People Ask Why Some Root Their Device and For Me This is Why
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    Does that effectively hide root? Because the parent repo says it's only "guaranteed" to work for Google apps.

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  • People Ask Why Some Root Their Device and For Me This is Why
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    And now, even when your WiFi is off they still turn it on to "help with location tracking." And they're talking about taking away the ability to turn Bluetooth off.

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  • A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled — what we know about why
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    They should just harvest a huge block of ice from a comet and drop it in the ocean.

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  • Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?
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    I've been self hosting for 2 or 3 years and haven't been hacked, though I fully expect it to happen eventually(especially if I start posting my blog in places). I'd suggest self hosting a VPN to get into your home network and not making your apps accessible via the internet unless 100% necessary. I also use docker containers to minimize the apps access to my full system. Best of luck!

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  • Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.
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    I use the Nextcloud News app. It's not as fully featured as others, but it does the job for me. Just requires a lot of setup and has a lot of extra stuff with it if you don't want to actually use all the Nextcloud features.

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  • PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company
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    Overall, Smart Launcher is great. The things that annoy me are mainly things like: Not being able to add multiple app screens and have home in the center, lack of gestures(compared to Nova), and there was also something to do with setting the wallpaper.

    My only near dealbreaker is that it's not open source.

    I can't wait to see what they come up with next, feature wise, though.

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  • PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company
  • Valon_Blue Valon_Blue Now 90%

    Same, been using Smart Launcher since I heard they were getting bought. No lie, I miss Nova's customizability, and some of Smart Launcher's quirks annoy me; but I vastly prefer it to being data harvested. Smart Launcher is good enough for me, and leaps and bounds better than ANYTHING else I tried.

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  • What advice can you give to a beginner?
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    Learn docker. That should probably be #1. That will open up a world of self hosting options.

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  • Texas State Rep. Matt Schaefer: Every elected official in America is required "to worship God"
  • Valon_Blue Valon_Blue Now 66%

    If you think they're not going to fight tooth and nail to enforce it in Texas, you don't know Texas. It would probably have to go to SCOTUS.

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  • What advice can you give to a beginner?
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    That depends. How new are you? What do you already know?

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  • Texas State Rep. Matt Schaefer: Every elected official in America is required "to worship God"
  • Valon_Blue Valon_Blue Now 100%

    Technically a Satanist does too.

    edit: though you'd have to "really believe"

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  • Texas State Rep. Matt Schaefer: Every elected official in America is required "to worship God"
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    Yes, it's unconstitutional....buuut, the shitty way our political system works, somebody would have to sue to get it removed in Texas. Until someone does, they're going to enforce it.

    edit: in Texas

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  • Texas State Rep. Matt Schaefer: Every elected official in America is required "to worship God"
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    We have a law in Texas that an Atheist can't hold office. Really stupid, but it would have to be challenged to get rid of it.

    edit: went and looked it up

    Article 1, Section 4 of the Texas Constitution states, "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall anyone be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being."

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  • [Question] Stay with Gitea or jump to Forgejo?
  • Valon_Blue Valon_Blue Now 87%

    You might check out this thread, especially that first post about the open letter.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33749757

    I homelab to study and practice, and I switched around 1.19. It's been very smooth for me. Literally just had to change the docker image I was using.

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  • Any autistic people use Mastodon?
  • Valon_Blue Valon_Blue Now 100%

    Yep. It's great. Check out:

    #ActuallyAutistic and @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe

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  • GodotOS - My open source operating system interface made in Godot is out now!
  • Valon_Blue Valon_Blue Now 100%

    Awesome job. I watched most of the video and it looks really cool.

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  • GodotOS - My open source operating system interface made in Godot is out now!
  • Valon_Blue Valon_Blue Now 100%

    This is awesome! Is there a practical use case? Or was this just a fun learning project?

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    Homeassistant Valon_Blue Now 100%
    Matter unsupported by Belkin Wemos
    www.theverge.com

    I saw recently that Belkin is no longer going to support Matter on their Wemos line. Is this the first rumblings of Matter failing? Anybody heard anything similar from other companies?

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearHO
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    Migrating From Reddit

    Any other Home Assistant users migrating over from Reddit with all the api BS that's going on? If so, what's your current project? Mine is to convert my Docker instance over to HAOS.

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    sh.itjust.works