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ladfrombrad

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not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, but not my own. That sucks.

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I keep pondering why Android has blobs for CIFS/SMB but not NFS, too.

Still haven't found a legit reason why.

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Yeah no doubt, and that's why I like Tailscale.

I just map all users Tailnet visitors to guest, and give me r/w and all others r/o.

Bugs me though that they could include it, with big red flashy warnings like you get enabling USB debugging.

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https://www.android-x86.org/

ninja edit: Hell, even a Chromebook will see you right with some of your other complaints in this thread about Taskbars etc. Unless of course you're averse to anything Corp / they spying on you in which case you're fucked anyhoo.

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Found it and mod abused it, also called Feature In Community I think?

Anyhoo, expect moar Help Turtles ;)

Where should I post a piracy guide?

I've written a guide about how to pirate fonts from a particular subscription service. I'm not sure where I should post it so it can be of help to anyone who is interested. I don't think the mods would be happy if I posted it here, because it might be too much of a liability for the instance if the company behind "particular...

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You could call them a literal gem eh?

.....I'll see myself out

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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Ultimately VPN users aren't a protected class so it's legal to discriminate.

This is what I've always found fascinating about companies and governments trying to block their usage.

All major firms/companies/governments use them, so, how the hell are they gonna stop them when their bosses get poked that's something's up 🙉

Fun times ahoy.

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how much they must value our personal data, that it only just now became worthwile to fight blockers with this much effort and PR/image depreciation.

You got it, on the nose.

Shadow boxing is always good practice.

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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It's an analogy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowboxing

Preparing to fight beforehand.

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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my comment meant I was preparing to fight.

You're not.

Google are thou hence the shadowboxing reference.

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How long has Google been killing things now?

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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Because generally the TSA in Yankland are overly aggressive, but to be fair it can happen anywhere and here in the UK if they snag you into the backroom and want to search your phone you're screwed either way since they, can.

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We're talking about Nintendo here, and we all remember Sony taking away things that made things better too, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

ladfrombrad OP Mod ,
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Seems a bit dubious doesn't it, especially since they'd be compromising any investigation by Tweeting about it in the first place.

:thinking_gif:

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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I'm unsure if there's something on Lemmy for that, but it's definitely something that helps the community since most mod actions I recall are poking people in the right direction like PAAFM.

Awesome team and community over there, and there is the old wiki pages too 🤔

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Yeah I'm unsure of the scheduling of posts on Lemmy, and I know @coles is looking into some form of Automod here on lemdro.id.

Let me poke a few more others ;)

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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Yeah! I've been working far too hard and meant to get back to you, and the main admin has had a IRL issue so I can't nag them right now and they also mentioned they need to update the instance?

You had a gander through the docs/GitHub to see if an existing thing lives for scheduled posts and could be even hosted by a numbnuts here on a spare Pi etc?

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So, I just had a gander myself and this is pretty involved

https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule

Maybe there's some existing thing I'm missing but it would be cool :/

ladfrombrad Mod , (edited )
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Are you seriously touting a title like that as legit?

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Removed under Rule 1, nothing to do with Android and also flagged for excessive self promotion

Please Recommend An Alternative To Solid Explorer

I use Solid Explorer a lot. I use it mostly to transfer files from my phone to my Samba network storage. However, in the past couple days, this has randomly stopped working for Solid Explorer and I can no longer connect to my NAS as a guest. I've confirmed that it's a Solid Explorer problem by connecting with Material Files and...

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Can confirm, I've used it for years and checking their XDA thread from 2011 states that it still supports Froyo? Amazing

https://xdaforums.com/t/app-2-2-mixplorer-v6-x-released-fully-featured-file-manager.1523691/

https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/7575b432-c67f-455a-874e-57f9ff979a27.jpeg

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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Hold on a second Mister OP, you missed the most important pros and cons.

Has an IR Blaster thank fuck, but, is missing a 3.5mm jack and SDCard.

I know these "cons" are meme complaints by now and while I've actually used Bluetooth earbuds before Android was a thing (see, jackless Sony Walkman W850....), but feel you should be including them as cons since many revel for those simple hardware bonuses we're used to from Xiaomi.

Alas :(

ladfrombrad Mod , (edited )
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It's ridiculous they don't include either and I say that as someone who doesn't actually need either, really.

But it's nice to be able to backup my DCIM folder to the SDcard and then sync that via a network share on a regular basis, especially if I hadn't got adb enabled and/or I had a smashed screen?

It also allows me to just wipe my internal storage anytime without worry because I don't record many videos and photos take up fugg all storage with a 3.2.1 backup plan.

edit: What's the point of excluding, a headphone jack too I feel is the real question.

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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You can turn auto send as MMS off in Google Messages

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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Even if my carrier tried charging me for a MMS, fools on me if they do succeed since I'm PAYG.

If they manage to fool you into paying for them? Fool on you for signing up to contracts that allow that behaviour. And the fact that you're looking for a solution to this is very "blinkered".

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A contactless card in the back of your phone case?

Note - The above answer doesn't take in where you're from since you didn't state so and I imagine there's plenty of places that can't simply do that but....even though I could?

I personally won't bring my C&P / contactless card out of the house unless necessary since it allows would-be finders instant access to withdrawals from my bank account, without any authentication required whatsoever unlike, GPay on my phone which at the very least needs my fingerprint?

It also pisses me off to be honest that my bank won't supply me with a C&P, non-contactless card like my last bank did :/

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No doubt, and there used to be an app called "all for one IR remote" or something like that that I can't find from a cursory skim.

It allowed programming of codes from your existing remotes and also the bonus of using a URI for a IR code which then meant you could fire them off with other apps.

Problem these days is the hardware that supports IR Blasters is controlled by the likes of Xiaomi, and the apps available to use said hardware is limited to in-built system apps :/

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I'd be curious how many account holders in the UK have actually been prosecuted for copyright infringement.

In nearly two decades with the same ISP (Telewest > Blueyonder > VirginMedia) I've had a grand total of two emails from them with no teeth in it, and still download what I want from public trackers to this day.

I get an actual letter from them? Yay, free toilet paper!

*typo

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See the thing is, I'm pretty sure Tasker can do that and we ain't gonna let this meme die?

Make a Tasker widget that invokes said Termux script and we have nice UI too?

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Or stop uploading screenshots altogether.

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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Don't fret.

Things like this are next year and some other intern will have a new product name to bolden their advert battalion.

The cycle never ends, and they don't click on that we ain't having it :/

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I'm lost. Why is this ruining Android?

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....deep grumbly sounds......

Problem with highly specialised and niche communities is you always run foul of having too many Help Vampires and, from my scant playing with my cheapo Chromebook and others asking about how it runs / does it play games (no, it doesn't have an accelerometer) etc I'd be cautious.

For example having c/Apple is great but when you get down to c/iOS that's when you see moar Vampires + screenshots of issues and you know my thoughts on those.....

c/askApple + c/AskPleaseSendHelpRiteNAO

: shrug :

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