Vanilla_PuddinFudge

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 10 points 6 hours ago

I'm an old pirate who remembers, and the thing, the raw ingredient missing in this scenario?

need

If it didn't exist, if there was no possible way to get a copy of somesuch Gundam episode whatever in english, some dude somewhere would cross the ends of the earth to get it onto the internet. Piracy is motivated entirely by utility and need, it's why music piracy atrophied into almost nothing until Soulseek arrived and streaming prices increased. Supply met demand, and it will again for fansubs.

If it's needed, someone will meet the need. We did it in 1998, we'll do it next year.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Not gonna happen. Half of the country isn't aware anything is wrong.

Hell, a good chunk of them are sold on it. Get a perspective outside of a city, or take, I dunno, North Carolina as an example.

The fuck has happened in NC since January? Nothing, and that's their experience. Same-same, yada-yada. Riot? Why?

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

expected gain

Someone on Trump's team has the worst job on earth.

Well, maybe they'll be good, oh, who am I kidding? They'll be garbage!

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 8 points 4 days ago

Metal Gear Solid 2

me, 12 years old in my room, with little awareness of 4th wall breaks:

mom! The TV is talking to ME, MOM!

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

3 was amazing too. I hate that muh ending ruined another romp with the crew for most reviewers.

It was more of 2 with QOL, and it was grand, a little emo tho.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Which discourse is just right, Goldilocks?

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Crypto's only use for me is making it universally easy to pay every tech/vpn company I deal with.

beyond that, people launder money, buy drugs and do darkweb shit with a minority of privacy folks harping privacytokens like Monero.

I'd love if Steam took BTC and people selling used items online embraced it. The grocery store? Ehhhhhhhhh. Nah.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

"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".

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 4 points 1 week ago

They're not wild berry, tho? walks off

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 2 points 1 week ago

They'd all be honored lmao

 
 

So, as everyone not under a rock knows, Android being an open and fully enjoyed experience may soon come to an end.

it may not! I don't really know. What I do know, is that regardless of the times we live in, I like to screw around with stuff, so I went on ebay and bought a Oneplus 6T to do just that.

edit: American, Tello. Unlocked International firmware

I'm using PostmarketOS on Phosh. I was using Plasma Mobile and found it functionally close to vanilla Android, just chaotically buggy and wrong.

Phosh is Librem's DE and is fairly solid, in my experience thusfar, the featureset is limited but utilitarian and it looks ok.

My scenario is simple. I want to schism my personal, federated and foss goings on off of my Android phone, leaving it a vehicle for four things, calls, messages, gps, and a hotspot and use this device as a tiny device for those personal things.

carry two phones?!

EDIT: RECORD-SCRATCH... I fixed this.

I had some terminal work to do on MMS since MMS isn't included in the GUI settings... kind-of a massive oversight. They're there on a Pinephone and a Librem 5, but not on the port of the DE the Librem 5 uses? I also noticed that I could recieve calls when in 2G-3G mode, but not 4G mode.

VOLTE

Either have your ISP disable so you can still have the 4G connection for data it if your phone doesn't support it, or fix it. I was able to get mine working, and I still have 4G mobile data. This is solved, audio problems still persist tho.

~~My situation is that I can make calls, but I can't receive them. The mobile settings are rather simple in the gui so I'll be using a terminal for all of the mms settings if I want that, but that doesn't solve my speaker crackle issues or connection problems. I had success with xmpp using dino between the protocol and jmp, but my limits with jmp.chat for those calls are more limiting than my normal isp, not that I make that many. If everyone I knew used xmpp, it would be a great phone lol.~~

I ~~allso~~ need to reliably make and recieve calls, I have a few responsibilities that make it so not getting a call could potentially be a fatal situation, so for now, at least, I can't rely on the OP6T for cellular use.

~~This is a problem with my hardware. If you want to go drop the cash on a linux phone for the full support, by all means. It may be my solution in a few years but buddy~~, this was $140 on ebay lol.

Oh and the camera works, barely, but the zoom is broken, again, likely not a problem you'd have on a retail linux phone.

So how is it as a... palmtop?

Fucking, brilliant. Firefox? Full. Wanna run a server in the background? Do it. Want Linux software? Lol, any. Vlc? Yep. Jellyfin? Yeeep. If it's a webapp, it works. Ebooks? Duh. Music? Yep. Bluetooth? You bet.

The biggest limitation youll have with software isn't finding and running it, but finding apps designed to be horizontal or have hidden tabs rather than permanent frames.

