When I ran rooted Android, I used AdAway to keep my HOSTS file up to date. You can’t do that without root, though. At least AFAIK.

you can, not with adaway but others like rethink dns that function as a VPN, without actually using a VPN provider.

when you do that, you can’t use any other VPN apps. though some (including rethink) have additional functions, like an outgoing firewall, wireguard, proxy support, …
though if your company requires a different VPN app… then get a company phone, probably.

Full thoughts on my TT

holy shit I did not expect it to go that low

I kind of understand what’s the use of BGP, but the article was lacking too many details even for me. cloudflare has a better article, their conclusion is that this was probably an accident and not an attack, because the leaked routes were so low priority that it couldn’t cayse traffic to be rerouted.
they didn’t say but I think perhaps what it could have done is overload the venezuelan state ISP with traffic they shouldn’t handle, but I don’t know for sure

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/

4 GB is not enough for web browsing

well there’s a firmware selector page, wherr you can request additional packages. maybe it can also be used for removing some?

but if you build it yourself you can do any changes you want, too

Don’t expect good Wi-Fi if you went with devboards like OpenWrt One.

why is that?

it could be easier though to make a slimmer custom build, without luci and other noncritical things

Once you have Vaultwarden in a Docker container with Watchtower updating it regularly it’s zero maintenance as far as I’m concerned.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to use a set it and forget it mindset for things like these. how will they know if something happens to vaultwarden? discontinuation, enshittification, repo transfer to new maintainers, bad release by hacked account? we are roughly following the channels to get informed but someone who’s not dealing in IT much even just as a hobby probably won’t get to know if something is up. also, does watchtover properly handle database upgrades, like for postgres?

I don’t think sed syntax should be used that casually, but saying what they said is outright disrespectful.

btw spectacle is the default in kde

MaxFix

its not really an UEFI issue but a windows one. unlike BIOS systems, UEFI was made capable to handle this, yet windows fucks it up.

it also depends on your configuration. on an ESP partition there’s a default bootloader, and per-os bootloaders in directories. if you rely on using the default bootloader, windows will overwrite that from time to time, but it can fuck up the per-os bootloader setup too if it fucks with the list that the efibootmgr command manages on linux. I don’t know whether it does the latter

so I had to take all my exams with a proctor staring at me.

much much better than having to install spyware. a proctoring spyware could record your precise mouse movements, keypresses and build a profile out of it, or upload anything from your computer to its developers. but a proctor person? what will they do, take notes? they only see what you show them, and by using a different OS account they really can’t see anything sensitive.

don’t forget google drive, and facebook without ads

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One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time.

it doesn’t know the galactic center but otherwise check Trail Sense on f-droid. the astronomy tool has a 3d mode that shows where the sun and the moon is. oh it says there will be visible meteor showers in a few hours!

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.kylecorry.trail_sense

that wouldn’t work without tinkering anyways with the latest windows 11 versions

? The camera is just to check on the customers if they are scanning everything properly and not stealing.

the camera built in above the screen only sees your face, it cannot be used to check that.

they are satisfied that you identify yourself consistently with the same number.

they don’t want to call you, what they want is to track you

payment system: GNU Taler

but adoption is really, really slow

so I don’t know who would pirate an OS anymore

those who don’t know what they’re doing, but some are still doing it so good point