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It is possible to have another analytics that connects to Trello or Calendar to tell me "Project is finished"?

> And don't get me started on the ticketing machines not accepting Visa, Mastercard, or Amex at the central station in Munchen

Wow. You travel to a different part of the world without doing basic research. Hope you did not try stuffing USD on machines.

> One of the differentiators between iOS and Google was a lack of ads

I always wonder how apple's marketing team pulled this off.

- If you use any decent browser like Firefox* (or its different clones) one get enhanced privacy, no ads, byepasspaywalls etc. - Even Chromium forks have decent adblocking - Using NewPipe (like revanced opensource) for ad free YouTube

All my iOS friends scroll through so many ads - admittedly - SIM/data is paid for my their employers but it is awful experience.

* -> Don't be pendantic and point out yesterday's Verge article that Mozilla is becoming bad.

Your top question is like...

I have no idea what is security. What is good? Such questions cannot be answered easily. Read https://ssd.eff.org/module/your-security-plan

- Trying to protect all your data from everything all the time is impractical and exhausting. - There is no perfect option for security. Not everyone has the same priorities, concerns, or access to resources. Your risk assessment will allow you to plan the right strategy for you, balancing convenience, cost, and privacy.

- Some install custom ROM because they don't install 3rd party apps like WhatsApp etc but want to use only OpenSource Email - Some may say - using original factory ROM is bad for privacy as Google snoops a lot but they have some assurance that some random script kiddie cannot take over

- Some want security but not privacy (i.e) get a ChromeOS - yes everything is given to Google but Google has one of the best security team in the world.

> That's irrelevant on Android because system apps can be updated without touching the /system partition, if the .apk is signed with the same key. The system will store the updated .apk file in /data/app, but otherwise grant it privileged permissions that only system apps can get. That's how google play services can update itself and still keep its privileged status, even though the phone OS hasn't been updated in years.

How is this relevant? Yes, in a custom ROM - USER NEEDS TO BE CAREFUL. (i.e) if someone installs random app - signed by AOSP keys (and that ROM was installed by AOSP keys) it will get installed.

I am yet to see proof that this causes major meltdown.

Reg complete ROM- Except for this: https://wiki.lineageos.org/signing_builds#changing-keys

Assuming a phone was securely installed (after verifying sha/sig) with lineageOS RECOVERY and ROM - it will not accept a build with different sign keys. (i.e) AOSP keys.

> Isn't that how a system app proves to the system that it is, in fact, a system app?

No.

In a way it does not matter if the app is system or not. Even user apps (signed with some other key) can be powerful to do damage.

System partitions cannot be edited due to SELinux and also thesedays the partition ext4 is created with certain blocks - cant be changed.

Yes one can use magisk to do some gimmick - but that is kinda telling OS - Allow me to do anything.

The notion of locked bootloader as a holy grail against anything is stupidity. Apps inherently have too much power - assuming user somehow granted permissions. (or you are from a 3-letter organisation - incl. NSO)

IMHO that means your job advertisement was broad. If you are more specific it would not have been that bad.

Assuming you had no say in that...

pretty much everyone will say AI - though your ad may have told - Don't use AI.

you say

> 40-50tb total

> 8/12/16gb

How many drives are those?

You are kidding.

> but it's hard to argue that they don't have a gigantic influence on the whole internet, no? :)

Then don't relate this to safe browsing. What is the connection?

You could have just written a one liner. Google has too much power. This has nothing to do with safe-browsing.

In fact you could write...

- USA/China/EU etc has too much power..

You use the word relative in another reply..

Same way.. My employer has relatively too much power...

> Google has too much power over the internet.

In this case they did use it for good cause. Yes, alternatively you could have prevented the whole thing from happening if you cared about customers.

How is responding nope make sense? Many people don't know to build immich or ZFS etc. I do know some self-hosters losing data from just a poweroutage etc. So there are self-hosters that also cry.

Hmmm.. not everyone is talented in keeping software up to date. A selling homemade earrings can use something like shopify or paypal or stripe easily.

Do you use visa or mastercard? That is SaaS.

The main thing govts need to do is to force companies to allow export/import transparently . But then small SaaS don't have man power to do this (even if they truly believe in cause).

and also penalize or jail both programmrs/CEO that use subscription model with cancellation fee for even cancellations. Lots of people in HN would even be against this - as they claim - I wrote the code only - following orders.

IIRC there was only one AMD employee that was working to integrate linux based things. Often, the response was - things are stuck in Intellectual property, or project managers etc. So even specs were not available.

AMP was a boon to all crap sites built by S Asian newspapers etc. even FT, guardian at some point had individual pages that were about 50x larger than it's AMP equivalent. Yes, for the rich AMP is monopoly etc. for poor like me - I prefer less data usage.

> Especially deleting old emails and photos.

Google or apple can put a big button delete everything in their phones/accounts but then some prankster will do it to a family member and this gives bad PR. Let's be pragmatic.

> It's in their interest to retain everything at all costs, because more used storage can mean more profits.