This makes thunderbird entirely unusable, as well as keepassxc. Luckily, there are a few apps for every horizontal one to find as an alternative. I found secrets for keepass and geary for email, both decent vertical clients.

There is also no separarion between your pin and your password. They are the same thing. On a laptop, this is whatever. You're used to using your password everywhere. On a phone with no fingerprint reader? I had to get clever with it and come up with something I could one-hand on a keyboard but still be a decent, memorable password.

The hardware space for these sorts of solutions has a few choices. There are some used gpd win devices out there that run Linux, but as outlandish as carrying two phones sounds, it's easier than carrying any extra laptop, micro or not.

So for that reason, I find these to be extremely capable choices for those looking for software freedom and utility, but I do not see it as a replacement for a phone. For a laptop or a cyberdeck for the sake of privacy? Absolutely.

IF you had a functional camera and network?

then... maybe? For me, if it's reliable then it's a likely yes, but as-is right now, no.

Dual boot?

This phone has A/B Separation. That doesn't stop anything... or enable anything, really. It just changes the method, but it is a bit risky since it risks bricking the phone, even from the MSM tool recovery. I would consider a Lineage/Linux split between A and B, but the issue is that while the method to get to Android is cut and dry because Linux is so lenient, the path back to the B-side where Linux exists is littered with apps that have come, gone and/or died because the next Android version keeps breaking them, so... that doesn't seem entirely reliable, either. TWRP or a compatible recovery could possibly be used to flip from side to side without having to rely on a PC to do it over fastboot.

 

So, as everyone not under a rock knows, Android being an open and fully enjoyed experience may soon come to an end.

it may not! I don't really know. What I do know, is that regardless of the times we live in, I like to screw around with stuff, so I went on ebay and bought a Oneplus 6T to do just that.

edit: American, Tello. Unlocked International firmware

I'm using PostmarketOS on Phosh. I was using Plasma Mobile and found it functionally close to vanilla Android, just chaotically buggy and wrong.

Phosh is Librem's DE and is fairly solid, in my experience thusfar, the featureset is limited but utilitarian and it looks ok.

My scenario is simple. I want to schism my personal, federated and foss goings on off of my Android phone, leaving it a vehicle for four things, calls, messages, gps, and a hotspot and use this device as a tiny device for those personal things.

carry two phones?!

My situation is that I can make calls, but I can't receive them. The mobile settings are rather simple in the gui so I'll be using a terminal for all of the mms settings if I want that, but that doesn't solve my speaker crackle issues or connection problems. I had success with xmpp using dino between the protocol and jmp, but my limits with jmp.chat for those calls are more limiting than my normal isp, not that I make that many. If everyone I knew used xmpp, it would be a great phone lol.

I also need to reliably make and recieve calls, I have a few responsibilities that make it so not getting a call could potentially be a fatal situation, so for now, at least, I can't rely on the OP6T for cellular use.

This is a problem with my hardware. If you want to go drop the cash on a linux phone for the full support, by all means. It may be my solution in a few years but buddy, this was $140 on ebay lol.

Oh and the camera works, barely, but the zoom is broken, again, likely not a problem you'd have on a retail linux phone.

So how is it as a... palmtop?

Fucking, brilliant. Firefox? Full. Wanna run a server in the background? Do it. Want Linux software? Lol, any. Vlc? Yep. Jellyfin? Yeeep. If it's a webapp, it works. Ebooks? Duh. Music? Yep. Bluetooth? You bet.

The biggest limitation youll have with software isn't finding and running it, but finding apps designed to be horizontal or have hidden tabs rather than permanent frames.

This makes thunderbird entirely unusable, as well as keepassxc. Luckily, there are a few apps for every horizontal one to find as an alternative. I found secrets for keepass and geary for email, both decent vertical clients.

There is also no separarion between your pin and your password. They are the same thing. On a laptop, this is whatever. You're used to using your password everywhere. On a phone with no fingerprint reader? I had to get clever with it and come up with something I could one-hand on a keyboard but still be a decent, memorable password.

The hardware space for these sorts of solutions has a few choices. There are some used gpd win devices out there that run Linux, but as outlandish as carrying two phones sounds, it's easier than carrying any extra laptop, micro or not.

So for that reason, I find these to be extremely capable choices for those looking for software freedom and utility, but I do not see it as a replacement for a phone. For a laptop or a cyberdeck for the sake of privacy? Absolutely.

IF you had a functional camera and network?

then... maybe? For me, if it's reliable then it's a likely yes, but as-is right now, no.

