None of the big VPN companies officially endorse use if their services for piracy or any illegal activities for that matter.

But to crack down on it they would have to keep logs on your activity and with that most of their legitimate use cases wouldn’t be valid anymore either.

SafetyNet is also an issue on Android as soon as you modify anything or install a custom ROM :/

Both iPhone 15 models were good iterative updates in my opinion. Nothing groundbreaking, sure, but Apple finally adopting both USB-C and AV1 is great to see and the programmable action button on the pro models is a nice addition as well.

Exactly. Trying to install the latest version of a bunch of apps on a base like Debian is bound to give you dependency issues if you try to install the native version.

I can only recommend you to look into using Flatpak to install graphical applications. It avoids the whole dependency or permission issues because it ships apps in their own well tested little sandbox. From a end user perspective its somewhat similar to how applications are bundled on macOS.

Considering the clashes system76 had with the GNOME team this seems to be going in a similar direction. Having a clearly defined way of theming applications instead of having themes just inject random css is the way to go in my opinion. I’m really excited to finally try Cosmic DE myself!

Firefox Relay is the best platform agnostic option in my opinion. It’s free to use for the basic variant and with Relay Premium you support Mozilla and can use custom domains as well.

I agree. But not everyone likes to do it that way and checking for email in the background should be at least an option in a modern email client in my opinion.

You’re right.

Sorry, I just heard somewhere Nintendo sent a DMCA notice and assumed it was right because that seems like a Nintendo thing to do.

Nintendo sent them a DMCA takedown request for the Dolphin Steam page. So I don’t think we can blame Steam for wanting to stay out of legal trouble

Essentially a web feed to have a single timeline from multiple sources. Think of it as Google News but you manually choose the sources and it’s chronological.

Sometimes it’s useful following specific projects or organizations you’re interested in to be notified when anything interesting is going on. In a way similar to an RSS feed I suppose

At least Brave forks Chromium and they have a bunch of patches they apply to the codebase. I mean yeah, they still contribute to the Chromium monopoly but calling them just a rebrand is a bit unfair in my opinion

I don’t think that’s a bad thing. The Lemmy and the wider Fediverse are open and using a closed source client to access that doesn’t change anything. Unlike with other closed ecosystems using a closed source client doesn’t impact anyone else.

I appreciate the thought that went into this decision and I think this is an example of defederating being a good idea.

Love the Framwork concept. I switched from a Framework (11th gen Inte, 12th batch iirc) to a Macbook Air M2 relatively recently. As much as I love the concept the Framework’s short battery life, subpar speakers and annoyingly loud fan made me go with what is pretty much the polar opposite in the end. Definitely keeping an eye on Framework tho and hope the PC industry as a whole manages to catch up. The new mobile Ryzen chips are looking really promising! :)