foremanguy92_

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Is Minecraft piracy really piracy?

Minecraft is easy to pirate...but why? Well to answer you: there is 0 effort to pirate it, download the client.jar from mojang official APIs (which is totally FREE) and run the jar without using any valid session ID, done! What...that's too easy, were is the catch? Well you can't have a skin, you can't play minecraft servers ...

foremanguy92_ ,

Is Minecraft free, and has no license? No.

So it's piracy.

foremanguy92_ ,

If it's just streaming (from big providers or home server) and that the device doesn't not really do transcoding, try to find an used mini PC with decent specs (the only problem will be to find a PC that uses 4k@120hz but it's really not a problem to have 60Hz cause most of the movies are going to be 24 or 30 fps...) And you've got it for 50$

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No that's not correct, a lot a consumer hardware have SATA port (like old laptop)
Replacing old HDD into SSD SATA to run the OS is the way to go in this case.

So not so useless...

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Federated software shouldn't go really on these types of subnetworks

Maybe you could try to make a userbase grow on these but for now that's not how it works.

Since the federation features would be greatly affected you instead try to look into IRC or XMPP which doesn't make federation their standpoint

foremanguy92_ ,

Buy them an old PC and set them CasaOS for example

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Without pay wall?

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1 - It comes from the graphical displaying.

So it could be either hardware graphical related (aka GPU or display) or software graphical related.

2 - It doesn't seem to come from driver or software issue since Windows didn't work.

So it's surely related to hardware, display or GPU.
If it's a desktop as other said you could try to change the output port of your display on your GPU...

foremanguy92_ ,

Try disabling TPM in the bios/uefi by spamming DEL or ESC or F10 or F12 or F9 or ENTER

foremanguy92_ ,

Not to support google but it is a really bad use of AI, AI is meant to do research and find logical answers to them
So this is "normal" that an AI is bad in pure calculation, as it tries to find the most probable answer whereas math operations are not option A with 20% and option B with 80% but pure logical and linear thought
So in a way google (and others) are really dumb to let pure AI do the whole rather than to fetch and organize the work with proper tools (in this case should research the world population in 2015 and 2025 and start a calculation with a regular calculator like program)

AI is great (sometimes), but the overhype over it make it used in every domain rather than useful ones...

foremanguy92_ ,

Yeah it was just to protect myself from the people who read the first two words, and since we're in a fuck AI community I would get down voted instantly...

GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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@everyone GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won't include backdoors for law enforcement access. They're conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They've made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we're leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we're sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.
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Not to protect /e/os and Iode (neither to promote the french laws), but I would like to have real source of what's happening, what /e/os and idoe didn't do right, when they conveyed fakes about graphene...

Not to say but the graphene community (mainly his leader) is always having drama with some people.
So real proofs and explanations would be greatly appreciated.
Wouldn't like to say black or white to this subject and would like to nuance the post

foremanguy92_ , (edited )

If you're wondering, I checked a bit online and here's what I understood :

The 19th November a newspaper in France called "Le Parisien" published an article about GrapheneOS and that it was a dream OS for drug dealer (and whole networks).
That it could erase itself if a intrusion was detected by showing for example a fake Snapchat page (which is btw totally false and doesn't take part in the official releases), these claims where besides made by french cops.

For that, the newspaper contacted Graphene, and they (graphene) answered that the tool they're providing is simply working and that like a knife it could be used for malicious activities, but as with a knife most people would use it responsibly (to protect their privacy)

At this point I think that the Graphene reaction was pretty great and acted to defend citizens privacy.

But what follows next didn't make the same impression, by quitting the France they are not really focusing on the good topics :

1 - France cops are no exceptions to others, surely all of them around the world would like to break encryption and privacy (grapheneOS for example)

2 - That's not the government that propagates wrong statement about graphene, but the journalists from "Le Parisien" (if they can be called "journalists")
(The authorities maybe lied (not the first time btw) to scare the public, the newspaper shouldn't published it with fakes in it...)

And accusing any French based initiative is not an argument (at first they didn't have anything to do between french authorities and graphene)
Even if FOSS projects have a country on the paper, it's not really much more of a negative aspect than to respect the laws in place...
So why Graphene doesn't blame Framasoft (guys that are maintaining peertube) for example?

And lastly in Europe many initiatives gets money from governments (whatever they're doing)

Note : I'm not saying that /e/os and Iode aren't guilty of anything sketchy but that in this case Graphene are just insulting FOSS privacy projects....

To conclude, I would say that Graphene done right by replying and arguing to a bullshit article.
BUT they shouldn't generalize to all french projects and promote hate against frenchies and/or french projects
(Btw they moved their servers from France to Germany and Canada, these countries are no more private than France and any others countries)

Original article :
https://archive.is/20251124210306/https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/google-pixel-et-grapheneos-la-botte-secrete-des-narcotrafiquants-pour-proteger-leurs-donnees-de-la-police-19-11-2025-NTGPQE4JCNGEHLF7XGIQ3CCA2I.php

foremanguy92_ ,
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Pretty good response but somehow they will suffer from Graphene accusations

They (graphene) are really playing childish this time

EDIT : misinterpretations

foremanguy92_ ,

Again not to defend anyone but you fell in the trap.

