N4CHEM

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[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have a setup which is not ideal, but I believe improves privacy while preserving convenience: I never connected my TV to the internet, and instead use a MiBox TV S 4K for all my streaming with custom DNS blocking trackers and ads.

I guess there might be other Android TV boxes that allow you to change the DNS server. It might be worth checking a bit around if you decide to go down this route.

In my case, I found this Reddit post and was able to change the DNS server on the MiBox to NextDNS, where I could later activate relevant blocklists (SmartTV, Xiaomi, Google). I also perform monitoring of the domains the MiBox connects to and have blocked a couple manually.

This way I have an AndroidTV experience with the streaming services that I want, and with the domains I don't want blocked.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess depending on size and colour rendition of displays it can be easier / harder, but overall I'd still say it's a poor choice.

A choice of different colours is OK, but specifically those 2 are pretty hard to distinguish. Simply changing one of them to black, which looks like no other colour used in the map, would be much better.

I don't think a gradient works for colouring a map like this: we can distinguish gradient colours when they are next to each other, but if 2 countries far away have adjacent values the colours would probably be too similar to tell the difference.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Poor choice of colours: distinguishing between the orange of 2025 and the red of 2040 is very hard, especially considering most people will read this on a small phone screen.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

According to that map Mexico is 2040, not 2025. The choice of colours is terrible.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are several degoogled OS options for the Fairphone models, with different levels of degoogling and privacy: LineageOS, CalyxOS, DivestOS, iodéOS and /e/OS.

Most of these are based on LineageOS (I understand that CalyxOS isn't, but I might be wrong). I personally use iodéOS and I like the helpful developers, the ability to remove / replace any of the apps preinstalled with the system, and the iodé blocker which blocks trackers, adds and any connection you want to at a system level.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

The answer is here, you don't need to enable multilingual typing, you just need to add Heliboard as spell checker on your system Settings. Then, of course, choose the right language in Heliboard and have a dictionary for that language too

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's why it's better to download as many apps as possible from F-Droid. All apps are Free Open Source and checked for anti-features (like ads, tracking, etc.). Lots of basic (and not so basic) apps which are ad free, tracker-free and free to advertise that way.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

They both do. I have never used that function, so I cannot say how good the Android Auto integration is.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 27 points 4 months ago (13 children)

I'm going to paste here the comment I wrote on another post about this same issue:

Organic Maps and OsmAnd are not adding ads during navigation. Nor "promoted pins". Nor ads when browsing the map. Nor tracking your every move.

Seriously, give them a try. And remember that, if the maps are lacking information, you are free (and encouraged) to improve them on OpenStreetMap.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Organic Maps and OsmAnd are not adding ads during navigation either. Nor "promoted pins". Nor ads when browsing the map. Nor tracking your every move.

Seriously, give them a try. And remember that, if the maps are lacking information, you are free (and encouraged) to improve them on OpenStreetMap.

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