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8 days ago(Thinking aloud) Wonder if it works in ARM devices and with programs that require constant connection… 👀
Thanks! Will be cooking something now =D
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11·8 days agoRight now, with lack of major alternatives, it’s the smaller of the two evils.
And if the pushback I see is proportional to the real pushback, I’d imagine Google will take a step back, giving people more time to prepare.
And in line of getting prepared, if the AOSP project is forked, I’d imagine they could and possibly even would be mainteined while the original AOSP goes downhill. Similarly, if making the software is the problem, iirc there are rudimentary ways to make Android programs without Google’s SDK, of which people could start working on more attently too.
So all in all, unless alternatives get a sudden major boost, I think Android is the safest bet for users that care for freedom.
(And a side note, people should look also for devices that don’t have the bootloader locked from factory)
31·8 days agoDon’t know tbh
Been using Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM, and swapping between Android 16 (KonstaKANG’s AOSP fork) for Grayjay and NewPipe, and some random Linux distro for Kodi and other offline stuff.
So far working nicely.
10·8 days agoWhat if you install DOSBox separately, then point Heroic to open it along with the game’s bundled config file? (Iirc
dosbox -conf /path/to/conf-file.conf, though can’t test now to be sure)
Yt-dlp doesn’t deal with cracking, but by fetching the files from DRM-free endpoints of a given service. And from what I’ve seen in issues from both yt-dlp and Grayjay, such endpoints were all removed in recent months for Crunchyroll (and by extensions, neither support downloading from Crunchyroll anymore).
14·8 days agoThe good part of the backdoor to have been found out is that now it’s much harder to pull that again, be it on the same project, or in projects from people that followed through the issue and/or the news - and with how much noise was made, I’d expect quite a lot more of people than the usual to have seen something about.
Don’t have experience with setting up servers, but one idea I have for when I go set up one of my own is a Linux-based server through Termux. Only problem is if you need to change permissions for Android files, as then you’d need root to run sudo-based commands.
Have yet to test the Deck or any other portable console-like PCs, but about Linux it is pretty straightforward nowadays for running Windows games, mostly requiring some occasional tweaks and troubleshooting, but nothing major. _
Also in the topic of facilitating usage, maybe you’d be interested in checking Heroic Launcher if you have games on Amazon Prime, EGS and/or GOG? Makes running the respective platforms’ games pretty easy too.
Maybe also cross-post in data-hoarding and archival communities? Seen some in the time I’ve been here on the fediverse.
I’m still trying to figure out how all of this fits together.
A suggestion I give, if you feel you hit a roadblock, give it some time to digest the information. Stress/exhaustion can hinder the capacity to absorb all the info.
And from my experience, a lot of Linux’s workings either are related to each other, or at least the knownledge you get from one thing can be applied retroactively. So, from what I went through back when I was new to Linux, doing that, putting a given project aside for some days while sticking to the overall environment, allowed both things, to digest the information and to learn stuff I could then use back in such projects.
Any sources you can remember
Sadly no specific one. I dig a lot and try to sift pieces and bits that are useful.
Though, in retrospect, Stack Exchange’s subforums, which often appear in researches, often also were sources for several of my solutions, even among some of the super old replies.
(Also sorry if I’m not very direct in my answers; am bit of a rambler and I have the habit of constructing essay-like answers, intro/development/conclusion)
You can make a permanent install, yeah. In that previous computer I had, I kept a dual boot with Win10 and Ubuntu for about 2 years, each taking about half the internal HD’s size. And during install of Linux systems (Android x86-based ones included), usually you can install Grub which lets you choose during boot which system to boot, or if you don’t touch anything, to automatically boot a given system (you can configure which is picked automatically within the OS).
Ventoy on USB sticks is good as an installation media, not a boot media, unless you want to use your ISOs as temporary systems due to their respective live boots.
