App verification is only enforced on ROMs that honor it. You can choose to patch it out of the OS as the maintainer. Which will bar you from being a google certified OS.

The people behind GOS have gone on record, stating that they don’t care about being google certified, and GOS will not enforce dev verification. So this changes nothing for GOS.

To stop GOS, google would need to change their bootloader policy. I haven’t heard of any indicators for this though.

In summary, you’re fine to use it on new and used Pixels. Given current information.

Reference: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/26337-android-developer-verification-are-we-screwed

My point was, that my bank is way more lenient compared to Wero and there is no good reasoning for Wero to be so paranoid. Wero does not actually offer a webapp.

I’m not that well versed myself, but a normal SEPA tranfer via IBAN is SCT, right? And the instant SEPA transfer “Echtzeitüberweisung” is what banks offer internally for their clients, being SCT Inst. So Wero then just allows you to build SCT Inst requests on the fly and send them off? That has me a bit confused as to why it’s marketed as a destinct platform/product. If this is the case, shouldn’t it just basically be a vcard/qr-string type format you can generate locally like a template, share with a “buyer” and they send it to their bank. Like how “Girocode” is already used. There is no real need for an account, is there?

In reality they do help superficially, but they very much inflate their numbers on a shiny dashboard, showing you how much they’re helping. All while only hitting a small fraction of databrokers.

I also think, that as a subscription solution to a problem, they could turn into the online version of turbotax any second now. Lobbying for harder self-optouts so that their service stays relevant.

Not to sound stupid, but it really depends on how smart you want the watch to be. From connectionless firmware device to fully-featured Android. +1 for gadget bridge either way.

I have a Fossil Hybrid, that combines physical hands with a 2-color e-ink display. It can’t do apps, but it has standalone timers, notifications, media control, pulse/oxygen and step counter. I personally don’t need more. It’s cloudless and lasts a week.

If you need full Android/WearOS check AsteroidOS and specific ROMs. Hardware tends to be on the older side here.

The only thing that’s hard to do is sleep tracking. That tends to rely on proprietary algorithms and cloud compute a lot.

Depends on how far you want to go. From what I’ve been able to tell, they pedel a lot of flashy metrics and still had a bunch of google calls. Some of which you can manually remove, same as LOS. I would avoid buying into their cloud and keeping an eye on things yourself, if you want to install it. I saw them rebrand a bunch of OSS tooling as their own products back then. Don’t know if things changed since then, but I don’t trust the marketing.

I’m currently on Tuta, because I can’t imagine Mail without a free tier. It’s run out of Germany(EU). Its 3€ a month for the normal tier, free takes away most features. Like Proton, you need to use their (OSS)-Client, for encryption reasons. It’s currently growing and I hope they don’t go crazy anytime soon.

I was looking at Posteo, but I don’t want my entire internet identity to be gone, if I ever can’t pay for it.

I’d be a good start, if content platforms had to apply the same guidelines to ads, as they do to content. It’s kinda telling that people on the platform need to not swear, while the ad below goes “You can’t last 5 seconds in this NFT gambling waifu gatcha collector aimed at teens.” or just offer money freud scams directly.

An advantage of Tuta and Proton is, that there is a basic free tier. Your Mail is a center-point of your online activity. Hoping it to never happen, if you ever can’t afford the (cheap) price, you won’t lose access to your mail. Which would suck, for all accounts linked to it.

From what I’ve seen, the argon does passive-cool alright too. With Flirc I’d need to keep the mini-HDMI-dongle and buy a separate IR dongle, that takes up a usb-slot and doesn’t have a low-power MCU. My Pi is currently in a no-name passive-case already. Unless I misunderstood you, I don’t see the advantage.

Yes, that’s what I meant by “widevine tax”, the certification is done by Google for a fee.

Yeah, it’s kinda telling, if you look at my prime subscription for example. I can either:

• Hook into the web-service with Kodi, breaking TOS and theoretically risking the account. While Google, missing their widevine tax, limits the quality.

• Pirate the same content without an account, at full 4K.

It’s truly a service problem.

I do have a Jellyfin server, this is mainly about being able to use the subscriptions I happen to already pay for. Decoding on the pi is actually quite decent with hvec and x264.

Like others said, banking needs licensing and licensing costs money. If you already have a bank account, you already trust one party. Ask them if they roll their own app-payment or are already partnered with a service. That way, you can avoid google/Apple and minimize spreading the trust to other parties. My bank cooperates with Fidesmo, for example. Fidesmo then sells wearables with nfc-pay.

I would absolutely buy a Pixel, if only they supported sd-cards. I get that Google is pushing cloud-storage. If I smash my phone on the sidewalk, I still want to have a local storage, I can take out and thus make live backups to. There are just some features Pixels lack and privacy shouldn’t lock you out of them.

As stated in OP, I have an S2 dish already. Agreed that it’s better than cable. But not everyone lives in a place they can set up a dish on. Rentals and such. My point was that I wanted to use the display without relying on some buggy vendor-locked OS.

From what I can see, this is still a Tizen based smart TV masquerading as a monitor, Apps and all.

When scaled to mass production, the SBCs become dirt cheap. Then they can subsidise with sponsored/preloaded content, ads and usage data.

I was eyeing Scepter, but I just saw that their stuff is made with exclusively US standards and EU power and broadcasting is different. Didn’t notice that would matter.

Seen them recommended in dumb-tv articles. Will check them out.