Well yeah fuck that guy and this program and it’s implications, but this particular issue doesn’t sound too unexpected considering the scope of the procedure.

I’m all for the science, but you know this is going to be some directly streamed ads hellspace we’ll never escape from if it comes to fruition.

Here’s a good rule for this sort of thing to move forward: No implants before right to privacy and freedom from advertising.

I’ve played most of the metroid games, and i know theres a ton of nostalgia for super metroid, but to this day nothing has matched the feeling of exploration and awe from Metroid Prime. Every place in the game was so radically different, and the ability to scan and learn about the environment was so unique, and exactly what i didn’t know i needed. Learning the lore and finding out what happened to the planet only by analyzing everything made the world feel like it had died, and it’s death was a tragedy. All the enemies you encounter are just local animals that don’t know better, or had been corrupted by pollution. That is, until about halfway through the game when you meet actually hostile, malicious intelligence, and the combat steps up exponentially.

It’s fantastic. I still remember being amazed at the fogging and raindrops showing up on the visor the first time you step off your ship on Talon IV. I had never seen graphocs so good, and such attention to detail, and the game was already 4 years old.

The only game i’ve ever played that felt similar was subnautica, and while it had the wonder, it lacked the melancholy and insane combat.

Prime is the best in the series, hands down.

And the answer to vacant cells is to congragulate the population on their low crime rate, but the for profit system in the US just finds reasons to put more people in jail and keep them there longer.

Who the fuck still uses regular ass YouTube?

My Bluetooth speaker came with KEXP loaded as one of it’s preset radio stations, and I found several bands I now love through it. I had it going while doing housework for a while, and found myself looking up artists a few times a day. It feels like a proper college station from 20 years ago.

To record and sell everything you do and everywhere you go with no way to opt out and huge risk to attempt to root it to a custom os.

Not that it’s not a shitty thing to do, but it also seems like the last person you would rely on for the value of an object is the person selling it to you.

I would think a museum would be better at spotting forgeries.

That just adds another party with access to your photos.

Cool. I want zero if these features. Leave my shit alone.

1. If he’s that good at building furniture, good on him, keep it up.
2. Never would have been illegal to sell lies to poor people.
3. Fuck rich people.

Ublock Firefox on the computers, revanced on the phone, smarttube next on the TV, which is running FLauncher. Like an hour to set up once and no ads ever again. I’m a little confused by anyone agreeing to pay to unshittify a service made so irritating in the first place, and honestly how anyone puts up with ads at all when it’s so easy to avoid them.

In the settings menu for flauncher there’s a button for Android options. If you open that you should be able to adjust the picture settings, it at least find the Bravia settings that can control the picture.

I believe that’s exactly the case with most of them, which is why I wanted an android in the first place. It’s a known architecture.

I limited the background processes when I was customizing everything, so because of that apps take about 2 seconds longer to open, because they weren’t on standby. Fewer background things mean it starts up a lot faster though. The apps all work as they should.

The ADB commands I used just disable the default launcher, it’s still there if something goes wrong. If you switch over and something doesn’t work, you just send the same command with ‘enable’ replacing ‘disable’ and it’s back to normal.

65". Got it at Costco for around 600$ in 2021. I fought with the regular os after some updates about a year ago. Before that Google wasn’t shoving shit down my throat all day. I’ve been considering rooting it for a while, but finally got the motivation today.

I did the use button mapper. Little finicky at first but now it’s great. It’s probably worth noting, in case someone bumps into this later, the exact commands in the link you posted didn’t work for me, I needed to search for a different launcher removal command, since I’m not on a chrome cast, or maybe Google just changed they’re launcher name/location. The appwraith remover worked, just not for the actual launcher. I’ll rack down what I did later and update this with my command.

Based on what I learned from another reply here, I was able to make my TV do exactly what I wanted. If you ever have to replace the dumb TV, I’m going to recommend getting an android TV just because it was so easy to remove the original OS.

I know each android TV is a little bit different, so if it helps I’m running a Sony Bravia with android TV 11.

I was hoping to avoid having to complicate my setup any further with another device. I’m trying to drag my friends into the world of customized media, and if it seems more difficult than an iPhone they’ll just roll their eyes and continue dealing with ads. I ended up using ADB to disable Google and set flauncher as my default system.

That setting wasn’t an option on my TV unfortunately, and my network ad blocking wasn’t working due to the ads being saved on the TV. I ended up using ADB to just kill Google entirely.