Tile is also another option but not sure how their policies are but relatively cheaper option and uses other people apps like airtag depending on location of course using Bluetooth.

No worries I forgot where I found this but it was my phone background for so long lol

Ya that’s true take em out young before they can make an impact probably why our public education system is shite too. Pretty much training us to work some 9 to 5 and sit and produce rather than be creative and think outside the box. Only when you have money and status can you actually learn something that helps you figure out the world and how it runs.

The sad truth let’s hope we can keep fighting back and maybe one day we can get some younger people in there that actually care about the people and privacy.

We’re free to do whatever we want as long as it’s what they want. Reminds of the Henry Ford saying you can have any color you want as long as it’s black or something like that.

It’s probably cuz they keep losing and aren’t able to convince enough people so of they group it altogether with another bill they can try to pass this without anyone knowing while trying to say they’re protecting us but taking away so much more. I just can’t believe they keep trying this and more and more people are starting to agree cuz the whole “I have nothing to hide so what does it matter” argument.

I figured it out and rerere-edited my post lmao hopefully it’s all right now.

Damn I copied and pasted it but I’m on Jerboa for Android so still learning everything I’ll try to remember to update later when I get on my desktop. Thanks for the update!

It’s installed automatically on my TV so I’ll use it from time to time if I want background noise and a certain genre of movie or show I want to have on.

I always used the guides from reddit[.]com/r/addons4kodi, but you can also Google troypoint and they have great guides for getting kodi up and running. After getting kodi up you can choose an addon, I went with Seren for the Netflix like feature of playing the next episode automatically without having to choose the next link. I also chose The Crew for the sports package they have so he could watch UFC fights without having to pay the PPV. It works most the time but can have some stutter depending on the broadcast.

Get a real-debrid account pay for the 180 day package then when setting up the add-ons you choose link it to the debrid account and you’re set. You also have an option of getting a Trakt account for keeping track of what you have watched, I set this up for myself personally but you don’t need it, my dad doesn’t use it.

Edit 1 - I have found a community on lemmy that’s still small but someone brought over the Seren instructions if you don’t want to go to reddit. https://lemmy.ml/c/addons4kodi

Edit 1.2 - Found on the lemmy.ml community addons4kodi

Seren

An addon created by Nix, it works with Premiumize and Real-Debrid to stream torrents with the appropriate provider package instantly, and behaves similarly to Netflix, with autoplay and Next up Dialogs. With source select / Resolver / Next up Dialog and more all theme-able

Warning: This add-on DOES NOT work without either Premiumize, Real-Debrid, or All-Debrid (and only works with the paid premium versions of either service), and the “Smart Play Settings” (Up Next, Auto Playlist Creation, Auto Episode Resume, and Pre-emptive Scraping) DO NOT work without an authorized Trakt account.

Current Version Seren : 2.2.4 SETUP Add https://nixgates.github.io/packages/ to your Kodi File Manager Sources, call it something like “Nix’s Repo” Go to Add-on browser and Install from Zip File, go to “Nix’s Repo”, and install "nixgates.repository.zip " After it finishes installing, go to Install from repository>Nixgates Repo>Video Add-on’s>and install Seren Once you get the notification that Seren installed successfully go back to the home screen Open Seren, go to tools, Open Settings Menu Go to Accounts and authenticate Trakt and your debrid providers: PM, RD, and/or AllDebrid Go to Providers, Manage Provider Packages, and Install Package. Type in https://bit.ly/a4kScrapers A prompt will come up asking if you’d like to install the scrapers, Press “Install”, then Press Okay after successful install Adjust your settings how you like with filters and such and you’re ready to go! :)

Kinda Optional Install Context menu addon. Follow instructions above but where you picked Nixgates repo and then video addons . this time go Nixgates Repo > context menu addons . This will give you much more options when you pull up context menu on Seren Items.

OPTIONAL Themes

(you must be using the skin that the theme is made for )

Arctic Zephyr 2 users = https://github.com/drinfernoo/seren.theme.az2

AuraMod users = https://github.com/SerpentDrago/SerenTheme-SerenMod-Full

Arctic Horizon users = https://github.com/drinfernoo/seren.theme.ah

Edit 2 - I was incorrect about above you do need a Trakt account to use the autonext feature of Seren, I have it set up so I didn’t even notice that whoops. It is free and set up is easy and it’s a set and forget feature for me.

I set something like this up for my dad but using kodi and some add-ons then connect it to real debrid. It’s like $20 USD for like 6 months. I was able to get him to cancel his cable since he was paying like a hundred dollars + his subscription services a month.

And I have it running on a firestick 4k so really inexpensive.

Ya everytime I reset my phone or get a new one I head to xda to download Mixplorer.

Still rocking my Oneplus 7Pro but thinking I might want to upgrade to the new Google Pixel 8 when it comes out. I like stock Android and Google phones have been pretty nice from what I’ve seen and from the little amount of time I’ve used and played with them in stores. I like the ability to install a privacy focused rom like GrapheneOS too. But the only thing now holding me back from deciding on the Pixel 8 is the temperature reader like that’s something I know I won’t be using and I don’t want to be paying for that when I know I won’t be using that feature.

And with Adobe implementing AI into their photoshop tools, like it’s great for photo editing and making a smoother work flow but there’s always the negative side. And they did say that in the meta data it would show that an image had AI used on it but the everyday consumer of media won’t know and or even think of checking into that.

https://www.engadget.com/adobe-adds-generative-ai-editing-to-photoshop-110034887.html

No problem! And ya for how big a company they are this seems like a pretty big thing to be dropping the ball on and with Google making the zip and mov domains I feel like they must be trolling people or something trying to create more problems in the cybersecurity world but that’s up for debate also I guess.

Edit: added link to Medium write up from researcher Bobbyr.

https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5

I think it’s a step in the right direction to get users to adopt MFA. I know too many people that still rely on using the same easy to remember password to login to too many accounts, especially important ones and are too “busy” to set up a password manager or even set up MFA through other methods. Having something built in would be good for them. My only concern is that this is something aimed at newer devices and not too much for legacy devices that may not have a Bluetooth enabled desktop. Of course those are probably now viewed as the not the norm for everyone as now everything is done on newer laptops and phones that have everything built in to use these new technologies.

I also don’t like having all my eggs in one basket, like relying on Google to protect my backup codes and MFA options while assuming they will use E2EE while transferring my data, which apparently they’ve already dropped the ball on their new feature of backing up information into the cloud by default.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-will-add-end-to-end-encryption-to-google-authenticator/

Edit: added link to article about Google E2EE problem I mentioned above.

I wonder if we could make an instance for that like reddit post history to be parsed so things can be found but then taken off reddit so the traffic would leave there and only come to lemmy… But then again that could also become disastrous with all the not helpful comments lol

So in the article it seems that reddit is banking on getting money from the help in training AI models, but what if everyone started using scripts to change their posts and then ultimately ruining the model for AI. Wouldn’t those companies then not want to use those API for reddit and then ultimately losing everything too?