For me it’s mainly a nice backup for when the Xbox or TV is occupied by someone else. I don’t think I’d use it as my prime source of gaming. It works but it’s not quite as good as the actual playing on your own hardware.

Looks pretty nice tbh! Probably going to stick to my current phone a few more years until it stops being updated but if I manage to break it this might just be the replacement.

I’ve spent ages on phpBB and I do kind of miss out to be honest.

It might just be nostalgia talking though because I can’t really say exactly what I’m missing about it.

Might just be the old communities that used it.

Looked like ads at first. Gave me a slight cyberpunk vibe for some reason. At least big corpo dystopia.

It’s hard to draw an exact line somewhere too. You have to compromise or you’d end up worse than Stallman and Snowden combined. All technology ends up off limits then but still. Avoiding obvious and actually avoidable pitfalls is a good practice I think.

Defining and finding those pitfalls on the other hand…

Ed Sheeran in Game of Thrones felt a bit odd.

That’s basically where I’m at as well.

Ignorance is/was bliss… I used to not care as much about security concerns but these days I’m a bit more paranoid when it comes to IT security overall.

True, these days I wouldn’t really flash a phone that’s till supported… but when they hit end of life it’s another story. Using an unpatched android phone isn’t exactly optimal.

That is a pretty good point to be honest.

It might be a bit safer… but you still have to trust the source?

But yeah, I flashed an official Lineage OS nighly that I got from their own site… It still bugs me though and I kind of wish it didnt. :P

It is a fair point to be honest.

Closed source could be a bit safer due to liability I suppose?

If they were to do something really nefarious and would get caught they’d get sued to pieces and probably lose most of the reputation?

Sure, a shady rom would lose it’s reputation as well but that’s about it. There’d be new ones out pretty quickly.

And for what it’s worth… I don’t think they’re doing anything shady… but still.

I mean, I use Linux on my main machine at home. That’s open source. I do trust that though…

This all struck me after flashing an old phone I had laying around (My main phone is supported for 2+ more years) and then feeling like… do I want to use this now? I got a slightly dirty vibe from in. :P

Being security conscious is annoying at times…

Yeah but how?

I mean, who’s going to verify the code? And then there are new nightlies every day. Sure they don’t contain that many changes, but you’d need to monitor them, for every rom on every phone. Well, maybe just for the one rom and the one phone model that interests you but that’s still not feasible if it’s not a paid full time job. If someone were to do that on their spare time they wouldn’t have much of that left :P

Exacly my concerns… and I don’t have the time or energy (hell or even the motivation) to go through all of their source code to find shady stuff.

I probably wouldn’t even find it if any was in there and hidden by someone who knows what they’re doing. :P

They do yeah, but they could technically include some shady stuff as well.

I don’t know. I do like custom roms since they revive old phones. But I’ve recently started feeling a bit iffy about it to the point that I’d rather get a new phone that’ll be supported for like 4 new years or something.

I’ll second Security Now!

Listened to it for years but kind of lost track when I stopped having to commute. Kind of miss it really but I don’t find as much time for podcasts these days sadly.

It’s shortened from what I actually wanted, NorthernLightMountain, since that was too long. That in turn is based on the main antagonist (MorningLightMountain) in my favorite book from my favorite author, Peter F. Hamilton.

I live quite far to the north so I figured it would be a nice twist on the name.

Used to go by other handles on other sites but figured I’d start fresh over here.

Still hoping for a change to a bit longer display names. :)

That would be huge if they manage to do it!

…for some reason it also feels a bit creepy for some reason. I don’t know why but the thought of suddenly growing new teeth makes me itch a bit…

Yeah, the only thing I only used twitter for was getting status updates from things. Blizzard’s cusrtomer service for instance would tweet if they were having server issues and so on.

Interesting! Whales are awesome, I do hope this benefits them. Plus it’s neat for the whale watchers as well.

Just hope this won’t lead to whales getting killed by swimming up to whalers somewhere having built misguided trust…