

I wonder what the next grift will be. Maybe big money billionaires will technofy religion.


I wonder what the next grift will be. Maybe big money billionaires will technofy religion.


Linux Phones have a few software hurdles to pass through to get usable.
The biggest problem right now is adoption and contribution to the ecosystem, but there’s a few things in the way of outright using Linux apps on a phone. One is that most Linux apps aren’t made to be verical. Some newer ones can adapt to it, but many of the apps you likely would depend on using a Linux laptop are almost unusable on a Linux phone, like… vlc, for instance.
The network stack isn’t as beaten to death for 4G and 5G as Android’s is. I work in a slightly iffy area, and on Android I’d have times where I’d lose signal, but it would always come back within 5-10 minutes or so. There’d be times on Linux when it wouldn’t until I’d missed two calls and three texts and an hour and a half had gone by because the system was choking on a comma or a misplaced semicolon it found somewhere in the background and wouldn’t reset until I forced airplane mode off and on. If I was at home, or in the city, I’d never notice this problem, but the second I hit a road trip or went to work, boy.
Also, and this is just my phone, my OP6T had iffy microphone and earpiece settings. Pulse Audio was at the forefront of this audio stack almost entirely unchanged from its appearance on gnome or kde and on a phone it’s just confusing and obtuse as to what app is using what and what even is what. If you got it right, it was fine, then the next call it wouldn’t be, or would change back, again, probably more the 6T being a 6T than anything else.
I think right now, in this interim period, I’m going to buy a hotspot that I can just slip a sim card into and tether a Linux phone to it. I can use Conversations on Waydroid and use JMP.chat to send phone calls and texts over XMPP. I did fine on my OP6T for my actual use of a phone. I was browsin’, I was textin’, I was sendin’ messages, I was doin’ terminal stuff, administratin’ my servers, readin’, listening to musicn’. It was fine. Will do some experimenting.


Which discourse is just right, Goldilocks?


The tailscale method, bake it yourself. It’s all routing-based.
If you have a remote VPS and a home wireguard server and both are connected, then you have a remote connection outside of your home network. Make it a transit router. Then you’ll have your mesh and your VPN all in one, even if it’s still just all you.
Go a step further and connect mullvad to the vps and do a little routing work.
As for what routing work specifically, I couldn’t begin to tell you. Ai and some search-engine-fu might be necessary.
Here’s a (similar) example, even if he’s doing it backwards to my suggestion:
https://superuser.com/questions/1776851/routing-wireguard-peers-traffic-via-another-peer


“WG Tunnel” on f-droid lets you define a config/native for either mobile or wifi, whichever you want.
two configs on both? It does that. A config on one and nothing on the other? It does that. It swaps whenever your phone moves from mobile to wifi or vice versa.

if neither is selected, it considers it “both”.


15 years ago a pirate decided to name the main channel on the Nintendo Wii for homebrew the “Homebrew Channel”, as it has been for 15 years.
That was my reference. If you found a hacked Wii right now and turned it on, it would be one of the channels available.


I do too. They tend to speak from the heart but the second something is inconvenient, they’re cool with relaxing their morals.


Hey, you paid for them to spy on your media, give them their money’s worth.


it’s commercial software
digital cancer


now I need to find a Wiimote, damnit


How ‘far’ left?
Which left?
The XMPP over TOR left?
The SimpleX left?
Have fun whiffing air, maga fuckwits. You can’t see us to target us.


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lmao, this isn’t the politics board.


I don’t care who killed him.
They don’t give a shit when we get shot in the street.


They’ll get away with it too, because humanity turns out to just be collective cowardice.


“Here’s your check!”
wink
“haha, rape”


Once you
Get the run/dash ability
, none of this is even a problem. You can jump and glide over any normal enemy in the game back to a boss room in about two to three minutes.


git gud


Cyberpunk 2077 grabbed ‘choom’ and threw it into their lexicon so it has a whole new group of choomies enjoying it.
We’re self-actualizing a real cyberpunk dystopia.
The encryption-scares don’t really bother me. It’s as if everyone thinks quantum computers will come of age but for some reason quantum encryption won’t equally scale up to match it?
Like, of course current encryption methods are at risk, they aren’t designed to match quantum computing and any that would, while it would be nice if it also performed on current PC’s… it wouldn’t need to in the longrun.
I do agree that the in-between time of “Oh shit, a quantum computer was invented” and “Ta-da! Encryption that chokes QC!” is a bit scary. Here’s hoping most devs take measures and precautions during the first few warning-shot hours lol.