You’re right, I assumed you were the OP, and that’s squarely on me. The cats still remain. Most of the suggestions here will be impossible to find via streamline means, as this is not a streamline network, and much less a “normie” channel.

Have you tried searching instead of coming straight to a group of nerds focused on privacy and crying about something not being in the Play Store, which many of us avoid like the plague?

I’m in a similar place with books and comics. Of course, nowhere near the Jupiter size collection of media you have, but easily 2.5TB+ of just books and comics.

My wife, my kids and I are all avid readers, so we are always sharing some book or comic arc. We’re all rerunning all of Lobo’s arcs, it was Deadpool a couple of weeks ago (that should tell you all anyone needs to know about our family 😜)

OK Netflix, you don’t count 🤣

https://media.tenor.com/fKMzakG8oPYAAAAM/jenn-jenn-robbins.gif

Dude, we the less technically blessed are very grateful that guys like you are willing to share your magic. Thanks so much.

This is a very effective workaround, and I am absolutely going to take this for a spin. I’m currently using LinkWarden with extensions in my browsers and the app in Android. However, the fact is that most people will want easy integration between devices, and this may turn out to be the one thing that keeps more users from adopting your software.

Having said that, thank you. People like you are the drivers of innovation.

I know they are open source and ‘acknowledged contribution’, but have no idea where they are headquartered. Although it’s very likely also US based.

Because this is also part of enshitification. What you mention is just another symptom of it.

I’m not waiting for that shit to happen. I just moved over to headscale and am done with tails ale. They will enshitify, it’s a matter of when, not “if”.

Eso es correctísimo. I don’t want ANY AI in my servers looking for anything, regardless of if they are crawlers or if it’s on behalf of some lazy fuck.

Vanadium is what works best for me in this area.

During the Biden administration I should have gone to the US over 25 times, and 3 more during Trump’s new term, and not once have they asked me for anything other than “how long are you here for” and “what’s the purpose of your trip”.

I guess I’m lucky, because I don’t have a single mainstream social media account.

Yeah, but this is about self hosting and it’s costs, so the comparison is relevant.

If you’re referring to the com.android.adservices.api module, in the GrapheneOS discussion forums they clarify this: “This is an open source component of the Android Open Source Project providing an implementation of alternatives to tracking users for targeted advertising. It isn’t enabled by default, doesn’t use any Google services and is not a privacy issue in any way.”

They also mention that: “GrapheneOS isn’t going to enable these features since we don’t have any reason to enable targeted advertising.”

We all would love to be able to reset this, but we can’t, plus it appears to be irrelevant to our privacy as long as we don’t install Google Play Store and Google Play Services (which I have chosen to NOT install).

We can’t reset of disable it because, and I quote: “However, the systems it provides are much better than the approaches preceding them based on identifiers. Google Play provides an optional advertising ID which can be regenerated or disabled but most other SDKs don’t provide similar controls.”, so it seems that, because I don’t have the optional advertising ID that Google Play provides, I can’t, nor do I need to, reset or delete the ID.

This is the link to that discussion: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/2156-why-theres-a-package-named-android-adservices-installed-out-of-the-box/10

I get it, but GrapheneOS is meant to “disallow” those things precisely because they invade our privacy.

Genuinely curious here, I but what restrictions?

I do the exact same thing in my Chromecast w/GTV (yes, and also a firestick 4K).

These are android devices, and that’s how android works and competes with Crapple (full disclosure, I also hate Google).

He’s probably referring to just Chromecast without the Google TV module. Jellyfin works great for me as well on the Chromecast w/GTV

This is just the most recent example on how fucking so-called “investors” (who are no more than glorified and rich leaches) completely enshitify something that was lived by its users and clients.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-rLIz9XUo

This goes to show that most people will just adapt to ever-more-expensive shit services and products instead of fighting against them at the cost of some convenience.