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9 votes
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For owners of Amazon’s Ring security cameras, strangers may have been watching too
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Experiences with LineageOS and/or moving from iPhone to Android (or LineageOS )
Hi there, I'm considering purchasing a used Galaxy S7 and moving to LineageOS and would like to hear about similiar experiences. I currently own a iPhone 5S (only my second smartphone). I plan to...
Hi there,
I'm considering purchasing a used Galaxy S7 and moving to LineageOS and would like to hear about similiar experiences. I currently own a iPhone 5S (only my second smartphone). I plan to continue using Ting as my provider.
I am attracted to LineageOS because it's open source and allows greater control than the standard Android-build I'd get from an ISP. I'm not afraid of installing ROMs or tinkering - I know I'll be doing a lot more of that by moving to an open-source OS.
I was looking at Galaxy S7 because it's well-known and has wide support/information available on forums, etc and of course because it's relatively cheap to get a used one ($200-ish).
I'm in the US and use Ting as my provider.
So some questions I have are:
- Should I expect to use the standard Google Play store? I'm still a little unclear on this after looking at the LineageOS website and wiki. The best I could find for an answer is this article talking about installing default google apps. I think my question is so basic it's not addressed on their site lol.
- Can I drag and drop MP3s from my computer to the phone? In other words, can I get my music on there without having to install something dreadful like iTunes or use Spotify/Amazon Music?
- The LineageOS project looks healthy to my untrained eye...any rumors that it'll vanish overnight?
- I found these instructions for a Galaxy S7 Anything else I should know or look out for?
- Any general thoughts/advice about moving from the Apple to the Google ecosystem? I'm entrenched in Google everywhere BUT my iPhone where I mostly use Google apps.
- What else should I look out for? See any gaps in my understanding?
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(Don't) return to sender: How to protect yourself from email tracking
13 votes -
T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Are Selling Customers' Real-Time Location Data, And It's Falling Into the Wrong Hands
29 votes -
Trying to de-Google my life bit by bit. What should I do to move away from gmail?
I'm considering self-hosting, but might prefer to use a paid email provider. Perhaps ProtonMail?
40 votes -
Effective alarm clock for Android that doesn't spy on you or need 25 permissions?
“Subj.” as they used to say. I used to use Sleep As Android, but they seem to be adding more and more useless features that require more and more permissions which bothers me a lot.
15 votes -
Apple's Errors
6 votes -
Life lessons from a lifestyle business - An interview with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter
8 votes -
Hiding messages in chess games
8 votes -
Childhood's end — The digital revolution isn’t over but has turned into something else
8 votes -
Should you donate to the Wikimedia Foundation?
11 votes -
How 3D printing is revolutionizing manufacturing
3 votes -
YouTube stars are pushing a shady Polish gambling site
12 votes -
Open standards may finally give patients control of their data and care via Electronic Health Records
6 votes -
USB-IF Launches USB Type-C™ Authentication Program
8 votes -
China Moon mission lands Chang'e-4 spacecraft on far side
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Mozilla: Ad on Firefox’s new tab page was just another experiment
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Letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors
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Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
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What are some other sites/projects that have the same ethos as Tildes?
Tildes' guiding principles are laid out in its announcement post: Non-profit, no investors No advertising, user-supported Open, honest, and open-source Minimal user-tracking, better privacy...
Tildes' guiding principles are laid out in its announcement post:
- Non-profit, no investors
- No advertising, user-supported
- Open, honest, and open-source
- Minimal user-tracking, better privacy
- High-quality content and discussions
- Limited tolerance, especially for assholes
I'm interested in other projects that line up with some or all of these principles. It doesn't have to be a site with the same function as Tildes, just the same feel. What else is out there that we should know about?
28 votes -
How Facebook tracks you on Android
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Which NextCloud provider should I use?
I was going to try out NextCloud and wanted to know Tildes' opinion on which one. CloudFiles seemed pretty good. Are they legitimate? Is there anything I should know before I get into this?
12 votes -
Tech luminaries we lost in 2018
6 votes -
In screening for suicide risk, Facebook takes on tricky public health role
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YouTube breeds sociopaths and monsters. Not through audience’s demands but how the platform itself is designed.
