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  • Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal

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  • Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal

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  • Oh my sweet summer child. The privacy community is all over this and any economics course will explain how we got here.

    Anyone making equipment needs to come in just below competitors in terms of price. How? By using telemetry and data collection to sell for advertising. This is seen as a subsidy to make the equipment more competitive to get it in more homes for long-term rent-seeking for income lasting years from every user. Same as with any smart appliance. The TV, connected to the internet, monitors what you watch even when you've connected by HDMI.

    Can you just not connect the TV? Absolutely, yes. That's how low the bar is, that simply not giving the TV a connection and using 1 extra device in between is all it takes to come out ahead. That's a gamble worth it to Samsung. I have a Samsung TV, and that's all I need to do to come out ahead. But many, many people think the TV needs to do it all and just give it a data connection.

  • Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal

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  • The cost of that TV is heavily subsidized on the expectation that you connect it to the internet and it feeds Samsung data on you.

  • WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed

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  • This is the key point - these have to be clear signals in the same room.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever.

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  • That's what Google wants, because people gave up on Jailbreaking iPhones because the loss of features wasn't worth it on the other side. Google probably doesn't love that their flagship is the best model for use with custom ROMs, plus they're also trying to lock out Xiomi as well for what that's worth.

    While giving up is an option, someone somewhere needs to coordinate this entire OSS ecosystem to focus on singular projects. I would love to see a privacy and FOSS non-profit do exactly this.

  • DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files

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  • I did love the outright contradictions about COVID vaccines. But my cat snores like he breathes when he's awake. Dude is not well. But we knew that.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever.

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  • I'm in the same exact boat.

    At some point when Google kills custom ROMs, everyone working on customs ROMs won't have anywhere else to go other than a Linux phone.

  • Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures at a club in San Francisco—about the Antichrist

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  • Oh, he's banking on society collapsing. That's what his Praxis network-state-city is about.

    If you're not familiar with Curtis Yarvin, he's the crazy glue holding it all together. Get deep into that mess, it's what happens after Project 2025 runs out of ideas.

  • Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that

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  • This is how I feel with just my spouse. Spotify absorbs so much ADD energy and immediate new music whiplash that I can't help but be OK with it.

    The alternative is to be up at 4:00am on Oct 13 ripping T-Swizzle MP3s from YT.

  • The state of Linux phones in 2025

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  • Same. Never use these things on Android.

  • The state of Linux phones in 2025

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  • That's about the connection to Car Play, not GPS

  • The state of Linux phones in 2025

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  • When customs ROMs and most FOSS apps are killed next year on Android, we're all going to find out very quickly how much the trap has closed around us.

    Same reason I loved to Linux on desktop, something that used to be cool and open and at least work mostly has enshittified beyond repair. I'm not going to let the bastards get me if I can help it.

  • TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile

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  • It's really more like the Android apocalypse is looming. We have 11 months and some change before android phones get locked down like Apple.

  • How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

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  • But....I came here just for the gloating fediverse content.

    What else could there be?

  • A jeweler friend of mine banned from /r/somethingimade because he recreate a ring found in a viking burial site with inscription "for allah" citing it promotes terrorism.

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  • I started a new account a few months back and had to start building karma, so I was commenting a lot in the subs for new users. Every other day there was a post about "why can't I post?" "Am I banned already?" etc. becasue reddit is trash, and I would respond explaining about karma thresholds and bots, and how reddit mostly doesn't care about new people all that much.

    I got a 3-day ban for "pushing an agenda" - which is backed by plenty of evidence that any mod of any community can see. But if you have an opinion that doesn't work with a mod, out you go.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • They also stopped support that allowed for easier development of custom ROMs a couple weeks back. So it's not good news for custom ROMs. Either someone needs to form Android for good, or Linux phones are our next best bet.

    Back in 2019 when the leadership changed, they moved to be 100% about advertising, which is why Google started going browser fingerprint tracking. Invasive is the name of the game. Within 6 months of that, they're also locking down their entire ecosystem like Apples does, specifically to squeeze more data out for advertising. This isn't an action taken in a vacuum.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Sorry, I mean just for the UK, US, and apparently China also.

    Fortunately, the EU isn't going down the same path, and has Estonia, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands as guides. And to just do this in the right order and do step 1: sensible digital ID system.

  • Fucking moron

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  • Officially, as declared by Congress.

  • Fucking moron

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  • I mean that after WWII, the public sentiment was "We're done with war. Whew!" That's exactly why officially declaring war and using the war powers workaround was used in ever example you gave.

    It was the Department of War for 150 years before 1947 when Truman changed the name.