Sometimes the hardware’s good, but the softwares shit. Google’s essentially Hammer Industries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWqTjLn7Fg

So it’s good to have alternatives in most cases.

How’s this different from the Chromebook, that Google cut updates to no less.

https://www.osnews.com/story/146052/google-breaks-promise-to-provide-10-years-of-updates-to-chromebooks/

Will these new googlebooks come with the same update cycles?

How trustworthy are those sites?

Sideing with the church on this one

Though the cynic in me believes (at this moment) the church might actually think “AI” is some omnipotent all powerful artificial intelligence, and not just some LLM “word spaghetti generator”.

Probably afraid that people might start treating it as some kind of all knowing “higher power”. (Who needs God if you have AI kind of mentally?).

To shreds, you say?

Probably still easier to just adjust the DNS settings to block Sony servers. Do this under your network DNS setting on your ps5.

Not much TBH, it requires blocking Sony servers using DNS (stoping automatic updates). Then visting a specific website to load the exploits.

After the exploit is loaded your can install any custom packages as you like.

I like your analogy and think it fits better for sure.

Yup that’s what I was getting at, but I like the pet analogy better that another commenter brought up.

AI is a tool

Similarly you can’t blame a hammer for causing harm, you blame the individual who holds it.

I wish there were some viable “fully cooked” alternatives. I won’t touch apple products with a 10 foot poll, and I owned the first and second iPhone.

As for Linux phone i have tinkered with it but its nowhere close to being a daily driver, yet.

Strangely sometimes I wish the Microsoft phone was not a total flop…

I guess the only thing left if a completely dumb phone, but that does not help if you use your phone more as a “pocket computer” then a phone at all.

I’m in the same boat as well, for some reason my music apps can’t seem to see my Google smart speakers, but strangely they can see my Nvidia shield and cast to that.

Looked through my app permissions I honestly can’t see anything out of the ordinary or plainly obvious. Both my speakers and android TV (shield) are on separate segment VLAN.

As for granting the permission, I generally like to grant on a app by app basis, lots of apps ask for internet access as a example but don’t actually require it to function. All my game apps for example are completely offline.

Hey can you let me know where I can find more info on this? I am running GrapheneOS as I was having this exact same issue as OP a few day back.

On my browsers I have network access, but nearby devices was disabled.

I checked my private dns settings and granted nearby devices access to my browsers, which allowed me to hit my local self-hosted services.

Just wondering if there is a better way to achieve the same.

Ran into this issue a few days ago, exactly the same way you described.

I am on GrapheneOS and figured it was something to do with a a setting where it’s blocking network access for my specific browser app. After reading your post I see it’s a android 17 feature.

Checked all the settings in my browsers related to DNS at first and was stumped for a bit, until I flipped on the nearby device setting and everything worked.

I also looked into the DNS settings under Network & Internet > Private DNS. Make sure your phone is using your local networks DNS server. Just make sure to understand the implications of changing this (especially when you disconnect from you’re home networks DNS). Also making sure your home DNS is not defaulting to your ISP DNS.

Two websites that help me sanity check myself

• Dnscheck.tools
• dnsleaktest.com

I figured they must be doing something along those lines, thanks for sharing!

Oddly enough, once you make that three fiddy payment signal will now potentially have a payment method linked to your account.

If this is true that payment method can essentially be tied to a identity.

I suppose the reason they are choosing to do this is to prevent a influx of bot accounts and spammers/scammers.

So employees that use a company VPN to access company files between offices are now breaking the law?

What about personal vpns that people setup to access their home devices, like a smart home setup or home security camera? Illegal as well?

What brand of keyboard is that in the background, looks comfortable. Also interesting project.

Merch is a strong term, it look more mediocre low-quality trash.

Absolutely, make sure to self host the bridge yourself on your own hardware!