Oh, more of a “I thought you loved me” and a dash of “I didn’t sign up for this” after I had a stroke. Love is cheap to some… sometimes the one closest to you.

You’re the one at the top, saying “it ain’t so bad”

No, but thanks for asking. I haven’t been ‘okay’ in 9+ years.

When I tested a roku (I think that’s what this is, based on the button and color) stick a few years ago, it was awful - network errors during setup, atrocious password limits, and once I completed setup it had a ad that took 1/4 of the home page and it wouldn’t calm the fuck down pinging servers even when idle. I actually returned it the next day, I wanted my like $40 back.

My ex bought one a couple years later and I cringed so hard. No way in fuck I’d let that infestation on my network again.

“we see your penis is below average in length and girth; click OK on your remote or say ‘more information’ to learn about how to fix that” as you step into your bedroom to get dressed

What if you’re a big technical?

I have searched for stuff in AHK, VB.net (helping a friend poke at code), and Lua (game stuff for myself), and it’s been okay, but I don’t code ‘real’ things anymore, kinda burnt out as a hobby a few years ago. I’m stateside.

I’ve been quite liking Kagi (paid). No search manipulation, no ads, good results, no tracking, no tying search to accounts, you can modify results yourself (remove pintrist, facebool results; pin Wikipedia results to the top of results; boost sites in your results that you use heavily, etc).

I’ve been using it for like, 5 months now? Rarely need to use bangs, the search is pretty damn good.

“here is 6 months access to my onlyfans”

I use a password longer than the android limit (16 characters) since graphene allows longer; I use letters numbers and symbols. But I also use biometrics, because fuck typing that every time I need to open my phone. Allows for a very secure fresh (re)boot state, and with decent security when it has been unlocked at least once. I also use Locker, which (assuming it works, it’s a few years old now, luckily never had to see) lets you set a max number of unlock attempts before using admin privileges to wipe. And graphene lets you set a ‘time since last unlock’ auto-restart, to get that initial secure state back.

Probably overkill, but I have leos in the family and I have been harassed before several times over the years (often without any cause or merit), as a teenager and beyond, and I don’t trust anyone wearing a badge anymore. So ‘plan for the worst, hope for the best’ is my strategy.

You need the pin/password, regardless if the phone was unlocked or you fooled the biometric scanner, to wipe it. If you factory reset it by the recovery method, it will want the Google account that was last signed in before it lets you proceed. it’s been years since I had to do this, but it is a nice attempt to reduce phone thefts. (that is (might be?) nullified on graphene as it can skip the gps package, but for the usual user it’s a nice feature)

That’s like saying the best part of being interrogated is the waterboarding because it’s refreshing

Who the hell keeps their house at 68F?! 74-78 is my preferred temp but I can cope all the way to 85. But you turn that below 70 and we’re gonna have a problem (both in the “I’m fucking cold, bitch” sense as well as the “do you own the electrical company or something? I didn’t know you’re a billionaire”)

Whelp, time for arson then. Sorry, it’s the rules.

With the prism project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) along with things like 641A ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ), G doesn’t need to send anything. The nsa is already swallowing it whole.

Turn that off with (on pixel / aosp) Settings, Location, Location services, turn both to off.

Does Dell… not offer a way to update the bios via flash drive or network? The fuck? Every board I’ve ever owned had the option to at least flash from USB.

“Nah I’ve already got 4 tin-foil hats on and I’m destroying anything made after the 1950s right now. Kids included, they are microchipped with the vaccines. It’s okay because I’ll plead insanity.” -way too many people

Yeah but if you have the phone with an unlocked bootloader and anyone gains access to it (physical or otherwise)…

Security. You’re caught with your pants down if you have any personal data on a phone with an unlocked bootloader. All data is effectively plaintext, all security is nullified with trivial difficulty. This is the actual worst-case scenario for journalists, whistleblowers, or anyone who is or may become under surveillance for any reason.