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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I write scripts that I use at boot.

    Or whenever.

    Funny that some apps tell you root is needed to do some things.

    A little persistent frustration and failure can produce desired results.

    Eg. Shizuku can’t start on boot without root.

    Need to enable wireless debugging.

    I wrote a horrific script that nmaps for ports in the wireless adb range.

    Attempts to connect. If success, great. If fail. Do until yay!

    Then it restarts adb in tcpip mode with a custom port of my choosing so,its available to other apps.

    And another script to start shizuku using the shizuku script to run in terminal.

    And I put those scripts in another script and put it in the .termux/boot folder

    And ouila!

    Shizuku starts at boot and other apps that rely on wadb can use it.

    Oh, and it doesnt need a wireless connection.

    I also ssh, proxy, nmap, scan, sftp, samba, etc.





  • Vivaldi is a beast when it comes to handling memory. It has features that I’ve never found in other browsers eg. workspaces (similar to tab grouping extensions like sideberry in Firefox) . It still supports ublock. It can sync.

    It is degoogled.

    I use it on all my machines and android devices.

    Another chromium based browser that I would HIGHLY recommended is Cromite - a fork of bromite. It is also recommended by the graphene OS team.

    It’s chrome, without google. Plus a ton of security and privacy additions and options. It doesn’t have any added productivity or other features besides those.

    It doesn’t have a sync feature, but exporting is a thing.

    It is great with memory, too.

    PS. I don’t have a computer or phone with more than 8GB ram.

    (Don’t worry guys, I also use my own user.js in ff, use tor, mullvad browser, etc.)



  • Does nobody use info?

    So much more in depth than any manpage.

    Granted it doesn’t contain every app installed, but it gives very detailed and very verbose explanations, examplea, options, use cases, caveats, warnings, etc, for all of the most essential commands and functions

    $ info
    

    In the program these are basic commands :

    -I # sets searching to always case insensitive -very necessary (upper case I)
    
    / # search for pattern
    
    n # search forward
    N # search back
    

    You can also search from command line using

    Info -k [pattern]
    

  • Just set up a windows *spits rig for a family member because old. My god the insanity of it all. From untoggling shit to stop ms *spits from spying and toggling other shit to stop ms *spits from spying, and dealing with uefi settings to get it to a level of security without allowing ms *spits to lock it down cost me a full day.

    Then I had to deal with the ridiculousness that is their permission system to let them browse their own files from a different hard drive.

    I love that it also sets up the first user as a full admin and I had to create another account and lock down all the stupid crap that would allow them to destroy everything.

    Just the initial booting was longer than it would have taken me to install and fully set up the mint distro I had ready to install on my USB stick (for the use case they’d be using)

    I was going to set up a server so they could access stuff and watch free stuff on their TV with the old PC, but that will have to wait for another visit.

    Even I was astounded at the length of time it took. I was expecting stupidity but ms *spits has taken it way too far.

    (I did install without any account at all though, and did manage to get full GUI desktop environment Ubuntu running in wsl though, so that was fun - for me)











  • This is exactly how I got into Linux .

    Had some… Life troubles.

    Started over.

    Needed computer.

    Local community employment/outreach/social support place had a volunteer run computer place in the basement (they also had a bike place, and a cafe or two, and some apartments, and they were the best community org ever…).

    100$

    I bought 2 over a couple years.

    I’m pretty sure they had xubuntu.

    Over 10 years later I still have both. And I just put mint 23xfce on one and use it as my living room media player - dvi to HDMI projector.

    I have no need for a lot of stuff. I make work what I can. And I keep it working as long as I can however I can.