WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 4 hours ago:
Does it suck if you own a Tivo? Yes. Don’t buy one.
as I see there are no TV and only one or two smartphone makers that are not tivo, so saying that is equal to “don’t buy home appliances, move into the woods”
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 19 hours ago:
The devices are locked down, sure, but there are strong incentives to upstream code and fund further development upstream. Linux ”won” because of this. You can’t build and develop Linux for such a wide audience and hardware flora with a bunch of hobbyists.
if these companies were upstreaming code, it would not be a problem to replace the factory operating system on their products with something else. however just like phone makers, they don’t upstream the driver code needed for the onboard devices to work.
so far the only good I found to have come of it, is that after we find a vulnerability in their code, we can open a shell in the system and use ready made familiar tools to try to tame the devices from inside. until they force an update that patches the vuln because it got too popular, and you are locked out again.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 21 hours ago:
read this thread again, please, because you completely missed the point. but you know what, I’ll help:
grue said:
We need more real Linux – GNU/Linux, with compliant copyleft licensing – not Tivoized crap like they put on TVs.
Roku OS, Amazon Fire OS, Tizen (Samsung TV OS), etc. – all technically Linux, but you wouldn’t know it because they’ve systematically butchered them to destroy everything that made Linux good (the users’ freedom).
Rothe said:
… Who cares which distro you use, as long as it is linux it is a step in the right direction, …
roku, amazon fire, tizen and co are all “linux based” operating systems. the topic was not about people recommending linux to each other, but about corporations misusing the foundations of it to further their greed. point being, something runs linux does not make it good. and that’s where grue’s call for real linux on these devices gets relevant.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 day ago:
you can preload them as I understand.
one of the major apps for doing that is openeuicc: gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/OpenEUICC
if you look it won’t work on unrooted phones, but it’s easyeuicc variant can still be used in the stated ways.
f-droid also has the jmp sim manager: f-droid.org/packages/chat.jmp.simmanager its a fork of the former, but it works 100% in unrooted phones with the jmp esim adapter that you can order in the app
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 day ago:
you are supposed to be able to have multiple, 1 or 2 of which can be active, and switch between them whenever you want.
but afaik that’s only possible on rooted phones with openeuicc or another app like it, because by default only google’s own app is allowed to handle esim configuration, and that has limitations in what it allows.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 day ago:
do you seriously think roku, tizen, amazon fire are a step in the right direction?
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 days ago:
all data of the firefox is located in /data/data/packgename, which is inaccessible without root permissions. a few android versions ago it was accessible through ADB, not anymore. I don’t think it’s possible anymore to install arkenfox on plain firefox android for most users.
even with a rooted phone its not that easy. granting termux root rights and running su, the per-package data folders are not visible, you have to switch to the correct mount namespace somehow. some file manager apps adapted to be able to do that
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 days ago:
how, what’s happening when you try? didn’t you check the “never ask this permission” box for the camera permission on settings?
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 days ago:
Actually it should be even simpler because if it’s disabled and the site attempts to use it, you’ll see a prompt under the toolbar that says you may want to enable it.
what you said might be about watching streaming sites on linux in general. some of them only give you inferior quality streams, some of them outright refuse to cooperate.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 days ago:
I am not them but I always reenable history keeping and turn on a few more ublock lists that are already there disabled
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 days ago:
if you install arkenfox yourself, likely you’ll never remember to update it. if you use librewolf or such, the maintainers will take care of it for you
If you use fennec on android, I think you can even just copy your config to your phone and have it working the same there.
and where do you copy it on your phone? I think it’s not that simple but maybe I missed something
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 3 days ago:
an automatic ATM machine, no less!
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 3 days ago:
yeah, unfortunately. but do androidauto apps have access to the CAN bus? I would at least hope that this platform would not grant access to it
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 3 days ago:
the entertainment system should have zero access to anything that controls the movement of the car. androidauto apps can’t implement self driving functions either. if it’s possible, the car manufacturer was incredibly irresponsible and needs to be sued into oblivion. see, the actual problem is not that irresponsible users could implement “self driving apps”, but that the entertainment system lacks any real security, is filled with vulnerabilities, and often even have remote access capabilities with bluetooth/wifi/cellular, and bad actors could load malware wirelessly that would kill the passengers and whoever else on the road.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 days ago:
Pokemon Birth and every time you take a photo of a new newborn baby with the app, and send your genetic samples for verification, you have a chance to collect a rare pokemon
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 4 days ago:
the open source notification stack is forming around UnifiedPush and ntfy.sh. multiple things use it already: matrix server+clients, molly for signal with mollysocket, DavX5, ironwolf, … best part you can easily use it for your own purposes too. for me it’s working reliably
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 4 days ago:
for your interest, graphics drivers are made by the graphics vendor. what’s more, nvidia made it so that only they can develop drivers for majority of their gpus. I don’t see how that’s a fault of linux being late.
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 4 days ago:
jokes on you, that measurement became slower with the new driver. but if you look at the other measurements…
why is it that any of your comments are easily downvote worthy? always misleading and/or incorrect.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 4 days ago:
problem is, a “linux” from google/microsoft/meta will solve 0 problems we have today with windows
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 4 days ago:
what about just growing up
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 4 days ago:
Well, disagree about SecureBoot, there’s nothing secure about MS signing your binaries. It’s just proof they are signed by MS. Setting TPM under Linux is, eh, something I’ve never done.
that’s the difficult part of SecureBoot: you need to set up MOK and somehow sign the bootloader, kernel, modules with it.
but against small scale intrusions even the MS signed things could work - Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 4 days ago:
No clipboard is just unusable.
there’s no “no clipboard”, what are you talking about? there’s been a clipboard in any OS since XP that I have used
security was never important apparently until windows 10 anyway
what? have you heard about 7?
As for the clipboard, kde applications can have a setting to say “this is a secret” and you can set to won’t clip.
I doubt that’s a setting, it’s just how it works. It’s not like it’s KDE specific behavior,even windows 10 is doing that.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 4 days ago:
I’m torn in how to feel about this. it was stupid to turn to a chatbot for things you know nothing about, as you then can’t even verify anything. and when you are a beginner, you probably shouldn’t start with SAS hardware either because it’s more complicated with the added enterprise features.
- Comment on What could be causing HTTP Error: 403 when trying to connect to my I2P site that's hosted using nginx? 4 days ago:
port 7657 is to the router console, do you really want that? if no, you need to check the tunnel manager for the port configured for your eepsite. its in the I2P Hidden Services list. the default entry uses port 7658
if you followed the advice of others to change the advanced config, you should probably revert this change because you don’t need it.
btw sometimes it may be useful to also expose the router console. but since that’s only for you, you don’t want others using it, configure an encrypted leaseset for it, which makes the router console’s eepsite invisible to others on the network. you should keep the router console’s authentication when you do this. geti2p.net/en/…/Level-Up-Encrypted-Leasesets
- Comment on What could be causing HTTP Error: 403 when trying to connect to my I2P site that's hosted using nginx? 4 days ago:
I think that’s misleading. I doubt OP wants to access the router console, based on how they put it.
- Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters 5 days ago:
I hate it that systemd is so quick to shut down sshd when shutting down the system. it does that in the very first “round”, while it could really just keep it running till the end…
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 1 week ago:
airgapped
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
Literally manufactured for the garbage dump.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
did you restart firefox before checking? most prefs are not checked after start up
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
I don’t think you need to set all to false, all except the first look like granular settings