Awesome, thanks for that info. I’m kinda new to this whole handheld thing. Russ runs the Retro Game Corps youtube channel right? If so, I’ve probably watched like 10 hours of his stuff in the past couple of days as a result of my new obsession. His channel is so refreshing after some of the other stuff I watched.

I just finished reading this and wanted to say that I really appreciated the detail and effort put into this. It really reminds me of the stuff I would engross myself in as a teen. Nice work!

The Odin 3 Portal seems like a fantastic device for my needs. I’m planning on emulating locally and streaming AAA and other steam games from my desktop PC using Apollo/Artemis.

I’m wondering if you have any experience with such a setup? My major worry with a device like this is the lack of VRR. Did you experience any screen tearing when using it?

I think it stands for All You Need

ICE is a paramilitary force. Arguing that they are not a military is pedantic and serves to detract from the severity of the institution’s atrocities.

The military only works on US soil when called upon to help people, never to hurt anyone.

Historically, this is not true.

ICE mimicking a military look is to intimidate people. They have shown to be much less competent than the military, and without being called for.

No, ICE is mimicking a military to occupy cities that are not politically aligned with the president. They are a paramilitary force that aims to punish political dissidents. Their competency relative to established militaries is beside the point entirely. In fact, it just makes them more dangerous.

We’re entering a dark age that’s being marketed as a renaissance.

The tests also showed how broadly the camera’s plate detector could interpret what it saw. In some cases, it mistook bumper stickers, dealership frames, and other graphics for license plates and cropped them out as if they were plates. In one video of a passing motorcycle, the detector cropped an American flag patch on the rider’s saddlebag as if it were a plate.

This stood out to me. Call me cynical, but I don’t think this is a mistake. I think they’re calling all of these “misidentified” license plates a “license plate” to simply establish plausible deniability for collecting this data. It would be pretty trivial for their backend system to interpret the images server side and build an identification profile for each vehicle. This way, even if you remove your plate, your vehicle can be identified.

I wonder how quickly they could build a profile on every vehicle in the US simply by having cameras up in every major city? When we defeat flock/axon, what’s stopping the next surveillance company from buying that data and using it?

Can’t wait for copies of my brain to be tortured eternally by Grok

And since the USA is at war with half the world, the Pentagon will ensure that it never dries up.

While I agree that the street-level cameras should urgently be taken care of, don’t underestimate what a stationary aerial drone can do over a couple of hours.

Listen to Radiolab’s Eye in the Sky episode. Think of the possibilities that have opened up because of drone tech in the 10 years since it first aired (and the 20 years since the tech was used in Iraq). It’s truly frightening what these drones will be able to accomplish once they are in place.

Awesome thanks for the link

Yes, they lie. GrapheneOS is the only fully degoogled android based OS, full stop.

What are they lying about? What part of their OS is not degoogled?

On some technical level you may be correct, but their site claims that /e/os is degoogled.

https://e.foundation/e-os/

/e/OS is a “deGoogled” version of Android OS. It has an open-source Android OS core, with no Google apps or Google services accessing your personal data.

• Google default search engine has been removed from the OS everywhere and replaced with our new ethical search engine: Murena Find
• Google Services have been replaced by microG
• Connectivity checks do not use Google servers
• We do not use Google’s Network Time Protocol servers
• We do not use Google’s Domain Name System servers
• Geolocation uses BeaconDB Location Services in addition to GPS

So I would love to know more about what you’re talking about.

Graphene is only on pixels

Only because Pixels have met their hardware requirements. They are going to start working with Motorola now.

why not their /e/os?

From what I understand, the two OS are not aiming for the same objectives. /e/os is a degoogled OS and that’s its main purpose. GrapheneOS is focused on hardening security on AOSP.

One highlight at the dinner party of me grabbing the glasses and snapping them in half

I’d be more concerned with how similar the method sounds to glassworm

Calm down, there isn’t a prize at the end; there is no winner or loser. We’re just having a discussion. Breathe.

You started this off claiming that this person is equivalent to an antivaxxer. You’ve repeatedly dismissed their claims/thoughts based on credentialism without demonstrating why. Now you’re telling them to calm down. I’m not even the person you’re arguing with here and I’m getting mad lol.

Not only that but they got data from all of that slop to see which slop got engagement and which did not. Now they can use that data to generate more convincing slop.

Straight-up. I really don’t care who these people voted for. If they’re pissed that datacenters are stealing their family home, that’s actually a perfect opportunity to win right-wing votes that doesn’t compromise values. At the minimum, It’s an opportunity to fight back against big tech and data centers. Punishing them for who they presumably voted for is deranged on multiple levels, but unfortunately normalized among liberals.

Liberals will insist on adopting centrist and right wing policies in the hope of winning over jetski dads in the suburbs. They’ll do anything they can to win over these voters. They do it every election. It leads to a cynicism among voters that nothing can ever change for the better (and they’re fucking right). So people stay home or vote for someone else. The jetski dads predictably vote for the most fascist politician possible, because that’s what they want. They don’t want fascism lite, they want fascism done right. The centrist eats shit and blames the left (who often work tirelessly to elect their dumbass as a harm reduction measure, but whatever).

Then, when the Republican wins and starts doing Republican shit, liberals offer only condascending quips about a process that never works out for people. They insist that suffering is payment to them from the poorest and least educated people in the USA for not playing their little game correctly. And in the same fucking breath, they’ll propose more dead-end centrist garbage to the same jetski dads as last time.

Stop conceding to the right. Run on populist left policies that improve the material lives of everyone, and you’ll naturally win over voters. That includes saving rural Georgian families from data centers even if they don’t like you or vote for you. If you do enough for them you will eventually win them over. Fighting data centers is a net win for environmentalism and labor.

The datacenters largely aren’t built yet, as someone else pointed out. That doesn’t even matter though, to your point.

The Epstein class has successfully destroyed large portions of the Internet through bot traffic. They’ve scraped virtually all human contributions and stolen it, while ruining traditional vehicles for information gathering. They’ve eviscerated consumer hardware, and thus shifted control of compute away from the masses. They’ve successfully manufactured consent for mass surveillance including harvesting our biometric data.

Once the AI bubble bursts, it will be one of the largest transfers of wealth in history as they force us to bail out this fradulent industry. If it doesn’t throw us into another great depression, the damage it will do will ensure that things never go back to how they were pre-AI. Once that reality becomes apparent to the masses, they’ll be primed and ready for Peter Theil’s vision of “Freedom Cities”

This is an overt invasion of everyone’s privacy to protect children. It will do nothing to stop children from accessing this content. On the contrary, it will likely push them to even more unsavory areas of the internet to get around it.

20 years ago, the goal was to “protect us from terrorists,” and now the argument is “protect children from the world we created.” A year or two from now, they’ll realize that they didn’t go far enough with this, because children will use TOR and/or VPNs to get around it. Then they will come for those technologies. It is a transparent power grab by rightwing fanatics. It always has been and always will be.