24 votes -
Hey Google! When did I ask you to access my Purchase details?
5 votes -
Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
14 votes -
Forgive fast, block even faster and other rules for maintaining your sanity on the internet
6 votes -
Banner blindness revisited: Users dodge ads on mobile and desktop
7 votes -
Matrix 2018, a year in review
22 votes -
How the artificial intelligence program AlphaZero mastered its games
8 votes -
"The" Social Credit System - 35C3 Talk
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Roger Dingledine - Next Generation Tor Onion Services
5 votes -
How much of the internet is fake?
36 votes -
Inside Facebook’s secret rulebook for global political speech
10 votes -
Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'
Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms' A different view - the Australian...
Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'
A different view - the Australian Broadcasting Commission: Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students
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The Welfare State Is Committing Suicide by Artificial Intelligence: Denmark is using algorithms to deliver benefits to citizens—and undermining its own democracy in the process.
6 votes -
Is there a proxy/vpn setup that can compress data in situ?
I've been wondering about this for a while whenever I'm on a metered connection or a capped one. It'd be cool if I could use my vps to help save data in exchange for latency. Having it download...
I've been wondering about this for a while whenever I'm on a metered connection or a capped one.
It'd be cool if I could use my vps to help save data in exchange for latency. Having it download and compress any compressible materials before serving them would be a godsend, but it sounds very edge case-y given how places like youtube deliver videos in bite size peices
Does something like this sound at all possible, or should I just assume it's too niché and look for other data saving ways?
7 votes -
Seeking help on a Tasker set up
I have a Fitbit blaze. It doesn't have a proper api, you can only get the data it generates. However it does have push notifications and a music controller. My idea was to set up a playlist of...
I have a Fitbit blaze. It doesn't have a proper api, you can only get the data it generates. However it does have push notifications and a music controller.
My idea was to set up a playlist of empty music files to act as menu options. E.g. track one would be named "turn phone off" and so on. This works as fine as a single menu option but when using multiple option, VLC just plays through the entire playlist.
Is there a music player that selects one track on a playlist and then stops? Or can I set this in VLC?
11 votes -
A tester walks into a bar: Reviewing test techniques
4 votes -
Doomba
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Seeking help on how partitions will work when dual-booting
I plan on dual-booting Linux soon, and I am wondering on how to handle partitions. I have 3 drives in my computer: an SSD that Windows 10 boots from, a second SSD with one partition and some...
I plan on dual-booting Linux soon, and I am wondering on how to handle partitions. I have 3 drives in my computer: an SSD that Windows 10 boots from, a second SSD with one partition and some unallocated space intended for Linux, and an HDD.
When I install Linux on that SSD, how can I prevent Windows from messing with the Linux partition and vice-versa? Can Linux and Windows both read and write to the HDD partitions without complaining about the other modifying them?
4 votes -
How Google tracks your personal information
7 votes -
Gaming chat startup Discord raises another $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
14 votes -
Best bluetooth usb for audio?
At the risk of sounding like an audiophile I noticed that on some bluetooth devices audio quality comes out absolutely terrible (Like radio recorded with a phone microphone). I was using a pair of...
At the risk of sounding like an audiophile I noticed that on some bluetooth devices audio quality comes out absolutely terrible (Like radio recorded with a phone microphone). I was using a pair of Bose QC 35 headphones and on my phone they sound just fine but on my desktop which has a cheap $2 bluetooth usb the sound quality is terrible. Ok for $2 what can you expect but now I have a distrust for all bluetooth devices. How can I know if my bluetooth usb is killing the quality of audio when thats not even a listed spec on these devices. I looked in to this a little bit ago and there seem to be a few proprietary extensions to bluetooth that allow lossless streaming but they aren't well supported because they are proprietary. I understand that high quality lossy compression is pretty much the same quality as lossless but how do I find a product that uses high quality lossy compression when it seems some of them use absolutely horrible compression?
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The year social networks were no longer social - In praise of private communities
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The internet of unprofitable things
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Yes, your refrigerator is trying to kill you [2014, OSCON Talk]
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Yes, Big Platforms Could Change Their Business Models
12 votes