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  • This Linux phone with Android app support has three kill switches for complete privacy

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  • thanks for the linked writeup, always new stuff to learn.

    I'm on 6T and mobian, how's your luck with taming cameras?

  • This Linux phone with Android app support has three kill switches for complete privacy

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  • them dudes should allow us paupers to get at the "furyos" with our shitty $50 phones. or at least put the evidently complete product it in the hands of someone who ran linux phones (i.e. experience with mobian, pmOS, phosh, etc) instead of confused youtubers swiping the same two screens left/right not undestanding dick about the issues.

    I am not spending a multiple of the total of all my hardware combined in order to find out it has the same performance and issues my oneplus 6t with mobian has.

    y'all with the graphenes and co., respectfully, you don't understand what you're talking about.

  • Best Linux client for receiving calls from XMPP? (JMP.chat)

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  • sorry, I'm off-topic here... are there free alternatives to this paid (jmp.chat) service?

  • Turning an 800MHz G4 iMac into a Linux Terminal | Adélie Linux, Debian, FreeBSD & OSX Attempts

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  • very cool.

    was looking for something similar, to repurpose a Macbook Pro 17 from 2006; 32-bit EFI and Radeon X1600, plently of issues running a semi-modern distro, but maybe as an X11 terminal for my headless server... but I just start thinking about it and give up, needs way too much stuff done.

  • Best phone for the near future?

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  • disable modem - SOLVED

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  • well, disabling ModemManager was a mistake, because that prevents you from using mmcli.

    with it, you can issue mmcli --modem=0 --set-power-state-off or mmcli --modem=0 --disable. nope, the latter puts it in a low-power state.

    there's also --inhibit which seems to turn off the modem completely, it's gone from mmcli. nope, that just removes it from the manager, it's still running.

    will keep experimenting as to what each does.

  • State of Xiaomi bootloader unlocking?

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  • the wall of shame is an awesome resource for us looking to get at cheap, discarded phones. thanks!

  • State of Xiaomi bootloader unlocking?

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  • can you share some of the things regarding MTK unlocks? when looking for cheap used devices I've routinely skipped over MTK devices thinking that unlock is impossible and, more importantly, there aren't ROMs for 'em.

    also, look at mobian. UT (at least in my case, SDM845) requests that the phone should be at the stock android image (9.0) which I find virtually impossible to downgrade to.

  • Can you still get CalyxOS on the Fairphone 5?

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  • forgive my ignorance but I always thought calyxOS was lineageOS + microG, are there things in there I missed?

  • Best way to transport a computer out of country?

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  • unless you're moving to the middle of the desert, leave "the computer" (desktop? glass case? server rack? windows? linux? what?) behind and just bring the drives, then buy the other stuff locally.

  • gunked up keyboard

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  • so, washed the caps (degreaser, bath, scrub, wipe, isopropyl, wipe), the case (iso, wipe) and finally the exposed keys and alu (iso, brush, wipe off, repeat). doesn't smell no more (was so bad my fingers smelled after just holding it).

    assembled, feels great. I think the action is a bit better than before. maybe look into lubing the space bar a bit, feels kinda off when I hit it off center.

    the zillion lighting modes, dios mio, took a year and a half to find a non-flashing state, I'll leave it be.

    now need to find a single low-profile key to replace the busted super key, remapping it for the time (ctrl is on caps, so remapped super to ctrl).

  • gunked up keyboard

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  • what do I do with the thing, apply and wipe, scrub, dunk?

  • gunked up keyboard

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  • not worrying about frying, more like loose gunk and water and stuff can get in the key and disrupt its operation. some dude suggested an alcohol "bath", don't know if they meant submerging the whole thing or just goint to town with spraying and scrubbing.

  • How trustworthy is Hostinger?

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  • no idea about that but I was forced to use them for a short while and shan't be returning. there were issues with the deployment UI, support sucked, they wanted us to prepay for like a year and I believe they were using an inferior virtualization stack (at the time at least) can't remember details. the prices weren't good, at all, so unless something changed in the last year or two, keep looking.

  • gunked up keyboard

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  • holup... "bath"? like, submerge the whole keyboard? or just wet it and scrub, with brushes and such?

  • gunked up keyboard

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  • yes, the caps and the case, not on the keys, don't want something to seep into them

  • Random thought: is there any way to get the right to encryption established for good in the EU, so that ChatControl doesn't get brought up every 6 months?

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  • I mean, my view is just precluding them from being in a position to pull this crap in the first place. what are they gonna do, order wireguard or tor or omemo or i2p or whatever? cool, order away, that's not how this works.

    the more you tighten your grip, the more chats will slip through your fingers.

  • I Made a Mechanical Laptop

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  • dicking around with designing a complex USB hub when you have cheap stuff in the $10 region that can easily be shucked outta its shell and used is overkill.

    the stuff with the antennas being stuck to the alu chassis sounds off to me, but I don't know enough to be sure. first off, I doubt that just sticking the antennas to the shell makes the shell work as one. second, the alu enclosure should limt the radiation from the antennas, no?

    but major props to the author, I don't care that he'll potentially monetize such a cool project. what I'd much rather see would be using discarded tech, instead of spending gazillions on everything new and custom made.

    like, for the longest time I wanted to stick a modern-ish board from a T14 or sumsuch in the shell of an old pre-unibody macbook. tons of room in there and a buncha stuff is USB (webcam, keyboard, touchpad) thus easily reused.

  • Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living

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  • I have the deepest sympathy for people with disabilities and I can't begin to imagine what life's like for folks who ain't got what I take for granted.

    having said that, the reality is there is no lusciously funded corporation or collective doing development with paid focus groups and well paid Q&A teams working hard and dilligent with extensive (and expensive) testing so that all "i"s are dotted, "t"s are crossed, etc. etc. the meager funds, if there are any, are better spent on infra and dev efforts.

    therefore, changes have to be forced on users in order to test and fix em in vivo and advance the platform and it's def a "build a plane while flying it" type of deal. there's immense pushback for every new tech forced on users - systemd, pipewire, wayland, etc. - ignoring the reality of the landscape. yes, full feature parity is absent, but it will never be achieved without this premise.

    a way around it is to not be on a bleeding-edge distro, like Fedora and friends; what the author dreads ("waylands is coming!") I'm running since Fedora 35 (we're on 42 atm).

    nobody is forcing you off bookworm and xfce and whatever, and you can rock that for the next decade if you choose so, without any significant issues.