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Fascists speaking out of both sides of their mouths? Unheard of!

Laws only apply to people who have under $10m.

PipePipe is a hard fork of NewPipe that doesn’t track changes from upstream. Tubular is a soft fork of NewPipe that does track changes from upstream. It’s explained in PipePipe’s README.

It should have died when he tried to coup the US government after he lost the 2020 election.

I’m not talking about kernel sources, but the Android device sources, which are separate.

Yeah, if they want it accessible over the internet, hide it behind a Wireguard tunnel.

Because no new Pixel has come out yet, so they were likely able to adapt the A15 code. Once the Pixel 10 series comes out, it will be more difficult.

Do they… not know what reverse engineering means?

Now if only Trumpism would have shut down extremist right wing idiology globally.

There is already a PoW crypto that is actually private called Monero. It uses ring signatures to sign transactions and rotating public keys to keep public keys private. It also happens to be relatively stable since it’s basically the only crypto that people use as a currency (generally to buy illegal contraband online). It’s PoW though, so has the energy consumption issues.

Since it’s PoW, though, it still consumes buckets. Something I thought looked cool was Chia coin, which somehow uses hard drive space as a consensus algorithm which saves a ton of electricity, but I haven’t read the whitepaper on that, so I don’t fully understand it.

Or a decentralized alternative that isn’t just used to scam people, that doesn’t eat up insane amounts of electricity to process, and is as convenient as regular money.

In reality, private corporations should not have control over money at all. Money is printed by the local government and should be controlled by the local government. Governments generally have better free speech protections than private corporations, which have none. Obviously, free speech protections are not universal, but countries can already ban content in other ways.

Then people would have to get specific cards or crypto or whatever that aren’t Visa/MasterCard in order to buy Steam games. That, of course, is if you can get banks to agree to carry “Steam cards”. Either that, or everyone would need to buy Steam gift cards as an exclusive form of payment.

All of these are much less convenient than keeping your existing debit/credit card to pay for Steam games, and less convenience means less sales.

I’ve used several trackballs, but they have all been seriously uncomfortable for me and my specific brand of RSI. My current “mouse” is a Steam Controller, but using it one-handed isn’t great due to the uneven weight distribution. I also have much better accuracy using a trackpad vs a trackball.

Ideally, I just want a Steam Controller cut in half with a more confortable grip that doesn’t dig into my palm.

What I really want is this, but with a trackpad instead of a trackball.

My main concern is that the app isn’t open source. I don’t trust any software that isn’t fully open source.

That’s after you go through customs. AFAIK, that doesn’t apply to people coming into the country.

Although this administration holds people more than 48 hours regardless.

Threatening to detain you indefinitely (your rights aren’t the same at the border/customs as they are after entering the country), or just outright deny you entry.

Yes, but customs can still compel you to unlock your phone as we have recently seen with the Norweigan tourist who was denied entry due to having a JD Vance meme on his phone.

I would recommend having a separate phone with non-important data on it to take with you to the US, or have a self hosted cloud service that you can backup your data to before wiping your device.

You essentially don’t have rights at the border (or in general with the current US government).

LineageOS also has this feature.

Be wary since as of Android 16, Google no longer provides device source for Pixel phones.