It’s one of the worst in terms of privacy.

Kodi’s own chart on devices including a decision tree: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=376035

Short of it is lots of Amlogic based devices from China under various brands (including Ugoos, DuneHD, Homatics, etc) that can have CoreElec (version of Kodi) installed to boot from, Fire TV Cube (though probably going to be locked down in future so questionable choice I think), Xiaomi Box S 3rd gen.

Also if you just want Kodi and don’t need premium streaming services there are devices like VeroV.

Shield is an option but a more expensive one especially given it hasn’t been refreshed in years and Nvidia is making too much money on AI to likely care.

AppleTV devices are another option, cheaper than shield, do premium streaming, they don’t presently have Kodi but Jellyfin itself should work fine and there’s also infuse which works with Jellyfin and is a bit more refined.

Right now with higher prices for RAM and storage the prices of most of these options have gone up. Amazon’s options are cheaper because they’re subsidized and AppleTV’s are cheaper because they’re Apple and they’re fighting for price on this one. There will likely be sales around summer on some or most of these (not shield though, very rarely goes on sale).

Maybe an aid helped him set up iPhone’s auto replace to turn them into em-dashes. People assume he couldn’t remember how to select that but a basic feature of iPhones could deal with it for him.

Except it notes that the wireguard dev definitely complied with that so while Microslop might be hiding behind that fiction it is just a fiction and not the real cause.

I’m suspicious if it isn’t because the US has discovered something exploitable in both wireguard and veracrypt and want to prevent it being patched while they (the US) unleash it against their enemies over a prolonged period. That or just crushing privacy.

Linux stay winning I guess as this would be the first case in history where Microsoft has used its position as gatekeeper to prevent Windows users from running software they want to run in this manner. Even worse you have to disable driver signature enforcement system-wide to bypass it, it’s more locked down than Apple which can grant per application gate-keeper exemptions. It’s just up until now Microsoft handed out driver signing like candy.

It’s interesting both of these are also tools likely be targeted by the “child safety” panic being shopped around to enact ID laws. Encryption without a backdoor is something they really hate whether it’s for data in transit or at rest.

One last thought is that Microsoft mentioned kicking third parties out of the kernel after the Crowdstrike fiasco where they borked a ton of airline computers due to awful practices. Many hoped it would mean kicking anti-cheat out of the kernel but it would be very Microsoft to start with kicking privacy tools out instead and simply insist that using Windows bitlocker is enough and Windows VPN settings are adequate and therefore these software needn’t be in the kernel.

“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: “We came in peace for all Mankind.” As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”

Carl Sagan

History rhymes. Look at what’s happening right now in the world and this quote is as applicable as ever.

It’s mainly people who want live sports which have to be live so they can talk to their friends about it.

And/or people who want cable TV but don’t want to pay $100/month (pretty hard to get usenet/torrents of most stuff that isn’t available on streaming, good luck getting Lifetime, Hallmark, and Bravo content for example through your sources in a timely manner if at all and some people strange as it is enjoy the experience of flipping on a channel and just watching whatever). These services typically include all the premium channels as well so it’s equivalent to pirating several streaming services and very convenient for non-tech-savy types who can just buy a “dodgy stick” for $500 and enjoy unlimited stuff.

People are dropping the paid services so their choices are lower prices, accept lower profits, or get out the hammer and start suing the proles to scare them into paying again. And we all know which of those is most appealing.

Piracy has been ailing for a while. Cope types talk about the piracy hydra but that’s fake. Stuff is more expensive than ever with less incentive. For example rarbg shut down years ago and nothing replaced it. One little site did but it shut is doors permanently after tons of problems late last year. Since then? Nothing. So one head died, one head appeared and then also died. PT’s occasionally implode due to greed, drama, admins getting tired, and yes rarely busts. The danger to the deeper ecosystem is the higher ecosystem and lower hanging fruit being entirely shut down leaving anti-piracy types who have to justify their paychecks looking hungrily under every rock.

They’re already trying to ban VPNs under protect the children.

For proprietary streaming apps where I want to be able to see what’s going on because I’m allowed a higher resolution than a 720p blurry mess? Apple’s TVos seems pretty great. Zero ads, smooth, devices are overpowered for watching just TV. It does have apps for Jellyfin and Plex though I’d have to suggest infuse instead which is a $12 annual subscription for 4k or any proprietary audio codecs but it does work pretty well.

