I am fuming. Apologies not going to be an informative post right this second. Jast spent the entire morning trying to find out if my phone can still play music on voice request.

Today Google removed all local music playing features from their phones on assistant. Worked yesterday. Today? Nothing.

"Android Auto" takes over if it's on my car Bluetooth and this limits to *Spotify and YouTube music only* for "safety reasons" so the assistant and music player I've been using for 5 ****img years has been depreciated and blocked.

I've the records of me swearing to Gemini for 30 minutes and it saying "I can't help with offensive requests" but ironically if I say "****ing play my music on Spotify" it *plays the music*.

So I've cancelled Gemini, cancelled Spotify, *and I will work with Claude code to get access to the NPU and put my own ****ing voice assistant on it and music player to play locally downloaded music.

I'll start a thread on bsky if anyone can assist, because I've never tried firmware reverse engineering before, but have done Voice Attack so Gemini and Bixby claiming "I can't do that" is categorically false, a 2021 LLM and voice attack could do it and would take 15 minutes to setup!!!

If Louis has any input he could raise for others with more expertise than a silly hobbiest like me, to look into this fark practice by Googleand Spotify (Spotify takws over the phone, Google removed the option to set default music players!!!).

https://bsky.app/profile/techyben.bsky.social/post/3my7lyvkrws2r

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/10/07/infrastructure-sponsors-wanted.html

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Sponsorship

Why gentoo

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/05/28/why-gentoo

Help needed for this open source software. Please if Futo or LouisRossmann takes a look at this helps a lot.

>The GitHub project went up on October 9 and listed more than 1,600 free games for jailbroken PS5s

I made a commentary video discussing why we're at the point where quality has gone down while we end up paying more, and how companies are finding new ways to squeeze money out of customers.

A few of the issues I spoke on include HP Instant Ink cartridges becoming unusable after cancelling your subscription (even with ink still left in the cartidge), John Deere's repair restrictions, BMW charging subscriptions for heated seats, and Ubisoft making The Crew unplayable after shutting down its servers.

I also looked into shrinkflation, private equity, Disney Lightning Lane, and how companies keep finding ways to charge more while offering less. Also touched on how a hospital became unsafe after being taken over by private investors.

Figured this would be a good place to share it. Interested to hear what you guys think, and I'm open to feedback too since I'm new to making these videos!

For now, only for the 30K(v2), I need people to trace a working update process for the other headsets.

Broke my last tv about 7 years ago while playing beat saber. Never replaced as I didn’t really use it, so it was nbd. Looking to get a new one now, but it seems like every TV has AI in the name, and I’ve seen some stuff about baked in ads, and account creation being required.

Looking for a 65” class, 4k around $1k without all the extra bullshit. Just a TV. No gaming (all on pc, pictured for attention), just media.

Will take sound recommendations too.

TIA.

OP's text:

"I’m the developer behind FlockHopper, a free app that shows you where license plate cameras are and gives you a route that avoids them.

I just came across this clip of a cop describing it as a tool for drug dealers. To him, the only reason anyone would route around these cameras is that they’re up to something. It’s the same old line: if you have nothing to hide, why would you care?

But you shouldn’t need a good reason to not want to be tracked on your daily drive. Not wanting your daily commute logged in a searchable database shouldn't be suspicious.

DontGetFlocked.com"

What Reddit "filter" is this?

https://youtu.be/NH1yGy0JSUA?si=WJPpxXW-kaBTUM5-

A bug that would allow the Meta Ray-Ban second and third generation smart glasses to listen to you without the "Hey Meta?" trigger has been patched. It's yet another way that big tech claims plausible deniability while gathering information on countless people.

This comes after a controversy around the Meta AI questions revealing location data of minors. Significant questions about the company need to be raised as to what exactly they do with all this data they've been collecting on us without our permission (particularly when someone's friend has these Meta glasses and your privacy is invaded because of it).

At what point does the American public get to say no to mass surveillance? What will it take for the government to outlaw surveillance and amend privacy into the constitution? This is something that affects every American whether they like it or not. Who gets to decide our rights in the modern free world?