Ty will look into it

Please someone provide me a alternative that has been proven by being raided, has no account system, and let’s you pay by mail and crypto.

I don’t want to use mullvad VPN but as far as I can tell I’m stuck here.

I just really really want to say pod force one is the dumbest name ever.

Need a new device. If they’re really serious about it they might start requiring you to loging through google/iPhone which require phone numbers to register.

But you should be able just to use a different nontainted phone and sign up just fine. I’ve done it on my pi and an extra phone through vpns and seemed to work. This hasn’t been recently but I got banned maybe 6 months ago and made a few burners.

You could maybe try a virtual machine too, just never log back in on your primary phone.

But I agree with everyone’s sentiment don’t go back.

Become a old car enthusiasts. Mid 2000’s to 2013 was probably some of the best years in vehicles.

Going to save yourself a arm and a leg too fixing it yourself. Cost like 4 grand to get a electric windshield motor replaced these days on a modern car, when it should cost 50 dollars and a long afternoon for what should be a quick fix.

Only downside is you better have multiple cars. I’ve had to leave mine on the jacks for a day because I couldnt reach a bolt/nut or needed to get a different part because I broke a sensor. If you’re an idiot like me working off YouTube guides and Googling forum posts from nearly 20 years ago then you can’t start betting on your ability to finish the job on time.

At the end though you can feel proud and confident that you can fix it again next time. I haven’t gotten into anything too serious yet but i’ve replaced all the rubbers, changed all the fluids, done the cat converter, replaced all sensors, spark plugs, breaks, break pads, etc. Most I’ve spent on any given part was 600 for the 3 part cat converter. All the breaks where up there too but I did it in pairs. YouTube has everything you need, and I surprise myself given how dumb I am. Also helps to have a friend to ping things off of, especially if they have a car lift. The car lift changes everything and abuse that privledge as much as you can.

Please use newpipe, pipepipe or whatever one you like.

I don’t even see new channels or any suggested content. I have to go out of my way to add channels to a RSS feed for stuff i don’t watch just so I can feel like i have awareness of the slop world. And I’m not loading a list of 700+ channels every time I want to refresh my mobile feed.

Oh yeah and you get video background player and popup player for free(normally YouTube premium features). Just make sure to use a VPN your IP might get temp banned for like 6+ hours so you just hop.

As is often cops fake having a warrant to search your house then make up a reason for searching after, based on the evidence they found from a false search.

Warrants will not stop it.

I make sure amazon workers don’t go on pee breaks and I make sure to shut down any requests for company providing them with piss jugs.

Its hard work but I sleep well at night knowing I’m doing good in this world

It’s dirt cheap gaming chairs or Herman miller if you want PC desk chairs.

Man wait until you realize a good chunk of organized crime is just us trying to get dark site funding. The Chinese set up dollar stores or little shops all around the world that act as fronts to skim cash so that they can launder money globally. We do that too, we also run cartels, smuggle drugs, trafficking humans, run biker gangs, etc

No problem. It would of been one response but I miss understood what you where asking for, figured it was useful information still and left it up.

You can consolidate at your stuff under home assistant. I don’t know enough about smart home brands to tell you which ones work without an app to set it up, but I can tell you often you have to go out of your way to find one that is privacy oriented and doesn’t report data home to their servers for no reason. I would suggest esphome if you want to make your own smart devices, or search for a list of good home assistant, privacy focused products. I got a esp32c6 to play around with some of my ZigBee/matter devices but I need to replace my hub and a few products like the orginal old hue bulbs.

Many products you can set it up once with their app and move it over to home assistant, but I’m trying to eliminate all sources of spyware from my life. Even if its just a WiFi outlet where the data they obtain from me is minimal or not that important.

I don’t use calendar app, or weather, my home assistant server would ideally handle all of that, and I should be able to sync all of our houses calenders together. I’m just scared to commit to the idea of opening ports into our house and keep putting it off. I bought a new travel router saying I’ll work on it when it gets here and I’ll set up the router as a access portal to the server which I probably won’t even get around to.

I’ve only ever used regedit (on a linux distro) with wine tricks to try to get script mods to work for games. I think it was GTA, and skse and I don’t think it fixed my issue I was just blindly following whatever I read on reddit might make it work. I’m so glad proton has matured it used to take me a couple days to figure out how to get one game to run on Linux. I hated setting up prefixes, and messing with winetricks when I barely knew what I needed.

I didn’t look at the page but others are saying that might be the usecase and that checks out with me.

If you’re on bazzite maybe this is a way for you to get access to tools on a immutable system? Though I think on bazzite you would just use steam tinkers launcher to access wine/proton tricks no? Its a flatpack so should be on discover store, and you can’t install winetricks through CLI.

What I did was flash my esp on the esp home website. You might have to give your USB permission and use a chromium based browser for the web installer to see it. Once its flashed you download esphome builder and that’s where you actually make your esp home script.

