I’m keenly watching GrapheneOS and what they plan to do; supposedly they are working on a strategy.

Long-term, yeah Android needs a rival; I hope at least one of the Linux Phone projects out there can get good enough to use on some common brands or make an entirely new platform viable.

Came here for this, not disappointed. o7

Hmm. OK, I’ve been using AdAway (not AdGuard) as DNS and/or VPN, experimenting with both) under Pixel 9 stock OS, and it mostly works… but some apps and websites still get ads through.

LineageOS w/Adaway root /etc/hosts blocklists was 100% perfect on my older phone… that’s my main quibble with trying LineageOS vs. GrapheneOS.

I know some people recommend against rooting, but I’ve never had security issues doing it and it seemed to offer more bulletproof ad-blocking.

Can you tell me how the ad experience is with GrapheneOS? As in, do apps which try to insert ads in screen transitions (or anywhere) still do so? Or websites which put in AdSense popups?

GrapheneOS doesn’t recommend AdAway or other adblocking solutions, so does it do so itself?

As of today at least, I can still download video/audio from YT on my android phone with NewPipe…

Wait until your bank website/app login requires a captcha with the magic eye thing! Bwahahaha.

Search for v2.79 (if memory serves) on oldversion.com for the last ‘good’ version of classic winamp, and the streamripper plugin is still floating around somewhere on the 'net…

An absolutely ancient tool I used to use was WinAmp (v2.x) with the Streamripper plugin. It would save out each song from a shoutcast or icecast station to a file with the artist/album/title/track like a champ. Maybe not quite what you want (won’t do youtube) but there are a ton of great indie stations on the vorbis icecast network…

This is very ‘meta’ – we should perhaps start a lemmy community to discuss what sites and groups to form, to use it on other sites. There could even be a lemmy group to comment on lemmy… or something :p

Here, I created a group for lemmy discussions! Hah.

https://hypothes.is/groups/yN2iWLpz/lemmy-meta

Neat, thanks.

I just browsed a few of the component projects on github and it seems they’re BSD-licensed…

Years ago https://web.hypothes.is/ used to let one annotate any website, but it appears now they are focused on only student/educational usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothes.is

There was a plugin that allowed highlighting text on any web page, adding comments, and having threaded conversations based on groups… it was kind of cool, too bad it didn’t take off.

https://ucatt.arizona.edu/news/using-free-version-hypothesis

EDIT 1: I’ll be darned, the Chrome extension still exists… https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hypothesis-web-pdf-annota/bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek

EDIT 2: I found my old account and the test annotations I’d done (and group definitions) still work! Guess this is still a working thing, worth exploring more.

I feel your frustration… though a decent phone w/o locked Android shouldn’t require global thermonuclear war I hope!

I stress about what phone, if any, I’ll be able to install a non-bloatware, rooted, vanila OS on once the models my wife & I have become too ‘obsolete’. (OnePlus 5T with LineageOS).

Have you tried yout.com? Take the URL of any vid, and just delete the ‘ube’ from it. It only allows a few DLs per day but it works.

I guess so? The ones I’m used to have whole corn kernels too

Dammit I’m hungry now :p

Would this be the same s ‘corn fritters’ in Canada?

Ah, hashcash. Wish that had taken off, it was a good idea …

Yes, and they used the name first, not google. Arseholes.

Big Bang Theory, and all ‘reality’ shows.

Add a removable battery, make sure it has a headphone jack and can be fully unlocked/rooted and I’ll buy 3 right bloody now.

Document it well enough to run real Linux and I’ll shout about it from the street like a crazy person for free advertising.