For everything else some version of libelec or corelec depending on the device in question it’s being installed on. There are also external launchers that keep Android but remove most of the problems.

If you want plug and it works then AppleTV. If you’re interested in putting in some work maybe a custom launcher on an android install. Beyond that libelec, coreleck, and Kodi.

Kodi maintains a big csv list of hardware (and software) with capabilities and suggestions here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=376035

Dust, fingerprints, etc.

Allegedly they may check these things under black lights at the factory for any evidence of opening to attempt to deny warranty. With drive prices having doubled since I bought it and all capacity bought out they’d be extra eager to find any excuse to attempt to deny. Magnuson–Moss warranty act should prevent them from doing that but I don’t have a high power law firm on retainer to sue and intimidate western digital into compliance if they tell me to pound dirt.

Thanks for the kind offer.

Funnily enough I have a WD HDD enclosure that I shucked a drive from not too long ago. I do recall someone mentioning the circuit boards on those being functional as a USB to SATA bridge but I suppose I presumed they need mains power and didn’t want the extra mess. That and I guess I wanted to keep the one I had pristine in case I need to RMA after putting it back together again as I’ve heard people have real mixed experience with RMAing shucked drives and with prices the way they are well I’d rather not take chances given I’ve only the one.

You don’t understand.

The alternative to device based private attestation which is what this is or could be part of is constant online verification by Palantir.

Is every time you want to view porn or adult content you have to verify your real identity so evil corporations and the government who pays them know exactly what your fetishes are and can blackmail you. So they know exactly what you’re posting online because you have to face-scan and ID-scan to set up an email account, a social media account, any account with anything that allows posting content online. Is training the population not to enter a date for their kids or themselves when setting up a computer or device account for the first time, once but upon demand scan their face, scan their ID, comply, sit meekly in fear because everything they do online is known.

What does this know? Your birthday. That’s nothing. As it stands it you can enter anything you want. Fight them when they come to add a verification system to this and point out parents would be in a position to set this up for their kids anyways and its just spying. Fight on stronger ground.

We’ve already lost the maximalist position. The internet scanning and ID verification has already been enacted in several states and countries and we risk a world where it becomes the norm and hosting companies drop anyone who doesn’t implement it because they’re made liable as well. This stuff won’t be repealed. People don’t live in democracies. They live in a dictatorship of the wealthy and the corporations. Your dissent doesn’t matter and it cannot reach most tech illiterate people who have far more pressing concerns than to riot over this.

This is a compromise solution and I wish more people would see it. If you can bend you don’t break. If you don’t bend and your enemy is the government they are stronger than you and they will snap you like a twig.

Linux desktop market share is too small to matter. And if you make this push fail then the only alternative, the only viable solution these politicians who are being cajoled and urged to implement this will see is online live-scan face and ID verification and it’ll sweep everything. You’ll have destroyed the internet and having saved Linux won’t matter. After that it’ll be a quick move to ban encryption that the government cannot break and ISPs will block traffic they can’t inspect. Game over. A simple maneuver from the place you force them to by refusing to cooperate and enact this compromise, privacy-preserving solution. We need strong defensible positions to protect privacy and the internet and free software and to understand that the old ways have been lost, they’ve died, they’ve been strangled and a compromise position must be taken up to endure and avoid a total loss.

It is impressive but not truly massive. There are dozens of people on /r/datahoarder who have near or over 1PB (1000TB) of storage so it could be one of them volunteered the space.

By contrast with something like the internet archive we are truly fucked if it goes belly up as it’s multiple PB of storage.

According to the asklemmy community (which is not about support for lemmy):

https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

Do you have a link to that claim? The last time I saw a similar claim it said she said it on a radio program or something. So is there any documentation I can bookmark or is it just hearsay? Because while early ST (ToS, TNG especially) definitely had some vibes, I kind of been under the assumption lately that Roddenberry was an idealist who wasn’t any more communist than some turn of last century bourgeoisie who imagined mass communal projects and a peaceful futurist transition to a kind of very regimented social democracy.

