15 years.

Nope. Please read my comment further up the chain. This is the Silicon Valley formula.