@kiki Those "security chips" mainly lock out the user. Same with TPM.

See also: Windows 11 must be stopped by Jody Bruchon: https://youtube.com/watch/... (mirror: https://brighteon.com/15861626-b9c2... - Jody Bruchon mirrors his videos to many platforms thankfully.)

The sequel: https://youtube.com/watch/... (mirror: https://rumble.com/v167uin-windows-... )

Addition: they block battery replacements. What used to be a normal repair is now "unauthorized".

The buyer must have full authority over their phone. As Louis Rossmann said, if buying isn't ownership, piracy isn't theft.

@kiki

> just buy a pixel phone and install graphene os. done.

Google phones are garbage with a giant centered rear bulge and with lack of MicroSD.

See https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a... (by Louis Rossmann) at 1 minute, 20 seconds. Linked outside of YouTube because we never know how long Google will tolerate criticism of itself on its own platforms.

@retoor Only a matter of time until they hide profile pictures from there. Or until they let websites block screenshots too.

@cafecortado It has a far worse quality.

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I forgot to remove this text after editing the numbers. I can't edit it anymore. Sorry for the confusion.

@kiki Not as bad as the CAPTCHAs where each picture takes ten seconds to fade out and in.

@Madisongrace5 Hey spammer. FSCK OFF.

Yes. With an S.

@BordedDev Google sucks at all things related to file management. Plain and simple.

https://devrant.com/rants/16688003/...

@Lensflare I pirated my Linux!

@cafecortado Interesting! Gonna try that!

@hjk101 Forgot to mention: NTFS has alternate streams, though I don't know where they are used outside the Windows world.

@hjk101 Features NTFS has that ext4 doesn't are quotas per user and on-the-fly compression and partition shrinking while mounted ("online shrink"). Also, its date range ends in 60056, not 2448. Who knows, maybe some systems will use NTFS in a thousand years?

But indeed, ext4 has extcellent (pun intended) performance. It handles a high number of files very gracefully. Much faster than FAT32 and NTFS.

And for compression I can use gzip and bzip2. It's not as seamless as the built-in NTFS compression, but if I access a file frequently I don't compress it anyway. It's just nice-to-have, not must-have. Also, compression makes data recovery more difficult should the file system be corrupted.

There are also more sophisticated file systems like XFS, ZFS, BtrFS, but for an OS partition, I prefer stability over modernity. ext4 is well-documented, well-understood, well-established. Less complexity usually improves stability.

@CoreFusionX I try using cash anyway. To avoid supporting central banks.

@D-4got10-01 Google is an example for "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

Android used to be the escape from proprietary walled gardens, but now it is becoming just that. And as always, Google uses their much loved p-word to justify it: "protect".

And people get fearmongered into accepting those draconian restrictions on their freedoms.

@D-4got10-01 Only a matter of time until Google releases an update that breaks it.

@merillecuz I have a better idea for you, spammer!

How about you kindly go

root@h4xorZ:/root # fsck _

yourself?

Thank you.

@OliviaMendez Hey, SpamGPT. Kindly go

$ fsck_

yourself.

Thank you.

@scor But it's not out of the box. It's not like you can plug in an ext4 USB stick and have it immediately appear in Windows Explorer.

But respects to Microsoft for doing this at all. Better than nothing.

https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/...

@jestdotty So that's why Google eliminated MicroSD card write access to third-party apps in Android 4.4.

The excuse stated by Google for this restriction is to prevent apps from leaving junk files behind after uninstallation.

But strangely, they didn't apply this argument to the internal storage, even though internal storage is smaller so the same junk files would take a higher percentage of the space.

It would have been best for Google to simply give the user a choice if they even want this restriction, but they did not. Google thinks its users are little babies who can't think for themselves.

MicroSD card support used to be one of the greatest selling points of Android smartphones over iPhones.

Why Google's file manager is garbage:

- Lacks a draggable scroll bar. Windows Mobile had this in 2009.

- Doesn't stay in same directory after tapping "copy" or "move". Instead goes to Download folder.

- "Properties" feature can't count total files and size in a directory.

- No A-to-B range selection which is like shift+click on desktop. Only added "drag to select" in recent years.

- Only up to 24 search results.

- Doesn't make use of Android's native "trash" (recycle bin) feature.

- No bookmarks.

- No "copy path to clipboard".

- Can't jump to parent directory of a search result.

- Does not remember sorting preference.

- Can not limit search to a single directory.

- More reasons.

Google has to admit Microsoft is much better at file managers than them.

@Lensflare Indeed, but that wastes battery charge and I might need to log in again.

It is more convenient to have all useful features in one browser.

+1

@Lensflare Pages are taken down all the time, as anyone not new to the Internet knows.

@electrineer Yes, but it is a whack-a-mole game with Google.

Google makes changes with Android updates that screw over third-party file managers.

https://dontkillmyapp.com/

> "WHO THE FUCK NEEDS THAT MUCH STORAGE IN THEIR PHONE?!!"

You when you use the camera a lot and don't want to spend a second worrying about how much space you have remaining.

More space = progress = good.

I once had a 32 GB smartphone and it was a nightmare.

Never worrying about ENOSPC.

Also, MicroSD guards against data loss if your USB port breaks.

Which browser?

Firefox: about:config > javascript.enabled

In Chrome, it should be in "Privacy and security" > "site settings", or just "site settings".

@netikras A bot gives a better response than humans? Mind blown.

Perhaps the creators of tar hate Tarl Warwick, so they avoided "tar -l".

Edit: Nah, impossible. tar was made before Tarl was born.