Does that effectively hide root? Because the parent repo says it’s only “guaranteed” to work for Google apps.

And now, even when your WiFi is off they still turn it on to “help with location tracking.” And they’re talking about taking away the ability to turn Bluetooth off.

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…it’s a Futurama reference

They should just harvest a huge block of ice from a comet and drop it in the ocean.

I’ve been self hosting for 2 or 3 years and haven’t been hacked, though I fully expect it to happen eventually(especially if I start posting my blog in places). I’d suggest self hosting a VPN to get into your home network and not making your apps accessible via the internet unless 100% necessary. I also use docker containers to minimize the apps access to my full system. Best of luck!

Learn docker. That should probably be #1. That will open up a world of self hosting options.

That depends. How new are you? What do you already know?

Not sure about the rest of those, but Obsidian isn’t OS either.

Yeah, I follow him on Mastodon.

That’s who he is!? I just followed him because I liked his posts lol.

See, that’s the situation where we just don’t use them. I’m talking about wiping the original OS and putting something that’s really FOSS in its place.

All I’m hearing is that we might be able to hack these devices and put full Linux on them.

Correct, btrfs is a filesystem format.

I may not have enjoyed using their distro, but I’m really happy to see this. They’re really popular in the desktop Linux market and it may help to get more users over here in the Fediverse.