I’ve been wondering what do you actually do with waydroid? i only ever used it to run arknights in the past
My main reason I installed Waydroid was to stream local TV. Local TV stations that used to provide news/sports on live feeds online have stopped making their feeds directly available online for free. They now want you to install an Android or iPhone app to stream their local content (If you can’t pick the station up live over the air because of mountains or bad weather).
Way droid simply let’s me install and run apps that aren’t available on Linux.
I don’t really like screencasting from my phone, so it seemed the better alternative.
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That’s a really cool use case for it. Man I miss the simple old days of analog tv and no mobile apps. Back when you would add a tv tuner card. Never had one but they looked cool when i saw them as a kid.
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Cut it out, youre making me feel really old. 
I used to have a twin Haupauge TV tuner setup in the old analog TV days. No DRM bull 
to deal with, life was so much simpler back then. Maybe everything will still be analog when I die and hopefully make it to heaven.
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It is now! XD
But in the spirit of “its not my job”
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Man I could rant for a while but I wont lol. I’ll just wait for soon to happen mass data breach to happen. But for now truly give this a watch its not preachy.
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I haven’t used Windows in so long that I was almost flabbergasted by the insanity of it all in that video. It’s almost hard to believe Windows could get this bad and that people are still using it. My last Windows OS was 7, and I still couldn’t wait to leave Windows in the rear view. You couldn’t pay me to use Windows nowadays.
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The scary bit is it can just be in work related apps and be annoying. With mozilla and google cramming it in the browser no where is safe websites are the same. Thankful for forks but like with winbows how long tell they start linking it so i depends on core functions. Like windows recall being built into file explorer and removing it breaks 80% of it. Though its not active on x64 we all know its coming,
My last windows was xp was mac after.
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Well, copilot was one of the reasons I ditched windows this year. I did uninstall it a few times, but it always came back, and I don’t even have a copilot enabled laptop.
To be fair though, I think at the beginning of the video it was about a copilot-enabled laptop because there was the dedicated copilot button on the keyboard.
Either way, I wanted to be out of that ecosystem as soon as possible because it looks like in a few years most of the laptops on the market will be copilot-enabled. I am a bit curious though what would happen if one runs Linux on a laptop that has the AI copilot hardware on it. I mean is that hardware doing anything on its own and will we be able to completely disable it?
Just like the guy in the video, I’m not an AI hater or anything and I actually do use AI for some tasks where it saves me a good amount of time, but I also don’t like to have software and hardware that does strange things on its own, things that I don’t want or I’m not aware of.
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