1 - These roms never said anything like we're superior and most secure (something that grapene is proudly advertising)

2 - By saying these words, only unjustified hate is bring to some FOSS projects and slow down development and adoption to the whole public
And people are just gonna hate Graphene cause of this and other hating alternatives roms cause graphene said something...

foremanguy92_ ,
foremanguy92_ OP ,

Native install.
Redis installed on the network and accessed by nextcloud.
Separate database on host.

EDIT : formating

foremanguy92_ OP ,

It is not really what I was searching for

foremanguy92_ OP ,

Gonna check

foremanguy92_ OP ,

Will check

foremanguy92_ OP ,

Will write it down in my calendar

foremanguy92_ OP ,

I don't think AI should completely melt away but to be more responsibly added to the global technology

foremanguy92_ OP ,

The bigger it gets the harder it pops, maybe it's also a good way to bury these companies down
(But would have a very bad economic impact of little people...)

foremanguy92_ OP ,

Don't you think that massive stocks would be useless without any demand and that prices would remain high?

foremanguy92_ OP ,

So you think a kind of snowball effect would affect the both market?

foremanguy92_ OP ,

Would you think that an announcement about an impossibility of pushing transformers further would results in a burst of the whole bubble?

foremanguy92_ OP ,

To reply I'm absolutely not saying AI in its kind is a tech revolution but not in the way thats it's shown today.

Your point of view about this community is surely right but I would had that we care about the global ads about AI.

AI as a technology is not a bubble, that's sure.
But how AI is developed and funded today, makes it one.
Just seeing NVIDIA value going crazy in the last 2 years shows that the (over) hype is taking a lot more in account than the really technology behind it.

By that I'm just saying that as every time (crypto I look at you) speculation just ruined it (for now) and I really hope that it will take the way of the internet and that it separate himself from the speculative side to became an open technology acquired by humanity

foremanguy92_ OP ,

In that way, what's your opinion about the future of it?

Do you think it will ever be stuck in a speculative for-profit environment or would became a real technology alone with researches and real statement only?

foremanguy92_ OP ,

Hope it doesn't pop a Sunday :)

foremanguy92_ ,

Relaying on one big entity is always a bad idea, self host powers

foremanguy92_ ,

Sure ddos attacks would be the most difficult thing to counter

foremanguy92_ ,

Didn't downvote or upvote either cause your post doesn't really ask or show anything (expect that you really like leeching, less seeding...)

Please edit it to better contribute to the community

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As you know, GrapheneOS is a privacy‑ and security‑focused, independent Android‑based distribution for smartphones. With the mobile market dominated by just two major advertising giants—Apple increasingly joining the ranks—we urgently need genuine alternatives. GrapheneOS stands out as the sole platform that lets users ...

foremanguy92_ ,

Dont you think that an android based device is doomed to failure?

foremanguy92_ ,

Backed by google, even if open source today google can make the choices, for example hiding some part of the dev tree until release or restricting sideloading...
I think that try to fight against google for an OS they try to rotten is not really valuable

foremanguy92_ ,

FSF and Linux phone maybe.

But you're right for now there's no real alternative but even if it shouldn't mean that android is the way to go and that we should put our effort in

foremanguy92_ ,

This is the only thing I thank Microsoft for.
Thanks for giving us this useful shortcut key.
(Use it for almost every shortcut of my desktop btw)

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People can't be blame for not paying attention to that.
All are not really techie, just following current trend, and for sure big tech doesn't make the task easier.

They are to blame later when risks are explained and people from their surroundings are willing to give help.

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Even if the license allow to use it commercially I don't think this is allow to abuse it when the only brake restricting you from donating is capitalism.
These companies worth more than 3T, and they are thinking long to donate to their fondations...

foremanguy92_ ,

Agreed to buy used hardware but be aware of power draw (and noise sometimes)

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That was quick

foremanguy92_ ,

Capy reader with freshrss

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Smart TV without internet connection, and a minipc/raspberry pi is the way to go.
Sure raspberry can do the work especially the newer versions.

And no, using a Pi-Hole for devices like IoT or TVs are not useful since these are hard coding their DNS servers

My Dream of a Home Router / Server

What if you could buy off the shelf a box based on #opensource software and hardware that you could plug into your internet connection. You could connect to via Wifi and it would allow an average person to fairly easily configure, via a guided setup, a self hosted Cloud Drive, Social Media server, home automation service, VPN ...

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CasaOS, YUNOHOST you have the choice

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Surely recent CEOs actions

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Not to contradict you but since a while humanity is wasting energy for useless use cases to the profit of capitalism.
AI and more or less datacenters are juste another side of it

EDIT : to add a bit of nuance the problems of energy are not related to the amount (don't worry we have a lot of margin for the industries and datacenters) but comes more to the consequences of it.
Using the dirty energy used by AI somewhere else while not resolve any environmental problem

foremanguy92_ ,

You should in the first place avoid them, but if it's necessary :

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Could work