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  • How exactly are big techs spying on users?

7 days later

Stayjuice

"I’m forced to have google nest in my home but I have it on a remote on off switch, controlled over an infrared remote control and it lives off 99% of the time and only powered on when it’s needed for voice controls but even then I’m weaning on to an open sourced offline assistant and encouraging the household to move over to that instead."

I take it you don't use Nest on your GrapheneOS phone? Seems like it won't work anyway.

    argante
    Um, so...

    • An unsecured link
    • to a state-run news site in China
    • to a PDF that we'd have to open on our devices

    3 reasons why I wouldn't want to click on that.

      AtavisticPuma
      If you are afraid, then you can do this:

      curl http://www.news.cn/world/20250325/02ba448744ac4b75a81df613a88b4d26/2025032522b55fd15b244a5fac54e424c62be9b7_1616350dfed1c44ba786a82d574c86c30f.pdf > f.pdf

      and then use dangerzone to convert to safe pdf.

      New2MeOS no I mainly use home assistant but not on my phone. Google best spends its time asleep now