Whatever you do, don’t buy Huawei or Honor for degoogling. I wasted a whole day trying and failing to unlock the bootloader on mine.
edit: modern Huawei phones don’t include Google services. Still nigh impossible to unlock the bootloader on them if you want a ROM without Huawei’s equivalent of Gapps.
Always did in apartments. Closing the bedroom door gives me another layer between the neighbors and street traffic. I added rubber door sweeps and seals to further dampen the noise. In a detached home, I’d leave the door open during the day but close it when I sleep for added fire safety.
I used to have a downstairs neighbor who stomped loudly and my pleas didn’t work. So I got a subwoofer and played some low-frequency white noise when I needed to drown it out. After reading your comments, I’d highly recommend this if you can’t move out yet.
They seriously need to build more apartments and condos with concrete instead of thin wood in the US. I miss my old apartment when I was in Germany. Nice sturdy concrete walls so my neighbor could blast music all day without bothering me at all.
“why dont you just google it smh”
Except for systems with very limited resources, systemd or not won’t make much of a difference in performance. A lot of tutorials on reading system logs and managing background services will assume that you are using systemd.
I’ve only ever used distros with systemd, not necessarily with intent, but because it was the default and well-supported. Probably won’t switch unless
No experience personally with Lineage or eOS on a tablet, but if you end up with a tablet that doesn’t have official support from either, I can vouch for the LeOS GSI (generic system image). Minimalist and with all pings to Google servers stripped out.
That said, updates can be hit or miss with the GSI. The gold standard is still the Pixel Tablet with GrapheneOS, no fuss with complicated install and update methods.
I could, probably with green more than red
Yes, I wouldn’t lump yellow in with either red or green
Try installing just plasma-desktop
Would love to use SimpleX too, but the plan fell apart while trying to use it with family. Surprisingly many people fail to grasp the concept of anything other than a phone number, social media profile, or email address. It fell apart among my more tech-savvy friends because we missed calls and had delayed notifications despite SimpleX eating through the battery like no other messaging app.
No doubt, SimpleX is the concept of a messaging app done right and could be better than any other. It’s just the implementation that needs work. But I’d be happy to hear if there’s any optimizations I could try and revisit it.
Some flavor of Android
One box. I might be unlucky and lose out on $1000 in that other box, but I wouldn’t be too bothered. On the other hand, if I were to grab both and get $1000, the thought of what if I took just one box and got a million dollars would gnaw at me for the rest of my life.
The decision changes dramatically if the box with less money were closer to a million though.
Don’t want to cook tonight. Clotted cream (microwave heavy cream until all the water’s gone) on raisin swirl bread and a can of soup.
Building an Android ROM is decently resource-intensive. Back when DivestOS was first discontinued, I wanted to see if there was anything I could do about rolling my own updates for my device. Decided against it once I saw how much RAM (or tradeoff being time) it would need.
Also I’m lazy and I’d probably miss security updates if I had to go through the build process as frequently as GrapheneOS updates.
rsync to my laptop, which is periodically imaged to a couple of external disks, one of which sits under a fake plant at work when not actively used.
On Debian, I install android-file-transfer, mount my phone manually with aft-mtp-mount ~/androidmount, then run rsync -a --progress '/mnt/android/Internal Shared Storage' '/path/to/backup'
If the Android folder is too much trouble, you can also run rsync -a --progress --exclude 'Android/' '/mnt/android/Internal Shared Storage' '/path/to/backup'
I use UTC+0 because I don’t like the ideas of timezones and DST.
Putting everything I need for a project in a folder with a readme at the top level:
Waking up to no headache after feeling gross yesterday due to said headache.
crouch low to the drain to minimize splashing
We chose from a list where students with earlier birth dates got to choose first. Perhaps a consequence of small school district combined with less commonly-learned language, but after the 3rd year with the same teacher, we tended to revert to our real names, just pronounced with an accent.
From what I’ve read, Xiaomi is decent, just make sure people have documented the bootloader unlocking process (often on XDA forums) for the model you are looking to buy. Granted, I’ve yet to use a Xiaomi phone myself.