codenamekino

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[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Also disable biometric unlock methods. No rules against holding someone's phone up to their face while they're handcuffed.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To add onto the phone section: (1) Disable any biometric authentication, and (2) turn/keep it off whenever there's a chance that it will be siezed.

  1. While the first amendment protects you from being required to give up your phone's pass code, there's no protection against someone just holding the phone up to your face or fingerprints to unlock it.

  2. While your phone is never totally impenetrable, it is significantly harder to access in its BFU state (before first unlock). Most commercially available cracking tools will only work if the phone is in it's AFU state (after first unlock).

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just tried this, and it looks like it defaulted to Google maps. I'm guilty of having that set as my default at the moment, is that why?

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Sideways T gang unite!

Maybe we should come up with a better name before we print the shirts.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Absolutely true. I have a paid VPN service that hardly gets used, but I call home with Wireguard multiple times a day (usually not for the encryption, though). Most basic home routers include a VPN feature as well, and it doesn't require much technical ability to configure beyond a quick web search for the router model and what the hell DDNS means.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is the reason to use a VPN. Not to protect your identity, or to watch region-locked content, but to remove the need to blindly trust developers to always use best practice, and/or blindly trust the strangers that you share public networks with.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yup! I made the switch a couple years ago personally, but it turns out that corporate device management for Linux is a huge PITA for mediocre functionality.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There's a registry hack for the right click menu. I run it on every new computer that I set up at work, either at setup or when someone calls to complain about it.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

If you end up going in the Godot direction, a friend of mine has some useful tools to easily get started on animation rigging and controllers here.

He got started a couple years ago with no game dev experience, and he's done a couple of game jams recently, but most of his time has been spent building workflow tools. A couple months ago he finally got around working on one of the original games that he's wanted to make since he started.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I appreciate the response, and as i said, I understand that jellyfin is completely accessible from PS4 even though there is no dedicated app. Unfortunately, that's not an option for all the users in my household, which is why I'm running both a JF and Plex server.

As far as PS4 not being designed as a streaming device, the fact remains that it does stream media, and since I have it in my house, it does serve that purpose when it is not being used for gaming. I'm not ruling out the option of adding a dedicated streaming device, but I am loath to the idea of trading in one data harvesting service (plex) for another.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Does a Firestick require WAN access? I know my PS4 calls out of the network pretty regularly, but I'm a little hesitant to add more data harvesting into my network. I haven't ruled it out, though.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I chose the second option after my new fridge got too friendly with my MIL's phone. Nothing against her, but I didn't want to give it the chance to do that with a stranger.

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