I can burn it to a DVD or Blu-ray and get everything back up and running

If it was possible to copy it bit by bit and just burn it as is, pirates wouldn’t have bothered to remove it.

CSS was specifically designed to fight 1:1 copies, at the time it was conceived, ripping movies to DivX/MP4/h264 wasn’t a thing

The DRM on discs works because they have data in areas that only a glass master in a $5M disc replicator can create

Not to mention that ONE quad layer BD-R for the 4k blu-rays costs $25 - at that point is better to buy two physical copies and hold them in different places for backup

There are bangers like video title bash injection or all notifications being able to run arbitrary bash on your machine.

Mednafen via mednaffe?

That is the price if you ship million of units. Realistically, how many units can ship this? 10k? 20k?

Once you consider the price of the plastic shell molds (custom), the custom keypad, the custom motherboard, the custom assembly line, this price is almost cheap.

I wouldn’t even consider a purchase even at a third of the price, but it was a scam if they simply put a sticker on some Alibaba clamshell with stock android, instead here they even partnered with Jolla to have sailfish is as base with the android emulator. That’s much more expensive than just slapping android aosp with a minimal launcher and calling it a day

Browser and email is the bare minimum, though.

Even the cheapest clamshells in the 2000s had those two.

Don’t preinstall it by default if you want to look minimal but being forced to sideload (their app store blocks this essential category???) an Android APK in the emulator instead of using native Linux apps for that, is ridiculous

I understand that for a small company like them (it’s being owned by a YouTuber now) creating hardware is extremely expensive and 499 can even considered cheap with all the custom stuff in this device, plastic molds, dedicated assembly lines and so on, but my mind can’t accept paying more than 149 for something like this

I had to disable bitlocker

The permanent “fix” that i done a few weeks later was to do single boot with fedora and move windows in a VM under KVM

a nation state can probably find a way

There’s no “probably”, they can surely find the way, because the decryption key is saved on Microsoft servers, they just need a subpoena for getting it

I’m sure some mad lad could hack together bash, git, and cron into an unholy mess that would do it

Sparkleshare basically did that and of course it sucked for syncing big binary files with frequent tiny changes

KeePass2Android has support for many cloud stuff. Host your DB on there, then KeePass2Android will sync with that when you change/open it

KeePass 2 on desktop can compare two databases and sync them. It has also some plugins to sync with cloud

Adobe Reader on Linux? The one from the last decade? I can’t seem to think to a single valid reason to do so

I read as “Arch Linux drops support for GNOME” and my heart fluttered

This pisses me off a lot

They designed their photos app to always ask “y u no backup” and scare you “you gonna lose all your photos if u no backup” and ask to enable backup with the “no thanks” button under the fold

Enable backup = Gmail blocked within one hour because of all the photos we all have in our phones nowadays

So you have to pay or delete that pictures from their servers

Pay Google: unacceptable

Delete the pics from web: they get deleted from phone automatically and there isn’t an option to only delete from web but keep in phone

Disable the photos app on the phone: the (Google) camera app doesn’t show shot preview anymore because it says photos app is missing

They clearly had multiple meetings to make it harder as possible

Seems like only the EFI partition is missing. She told me “ls /home/her name” shows stuff but “ls /boot/efi” is empty

Apparently this happened by itself

I should have chosen something like silverblue but I wasn’t familiar with that

Pop os, a few months ago

I’m kinda hoping it was just that a state sponsored attacker showed up on their door and said “include this snippet or else…” otherwise it’s terrifying thinking of someone planning some long con like this

We are all relying on the honesty of a few overworked volunteers…

From that post, commits set to UTC+0800 and activity between UTC 12-17 indicate that the programmer wasn’t operating from California but from another country starting with C. The name is also another hint.

Unrelated, I really like the idea that the author of that blog post to place the favicon near each link

It’s available on an unofficial repository that can be optionally added to fdroid, it’s not available on fdroid

On mobile you’re forced to use their “open source” app that is only available on the closed source app stores and not on fdroid because it uses Google push services

My iMac on debian does the same, black screen on boot