You can use the templets on the side, or download a templet and then you lable what pins do what and what’s on each pin. Esphome handles the rest, its not like working with arudino ide where you need the resources for each sensor, and the right board selected.

I know its shameful but wire up your screen, sensors and whatever else like buttons to it, and tell google ai to generates you a script, I promise it will work. Its really low stakes, everything is a templet anyways. Just make sure to note what screen/sensor/model it is.

Then all you have to do is add your ssid and password and you have it up and going, should be really easy to find in home assistant and you can then flash it over air which is nice.

I havent gotten into what making a proper home assistant graphical display looks like so I can’t help you there. But making it display text values to the 16x2 display is just pointing it at home assistant values and referencing the services you have in there.

You can also add automations inside of home assistant that chain or work with your esp home so you get a lot of flexibility in what your stuff does. One of the pages on me 16x2 display acts as a message board, where you can change the text input in home assistwnt and it will send a little message to the display, or on garbage day it sends a notification to the display and then switches to that screen page instead of time/date page it defaults to.

It kind of depends on which manufacturer you go with, each esp kind of has its own quirks and features. Some pins you can only use in high/low mode to avoid turning on some other feature or changing boot functions. Some of the olderboards pins have very specific usecases.

So I’m not sure where to point you honestly. I would start with the official documentation that the manufacturers provide you.

I also think you mistake me for someone that knows what I am doing. I want to express how simple esp home is. You can just download or use the temples in esp home builder and its literally just filling out text boxes. I’m not a read the documentation guy, my spelling and reading comprehension are horrible. I’ll follow guides off YouTube and throw errors at google and try to find a video/post about it or get googles ai to summarize it if I can’t access the site like reddit.

But like I said there are quirks for each model which you should read. My esp8266 wouldn’t boot properly if I had something in one of the pins. Some boards have specific pin outs, the xiao I have can turn any pin into anything, analog, pwm, etc. Boards have high and low states on the pins which have some secret functionality. My espc6 I can adjust the antenna range by changing the high/low state of one of the pins. Its weird stuff like that you really want to look over the manufacturers docs for.

I don’t have a real screen but I just updated my esp8266 to a xiao esp32c6 for my home assistant box. I wanted zigbe and matter access but half the things I wanted to interact with are proprietary, so I need a new hub and to rebuy a few things.

Just use esp home its stupid easy don’t really have to do anything besides point it at your pin outs and label them. You can probably buy everything you want and add on more stuff. The largest cost will be a eink display probably starting at 50usd for a tiny one, you can get esp boards in 5 packs for maybe 10 USD. But I recommend xiao just because I recently bought from them and am blown away with what feels like a premium board compared to the older ones I have. They all kind of have their own use cases and quirks, I wanted the c5 for better WiFi but the c6 came in a 3 pack for much cheaper.

I use a 16x2 LCD display you get in starter kits made for kids and just simple buttons and splurged on a decent temp sensor. Its also controls a led strip under the counter that used to be controlled with a remote but I hated using the remote. Just be careful you pretty much need a separate power source for that and to make sure the pins don’t get fried by 5v. I’ll stay awake at night thinking over if I wired it correctly even though I know I did so it feels weird trusting that because I’m an idiot.

I plan on buying a 5 pack of 1 inch oled screens and upgrading it, I just have so many other little things to buy on my list I haven’t gotten back around to finishing it.

Edit* you can also just use an old android phone the home assistant apk has a setting for it. You can also buy a pi or use a old computer, but esphome is cheaper, gives you more flexibility, and is smaller so you can design and make a smaller product and choose if you want to power it via USB or just directly wire it into something. The Xiao’s I got have battery terminals and handle charging very slowly so ive been excited to try that out.

I wouldn’t 100% trust ai to blindly copy paste whatever it gave me into my terminal, but one of the beautiful things about Linux is the ability for you to get tech help via cli.

I have older relatives that ask me for their problems with windows and I’m actually hitting dead ends with them more and more where due to lack of vocabulary on their end and suffering through windows GUI you can’t really guide someone through a fix. That and more and more I’m becoming alienated from windows and don’t know what’s going on as much anymore.

If they had Linux I could just message them and give them terminal commands and it would be a lot easier for me to diagnose and give them a handful of terminal commands to copy paste. I’d still end up googling it but I could at least make it soooo much less painless then a face call/meeting app interaction where we both don’t know what windows did on the newest update.

Also unrelated side note windows shouldn’t allow refurbishers to sell old outdated laptops with windows 11 licenses if it breaks every update due to windows shitty hardware restrictions. Its like four times a year their laptop breaks and I forget how we fix it everytime.

Decided to go with the mango 2, didn’t even know there was a second one now.

I have a mango but its kind of showing its age, what’s a decent modern one these days?

I’m already ready for us to switch to temple os.