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I was sharing my experience and from supposedly one of my best. This was my experience. In my experience the experience was shitty or bad as you take it. Are you sharing an empirical study on it? No, you are not.

> Keep social interaction only on social media, and trackers only for piracy, without mixing them together, and you'll be good.

In case it didn't hit home last time: it was not there that I posted or communicated and the ban was based on guess work, there was no possible way to connect the two sites - none so whatsoever. At one place there was no email shared and entirely different username. IPs, yes. And even then I was not being abusive or so. I just disagreed. No, I had not shared my account usernames or so in the past at all!

Anyway, cheers. Have fun there. Those places are actually not bad when you have the time and patience to navigate through that and also keeping the head down. Good luck.

> That's why private trackers are the best

After almost a decade on private trackers (used to carefully ensure to seed from my laptop even in college when I didn't have much Internet hours or home connection during my early career as it was too costly) and remaining a model citizen I was finally banned by admin(s) of a top tracker for "suspected" fraudulent activities or cheating. That is it. Suspected and banned. Suspected where? On an unrelated social media site because I respectfully criticized a tracker.

When people say private trackers are by teens or (wo)man-teens with extremely fragile egos I always thought it was nuts until I came across some. They are really trigger happy and touchy.

I made peace with it. Slowly let all go of all the accounts. Just let it be. I first thought I will reach out to them for a/c deletions etc, but then I thought it was not worth it. Besides it's all a "seedbox dump" (I had one during my last 5-6 years there, so yeah I am guilty as well) and there's no community. Hoard and seed and hoard and seed and no talking about it and if you talk you always have to walk on egg shells. So it has not been the same. Not since the days of WCD; and that too is a maybe.

What are the best ways to build and generate binaries for mobile platforms, let's say Android, by reducing the binary/.so size considerably? Let's say if I need only warpPerspective (and nothing else at all) - what is the easiest way to build for that? Are there docs around it, something step by step guide for people who are not well versed with CV coding or even C coding? Or has there been a smaller need based Android port (or a maven artefact) planned? (I am assuming you are related to the project). And thank you for the awesome work!

At least that’s a thing in Australia or western countries. Here in India, where TrueCaller is very famous, TrueCaller is a platform for abuse.

Even after you use their delisting the customer care duty-fully informs you that your number can still be named and tagged on their platform.

After a while in my case they just didn’t respond.

As an Android develop this greatly interests me. In fact this was one of the reasons I had to buy a more powerful laptop than I wanted to and it almost cost me double my target laptop otherwise. Because Android development is such a resource hog.

Are there useful cloud dev env setups for Android? The way Google has made sure Android dev remains locked in to Android Studio i.e IntelliJ Idea and also to the Great Gradle and what not I assume it’d have to come from IntelliJ - https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/.

Has anyone successfully tried this for Android remote dev? I suspect even if it’s feasible with lots of fragile moving parts the resource hungry setup will surely make it very costly for having a personal setup in the cloud.

That’s really how it is.

Having lost someone to ILD and then personally going through increasingly debilitating and unnerving (ddx) occipital neuralgia/headache (is there even a difference) I’ve come to understand, however yet to accept fully, that we are on borrowed time that one should just appreciate the good fortune of, until one fine day we have to come face to face with the vast limitations/inabilities of medical science or go through its probability based guesswork while fluctuating between hope and despair.

I am not saying this pejoratively, rather just matter-of-factly.

It’s just sad and defeating.