No: AI Acceptable: Photoshop Great: GIMP/Krita

And turn off DNS ad block and watch 3 unskippable ads to get an extra toilet paper. Wanna watch less ads? Agree to our use-your-excrement-to-train-ai and sell-your-data-to-our-10000-partners and you-can’t-sue-us-over-data-breach EULA to watch one our AI-generated personalized ad instead

And the app requires a non-jailbroken Apple or Android with strong play integrity plus photos of your face, your ID, and your shit to flush.

It that VLC

I currently self-host TypeType, which supports YouTube, BiliBilii and NicoNico, and is IMO a sister project of PipePipe for mobile.

Considering the amount of Apple devices in the wild, I guess what I talk physically to people will be mostly recorded then, not to mention that Google assistant or smth like that maybe doing the same, what a Brave New World.

I selfhosted it on my phone and laptop. Great as a replacement of ILovePDF and those CLI tools that have no common interface (I could write some functions to make one tho).

in case I run with set -e

update_pm() {
  sudo apt update
  sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt upgrade -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt autoremove -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers install || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers install || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers install || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt autoremove -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  sudo apt clean
  sudo apt autoclean
  flatpak update -y || true
  flatpak uninstall --unused -y || true
  sudo snap refresh || true
  brew update
  echo y | brew upgrade
  echo y | brew autoremove
  brew cleanup
  uv self update
  uv tool upgrade --all
  npm i -g npm
  npm update -g
}

I think it can be removed, at least for my phone, in the settings > Google or just use adb.

If they really care about users’ security, they should make Graphene OS’s GMSCompact and explicit permissions the new standard instead of restricting what apps can they use and forcing invasive system apps. And centralized censorship and requiring an account is not what makes apps secure. Source available and reproducible build is.

Also ban Google. I think we should ban any schoolwork in required courses that requires students to agree to any third-party EULAs, such as Google account and Windows OS. For selective courses, considering the de facto status that many fields don’t have a mature enough open source software, banning is a bit exceeding proportionality IMHO. And offering Windows computer is probably ok as long as it’s not the default choice IMHO.

In my freshman year in the Electrical Engineering department, I took a required computer programming course, the course that I supposed it to be most aware of the existence of GNU/Linux, free format, and so on. However, it uses Google Sheets for homeworks and demands a Google Drive link of an exe for final team project and YouTube link for presentation. When they let students evaluate each other, I just got a bunch of exe, half of which doesn’t even open in Wine.

I also think they every school should offer NextCloud. Otherwise when team work occurs, Google Drive/Docs/Slides/Sheets is the de facto only choice.

BTW, I think LaTeX with git is more customizable and extensible and should be taught instead of teaching MS Office stuff. I actually take all my notes in LaTeX in a GitHub repo and do reproducible compilations.