Super interesting, thanks for taking the time to type that out.

Seconding Heliboard. Been using that for about two years now and save for the autocorrect being noticeably worse than gboards there’s nothing I’m missing.

Anyone else get a suspicious anti-genocide vibe from this place? 😳

Have you checked out Symfonium? Love that for music streamed from Jellyfin, and it has Android Auto listed in the settings, although I haven’t used that yet.

Intellectual property isn’t real.

There’s more profit to be made off a sick person slowly dying over years than a one-time procedure.
What the general population thinks rarely matters since our politicians are bought by the owning class.

would putting maple syrup on my pancakes be a bad idea?

Vanced or ReVanced? I seem to remember Vanced being broken by an update some time after Google C&D’d the project, leading to the creation of ReVanced a while later But maybe I’m misremembering, as its been a few years.

I used to run YouTube Vanced on my phone for years until Google killed it a few years ago. Since I was already paying a monthly sub for YouTube Music (been using that since the Google Play Music days and had my whole iTunes uploaded there) I decided to spend the extra 1-2 bucks a month for the Youtube Music + YouTube Premium combination, since that seemed like less effort than keeping up with ReVanced builds constantly.

Last month I tried getting a student discount for my subscription, but after a day I got an email telling me Google was canceling my sub for an unspecified reason. I decided not to renew it, and instead downloaded ReVanced, and spent a few days redownloading all the albums I only had on streaming, and integrating those along with my old iTunes folder into my Jellyfin I already had set up for movies.

Now I’m saving 15 bucks a month, and have regained full control over my music library. Feels pretty nice, and the Symfonium music app on Android looks 10x better than the ever-changing UIs of YTM ever did.

Also feels great not to give a single cent to an accomplice to Israel’s genocidal mania across the middle east anymore. I had already severed ties with Google’s mail, photo storage and search a year or two ago. Get fucked Google.

Fascinating and funny problem, great thread.

$600 MacBook in 2026 is absolutely insane to me. Around 2007/08 when I started using MacBooks as a student the entry level ones used to be 1200€.

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They are forced into submission through a process of violence and psychological torture their abusers call “breaking”. They have also been selectively bred for docile traits.

Horses that resist this process and don’t allow their owner to ride them will eventually be written off as being “unsound” and euthanized for whatever excuse they can diagnose them with.

Damn, I was going to recommend Xenoblade and Monster Hunter, but seems these are the exact games that inspired you to make this thread in the first place, haha.

I’m sure they’ll also harvest the fuck out of all your in-game behavioral data. Imagine the experiments you could run.

Not piracy related, but GrapheneOS.

They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.

https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

I fully expect that iPod to be removed over licensing BS if we ever get a remaster, because Apple has only gotten worse since Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive are no longer with the company.

As an aside, a modern rerelease of the iPod Classic with WiFi and Bluetooth would be so cool. Sort of like those SNES mini consoles Nintendo etc used to make a decade ago. Never gonna happen, but it’d be nice to keep the form factor alive for enthusiasts.

MGS4 felt like it was a whole console generation ahead at the time. Even in retrospect it could pass as a PS4 game.