Lka1988

Why did you embed the link? Just past the link directly into your comment.

https://www.firesticktricks.com/jailbreak-fire-stick.html

We have a couple Apple TVs. As much as I dislike the walled garden, they are very good for what they are.

I’m reminded of a recent comic depicting a dudebro wanting to shove a spear or something into another guy’s ass. Second guy contests the spearing for obvious reasons, but a third enters and plays the “we need to hear both sides” card.

Really drove the point home. Heh.

Also, I can’t find that comic anywhere. I don’t remember where I saw it, either.

IDK, we should ask Alanis Morisette

Ventoy is entirely unrelated to preserving user data. It’s just a tool that lets you drag-and-drop multiple ISOs onto a flash drive without having to image it every time.

Ironic because Thinkpad T- and P-series laptops are some of the most robust machines you can get for a reasonable price these days.

Of course, the IBM that launched the Thinkpad line is a completely different company than the IBM that helped commit WWII atrocities… But it doesn’t matter anyway because they sold the entire PC division to Lenovo 20 years ago.

Yeah, that was the implication.

No.

Find a well-supported distro (Debian, or Debian-based like Ubuntu and Linux Mint, is ideal - highly stable). Then go through your applications and look for Linux equivalents, or see if the companies behind the apps offer a version for Linux.

I’ve been running Linux Mint Debian Edition (not Ubuntu-based) on my laptop for almost a year now. It’s now my go-to machine for pretty much anything I do outside of my gaming PC (which is also getting Linux Mint soon).

Yes, hence the “sheer dumb luck” comment.

But I understand what you’re saying.

And nowhere to be found is an actual list of affected apps - only a couple examples.

Great job, NCSC 🤨👍

F-Droid is my go-to for anything possible. If I find something I can selfhost and has an app, I make sure the app can be found in F-Droid (or even just an APK shipped in the repo that can be managed with Obtainium), or else I lose interest.

“Oh they’re at the highest level of leadership? They must be really smart”

Meanwhile anyone with a brain understands the Peter principle.

More like they’ll fire you for not babysitting it, then hire some “techy” dudebro at half the wage to keep babysitting it until they get the prompts right (by sheer dumb luck), then fire the dudebro.

Right?

“Oh you typed in a phone number/email address in a required field? Here’s some spam you never asked for that we want you to confirm so we can continue spamming you, please bro just confirm it bro, just type in the code we sent you bro”

I got my 7900XTX for MSRP in 2023 and have no plans on “upgrading” any time soon. The same PC’s 5800X3D is also showing no signs of letting up, and given the tariff bullshit going on right now, I plan on keeping it that way for as long as possible.

I don’t disagree, however, there needs to be some form of security so the average Joe (or their kid) doesn’t accidentally press the wrong button and rm -rf the entire device (exaggerating of course, but you get the idea).

Exactly, and this also ties into my first point that the people who know, know what to look for.

I’ve rooted/jailbroken every single phone and tablet I’ve owned over the last 15 years. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I cannot stand the artificial “security” blocks out in place simply because a company thinks rooted users are somehow cheating or committing fraud or what have you - the people who do that are gonna do it no matter what.

True. Nintendo is extremely cutthroat with their IP, they like going after emulators and similar.

Sony shipped literal rootkits with their software years ago.