Tell that to the “nontechnical” brick walls that hate you.

Not relevant. Unless you use airplane mode, it will be visible that your phone was at the place.

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who’s intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough… No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off…

You forgot unempl*yed teens

Actually, webpages that mention it get blocked from what I’ve heard. But there’s no way to know if a videogame chat will have it (especially if TLS/SSL is used), so it wouldn’t happen there.

What are you actually broadcasting while doing so? That you are using KDE Connect?

That + device name which is probably pretty unique. Chinese routers scrape all of that. IIRC mDNS is actually disabled on Linux for now because it was conflicting with Avahi which broke some more stuff.

do not use KDE Connect on other networks

Last time I used it, I don’t recall a toggle for that in either the Linux or the Android clients.

Edit: what alternative device discovery solution could be used by KDE Connect to make it more private on untrusted ntetworks?

Exactly as it is right now but on a whitelist.

Offtopic but I am really annoyed by how many custom ROMs (especially LineageOS) disable MAC randomization at build time and make zero mention of it on the wiki/forum/whatever page. That’s just as important.

KDE Connect seems to send identifying broadcast packets constantly (just like gapps), not the best for privacy on public bing chilling router WiFi. Android itself technically does too, but you can just change your device name to " " (space).

Unless I an seriously misunderstanding, a 5$ wrench would be used instead of that “torture nexus” and then someone has to pay for giving shitty equipment.

All problems eventually lead to slowly solving overpopulation

Oh, see, unlike on x86 where you have the ACPI to detect hardware with minimal device quirks (still a lot of them), everything else doesn’t have that. Well, except some Qualcomm chips, but their implementation sucks and basically only works reasonably with Windows and Windows Phone. So you need a device tree blob (DTB) to tell the kernel where everything is. But enabling all of the drivers in a single kernel build makes it not fit (the partition for that is traditionally quite tight), so you make different kernels per device.

AND, on Android in particular, lots of features need device specific configuration for all of the small stuff like the proximity sensor and the cameras (a LOT more complex than webcams). This + the need for OEMs to insert their own spyware and the already existing tradition at the time to make device specific images made the decision stick around. There’s GSI, which basically forces the OEM to write drivers and all of that with a stable-ish API to make universal images possible, but it results in a system with lots of tiny inexplicable problems that slowly make you loose your sanity in my experience.

How postmarketOS handles it is that there are basically meta packages per device that depend on the kernel package appropriate to the device (sometimes for a whole platform or SoC, having multiple DTBs inside for each device) that flashes itself to the appropriate partition via a post installation hook, as well as all of the config files for apps that need device specific stuff and don’t already have it upstream (like camera apps).

I use MUSL/Linux on a tablet btw

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