I have a sony as well, and you can use it as dumb TV, by not agreeing to their privacy policy. If you want to connect it to wifi afterwards, it points you to the privacy policy again, so it seems like the TV follows that. But I've also purchased it 4 years ago, so not sure what the status is now.
So far, I've seen no ads. I mostly use it mostly via HDMI and sometimes for watching freely available TV via antenna.
Oh brother, where art thou?
Man of constant sorrow. Nuff said
picked up No Man's Sky the other week at 50% off and really enjoying it
I've no idea on the relockable bootloader support with self signed keys. Though I do remember reading at some point from some lad ranting about why it's a bad idea to relock, and seemed to make sense, so I didn't look further into the matter. The post was on the... ehm... other website.
Aye, they have unlockable bootloaders and sony also provides instructions and firmware needed to build your own AOSP if that's your pleasure. I just went the lineageOS way.
That's a damn shame. I really liked their phones, their only downside, I think, was the crap support - they only give 2 years of updates. But with lineage that is no longer an issue.
Have you looked at what sony has to offer? They latest xperia had a headphone jack, sd card and I believe lineageOS support.
i installed lineageOS on an xperia 5 ii, so older model, and seems to be going strong. got latest update 1 week ago.
My phone has IP68 with an usb-c and headphone jack, and the SIM/SD tray. Not a rugged phone though.
regarding your edit there, I guess most people stopped reading at 'essential oils' without knowing where this was going.
this is one (the only?) actual medical use for these things - their main thing is that they smell in a certain way that is consistent, so you use them to retrain your sense of smell. that's it. no taking internally or applying to skin or whatever. just take the stopper off the wee bottle, sniff and repeat for as many bottles as you can be arsed.
when I had covid-19, I didn't have so well defined scents on hand, but I did have several colognes I could sniff, and I knew fairly well how they were supposed to smell and could use those to gauge my senses. fun times, they were...
heh, TIL steam keeps lots of patches. I may get back into EUIV, yet. thanks for that!
heh, TIL steam keeps lots of patches. I may get back into EUIV, yet. thanks for that!
*attempts to fathom terrors* *suddenly gets urge to put on a maid outfit and dust the place* You're not wrong...