Because you’re fine with wayland.

The op is flailing, trying to use the system you’re at the very least fine with but I now suspect you feel a certain affinity towards but they can’t. They can’t use wayland unless you help. Their various windows are shuffled on top of one another and require the use of a mouse to switch between. You could be helping the op instead of trolling. But you’re not.

Why are you not helping the op, umbrella?

You have to take some extra steps, it’s not just “click button -> success”, but it’s not too hard.

Perhaps you’re the target audience for the many unofficial smarttube apps in the tvOS store.

Yeah, if your concern is privacy and security I wouldn’t switch to nym over mullvad. Mixnets have many more points of trust to establish or for an attacker, to undermine.

There are specific times when a person might choose a mixnet but those are relatively low stakes situations such as “I might go to several websites all using the same cdn at a time when I’m the only person using my particular vpn proxy and that cdn could associate my browsing habits between the various sites”, like in the video, but it’s not what anyone should be choosing when they’re imagining a powerful agency kicking in the door of their vpn proxy provider and trying to force them to install a tracking system.

Also the situation wherein your choose a mixnet over something else are mitigated by clearing your cookies and closing your browser, using container tabs, etc.

I don’t want to fix wayland. Wayland is bad.

Even if my heartfelt love for the op overcame my revulsion for wayland I would not put any effort into fixing this issue because the structural problems with wayland make it a battle with an entrenched system of powerful organizations with skin in the game and outspoken users looking for a fight as opposed to a simple pr.

Think for a second about the context of what you are aligning yourself with in these replies to me: wayland, a collection of protocols and apis in a trenchcoat, doesn’t have a standardized one for alt tab. That’s not because of a cabal of stereotypes rubbing their hands together and laughing over a meeting table shaped like the Mercator projection, but because the wayland devs abdicated responsibility by not making a reference implementation and that left space open for anyone who wanted to to stake their claim.

Now rather than looking at the design and deciding that we need 12 foot posts to support the back side of the building as the land slopes off we are at the mercy of whatever the supplier brings to the site today.

Why would I volunteer my time to that? Why would anyone?

It’s preconfigured arch that’s ai-forward.

At a time when a massive fraction of the open source world is thrashing around trying to figure out how to align themselves to ai that stands out.

E: people on lemmy hate it because the creator has incoherent European migration politics that come to the opposite conclusion of their own incoherent European migration politics.

Why don’t you “check out” some code that involves the ops issue and try to solve it instead of trolling people.

im using a chromecast right now and i want a similar experience to that, just more privacy friendly

If they had asked for a project I would have given different input. Which would have also not been Linux.

Nothing is similar to mullvad.

I would not switch to nym from mullvad without a very good reason and understanding of how to mitigate differences.

What are you trying to accomplish by switching?

I have installed Linux on many things. Post the output of your “lspci” and the output of your “ip address”

The design of it is not compatible with the old paradigm of graphical interfaces which were the ones created by teams of researchers trying to figure out how to most effectively open a dialogue between computer and user. There is no reference implementation. It’s broken in a million little ways. No xscreensaver.

But if I had to name just one main thing: the whole point of wayland is to make it easier for the programmers of x to handle a large complex codebase, which they accomplished by throwing everything out and starting over from scratch instead of migrating to tools, process and even languages that make that precise problem easier to manage and at the time of waylands conception we had forty fucking years of history showing vast improvement in the tools, processes and languages aimed at big complex shit.

The fact that anyone will defend the decision to abandon x for the absolute slop delivery tube that wayland became in an age where we have access to, like it or not, the ultimate programming tool in the form of cheap and fast large language models is insane.

All time L.

Feed five bucks into deepseek and have it spit out functional dotfiles for branding where you want it.

Because Wayland sucks. It was designed to suck.

E: Lol at the 1:1 ratio atm.

Depends on your definition of worse.

On the one hand you’re 100% being used as a proxy for illegal activities that could get the cops sent to your door looking to do a search for csam and the defenses of equipment on your network are being probed and either directly exploited or catalogued and sold to the highest bidder. Cameras and microphones on compromised equipment are activated and used periodically to perform surveillance and monitoring and there is at least one documented example of someone being blackmailed as part of a pig butchering scam because of that.

On the other hand Google wants to sell your information to advertisers and apple wants to use it to advertise directly to you.

So it’s kinda six or one half dozen of the other.

Not really, you’re just part of a residential proxy network and all the information that can be discerned about your network and the devices connected to it is being collected by the people who run that residential proxy network.

There are a bunch of tvos smart tube apps in the store for free but I’d just build the client on github and load it.

Even on the most locked down device the qos involved in streaming gives enough information to track you. If your goal is to block ads that’s no problem but just bear in mind the feed isn’t one way, your device communicates back to the source to negotiate bitrates and buffers and that’s enough to do some very accurate measurements especially with a side channel of normal https communication in the mix which they all have.

It sounds like you just want to block ads and there’s nothing wrong with that, I just don’t want to lead you into thinking you’re actually in any way private when streaming. Every service is actively collecting as much information as they can in the process of sending you video.

Anyway don’t read any of that just try out the appletv and if you end up not liking it you can easily sell it to someone for 90% of what you paid.

It’s appletv unless you’re willing to use a custom sbc with a taped together third party android version.

I don’t recommend the latter option because it fucking sucks and you seem like a psycho to others who may use it or watch stuff with you.

You can just host jellyfin from your pc (or a server in your closet) if you wanna get away from streaming services and it works good with either option.

I want to be clear as day that you cannot get a privacy friendly experience from any Android streaming device unless you load it yourself and make sure it’s something like the lineageos Android tv stuff linked by another user.

It’s probably worth it for you to put into words what you’re trying to accomplish, being as clear and explicit as possible.

Mullvad with doh. You’re fine.

E: what device needs a third party firewall?

Taskbar on the left edge of the screen

E: also trackball instead of mouse.

Identifying lost or unknown trackers would fulfill this persons needs in my experience.

It wouldn’t locate the lost keys across the street unless they were using an apple device though.

The official Android support from apple is only through the “tracker detect” app for finding them.