• kadu@scribe.disroot.org
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    3 months ago

    I rooted my LG C1, enabled SSH, and permanently blocked updates over a year ago. I’m so happy with that decision.

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        3 months ago

        You can sideload a modified version of YouTube that blocks ads and skips ads inside videos too (or intros, or interaction reminders, etc). You can use custom screensavers. You can remap buttons on the remote. You can install RetroArch. You can install Kodi.

        Basically you get a Homebrew Channel that supports downloading custom apps from any repo, and it bypasses the developer certificate so the apps just work forever, you don’t have to keep resigning them.

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        3 months ago

        That doesn’t fix the larger problem of these things turning ever more into surveillance devices

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          3 months ago

          I read a story earlier this year where the author suggested that in the near future, appliances of all kinds will ship with embedded cellular radios. The author’s rationale was that consumers either don’t connect devices, or are increasingly finding ways of blocking cameras, microphones, and telemetry. The claim was that cost of the radio and service are cheap relative to the value of selling your private information.

          Not sure if that’ll happen, but it certainly underscores your point about the larger problem.