New type of Costco Guys incoming

Yt-dlp works. youtube will still block you if they can tell you're using a VPN and possibly for age restricted videos

I like bachata. It's a lot of fun

In theory the plan has to involve disenfranchising the Canadians to some extent, right?

Yeah, that ROM doesn't support MicroG. Graphene is more focused on being hardened for security

What ROM are you using? MicroG depends on a ROM feature called "signature spoofing" that allows it to impersonate the Play Services apps.

This whole project from facebook was so baffling and in poor taste. Silicon Valley types live in a techbro bubble and have no one telling them no

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It's a drop-in replacement so it should provide push notifications and location functionality just fine for every app. Other functionality such as IAPs will probably be unsupported.

From the data I see on Plexus for WhatsApp, the core functionality and notifications work just fine on MicroG, but backing up chats to Google Drive is broken.

But the earth is smaller further down

There's a fork of Telegram on F-droid called "Telegram FOSS" that runs a background service for notifications. I've used it and the effect on battery drain is pretty minor, like maybe 2% per charge. Not sure if something similar exists for Signal.

I use MicroG on my phone, it's a basic FOSS replacement for GMS and makes push notifications work for all apps. It gets push notifs from Google's servers but you don't need an account. It doesn't use Google at all for location, which is nice as that's a highly invasive aspect of Play Services. Not all ROMs are compatible with it, I use it on Lineage

Yeah that's the worst. We were watching these shows in 4:3 on 21" CRTs, but on a 55" HDTV we need to crop in for this ridiculously cramped framing?

Fallen Angels, 1995 Cantonese film directed by Wong Kar-Wai

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this guy reminds me of Bobby from Twin Peaks. same hair and cigarette thing going on. actually kind of similar generally

new megathread 🇨🇺🇨🇺

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When the snow starts a-fallin', there's a man you should be callin'

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i feel like the Spaces voice clip seals it on its own. nobody else sounds like that

I'd like to hear this person's analysis of the first Blade Runner.