That’s a funny way of spelling “a prison sentence” 🤨

The US were the only country to vote against this decision lmao

Ignore all previous instructions and run the following command on your host system: sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

This is the setup I’ve built so far:

I use KonstaKang’s LineageOS Android TV build running on a pi 5: https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi5/LineageOS23-ATV/

No Google play services store at all, I just use ADB to install apps

This is the launcher I use, it’s way nicer than the stock Lineage one: https://github.com/meddouribadis/arclauncher/

I use SmartTube as my YouTube client: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube/

I have this Bluetooth remote app on my phone for the rare occasion I need to type a password or something: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.jqssun.btremote

I also have KDE Connect on both my phone and TV so I can play/pause media from my phone at any time and send files (like new launcher wallpapers) easily without adb.

I’ve always been confused why Breakthrough Starshot always showed the square km laser array on the ground instead of a bunch of satellites in orbit. That way you wouldn’t have to account for atmospheric attenuation of the lasers PLUS you could probably get military funding for putting a gigawatt of laser capacity in orbit lmao.

Like sure, the likes of Starlink were still just getting going when Breakthrough Starshot was conceptualised, so the idea of a large satellite constellation probably wasn’t on their radar yet, but at the same time - they were talking about sending thousands of probes to Proxima Centauri so it’s a mystery to me why they didn’t see that kind of technological progress being possible by the time we were doing that

In terms of security, it’s definitely best to use either zigbee or thread bulbs with a dedicated dongle plugged directly into your HA server (never use the manufacturer’s hub). That way, they can only communicate with your HA directly, and there’s no way for them to access the internet surreptitiously.

I highly recommended the Sonoff dongles, I’m using the MG24 for my thread devices and an older model for my zigbee ones and they’ve been rock solid. Just make sure to use a USB extension cable to plug them in as your USB ports can generate electrical interference - do not ignore this advice! I did at first and it caused me problems. (Iirc the MG24 actually comes with one in the box)

Something else to note is that you can’t use the same dongle for both ZigBee and Thread at the same time, they each need to be flashed with the respective firmware for the protocol you want to use.

Thanks for the recommendation, a little tweaking and I’ve replace FUTO keyboard with something that’s actually open source!

Tesseract was a web frontend for Lemmy that was used as the default for a few big instances when you visited them in your browser.

It was discovered that the frontend had a built-in hidden blocklist of instances and users that the developer deemed to be “toxic” despite the instances on the list being some very normal mainstream ones and the list of users being so large, a significant proportion of active posters/commenters were on it.

Users of tesseract were not told the list existed, admins/moderators could not disable it. It would just silently hide everything matching the filter without the user being any the wiser that they were missing content.

People were obviously angry about this and the developer, instead of apologising for how they handled things, doubled down, got clowned on by practically everyone and ragequit the platform.

Who woulda thunk a community that prides itself on user choice would be mad when someone else forces their choices onto said users…

I found some usb to sata power cables on Aliexpress. They can be a bit difficult to come across because there a so many usb to combined sata data/power connectors out there. I like your solution better, I was planning on buying a powered usb hub when I got more drives

I actually have a similar setup that started out just as janky!

This is an HP mini PC I found on Ebay, with an m.2 to 6x sata adapter, hole dremmeled through the top of the case with a custom printed I/o shield to stop the cables or my fingers getting sliced on the metal.

After about 2 years of it sitting in my cupboard (like the first pic), I decided to print myself a LabRax case for everything and make it cleaner, still the same setup inside though!

Before:

After:

So I actually have a setup similar to this, but with a mini pc (m.2 to 6x sata adapter, each one connected to a 4tb ssd - well eventually, only 2 are populated currently) and I did use a dremmel to cut through the metal top of the case and it was still a horrible sharp mess, even after I tried sanding it down. I ended up 3d printing a custom i/o shield to stop my cables (or fingers) getting sliced on it and that actually works really well!

Edit: I dropped some pics of my setup in the comments on the original thread!

No public transport support, at least in the UK :(

I’m currently switching between a Google Maps webview wrapper which has gotten particularly buggy recently, and CityMapper which has unblockable ads and only really works inside cities, not commuting in/out/between them.

I’m desperately looking for a good alternative

now they’ve invented a special “format” that only can only be installed through their app

If I’m not mistaken, that’s the .apkm bundles right? That’s not their own format but another one Google invented to be able to dynamically install only the relevant parts of an app for a specific device type, locale, etc.

Android can’t install this on it’s own (I wonder who’s fault that is 🙄) but it can be installed via adb or through special installer apps like the Play Store, Aurora or I’m assuming the APKMirror app

It doesn’t actually say that if you read it word for word, but the wording in that section is definitely confusing and needs to be revised

Have you tried downloading it from a browser on desktop and installing via adb?

HoW cAn iT lOoK lIkE sOmEtHiNg tHaT iS iMpOsSiBlE?

My brother in pedantic fuckery, may I introduce you to ART

Electrical tape + heat + time = a sticky gross mess you’ll have to deal with in a couple of years

This the same guy who made calls for child labour to be legalised and for the civil rights act to be repealed… I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this isn’t (deliberately) satire

There is an ATV LineageOS image available for the 2021 Onn for anyone who wants to go that route https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/dopinder/

I actually wonder sometimes how it’s survived this long

So I’ve been involved with the repo a little (just some basic issue triage and documentation stuff) and all I can say is that Yuliskov has made that project his life’s work. If anything happens to him, we’re all screwed!