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  • Install Video DownloadHelper for Firefox. Open whatever you want to watch and copy it's url from Video DownloadHelper. Now, either open that url in mpv (might require yt-dlp) or download it (I'd also recommend yt-dlp for this, since DownloadHelper sometimes embeds watermarks) and watch wherever

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    When they ask to install Linux for them
  • Imagine needing a thumb drive to install Linux

    May I introduce my lord and saviour isodrive to you? (TLDR: Allows rooted phones to mount image files, which can be used like a normal usb can)

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    US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps
  • The Ars article seems to suggest that they were able to crack his phones pretty easily

    Android uses data at rest encryption, which isn't really useful without a lockscreen PIN/password since data gets decrypted after you unlock your screen the first time after each boot

    Although it doesn't appear he was actually using any encryption apps to store material; rather, he used a fake calculator app as password protection. Obviously not the brightest bulb in the drawer.

    Agreed, he probably felt safe enough "hiding" the files. Definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed, which is great because fuck this guy

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    US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps
  • They probably didn't crack any encryption. The photo app this guy used only hides the files, not encrypt them

    Android is also only encrypted when off, so if they got his phone while it's on and this idiot probably didn't ewen use a pin, so it was most likely easy game for the police

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    Is there a way I can reinstall Linux Mint without messing up my Windows Partition?
  • Welcome to Linux my guy. You can fix basically anything here without ever having to reinstall

    Also you should reinstall all those packages your removal of udev uninstalled, otherwise some things might not work as they should/not work at all

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    Best practices for organizing personal git repositories in /home folder?
  • I have them in

    • ~/Documents/Source for things I just want to look through but not compile myself
    • ~/Documents/Code/(Language)/(Project) for things I code by myself
    • ~/Programs/(Project) for things I actually modify and plan to compile and use myself

    If you're wondering why Documents? I guess that just sticked from windows and made kind of sense, not that the nesting matters anyway with zoxide

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    Why are there no bots that post Reddit content on Lemmy?
  • Reddit has more content. And arguably, more content that is actually important

    That much is obvious, but Reddit also has so many reposts it's not even funny

    Also there's a lot of trash on Reddit too

    Comparing it percentage wise would be a fairer comparison, and imo the average post quality on Lemmy is so much higher than on Reddit. Wich would mean if you start bringing over Reddits content, you would automatically lower Lemmys average post quality

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    Denied SMS permission, still this app reads my mesages.
  • How are you sure about that?

    Also there is a special permission on android that allows apps to read confirmation codes from SMS, maybe you mean that one?

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    Stay safe people 🙏
  • Lmao, shouldn't be hard to guess what Facebook updated though

    • Added more tracking
    • Respecting your privacy even less now
    • Added some exploits to get arround apples "privacy protection"
    • Now even tracks your childs behaviour illegaly
    • Pushing even more propaganda and fake news now
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