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ladfrombrad 🇬🇧

@ ladfrombrad @lemdro.id

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not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, drones, but not my own. Because that sucks.

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    Firefox Just a Puppet for Google

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  • Yes, we can change, but it's still installed and running services in the background if I recall.

    You can disable or remove Chrome depending on your device

    I run a simple combo of Firefox and Kiwi Browser so I get a taste of both browser engines and don't really have any issues since I get extensions too in both.

    The thing we do need to be observant about is Google Play Services and its tentacles of that sticky little system-priv framework and what it can do. AFAIK, it can still use Chrome even if disabled/removed during a Factory Reset and why there are FRP exploits using Chrome + webviews.

  • [Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?

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  • Hai!

    Just rewatching The Terminator to check my Tailnet and a family members Jellyfin

    Can confirm it's working, good 🥳

    Thanks for doing this as peeps need a place to chat even if I'm been nostalgic lazy.

  • Weekly discussion thread - discuss anything related to Android - 20 August 2024

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  • Yep yep I bought a family member a couple of those fancy GLi routers that come with AdGuard built in.

    It's scary what a household's tracked without it would look like, and they are none the wiser to the shit getting sinkholed to this day thankfully.

    I'm down to 10% bollocks via NextDNS

    and aim to bring it down further by dumping any apps/services that want to bum fugg me.

  • Weekly discussion thread - discuss anything related to Android - 20 August 2024

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  • I felt like a right noobie when one of my colleagues said he'd got a Pixel tablet via the Play Store and asked him how he'd won it.

    Apparently I don't install and play shittons of games like them.

    £500 was tempting to look into it further but as you say, that news pissed me off because I now know my mum is gonna install some bullshit that one of those guys might have picked up on.

  • Government should “urgently” legalise e-scooters says shared transport charity - says serious safety incidents are rare

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  • I think one thing that's missing from the equation is testing and licensing to ride/drive them.

    I know it's an English forum here but you need to have a set of cojones to "drive" an escoot/EUC on our roads and I only use it to travel the short distance to work.

    I've gone down arterial roads suited up with live Bradford traffic, and it's not for the faint of heart lemmi tell ya :/

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    Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit

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  • Why even bother pretending anymore or putting on this charade. It’s the same thing over and over again.

    If one puts an indeterminate amount of red tape around an object / thing / thought, does one become entangled in said red tape?

    -- some idiot called lad from the internet's, circa last decade

  • Government should “urgently” legalise e-scooters says shared transport charity - says serious safety incidents are rare

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  • It's something that's irking me.

    I've been a bicyclist, car driver, drive for a living and also have a VSett that goes a steady 35mph max which means I can lane check but, because I can't fugging insure the thing means I'm always looking over my shoulder if I need to dump some keen eager copper.

    I'm starting to think of selling it so I can get a eBike Surron instead and blend in with the local wildlife around here.

  • Searching for exact app names in the Play Store

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  • We use a fair few shared mobile phones at work and while it has WiFi / unlimited mobile data is used solely as an absence line number because some of my fellow colleagues don't have home internet, actively disable their mobile data (because they use a SMS / Call package only), and really can't get their head around "the nets"/Whatsapp and don't, want to, either.

    Which I agree with to an extent since Whatsapp can suck my plums too. They exist and quite a few of them apparently.

    There is a bonus to this thou since I get to call them names because of their neanderthal ways...

  • I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be

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  • No fuggin doubt.

    And you know what irks me more is when you buy things from places like eBay or other third party seller websites (where you've consented to their cookies/terms) your email address you use with them is then in the hands of a goofball who's had their personal business PC been compromised.

    The few times I use eBay the email addy I use on their sees my inbox flooded. Fucking shitshow.

  • I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be

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  • I'm aware of that, but I'm just pointing out many websites do not give you the consent options as stated above which imo are much more annoying.

  • I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be

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  • It's not just a warning, it's also an option to reject.

    Some don't give you an option, but actually have a much cleaner interface imo.

    Whether or not it's better since you still have to click OK, some don't let you reject them at all.

  • Xiaomi plans to cut down on bloatware, but won't make it easier to disable ads

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  • That's kinda weird.

    I've had a Meme11 Lite for a couple of years now and just bought another Poco. I don't see no ads whatsoever, after I told Wallpaper Carousel to not nag me no more.

    Alright I use NextDNS across router / device level but like I say I get none of these complaints and think it's global releases for some?

  • I just got a device with an audio jack (Moto G84), very satisfying.

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  • I'm a capt' three phones at the moment

    While I've had my backup Samsung M12 with a 1pmobile SIM in my work locker for a couple of years now simply as an emergency backup, I'm also currently rocking two Xiaomi's so I can test remote connections to a family members server via work WiFi/Tailscale.

    My main issue is while I wear cargo pants at work, carrying two phones is more wieldy than you'd think and there's also something else I did notice the other day with the Find My Device news.

    I forgot where, I left my main phone the other day and my locker is a literal Faraday cage according to FMD? 10 minutes of panic :/

  • PSA: Grayjay is really good

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  • It's just an app, not a lifestyle. 🤷

    Now apply that thought to VLC and how many distros and apps use their libraries.

  • This app brings iOS 18's Vehicle Motion Cues feature to any Android phone

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  • I thought I was a bit of a negative nancy but you take the cake 😆

  • Music Industry Puts Pressure on 'Parasitic' Streaming App Musi.

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  • Music Industry Puts Pressure on 'Parasitic' Streaming App Musi.

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  • I've been using this moniker for a long time and lad is a bit of a non truthy thing now 😇

    Where ya from?

  • Music Industry Puts Pressure on 'Parasitic' Streaming App Musi.

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  • Definitely a fair point and I imagine it varies highly between industries/companies. I just get to see lots of redundant actions that are simply, redundant, just like the perps in the OP :(

  • Music Industry Puts Pressure on 'Parasitic' Streaming App Musi.

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  • Us and Them

    No doubt - there are many of these workers in the Office but I'm also seeing many stragglers doing fuck all and also delegating jobs out that they're themselves fully capable of doing but instead of walking 100 yards sending an email + WhatsApp.

    While I don't use WhatsApp things get cycled down other channels and it annoys me no end. I'm a busy person 80% of the time but because these leeches can't organise their weekdays they then try their best to offload their, work.

    Moar deep grumbly noises.

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  • The music industry needs to die off already.

    You know what I find it akin to in the industry I work in and I know this gonna cause some controversy - but the 9-5 Mon-Fri managers we have at work.

    I work something called Continental shifts which are basically days/nights/days/nights on a A/B/C/D rota throughout the space of a month.

    What I find telling is we run absolutely fine on weekend days and all our night shifts but, we have these what I'm going to call leeches (but the controversial term is.....Office Drones) just like the copyright fuckwads illustrated here that suddenly appear throughout the week and are a general nuisance?

    They really don't do anything I can see that benefits the company/industry other than sending emails etc for others to send them a report that's readily available/start bullshit investigation etc.

    They make me grumble these leeches :/