iOS also has Brave, which apparently created the adblock engine Mozilla borrowed (and weakened)
Afaik that’s a currently non-used library in Firefox desktop. For iOS, The Verge claims it’s just Apple’s WebKit Content Blocker + EasyList.
https://www.theverge.com/news/987247/mozilla-firefox-ad-blocker-ios-launch
If his life was on the line, you’d see him change his tune real quick, but it’s not, so he’ll sacrifice 114,000 people for the sake of his donors’ stock portfolios. Fuck you, Jeffries.
Still WAY cheaper than phone manufacturer upgrades though.
For example, on the Pixel 10 Pro it’ll cost you $120 to add 256 GB of storage (going from the 256 GB option to 512 GB option), and on the iPhone 17 it’ll cost you $200 for the same jump.
A name-brand Sandisk 256 GB micro SD card costs about 60 bucks right now, or anywhere from half to less than third of the upgrade price. You could buy a 1 TERABYTE Micro SD card from Sandisk for less than Apple charges for 256 GB, and even if the $120 price from Google was your limit, you could still buy 512 GB of additional storage and have money left over.
And of course as someone else already mentioned, you don’t have to get rid of your old storage media when you swap phones if it’s on a portable Micro SD card, so you don’t have to pay more money for storage every single time you get a new phone. Not only is it cheaper on its own, but it’s also a less frequent purchase.
Of course!
For the USB one I don’t think it even has the ability to use WiFi in any way, but it seems you might need to install their drivers to then locally be able to set the label size within a system dialog. In my experience, at least for the wireless one, it doesn’t necessarily require its own drivers to work, as it works with Windows’ built-in printer drivers, and worked well enough for me on Fedora Linux. (But you might have issues with stuff printing in the wrong orientation and have to account for that by rotating your files before printing)
For the wireless one, I think you’ll need at least some form of network no matter what, at least for setup. (I do want to clarify though that you can still use the wireless one with a wired cable to send files to print to it, and as far as I can tell that works even if WiFi is off) They really want you to use the app, but since it really is just another way to access the web UI, they do also just have a guide on how to do it without the app.
I set mine up on my WiFi network that does have internet access, but theoretically since the UI is on a local IP it should be able to work on an isolated VLAN or something similar where no actual link to the Internet exists and it’s just a LAN, but I have no clue if it tries to connect to a server anywhere on startup before allowing anything else to happen, so your mileage may vary. It’s unfortunately not something I’ve tested for.
It also has an option to check for updates, I presume to fix any bugs or future potential exploits, but I’ve never seen my printer update once in nearly a year of owning it. (As far as I can tell this setting can’t be disabled, all you can change is if it prints a label to tell you when it updates)
Regardless, as mentioned previously, it should be able to function in terms of just the printing itself with just a cable and no access to the internet afterwards, so you could always set it up on WiFi, add all the page sizes you want, then disconnect it from your network and only use it over USB and it should work fine :)
You can change its IPv4 and IPv6 address/netmask/gateway/prefix length, DNS servers, and hostname in settings, install a custom TLS certificate, etc if any of that helps.
Also, you can change the default print settings, which I personally very much recommend. Depending on what you’re printing, you might want to increase the print quality or darkness, particularly if you print a lot of labels in succession that might otherwise start printing a little more faded on the lighter settings.
That’s all the info I can think of that would probably be relevant, but if you’ve got any more questions that I somehow missed I’m happy to answer them too lmao
It’s a Rollo! (refurbished)
I have the white wireless-capable one, but the USB-only model should theoretically operate the same in all other respects.
To manage the wireless one you use the app, or just go to the web URL for the management portal… because all the app does is just redirect you to that exact URL in-app 💀
I know a lot of cheaper models do still work well, but Rollo is just a much larger, more well known brand that also just has a lot more troubleshooting info behind it. (not to mention better printer driver compatibility)
Definitely don’t buy the overpriced official Rollo labels, though. They’re no better than any other thermal labels on the market!
Sorry, but do you have a source for this at all?
As far as I can tell, they have added some Play Integrity checks (with root detection being part of that), but the reason was cited as spam prevention, and I can’t find anything claiming they had any sort of agreement with Apple to do so.
They kept pushing for Apple to implement it, but I don’t know of any cases of them making any promises about what they’d do on their own platform in order to convince Apple or anything like that.
In what way does this have anything to do with RCS or Apple lmao
Police have a lot of leverage power.
Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say “fuck you, we’re not going to respond to emergency calls if you don’t give us what we want”
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aaaaaaand they’ll use that tactic to force cities not to implement alternatives to police, like qualified, unarmed, de-escalation trained mental health experts that handle certain situations better than cops, so police retain a total monopoly over state violence and decisions about if someone should be arrested or not… which then lets them keep their bargaining power to do it all over again.
This is really bad even just from the perspective of user behavior. Training people to scan QR codes from anything that looks like a captcha box is HORRIBLE for security.
“Thanks for scanning the code, just one more step! Please input your phone number, and type in the code you receive.”
Boom, account stolen.
A combination of CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown so it’s compatible with most markdown formatting people are used to. Also supports LaTeX and HTML. (and of course any custom syntax modifications you make with custom CSS or plugins)
That’s why I use Obsidian! It’s not open source, but all my notes are just… pre-emptively saved as markdown files on disk. If they fuck me over I can just leave and open it in literally any markdown editor 😭
If they used a proprietary format, I probably just wouldn’t have used them in the first place and would have had to use a shittier alternative.
Every time I buy any piece of technology, seeing “smart” in the title makes me immediately look for something else.
I want a label printer. Not something that only works with a mobile app, not something that requires proprietary drivers and doesn’t work on my OS, not something that can only be used with your specific software, not one that requires your labels with a special NFC tag to use, just a label printer that is just as compatible as any regular printer.
I ended up paying about a 5X premium compared to alternatives on the market for that, and I would do it again.
Haven’t ever had anything like this on my Pixel running Graphene. Seems more like some odd corruption of OS files than an implementation bug in the OS’s code itself to me.