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I find it interesting that the author thinks "invasive user fingerprinting" would stop with WEI. If you really believe ad networks are _only_ fingerprinting users to fight fraud an…

You are correct - I should be running chmod in the download stage and that is what I did before realizing `--chmod` existed. However, `--chmod` is still a valid solution. The reaso…

If I build an image using the Dockerfile in the blog post 10 days later, there is no guarantee that my application would work. The packages in Ubuntu's repositories might be update…

Well, they did offer to pay me $30 for limited data a couple of times. They once offered to send me a Google Home Mini (retailed for ~$30 at the time) in exchange for my Spotify pl…

> And Firefox is just not in that box at all. If you search for Chrome, Chrome will not show up in that box either. And the first browser in that box is, guess what, Firefox. You j…

On my Pixel 2XL, I cannot set temperature to Celsius on my home and lock screen unless I allow this setting.

I think I understand what's happening here. If I click the temperaure on launcher, it opens the Google Search app querying for "weather" - here it is in celsius. Temperature units …

Of course. I'm no stranger to rooting the phone just to get rid of those pesky apps.

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Amazon provides alternative APIs for their platform. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/fire-os-overview.h...

Playing devil's advocate here. I feel like Play Services is necessary evil. This is the only thing that's keeping the ecosystem from fragmenting further. Look at the OEMs update cy…

Oh you may have misunderstood my comment. On my phone at least, there is an app named "Play Services" which I assume provides things like location services and other background Goo…

On my Pixel 2, the only apps I can't disable are Settings, Phone, Messages, SIM toolkit, Pixel Launcher and Play Services. I can disable (not uninstall) rest of the Google apps tha…

I'm not buying your first point. Within a month of OEMs releasing the Kernel sources, you can find builds of AOSP over at XDA, Lineage OS and other forums. And with the project Tre…

I usually do 'git checkout -- ' to revert a single file to previous state. If I ever need a gui (very, very rare), I would just use 'gitk'. Small and does the work.