Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things

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  • The rest of us are done with this fucking tantrumist false patriot bullshit.

    Yes. This. As a Canadian living abroad, it was embarrassing. My American colleagues take so much crap… So much… Starting with Bush, then Trump, now the entire cast of wild nutters. Plus, all of my colleagues know my father is a trucker (wasn’t involved with the protest)… The convoy hurt the image of Canada, Lich and Co. made us look like illiterate bumpkins. They could all be Mensa geniuses, it doesn’t matter, the international press put a spin on the whole ordeal that made Canadians look like South Park characters.











  • Le duo de ouf : vloggeur complotiste et vieux climatosceptique.

    Sans avoir regardé, est-ce que ça parle de libertés volés au nom de l’environnement ? Est-ce que les médias sont accusées de censure ? Ils disent peut être que c’est hypocrite d’interdire les vols par avion ? Y-a-t-il un appel à l’action d’utiliser notre esprit critique et partager la vérité, que la planète va bien et les politiciens sont en train de nous mentir pour nous controller?





  • Are there better brands?

    Probably. I’ll echo the thoughts and opinions of others, sorry for the repeat.

    Pixel phones will continue to receive updates (and GrapheneOS supports Pixels as long as Google supports them). If you go full tinfoil hat, you’ll see that there are people out there accusing Google of being an NSA partner and more.

    Fairphone is a neat idea for reparability reasons. They also try to support their devices for a long time. But, they can be expensive for less than premium hardware.

    Try to find devices that ship with very little bloatware:

    • Nokia makes some cheap phones that might be tempting, but HMD Global (licence-holder for Nokia) has messed stuff up in the past. My Nokia 5.3, for example, received a bad update. What was bad? Well, if you tried to factory reset it bricked the phone. I did not read the forum before resetting my phone (https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/66312/warning-do-not-factory-reset-nokia-5-3-bricked-phone) so that cheap little guy didn’t even make it to year 2. Probably for the best as they were once accused of sharing data with [2 very large countries].
    • Motorola, like Nokia, makes some cheaper devices. And, like Nokia, tends to ship with little to no bloatware. But, they are notorious for abandoning devices.
    • Sony and Asus does not fall under the cheap category, unless you buy used.

    If you really want to save, buy a broken phone and fix it. Rounded.com sells spare parts for different phones, so you could even find a phone for cheap and make it last using spare parts.



  • So, you’ve been in the BIOS? I’d imagine it is set to UEFI and you’ve disables Legacy option ROMS and secure boot?

    Somewhere in the BIOS settings there should be a section or entry called Removable Media Boot/USB boot under “device”, “storage” or “boot”. You’ll need to toggle an option there.