fabien@debian2080ti:~$ history | sed 's/ ..... //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
# with parameters
13 cd Prototypes/
14 adb disconnect; cd ~/Downloads/Shows/ ; adb connect videoprojector ;
14 cd ..
21 s # alias s='ssh shell -t "screen -raAD"'
36 node .
36 ./todo
42 vi index.js
42 vi todo # which I use as metadata or starting script in ~/Prototypes
44 ls
105 lr # alias lr="ls -lrth"
fabien@debian2080ti:~$ history | sed 's/ ..... //' | sed 's/ .*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
# without parameters
35 rm
36 node
36 ./todo
39 git
39 mv
70 ls
71 adb
96 cd
110 lr
118 vi
Maybe I interest you in pgrep? pkill? killall?
Because I can tell it to do whatever I want. I get to control the device I own. Pretty basic. Same principle for my others devices, so deGoogle Android phone, earbuds with open source firmware, keyboard with open source firmware, Zigbee for IoT, etc. My stuff should do what I want.
That's what shadow IT is for.
You try through the normal channels, explaining why, and if it's not enough, you find a way to still be productive DESPITE the rules of the place. Then eventually you move on to a saner place.
Honestly why even ask the question or read the ToS when you know the business model of Google?
To be clear Google is NOT a technology company! Google is an advertising company which, unlike traditional advertising companies selling physical ad space, sells online ad space. Through vertical integration they also happen to distribute software, e.g. Android, Chrome, etc, services e.g. Google Search, GMail, GDrive, GCloud, and hardware, e.g. Pixel, Nest, etc which they are not giving for free but at a low price, and infrastructure, e.g. Google Fi.
... but ALL those products are ONLY existing to sell ads!
I let derive your own conclusion for Google Fi and every other product they provide.
TL;DR: of f*cking course.
I got very confused by this title... I did search on DuckDuckGo and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_modding was a top result but not far behind was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modding which is not specific to video game.
Because this is the Linux community I would clarify that it's about game modding, not general modding.
Who could have guessed... /s
AFAIK the packets are for discovery of other devices relying on mDNS / DNS-SD which is used by plenty of other services.
More importantly though, does it matter? What are you actually broadcasting while doing so? That you are using KDE Connect? Also the typical use case for it are on trusted networked, e.g. home WiFi but if it's problematic on public networks then do not use KDE Connect on other networks?
Edit: what alternative device discovery solution could be used by KDE Connect to make it more private on untrusted ntetworks?
Ugh... why? I mean it's a fun process to distro hop and better understand the different package managers, boot process, default services, etc but beyond that I'm confused at what the point is.
FWIW one can distro hop "virtually" in minutes using containers via Podman or Docker (or even QEMU to be more isolated) with images that do have a window manager, e.g. https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/ provides Alpine, Arch, Debian, Enterprise Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu with i3, KDE, MATE or XFCE. Switching from one to another takes minutes (basically download time of image content) and if you mount the right directory you can even use your own content for your tests.
Edit : if one wants to install nothing https://distrosea.com/ is quite neat but it's online.
LineageOS and asked if I could use it [...] He went to the Google Play Store and installed Files by Google after logging into my account.
Ugh... sorry to say but if your goal is "what a phone without Google services" then your father did not understand that. He might be able to help you but he might not. The point though is that have to clarify with him WHY you want to try that. Only then can he help with the how.
Anyway for music I recommend VLC, it even has an option to become a Web server to receive file. If you do exchange files often with your Linux desktop I also recommend KDE Connect which helps for SMSes too and more, you can even define custom commands. I recommend removing the PlayStore entirely and relying solely on F-Droid and on a case by case basis potentially on .apk from sources you trust, e.g. Signal Website.
This is for pedagogical purposes. Please do not cypher actually important messages with this.
Anyway I think it can bring with little ones, and adults alike, interesting conversations around :
... and a lot more!
... yes but also
... which makes for a rather limited list.
My own constraints https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/CollaborationRelyingOnAI recommendations welcomed, both on such rules but also on models that do fit, if any.