There are clients with a “stop seeding” button that works prior to finishing the download. Just sayin’. Still seeds while it’s active, but stops right after.

If you bought it outside of China that might be a thing, for Chinese phones it shows a cancel button only. There is a confirm button, but it’s greyed out and not clickable.

Oppo = OnePlus

Huawei bootlaoders can’t be unlocked, so absolutely no custom ROM there.

Honor bootlaoders can’t be unlocked, so absolutely no custom ROM there.

Poco seems possible for now, never used one of their phones, but well good that there’s something possible.

Apart from Xiaomi and OnePlus, which are released for international audiences, I’m not aware of a single Chinese phone with active rom development.

LOL. Chinese phones are way worse, they simply block installations of “unsanctioned” apps with no workaround.

My wife is Chinese and I used to live there for 7 years, it’s an absolute privacy nightmare.

Awesome, thanks a lot for the elaborate reply, much appreciated!

What’s that clippy stuff about? I asked elsewhere and someone posted a youtube clip. Not gonna waste 15 minutes of my life watching this shit.

Maybe you could share which exact ones you need?

I used to access them through my university and they came in some proprietary Adobe DRM format that I couldn’t open without a university account, with copy & paste blocked and all that.

Was fairly straightforward to take screenshots though and run them through a simple OCR program.

Library Genesis has quite a few ISO standards.

And using Google, Bing and Yandex with the parameter “filetype:pdf” is also surprisingly effective.

I haven’t tried searching for any Australian standards, but maybe that’s a starting point?

Just view the source code and search for “.mp3”, the file is linked directly.

Apparently the feature was added 5 years ago.

The developers of Lemmy also run lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml, the former being a hardcore communist anti-everything delusional conspiracy crapshoot of a platform, the latter a tiny bit more relaxed, but moderated/administered by a bunch of dicks that are essentially also tankies (= hardcore leftists) and Russia fans/apologists.

They (the devs) recently asked for funding to support their work, and in doing so, disclosed that part of the funding would be used to run those two instances, thus giving users no alternative to support without cross-financing extremism.

Piefed is developed independently and has none of those links to moronic ideologies.

Piefed as a platform uses the same underlying protocol as lemmy, mastodon, etc. (Activity Hub), so users can seamlessly interact with one another.

With a VPN. They might know you are using one, but everything you do remains obscured.

infosec.pub

No need, they’ll do it for you in a few weeks…

infosec.pub

I love it on infosec.pub, doesn’t defederate from most instances unless they are particularly hostile, doesn’t censor in itself, and hosts mostly tech/nerd communities.

Yes. And what exactly does that have to do with my question?

Which flavor of liberal are we talking? We’ve come a really long way since the mere word had any decisive meaning.

Hmm… Clockwork and fluorescent arms?