realitaetsverlust

security nightmare

That is not a corporations problem who’s given away the rights to his product. That is my problem as an informed user, deciding that I know well enough about what I’m doing.

Security can’t be the constant reason for EoLs. Especially when there’s no real reason beyond the company needing the next cash cow.

Will your technically-challenged great-Aunt switch to post-support build when her phone hits EoL

This isn’t for the average user. My grandma isn’t gonna learn how to flash a custom firmware on her old phone. But an informed user can.

Right now, if your device has no more support, you can use it until something else changes and it becomes incompatible. Then you have a dead box that doesn’t do anything anymore, and simply because the company decided to no longer support it.

It’s about having the OPTION to use it in the future so the community can at least try to fix it.

I am making bank fixing shitty vibecoded software. So yes, please more of it. One more year like this and I can buy a house without debt lmao.

Get ollama and open web ui. Much better and more private.

Kinda sad to read, but well. Makes you fit in with the majority of the population.

Game gonna be buggier than skyrim at release and only 10% as fun because it’s vibe coded

The anticheat problem already is fixed. It’s called “don’t play games that don’t support your choices”. These days, no game is worth being put through all that AI bullshit.

Still kinda hurts they own Bethesda now, but considering that company has only produced garbage since FO4 which only was kinda mid, I don’t even mind skipping them.

Don’t use a Microsoft account with Windows

Ftfy

Very cool.

I mean, he’s not lying. He just forgot to mention that every other ethnicity is treated very badly aswell in that hellhole he created. Unless they have money.

I think you just realized you were wrong and don’t want to admit it tbh.

That’s not how wealth works. Wealth is not a representation of money, but money is a representation of wealth. Printing money doesn’t create wealth, it just makes the representation of wealth worth less. The implication that wealth has to be “taken away” from something or someone is just straightup wrong because that would imply the world has not gained any wealth ever, which would be a stupid assumption. Wealth is created by work and innovation - that’s why the materials inside a smartphone are worth significantly less than the entire smartphone.

Nah. Wealth isn’t finite. It hasn’t been for a long time.

Yeah why be happy for someone having luck and being able to break out of the hamster wheel.

I can assure you, you will never need them.

I got a USB stick with ventoy installed, got a gparted and an arch linux iso on that thing, I do use those regularly.

Even the oldest, sickest pet will still make an effort to keep themselves alive however they can: eating, drinking water, moving out of the way of danger, etc.

That’s wrong. Especially old cats are very prone to just not eat when they’re old and sick.

That isn’t entirely true. While a phone without a SIM can still listen to broadcasts, it never registers as a subscriber because It’s missing a IMSI. So no, without a SIM you are indeed invisible to carriers. It’s a bit like screaming into the woods - someone might hear you if you do that, but if he doesn’t scream back, you have no idea he’s there.

The only exception to this if you’re actively calling emergency services - in that case, your phone will attempt an emergency attach to any network it can find, which is the point where the carrier of that network could see your IMEI. However, apart from that, you are indeed completely invisible without a SIM card.

Not having a SIM-Card in your phone is like having a tank without a main gun - it drives, but it can’t really do what it’s supposed to do. I don’t think that it’s a good idea. Also, not having a SIM-Card doesn’t make you invisible - only airplane mode really does that. Without some kind of network connectivity, you have an expensive, glorified brick that can make photos, play games and lets you listen to offline music.

Also, I’m wondering what exactly you’re trying to achive. Get a private OS like graphene, don’t install any google services, have anti-tracking protection installed into the browser (or use a safe and sane browser by default) and you’re good.

Not having a SIM doesn’t do anything for you except hiding from your carrier, however, if your threat model involves you being worried by being tracked by your carrier (and by extension, the feds), you’re in really hot water already and you’re probably better off with detaching yourself from the modern world.