vamc19

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by vamc19 3y ago
I find it interesting that the author thinks "invasive user fingerprinting" would stop with WEI. If you really believe ad networks are _only_ fingerprinting users to fight fraud and will stop doing it after WEI, I have a bridge to
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by vamc19 4y ago
You are correct - I should be running chmod in the download stage and that is what I did before realizing `--chmod` existed. However, `--chmod` is still a valid solution. The reason I did not stop with running chmod in the first stage is be
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by vamc19 4y ago
If I build an image using the Dockerfile in the blog post 10 days later, there is no guarantee that my application would work. The packages in Ubuntu's repositories might be updated to new versions that are buggy/no longer compati
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by vamc19 5y ago
Well, they did offer to pay me $30 for limited data a couple of times. They once offered to send me a Google Home Mini (retailed for ~$30 at the time) in exchange for my Spotify playlists. This was when YouTube Music launched. Recently, the
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by vamc19 7y ago
> And Firefox is just not in that box at all. If you search for Chrome, Chrome will not show up in that box either. And the first browser in that box is, guess what, Firefox. You just searched for it, why include it in the box? UC Browse
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by vamc19 8y ago
On my Pixel 2XL, I cannot set temperature to Celsius on my home and lock screen unless I allow this setting.
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by vamc19 8y ago
I think I understand what's happening here. If I click the temperaure on launcher, it opens the Google Search app querying for "weather" - here it is in celsius. Temperature units preference is saved in Google Search app. Pix
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by vamc19 8y ago
Of course. I'm no stranger to rooting the phone just to get rid of those pesky apps.
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by vamc19 8y ago
English US.
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by vamc19 8y ago
Amazon provides alternative APIs for their platform. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/fire-os-overview.h...
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by vamc19 8y ago
Playing devil's advocate here. I feel like Play Services is necessary evil. This is the only thing that's keeping the ecosystem from fragmenting further. Look at the OEMs update cycle. If not for Play Services which are updated in
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by vamc19 8y ago
Oh you may have misunderstood my comment. On my phone at least, there is an app named "Play Services" which I assume provides things like location services and other background Google platform APIs. You can disable other pre-loade
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by vamc19 8y ago
On my Pixel 2, the only apps I can't disable are Settings, Phone, Messages, SIM toolkit, Pixel Launcher and Play Services. I can disable (not uninstall) rest of the Google apps that were pre-installed.
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by vamc19 8y ago
I'm not buying your first point. Within a month of OEMs releasing the Kernel sources, you can find builds of AOSP over at XDA, Lineage OS and other forums. And with the project Trebble in P, we have builds within a week. I don't t
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by vamc19 13y ago
I usually do 'git checkout <branch/tag/sha_of_commit> -- <filename>' to revert a single file to previous state. If I ever need a gui (very, very rare), I would just use 'gitk'. Small and does the wo