It's not just paranoid, it's totally toxic and aggressive. He attacked and verbally abused dozen of different project for naive reasons, and spread FUD and slanders about other developers and projects
Vega
joined 2 years ago
Litterally one of the most famous tech guy on the web and one of the most influential voice of the "repair yourself" movement, on the internet for years
If I'm ever gonna read this thing I would go straight in the center and touch the damn thing. I don't think this is a good warning message
Bluetooth give a lot more information about your surrounding (what device your phone detect or connect, for how much time, distance from objects, etc.), not only from your phone alone, but from other people phones who have bluetooth on and e.g. never disable any tracking from google services too. And the Mac address for bluetooth never change, so any device (and tracking company) will know you is forever you. Bluetooth is a privacy nightmare, and this is totally a dark pattern. People not knowing what they're doing is of course a thing, but it seems just a usual bad practice by google, who like to manipulate especially not tech-savvy people
Exactly
I'm conflicted about sponsorblock, I usually hate youtuber sponsor (since those are usually scam) but I don't know if there is a more ethical way to earn money from ads, since donations aren't usually enough
Lol, this is great
Phones in India can be bought for near 50$, and that provide everything a common citizen (and I mean mandatory government app and messaging) need. And 50$ still isn't cheap for most of the population. It's a totally different economy than usa
I miss those comics. I know the author is a shitty human, but his strips were great
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The name "lineage" is because it's a "descendant" of cyanogenmod, not because it's intended for older phones