Some of my general programs

1. Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
2. Magnet
3. Shottr
4. Velja
5. Bitwarden
6. Spark
7. Firefox Nightly/Chrome
8. Ferdium
9. Pdf expert (before the subscription junk happened)/ PDF Studio
10. Day progress
11. Horo
12. Obsidian
13. Bartender (testing it)

Glad to hear 👍

Edit image for those who are curious:

Its a 4x price increase Sync pro for reddit was about $4 (USD), sync for lemmy is $22 to remove ads

I do wonder how this compares to current payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, etc)

Best reason would be if you were a reddit sync user in the past Lemmy sync would feel familiar.

It analogous to Apollo users feeling voyager similar (to an extent).

Agreed whats more annoying is getting double X posts back to back

The problem comes down to education institutions. I remember when we got Chromebooks in my highschool (8 years ago) admins forgot to turn of developer mode and half the school unenrolled the Chromebook managing to bypass all restrictions. This went on for half a year until one day our school needed to run a state exam (more for measure of schools performance not as a college entrance exam or anything).

The computerized testing program required deploying a specific chrome app accessible when chrome book is logged out (can’t just download from chrome web store). When they tried to push the client since half of Chromebooks were unenrolled it failed. This required the school it to recall pretty much all chrome books to manually re enroll all of them and disable developer mode (prevents unenrolling and prevents sideloading Linux).

Problem is if older Chromebooks are used for Linux in an educational environment there would be nothing stopping a student from whipping up a bootable USB and dumping another distro (bypassing restrictions). I’m also not sure if there is a enrollment mode equivalent Linux (there may be but not sure).

At least that’s my two cents (not a school it admin just a memory from the past 😉).

Found a handy script to minimize this:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/471718-lemmy-post-keyword-filter

Few problems:

1. Safteynet (play integrity) and root detection

There are magisk tweaks to help combat this but its a annoying game of cat and mouse. Some apps like chase have particularly annoying root detection to deal with. Also regaring safteynet once google fully enforces hardware attestation passing safteynet with tweaks will be borderline impossible (most tweaks try to spoof older phones that don’t support safteynet hardware attestation).

2. Widevine

Many streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Disney, etc) will downgrade your video quality to 480p-540p due to L3 from unlocking the bootloader (a step thats usually required before you can root).

3. Physical security (potential risk)

Unlocking the bootloader is the first step to allowing for rooting and custom roms. One pro/con is when you unlock the bootloader you are partially at risk to a evil maid attack (some one with physical acess to your phone can compromise it). While difficult to do automatically (and probably very very rare) some one could hypothetically place a malicious bootloader that could steel data. The risk of this is mostly low but does exist.

Is there a one time payment option to remove ads?

Dev said he will ad a ad removal feature