Georgia

He said that receiving is the issue. So even if you buy it cheaply here, he might have to pay a huge sum in taxes

Just get the least necessary and hope that prices will drop :(

A friend of mine lives in Egypt and that would be a steal

As someone buying load of secondhand tech, you don’t need the latest and greatest

As I had an older pc this was true most of the time

Sauce?

Would love to have a read on that :)

Yeah or services as Signulous could take a bit of strain away if you don’t want to be limited by the 7 days and 3 apps limit

Thanks! Will look into the other apps too!

I got certificates

For those select few that have an iPhone

You have a few options:

• be EU citizen and sideload a cracked YouTube (similar to vanced, but you need certificates on iOS which sucks)
• pay for a dev account and sideload regardless of above
• buy two apps: vinegar and AdGuard. AdGuard speaks for itself, vinegar is a tool that forces YouTube to use the html 5 player inside of safari and thus forcing it to your will

I know iPhones are hated here, but I saw the android will stop sideloading coming from a mile away. At least here in the eu apple can suck one and I can still sideload whatever I want

If a government wants this in place, they should also facilitate the means.

Was gonna say this as well. The Asian brands that have dominated the eu markets still do so. Vw as well, even after their eco blue debacle.

Cool. Now provide us with sources. Besides buzzword banger articles I haven’t seen hard proof. At least not more than other brands. Meanwhile Tesla has been doing this for training their self driving and we’ve been fine with it. And so do most cars under the norm of telemetry data.

It meant that I didn’t give that much context in my comment and kindly flamed myself before a stranger got the chance to it haha

Thanks for the kind comment.

I’ve ever run arch, yet.

I’m used to scanning forums and wikis to find fixes, would arch be a “walk in the park” for me?

Thinking of switching from an oclp build on my old MacBook to Linux, as performance is lackluster on the latest build and I don’t even use the continuity features on my Mac

Edit: barely any context from what I’ve searched fixes for, nice crap comment.

I’ve run Ubuntu quite a lot years ago and ran popos recently. I also did quite a lot of android custom roms on a huge number of devices (saying this, only horror stories I have are android fuckery and hardware issues, guess I’ll be fine)

Sucks to hear your experience being so terrible. Either I’m so coloured by the hellish experience of booting Linux on a surface (which is easy, but so many small issues after each update) or booting Linux on a mac is really easy.

BUT

I do agree, get something like a system76 for ease of use. I have dabbled with Linux, custom roms and other “hacky” stuff my whole life. I’m so used to it being hard that the experience these days feels as easy as booting windows

Don’t know where you are from, but I got a MacBook Pro 2015 for 150 and it can be forced to the latest macOS or just any distro of your liking. I will say that it can get quite hot and it’s recommended to switch the cooling paste and clean the fan.

For a cheap device it works fine and in this price bracket a better screen is barely possible.

I do have a surface book 2 that I will sell between 150 and 200, but I think Linux support is finicky at best. I ran popos on it, but there are just a bunch of things which would work a lot better on other devices

Just install AdGuard. Works great.

I get that it is annoying for you since you obviously don’t have a pc that will run it, yet.

But a lot of problems in tech started because it was just there and didn’t do that much yet. Lots of governments are still catching up to the big tech to stop them from having too much power, because they slept on it.

I dislike the recall stuff too, I don’t have a pc that will be able to run it and probably won’t have one for the coming 10 years, unless there is a huge leap in performance. But I do appreciate all the people here making their voices heard and actually bending MS their knee as well.

So please filter it and get out of the way of the nice people, thank you