I got used typing “sudo service --status-all”
then got used to typing “sudo systemctl list-unit-files --type=service”
now a new one to learn “sudo nitroctl list”
looks simpler
That can only be a good thing for my gnarly arthritis fingers.
Hey TheLeadenSea
I was unware that certain banks had different ways to access bank accounts.
I’m such a dinosaur sometimes.
I did think it was as easy as my experience. but clearly not.
Thank you
Hey some_kind_of_guy
Thank you.
you are very kind, I am glad you found it funny, I do try my best.
You never know what sort of feedback you will get.
After all there are 8.5 billion different opinions in the world.
I sound like gemini or copilot. Not bad for a 69 year old.
Wow! I heard some difficult personal feedback, learning about things I did not know about myself, in the weekly process group during my psychotherapy training, but sounds like gemini or copilot, I would have said that sounds more like Projective identification
Projective identification is an unconscious phantasy in which aspects of the self or an internal object are split off and attributed to an external object.
Ironfox again.
Ironfox with uBlock Origin is far superior to Brave.
I also use monocles browser. a simple browser, I like that java and cookies are turned off and you can activate them with a button on individual sites.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.monocles.browser/
I would never ever use Brave or any chrome fork.
I’m not a fan of the Brave web browser and do not recommend it. Chromium codebase is always unsafe.
Brave talks up how privacy and security focused they totally are, and it’s mostly hot air for their user base of infosec mall ninjas.
Brave blocked ads, then they replaced the ads with their own ads. Brave set up a weird cryptocurrency scam, the BAT token. Brave hijacked affiliate links. I do not consider Brave a trustworthy organisation.
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my browser is faster than your browser, fantasy penis envy,
and not cubensis penis envy.
why are people so fixated on browser speeds,
A millisecond is imperceptable to the human eye.
can you type faster on an android keyboard than the page loads. NO!
Its all BS, how do you deternmine that one browser is faster than another.
From slowest to fastest, the results were as follows:
Zen Browser: 2.20 seconds
LibreWolf: 2.16 seconds
Chromium: 1.95 seconds
Firefox: 1.93 seconds
Arc: 1.81 seconds
Microsoft Edge: 1.31 seconds
Safari: 1.29 seconds
Thorium: 1.23 seconds
Brave: 1.17 seconds
Opera: .81 seconds
Chrome: .70 seconds
This is also my worry.
But it is also about taking personal responsibility for our privacy.
Its like having your home continually burgled, while you continue to refuse to install new locks.
So you install a ring doorbell instead, Amazon will keep you safe!
Again this is not taking personal responsibilty for our privacy and safety, but relying on big tech’s surveillance answer.
The incessant belief that you must use an app for convenience, is beyond me.
We have our bank cards and cash to buy stuff from stores. Personally I go to the bank each week and get enough cash to last the week. pay everything cash.
I pay all my bills online, use my bank, manage my direct debits, transfer money to my kids, all online with my linux laptop, Librewolf and a vpn. Takes 30 seconds to login.
I do not need to authorise my login with an app. I told my bank I do not have a smart phone.
I could use Ente Auth or KeepassXc on my desktop for 2FA. no phone required.
Plus being an old git, I dont have to piss about with a tiny phone screen and keyboard with my gnarly fingers.
I absolutely refuse all offers of apps.
When asked by check-out staff if I have the app, or, do I want their app.
I say: I dont do apps! I do not give up my privacy or share my personal data.
As Mat says. I too worry about the future of custom roms. I managed to get all my family on custom roms.
It is a great shame that Mozilla gave up on the Firefox OS phone. Great little phone.
Hey ScoffingLizard
Depending on your phone model you can install a custom rom, it is much easier than messing around with disabling google services.