 

Learning FreeCAD, here's the results of my weekend.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Vanilla_PuddinFudge to c/music@lemmy.world
 

Prog meets New Wave

 
 

I mean, this and the reddit board are /r/selfhosted. We self-host, yet I see so much about people relying on 1.1.1.1 and Cloudflare's proxy services that they never second-guess.

I don't care about Cloudflare. My server doesn't exist to use their proxies and services when the entire point is to divide from reliance on third-parties.

I already found Anubis, I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. Are there any other useful tools or similar that you guys have been using?

 

New Vegan, here and I have a serious hole in my first two weeks into giving up genocide. I need something that fills the niche of nabs, Lance peanut butter and toast"chee" crackers.

I'm a mechanic with a strict schedule, and I will need a snack of that calibur at 7:30am mid-way through my morning workday, lest I get hunger pains, distracted by it, and a little bit pissy over the entire situation.

Chips, for me are the only thing I don't really consider any sort of solution to my hunger. I need calories so I can go-go-go. Chips are kinda hollow to me as utility goes. Nuts with some raisins would be a solid solution.

Anyway, snack thread. Preferably room temperature and camping snacks. Nuts are easily on the board, what else?

 

About half a week ago, I became self aware of my state as a piece of shit regarding the animal populations of Earth and their wellbeing. It was sparked by a video of animal abuse I saw online that I refuse to describe beyond serial-killer-level psychological torture to a poor, defenseless being.

I realize, there's a set, and a mic, and props. This ain't the first time, this has fucking followers and people will mimic it. We're this shit as a species?! Where is the bottom? Is there one?!

I generally consider myself a fairly strong willed person, and my former diet wasn't too dissimilar from dishes I could make vegan, so, I figure, why not? I saw Blue Planet 3. I know we're fucking up. I had a few holdout food items but, pizza is my favorite food, and I believe replicating it will be fun. There's apparently a few vegan roux recipes with some ways to mimic cheese flavor for mac and cheese. I'm into it.

Anyway, do share any tips with me that you wish you'd known when you started out. What's a good brownie recipe?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Vanilla_PuddinFudge to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Essentially, I'm looking for self-destructing messages. I grab a link, I send it to a family member, they read the information, it's gone after they read it, and all they need to have to interact with it is the original link to the url.

Are there any foss solutions by which to just type out a message, send a link to someone and have it be deleted after they read it?

I'm aware that Nextcloud has the ability to share links to users who don't have accounts for temporary spans of time, that's... similar, but I don't believe it can instantly disable after the first visit.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Vanilla_PuddinFudge to c/music@lemmy.world
 

Welcome to my TED talk. I'm a massive Tool and A Perfect Circle fan, going into this. I knew of Chevelle, the lovechild of Deftones and Tool with a sprinkle of Korn, but I always felt they sounded derivative, but over the last week, I've found a band far deeper than a song about someone who gets angry.

Nobody sounds like Pete Loeffler, and for some of you, that is likely a decently splitting opinion. He strains more than Maynard, but more for effect than difficulty, but he slurs out of feeling like Chino while having really clean fries, but he never goes 200% into a guteral scream like you'd hear in some Deftones tracks that are more on the hardcore side.

There's some Far, and Hum in this band and it almost sounds like a midwest emo band stopped their act entirely and moved to alternative rock one day, but kept some of the stringing, tightly worded lyrics and rhythms.

It's 2000's radio rock, but can that be done well? Well, yeah. I don't know that I would call Chevelle pop, per se, but for some odd reason, they can fit between a Britney Spears song and a Slipknot track and work. Any time feels like an ok time to hear a Chevelle track. Dude speeding from the cops? "Young Wicked". School Prom? "Shameful Metaphors". "Antisaint" could be played by any local band at a bar... sans the bridge because goddamn that bridge.

Their changes are subtle between albums, but at the same time, more distinct as time goes along. I think this is more due to losing the chains of being huge and having more artistic freedom in their later years. I'd like to vote that Sci-Fi Crimes is my favorite Chevelle album. There is not one bad track along the entire length, and in my opinion, is one of the greatest alternative rock albums of its era.

Melodic, heavy but aimed perfectly like a paintbrush and their lyrics are waaay deeper than most numetal or alt bands. Aliens, curses, love, family drama, drug abuse, politics, religion, and some is very clever.

Anyhoo, let an underdog of the 2000's have another listen. I love Chevelle. Great band with good integrity and it seems like a good dose of humility.

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