For creating a dual boot, some systems have in-built tools during installation for that, usually named along the lines of “install besides/along another system”, though worth noting you must have unalocated space for that. If you still have Windows on your machine, its partition manager is pretty straight forward for freeing space, in case you don’t want to tinker with GParted for whatever reason.
About special configs, maybe you need to disable secure boot in the BIOS menu to run Ventoy sticks, though I may be getting VMs confused with dual booting, so take with a grain of salt that. And answering also the secure boot question, you enter the BIOS menu usually by turning off the computer, and as you turn it back on, spam F2 until the BIOS screen appears.
About making the switch, alternativeto.net is a great resource, and Wine + VMs can help too, though the dual boot may make those two a bit redundant.
About physical risks to your device, afaik there aren’t any likely to happen. At most you’d need wipe the original memory, but usually installation ISOs have the function for that, including GParted within the liveboot.
Questions I skipped are the ones I don’t know what to answer.
Linux Mint Xfce
Mint because it doesn’t break often and usually fixes are simple enough, and Xfce because, though I don’t know how well it fares compared to others nowadays, it was the variant that would run the lightest in a previous computer I had some years ago, so I grew attached to it.
Also besides Steam, Heroic (for GOG, EGS and Amazon Prime) and Mitch (for Itchio) work fine on it.
Unsure on the creator side of things, but besides PeerTube, which uses ActivityPub like Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed, looking at Grayjay’s sources list, there are some others, like Rumble, Odysee, BiliBili (Chinese), Nico Nico (Japanese), Dailymotion and Bitchute. Maybe a start to check?
Imo, the best one is the one that fits the user’s needs the best. Though it sounds like a non-answer, distros are usually tailored for specific needs, so not necessarily the features or lack thereof from one distro disregard another.
2·2 months agoCopypasta of my comment in the post in the F-Droid community:
Chrono is extremely good for me, given often having to have alarms in the oddest of times, and it allowing me to schedule alarms as one-time only, daily, for specific weekdays, for specific dates, or for date ranges, as well as having the options to force to work in the background if lack of memory in the phone kills it.
As for alternatives I wish I could find, Librera Reader is still the best ebook reader I found outside of Google Play, but I could use it having better controls. Might even take the dust off my PS Vita to read ebooks, as I abhor touch controls due to them usually not being optimized for either precision or view space available (even on-screen controls might help), and on the Vita I can use the physical controls to move the ebooks’ pages around.
I don’t listen to audiobooks to know any good titles, but sites that sell book bundles also usually have audiobook bundles, so maybe they’re a good starting point for finding titles?
Also, if you use Spotify, I can presume you’re at least not overly against DRM, so maybe you’d be interested in Storytel? Came across it a while back and people seemed to talk well of it, apparently being a subscription-based streaming, but didn’t look for further info on it as I saw it is “DRM’d”.
One of the tips I’d give is the same for Windows, the best anti-virus is the user to know what he/she is doing. Linux is a better in that regard because it obfuscates very little, unlike Windows.
Also in line with viruses, given how many variants of a base system there can be, unless the virus is compiled in your machine, to my knowledge chances are higher for a virus to fail to function properly, or even at all. A way for a coder to circumvent it would be to bloat the code with system-specific instructions, which would be harder to create and optimize, but if a big enough group in resources take on the challenge, it could potentially be achieved.
On another point, something I expect to become a problem in Linux is that you need the admin’s password, which is pretty much the master key of the system, for way too many things, even to install a web browser or the equivalent of 7-Zip. With scams usually involving social engineering, having the user hand a key from a system that depends mainly on it makes the system far more vulnerable.
Now, given Windows is still the bigger desktop system, scammers and virus distribution still focus on it, but as Linux grows, more ill-intended people may focus on it.
But still, Windows has far less variants, barely anything there uses passwords or more adninistration-oriented safelocks, and is much worse for troubleshooting (and having used most systems from 98FE onward, I also think it’s getting worse), so I’d say Linux still has the advantages in those points I could think of.