Brilliant! I’ll take a look at that.

Huh.

The…idea just didn’t occur to me.

Well, shit. Now I feel dumb(er).

Though in fairness…can -

1. the same debrid account be linked with two different stremio accounts?

2. can the default Stremio discovery service be replaced with a more kid friendly one? I know that they can just search for whatever, but out of sight out of mind.

3. Does having two separate Chromecast accounts / Android TV accounts give two different sets of installed apps?

I like your idea; if it works it’s an elegant solution, esp if the main account can be pin locked.

I’ll check it out tonight and report back.

Thank you, that helps. I’ll chase it down.

Ended up going with Real-Debrid in the end for a 90 day trial. Will def look at torbox after that.

Thank you!

It also says -

“So it’s all vibe-coded slop.”

The idea is over 4 years old: a trustless, decentralized network with no central entity that can censor who you connect with. I sketched it for years. What an LLM changed was the speed: the prototype came together in a day. The trigger was the release of iroh v1.

Make of that what you will.

Aaah…i see. OK…I found it and one called No-Torrent, plugged the manifest.jsons into the android TV app and it seems to do the trick.

Is Torretino more stable / pulls from better sources than No-Torrent or is it same same?

The argument could be made that FPGA devices (which reimplement real hardware) are “bootleg” versions.

https://retroremake.co/pages/superstationᵒⁿᵉ

It’s a poor argument, but I’ve seen more insane ones.

If you’re talking about back in the day, there were things like Famiclone, Dendy etc.

Switch 2? Not yet that I’m aware of.

Well sure, if you’re installing CFW or aosp and you don’t need the ever increasing cruft that seems to rely on Play store authentication. Never install GApps, done.

Some folks (not you or I) need to access play store to install their apps (I think even WhatsApp and Signal need it now; I couldn’t install it on my phone), 2FA, transport apps, bank apps etc.

Catch 22 for them.

• degoogled phone…but can’t install all the apps they need
• Google ecosystem… but at whims of Google.

How will your phone stream movies to the TV, little billy’s tablet and Grandma’s laptop, while letting Suzie listen to her favourite music and Davey read his CBR comics?

What does your phone draw, BTW, when watching media or casting it? Is it less than 0.8 of a watt?

Can your phone fit in a matchbox?

Ya dig? :)

Like herpes, it comes back :) The second you connect to WiFi or mobile data…

If you want to avoid it - for good - you need to install CFW. Or you need to play whackamole with firewalls. But those come with other issues.

Big evil knows what they’re doing - switching it off and on again won’t fool em for long (if at all) :(

deleted by creator

Yes, lots. Here - try the dumb phone finder tool here; it’s region specific

https://www.dumbphones.org/

I think the goal is to push it silently as a Google system service, rather than wait for manufacturers to ship an OS or app store update.

There’s a real possibility your phone already has Android Developer Verifier installed and sitting dormant until enforcement begins.

You can check for the package now:

“com.google.android.verifier”

If it’s there…well…

Removed by mod

Nah…we need digital divergence.

Dumbphone + tethering.

Let the phone manufacturers and carriers handle the “phone” part-with all the messy IMEI whitelisting, compliance and VoLTE shit.

The good stuff can live on a small Linux tablet.

No need to wait for the perfect Linux phone OS, working diallers, carrier support and all the rest of it.

The solution is already here. We just need to stop insisting that it all has to be one device.

LADB is a native android feature. Unless they plan to kill adb entirely, what’s to stop me from doing this -

• Download apk
• Enable Wireless debugging
• Pair the on-phone ADB client
• Run something equivalent to: pm install /sdcard/Download/app.apk
• Installation occurs through the ADB shell route.

Because if that works, “install from Fdroid” needs just a small tweak so that the Fdroid app submits the APK through ADB.

Not that I particularly trust Google, but they have promised to not molest the ADB pathway.

"Are ADB installs impacted by the 24-hour waiting period for advanced flow? No, there are no changes to how ADB works. You will be able to install applications using ADB as usual. The waiting period does not apply to ADB installs. Last updated: March 23, 2026’

https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/faq

You’re welcome :)

I’m looking to see just how far this femto-server idea can go. Scoping it out now.

Fuck yes we’re interested. Go :)