As an user, I get the reverse. When I had local NAS then I dumped anything and everything - assuming.. this costs not much. Will clean up later. Once I moved to cloud that changed to If I put crap then it will cost me money! Keep it clean

Once upon a time Google had given generous unlimited to all education and workspace. They stopped it in the last 2 years and you can see most educational and companies are running a tight ship.

Due to backup costs in our organisation we are forcing people to use max of 100GB for emails.

> advanced filesystems don't include "expiration dates" or "purge dates" on file objects. Wouldn't it be logical, if an organization

Totally agree.

Outlook email service has some kind of keep only the last newsletter from this service etc.

> auto-delete could be configurable account-wide, for more than just our web histories

- features are designed with majority in mind - most users have some sort of nostalgia for reading or keeping old emails SMS etc

Even if it is every 6 months one program is easier to update and control than different ones. Usually even if Ubuntu or Windows is never updated - download and updating firefox is stable. Nothing fails. But if one thinks something like KDE or digikam or other complex tools - it updates 200 libraries that eventually lead to some f'kup - either unusable or driver conflicts in case of Windows.

This brick/EOL is a different issue but common man benefits from simplicity. Yes, environment is trashed or software obsolescence - but yet - most of them buy a new phone or device every at least 5 years (of course, I am talking within my circles - there may be people at different ends).

I used to buy expensive nexus phones. Then I realised I use only WhatsApp and Banking. Now I buy cheapest Motoroola for $100. Works fine. Become EOL in 2 years as they are bad in updates. Get another one for $100. Latest OS.

Instead if one spends latest pixel flagship for $800 - no benefits.

> Updates aren't something inherently bad but they're being used in evil ways with no resort from users other than leave.

Yes there is no resort but people live in real life. They need banking, recent cool apps etc. Some could live like RMS and not use anything modern or use Terminal but most people don't.

1. Easier to keep one program update. i.e browser. use firefox (or its nerfed clones) if you hate Google or Apple

2. For any decent software it needs update. Even most opensource tools are hundreds of MB. For example, a school teacher in Zambia does not need to download digikam or okular or notepad++ or ffmpeg every week to get security updates.

> it helps nothing with keeping your data secure from actors you dont realize are bad

Once you enter that then you have only https://www.raptorengineering.com/ and using terminal.

UK is millions of times better than Qatar but BBC is not too great. Somethings are great with BBC not everything. Fox news? Qatar doesn't micromanage everything.

Most of the time

- all input ports are blocked. Kinda provides security. Works fine as if things are so dire most academia would be hacked.

- these are not valuable like data from SSN or bank. So fewer attacks.

- if something gets f*ked - it gets bad name - people laugh it off. No one will get fired.

I know uni presidents that keep passwords on excel sheets. Life is like that.

Let's be honest corporate says training, retraining, testing - IT will install 3 different malware scanners and 2 AV to HOG CPU etc but some idiot will approve MFA/TOTP (okta) or like solarwinds. So everyone has their stupidity.

But the user pays forever with new version! (Some manager wants bonus now)

I assume you never worked in academia. Sometimes hpc are installed by researchers (incl myself) as there is no budget for IT staff.

The point is tech savvy users can do all sorts of things like ublock origin, DNS, dumb TV etc

The majority of users in this world don't. So there will some people left out to suffer ads/tracking etc.

Maybe one can pay for Greencard/visa with PayPal?

Some sales/ad Manager will force app dev for money (that will happily take money - and write in hn after 5 years that he/she is so overwhelmed with guilt that they have to live with 6digit money on a beach now) and build UI that will trick user into enabling that for that crap app.

Indeed it looks impressive. Thanks for the tip.

Manythings like network/Bluetooth/Display server stack are better optimised in android. Low power long battery life.

If similar to ChromeOS it is directly updated by Google then it will be a huge win for all computer users. No pain from OEM. I mean some Gemini crap from Google but that is tolerable.

> third issue is that it's Google. There's no telling when they'll pull the plug on this.

That is exactly the reason to use ChromeOS/flex.

The UI is well designed to use cloud as storage space. i.e no worries when anything folds including hardware failure.

I have not used Aurora but does it automatically do FDE? Does the user need to install chrome or Firefox? I have seen people saving passwords locally and not syncing. One fine day Xorg (or wayland gives up). Then one needs to go to users place and fix it. I did install flex on my parents machine in the other side of globe. It still works updates seamless.

I recommended ChromeOS (despite the pain of needed ublock origin ) mainly because users need to remember only one password. i.e Google 's password.

While I am a daily driver of Linux/Xubuntu, the UI from kde/gnome etc is not that friendly as ChromeOS (which mimics Android).

Not detecting printer is specific situation. This could also happen with many Linux distros.

Of course it is all IMHO.

Would it be possible to run AI/ML on an existing jira/github large project (k9mail/KDE(gitlab) and show/prove this can be useful/better etc? Thanks

bookmark your comment and comeback a year or two later. Nothing is implied. Wait.

I dont think they are the target market. E.g. Some people will never buy computers but only assemble them; some will only run freeBSD or linux. For vast majority - just open and use the computer.