As a Taiwanese, most of our mass media suck (not those mentioned English ones but Traditional Chinese ones).

Taiwanese mass media and its staff have rather a poor reputation. The general public rated Taiwanese mass media as a whole at 5.58/10 in 2019.[12] Cédric Alviani, Asia-Pacific Bureau Director of Reporters Without Borders, indicated that Taiwanese mass media has suffered from political polarization, sensational reporting, and absolute power of the owners within a media.[14] In a 2022 Reuters Institute survey, Taiwan ranked last among democracies in the Asia-Pacific region on people’s level of trust in media, at a 28% trust rate.[15]

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Off topic but I guess it might be useful. YouTube channel RSS is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id<channel_id>, or with gnu sed:

echo '<channel_url>' | sed 's|https://www//.youtube/.com/channel/|https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id|'

And turn off DNS ad block and watch 3 unskippable ads to get an extra toilet paper. Wanna watch less ads? Agree to our use-your-excrement-to-train-ai and sell-your-data-to-our-10000-partners and you-can’t-sue-us-over-data-breach EULA to watch one our AI-generated personalized ad instead

Windows was called obsolete (by me) years ago, and it’s abandoned (by me) since mid 2024.

And the app requires a non-jailbroken Apple or Android with strong play integrity plus photos of your face, your ID, and your shit to flush.

It that VLC

I currently self-host TypeType, which supports YouTube, BiliBilii and NicoNico, and is IMO a sister project of PipePipe for mobile.

turn out that they get eaten by humans nowadays

In other words, you find the median of human attractiveness greater than the mean of it.

Considering the amount of Apple devices in the wild, I guess what I talk physically to people will be mostly recorded then, not to mention that Google assistant or smth like that maybe doing the same, what a Brave New World.

If you mean those ro.product.*, ro.system.*, ro.vendor.*, etc. and some other device identifiers, I think you can adjust many of them when compiling GrapheneOS yourself, which, however, requires a lot of storage and computational resources. If you mean the user agent HTTP header (and navigator object), there’s no such thing as a system wise UA since UA is to recognize the OS and browser combination, and the UA header can be spoofed with those user agent switcher extensions or, if you are advanced user and want fine control, Header Editor, which can be added to Android Firefox by visiting it with desktop enabled.

https://video.hardlimit.com/

Material Files and Amaze

Aurora still works for me for now on Samsung stock OS. I now mostly install Google Play apps with APKPure over Obtainium tho and only use Aurora for those not on APKPure. And most of my apps are from GitHub/GitLab releases and F-Droid. I disabled Google Play and didn’t login to Google account. I don’t want the requirement of a Google account to install an app and Play Integrity to run an app. It is by no means acceptable that a company, using a closed source implementation that also tracks user and breaks Android security model, can censor what apps a user can install and decide what security and privacy compromises a user needs to agree to just use the normal phone functionalities that they pay for and by no mean require those compromises technically. They are turning Android into a service and a prison like iOS did rather than a software.

I selfhosted it on my phone and laptop. Great as a replacement of ILovePDF and those CLI tools that have no common interface (I could write some functions to make one tho).

As a Taiwanese, I have a perception that the US is dangerous, with lots of drug users and gun shots, and even in schools. Is that stereotype or fact?

Taiwanese here. No. And many white people look just resemblant for me in my small Asian eyes.

I have a Matrix acc and joined several rooms of FOSS, but sadly it looks like most of them are still less active than their Telegram/Discord counterpart.

in case I run with set -e

update_pm() {
  sudo apt update
  sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt upgrade -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt autoremove -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers install || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers install || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers install || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  echo y | sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall || true
  sudo apt install -f -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt autoremove -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite"
  sudo apt clean
  sudo apt autoclean
  flatpak update -y || true
  flatpak uninstall --unused -y || true
  sudo snap refresh || true
  brew update
  echo y | brew upgrade
  echo y | brew autoremove
  brew cleanup
  uv self update
  uv tool upgrade --all
  npm i -g npm
  npm update -g
}