They don't let you anymore, do they? There was a whole controversy about the Zenfone 12

Imagine reading this headline and instantly jumping to this in your head.

Yyyyyyupp

"Oh no, this device is rooted! :(" Yes because I know what I am doing, now show me my account balance you stupid piece of ahit banking app.

Just in case this post is real: the world does NOT hate you. Not you, not your people, not your country.

We wish you could achieve the freedom to experience the entire world.

This isn't really true. Even IF your router would fail catastrophically in the right way to expose your Server to the internet, or of it actually "ratted your traffic out" to the ISP and the ISP cared (which it does not), it's not illegal to hist Jellyfin, or put media on it which you own (which is not discernible from just.... Media being streamed).

Also your ISP has no part in your local network traffic.

I'm too lazy to insert the "look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power" meme here, so.... Please imagine it instead.

I'm switching jobs in a couple of months, and I am SO glad to be leaving a (very well maintained!!) python codebase with type hints and mypy for a rust codebase.

It is just not the same.

A high-quality laptop without any branding.

I'm currently using a 9-year-old, woefully underpowered laptop made by Xiaomi. Full aluminium unibody, and NO logo. Not printed on, not etched in, not glistening only in the right light. NO LOGO.

I'm not a billboard. I'm not responsible for your brand recognition. Ironically though, far more people have come up to me and asked "hey, what laptop is that" than ever would have cared if there was a logo on it.

It also just looks and feels fantastic, all-aluminium-no-logo just looks so sleek.

So yeah. I will not be upgrading until I find another laptop of the same build quality, with no logo. Tuxedo has that option for most of their laptops, but for some reason not for their only current full-aluminium body -.-

Oh, and don't come at me with stickers.

The fact that Iain M. Banks is name-dropped in the poster in the article is a travesty... I have no doubt "the Elon" thinks himself some badass Special Circumstances operative, and OpenAI/Grok/... as laying the foundations for Culture Minds. It's not. He's not. Goddamnit I wish Banks was still alive.

I own the goddamn device, I should be able to do whatever I want with it...

Does anyone have experience with keyguard? From a cursory glance, this + vaultwarden seems like a good alternative...

No.

I've been using it for 10 years. Back then, it just started out as a chat app with group support - just like Wahstapp, but free (yes, WA used to cost money) and way better than SMS.

My entire social circle switched to it, and has been using it ever since. Why? Because to this day, it's easily the best chat app, feature wise. Literally every time WhatsApp or Signal or Threema add a shiny new feature, Telegram has already had it for a while.

Since Covid however, there is a huge stigma attached to it, and I do get why. It's sad, really. I wish there was a 1:1 clone of Telegram's chat features, minus the Channels (or whatever they are called).

No science, no meme, only the flimsiest strawman I've ever seen and pure bigotry.

Edit: from a brand new account. How courageous, lmfao