Oh did not know that, sad to hear.

They did remove traffic to the old Yuzu domains though, which now are in the hands of Nintendo, used to monitor which users use emulators.

Do you have other suggestions for promising successor forks?

Suyu, it’s the continuation/fork of Yuzu:
https://suyu.dev/

Also Azahar, the continuation/fork of Citra:
https://azahar-emu.org/

• Customer: Can you make this code that does 1000 things?
• Development team: Sure, we’ll think/work out a nice streamlined implementation for you.
• Development team: Delivers product
• Customer: Oh I forgot to mention, I also need this and this and this.
• Development team: You mother f*cker, there goes our streamlined implementation…
• Development team: Delivers updated product
• Result: The 1001 variant of this meme as the final product, good job customer (/s)

To me this sadly is a clear sign that Bethesda has peeked.

They’ve re-released Skyrim a billion times, now they’re re-releasing Oblivion, no news if The Elders Scrolls 6 development has even started yet, and Starfield is a hot mess.

Feels like they’re milking out the last possible drops of profit out of their IPs before closing down…

It’s a game where you push in the teeth of the alligator, with a chance that it will bite you.

It’s been since my childhood since I’ve played it, but if I remember correctly, the goal is to push in as many teeth without the alligator triggering, and of course if it triggers, to try to pull your fingers out before you get clamped :P

It can hurt a bit if you get clamped, but it’s not strong enough to do any real damage to your finger.

There’s 2 parts to this:

• Android Auto app (on your phone)
• Android Auto Head Unit software (in your car)

Both of which are currently proprietary,
and would need to be written as FOSS from the ground up by reverse engineering the above 2, which would be a huge undertaking.

Also flashing custom Head Unit software to your car will be very hard, is not well documented, and likely will void your warranty, giving low incentive for developers to even attempt it :/

The best you can do right now is aa4mg (Android Auto 4 MicroG),
which at least allows to replace the proprietary Google Play services with a privacy respecting FOSS alternative and Android Auto’s dependencies with empty stub packages:
https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

Full disclosure,
I helped with writing aa4mg :)

Do you like being spied on and having your data sold?
=> Windows or ChromeOS

Do you have too much money?
=> Mac

Do you have a decent set of working brains?
=> Linux

This post assumes I actually want to waste my time on LLMs, I don’t.

And even worse, it assumes you want to use the remotely hosted spy-ware variant, not even the less bad, but still a waste of time local variant…

You’re very welcome! :)

Been using VSCodium for a few years now, for loose file editing,
no complaints about it, imo it’s what VSCode should be.

uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot bloat on Github
uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon

Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot

uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot bloat on Github
uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon

Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot

uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot bloat on Github
uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon

Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot

Believe me, I’d love to ditch Github!

But it’s a really though bullet to bite for me…

It kinda acts as my CV for when I’d apply for a new job, and in my nearly 10 years on the platform I’ve accumulated a nice follower and star count to prove my worth as a developer, which is hard to regain on smaller more privacy respecting platforms like Codeberg or Forgejo…

Perhaps it’s time to move to Codeberg though.
If I’d do so I will probably:

1. Initially mirror the repo’s to Codeberg
2. Notify the users about scheduled date to move to Codeberg
3. Archive the Github repo’s and finalize move to Codeberg

Awesome, thank you for that!

Thank you, that’s already a nice start! 🙂

But I was mostly hoping to block the UI elements,
e.g. today they added a Copilot button,
and they also moved the search bar,
and replaced it’s old position with “ask copilot”.

Would be lovely get the feel of the old Github UI back
with all the Copilot references filtered out.

Edit: Figured it out, check my main post edit for the filters!

Oh wow did not know that.

Well, if them spying on you and selling your data was not enough to make you switch to an alternative, then maybe/hopefully lack of search operators will be!

You can use the - (minus) sign,
which excludes pages that contain the word which has the - in front of them.

For example, currently I’m replaying GTA V single player, but when I search for content related to it, I’m often given articles about the online version.

To solve that I search:

GTA V <insert-topic-of-interest> -online

Which excludes all articles containing the word online.

I use SearXNG though,
but afaik this is implemented by most search engines.

Please edit the post,
as a few people pointed out already,
it’s not true.

They do ban based on IP,
just switch your VPN connection until you can access it again.

They’re trying to block third party and privacy respecting solutions though,
but that’s been a cat and mouse game for a while now.

Bootkitty?

However,
you can already patch your BIOS to become secure again! :)

All in all, Windows security is a joke compared to Linux’s.