validating the integrity of the installation

The ISO file should be validated, and many installation medias check hashes.

it can be disastrous if you don’t pay attention to what you type in

Valid point, even I get nervous when entering dd.

I don’t think that dd alone should be used as a backup

Absolutely it shouldn’t. I said primitive backups, which are not a replacement for things like snapshots. DD backups are space-inefficient, easily corruptible, and often result in broken systems.

I bought a wear os watch deliberately because I thought I would enjoy modifying and customizing it like a regular android phone. In reality, I don’t use it much more than for fitness tracking. I’m going to buy a garmin instinct and not change for the next 4 years.

I feel like for the most part though using something like balenaEtcher is so much easier.

Take 5 minutes to learn to use DD, and you’ll never need to install etcher again. Also DD can do primitive backups of drives, and so much more.

I’m not a vandal, but…

I hope google gets fucked up the ass with this, because the play store is a cancerous app store thats giving android as a whole a bad name. I trust F-droid about 50x as much as I trust the play store just because of it promoting honesty and transparency from app developers. At this point, if I want an app that’s not on f droid, I usually just won’t get it.

Anyone know about lineageos tv? It looks cool, but there might be some issues I dont know about not using it yet.

Just curious do you know why the F-droid repo says the app has trackers?

typing this from firefox on a tablet ;)

Ice Universe is generally reliable as a leaker but this didn’t seem fact based, it just seems like a random guess. Hey, I’ll bookmark this post to see if it comes true…

Is there something about chromium that makes people stick to it? I’m sure the kiwi browser is good, but why not just use firefox or Mull Browser from the creators of divestOS.

Manifest v3 extensions*

Yes. I know it’s not realistic, but it would still be cool

It’d be cool if they applied to all of android not just googled android.

Here’s a take: If you want higher quality, less gimmicky products, buy business devices. I own a Dell Latitude laptop and a Getac tablet, but I don’t have a business phone like this because the custom ROM support might not be as good.

Funny it’s uploaded to catbox.moe

I say lemmiers because we are partaking in the act of lemmying

Lemmiers Trying Not To Be Communist For 2 Seconds Challenge(Impossible)

The best advice is just to be cautious. Obviously don’t send money before you get something and make sure it’s functional. Facebook marketplace is a good place to find deals if you know to be safe.