Well for one they’ve hosted the zionist entity’s air force and it is believed helped them launch their attacks during the 12 day war including a potential decapitation attempt on a bunker where the leadership was.

For another we’re not certain that it is a policy of state to attack them. It may have been a zionist false flag or it may have been an independently operating commander under their mosaic defense model designed to combat decapitation strikes who did so.

No thank you. I like Firefox the way it is. I hate big changes for the sake of designers keeping their jobs changing my tools and workflow and making things ugly.

Edit: To be clear, I agree with you in general. I just got bugged a bit by those three things 😅

You do not. You are misinformed and propagandized. Your choice of examples revealed that clearly and nothing you say can refute that fact. Read Marx, read Lenin, your understanding of the state is lacking.

For one, anyone educated would understand that Americans are the best example of sheep in the world and that many Europeans are good second examples. The British for example with their high tolerance for a surveillance, laws that criminalize all manners of small trivialities, etc, etc. Educate yourself.

“We have to comply with the law”. This has become Russia or China where the sheep people do whatever an oligarchy dictate.

“What are we a bunch of Asians?”

Also China isn’t run by an “oligarchy” but by a dictatorship of the communist party via a mandate of the masses (they execute CEOs and rich people there, we let them rape kids and commit horrific crimes of greed and fine them less than they made off that crime). Russia is but so is the west and I prefer the term capitalists or if you prefer the original French “bourgeoisie”.

There was a study from one of the big ivy league universities that showed that in the US the people don’t get what they want, popular policy is consistently not passed nor popular will acted on. Princeton I think.

So it’s not what people per se want, it’s what the ruling class (capitalists in the west) wants. And they’ve decided that because the rate of profit falls and their demand for profit grows that they need to put the population under lock and key because they’ve made economic conditions worse and they’re going to get worse yet. They need a police state to control the workers who might want better conditions or gasp to take some or all of their wealth. This is part of that.

This is also because China is rising and they are terrified of people seeing a more equal, just society that can be created through socialism. They are terrified of dissenting voices so they want to remove anonymity so they can terrorize dissidents and opponents into silence. They saw what happened with their attempts at narrative shaping in Gaza, they are deeply alarmed that tik tok won’t be the last thing, a new one could pop up anywhere, right now they play whack a mole, they want to control the whole thing top to bottom.

As to people being sheep. It’s more like they’re beaten down. You defeat this today they come back in a year and then again and again. They have all the money, all the time and are willing to wear people down, use their capitalist owned media to propagandize and sensationalize for this until the people are exhausted and stop fighting it so hard. People work long hours, they take home less money than ever, the government openly abuses people, the police don’t act fairly and persecute black people, there’s a sense of there being no fairness and not enough time. The people are also mis-educated. They’re led to believe there’s this big problem, they don’t understand technology and passively accept their leadership has some amount of good will in how they pass laws and govern to address real problems the bourgeois press has done its job of propagandizing them for. They can’t see the whole picture because of these facts.

The whole premise of a warrant canary is you cannot force speech. Therefore the alarm portion of it goes off through not being updated and users noticing. If it’s not updated regularly then users have no way of knowing at what point they should be concerned.

Therefore the only way to operate such a canary is with scheduled, regular, expected updates.

At what point will hexbears be alarmed? 6 months? 12 months? At what point does it go off? That’s a real question to have about any alarm but this type especially.

In a time of war with all that’s going on that question becomes more important given the anger many are expressing here and the danger they’d be in potentially.

Your reminder that a certain section of the HB code of conduct hasn’t been updated in almost 4 months.

An alarm that is not maintained is worse than useless because it gives a false sense of security. An alarm that is too late is also dangerous. After the domain expiration debacle you’d think HB admins would be more competent so the rational thing to assume is it hasn’t been updated because it can’t be updated without lying. The proper thing is to assume the worst. With NSPM-7 it would be easy to get the order through.

You are welcome for this warning before you say things that may cause you criminal liability.

Western media is complicit. Never forget that. 97% of their reporters are as guilty as Goebbels, 99.999% of foreign/war/head anchor types. More shameless than Nazis. More evil too.

Unironically everyone who ever meets this “journalist” should mock her for this. For the rest of her life. At a minimum. They should berate her as an brainless worm and disregard anything that comes out of her mouth.