No need to root your phone. I have bricked many phones because I went the root route.
here are the device lists ands install guides
if you dont want to use any google services use lineage
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
If you want to still keep some google apps use E/os. It uses MicroG.
https://doc.e.foundation/devices
For installing on Samsung phones I use:
Heimdall-grimler-git
Hey ScoffingLizard
I think it is already here:
The anti-immigrant right wing fascists have been out in force in my area.
They have been having get togethers in my local high street. Big muscles, shaven heads, tattoos, anabolic steroid body building users, standing with their legs apart to intimidate those walking past them, wankers. They have serious male identity issues.
I went out for a drive this morning down to my local river for a long walk.
All the mini roundabouts in my local area, there are about 10 of them on the way to the river, have been painted red with the George Cross.
I remember the skinheads from the Mid 70’s. Gangs of short haired boys, with Doc marten boots and Ben Sherman shirts, travelling around in cars, beating up anyone with a black or brown skin.
I knew quite a few of them and I always thought they were wankers, Absolutely useless on a “one on one” fist fight, but in gang they would attack any single male. Brave bastards they were.
The most frustrating thing of all is that they considered themselves pure bloods. Pure blood english. There is no such thing. simple minded wankers.
They have not even thought about our history, with everyone in Europe invading and occupying us at one time or other. The Romans, The Vikings, The Normans, the Jutes and Anglo-Saxons etc etc, they were not english. Pure bloods they say.
This Reminds me of your ICE teams over there.
You can see the similarities in Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Each state is self-supporting and self-enclosed: emigration and immigration are forbidden, as are international trade and the learning of foreign languages
Sounds familiar doesnt it.
Hey Zerush
I feel so much better now.
With the existential inevitability of death just round the corner.
I needed a good laugh this morning.
Thank you
I know Schwim Dandy
I made a right pigs ear of that post.
still I am a new user so I will take that as a lesson
Thank you glimse
I Know. Lame duck.
I completely messed up my post. I got severely distracted ranting on and on.
Thats the main trouble with getting old.
Forgetting starts slowly, then all of a sudden you are rushed to hospital unable to remember your name.
I was talking about haventgotsacluetube (youtube) and not boatracecrook.
I do hope people will see through my obvious error
I have done this on a few friends phones who cannot afford a new phone, and or, their phone is not supported by lineage, E/os or any other AOSP custom roms.
I install Lawnchair which is not available on F-Droid unless you add the IzzyOnDroid repo. .
I use droid-ify or neostore, both make it easier to add repo’s and include lawnchair.
for the debloat:
Adb is the way to go here:
A lot of the google stuff can be removed, the caveat is that google play services and google play store cannot and should not be removed.
you can safely remove: Gmail, Google One, Google Wallet, Google Podcasts, Google News, Google Hangouts, Google AR Core Library, Google Docs, Google Play Movies, Google Music, Google Android Auto, Google Maps, google Chrome as well as facebook. youtube, amazon, ebay, netflix, linkedin, etc,
as well as all the other surveillance, data harvesting bloatware:
com.amazon.appmanager: com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping: com.booking com.ebay.carrier: com.ebay.mobile: com.facebook.appmanager : com.facebook.katana:c om.facebook.services: com.facebook.system: com.linkedin.android: com.netflix.mediaclient: com.opera.browser: com.opera.preinstall: com.spotify.music
A complete list here:
[GUIDE] Remove Google Play Services from Android without root via adb shell (more privacy for your malware phone)
To enable ADB:
https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/
Be careful
For me.
This is how we all give Boatracecrook the cold shoulder and leave. The more people they block the better.
Boat race, is cockney rhyming slang for face.
At the very minimum, to protect future generations and our grand children and their children from; the banal, brainless, brain dead, manipulative surveillance.
I have never used Boatracecrook.
I must admit that as a new user on Lemmy, I do take umbrage at all the links to Boatracecrook videos that people feel they need to share and promote.
I trust people to watch the video and give a short written description, not add a poxy link in the avatar image.
I have got caught out more than once clicking on an user supplied avatar and I have been taken to poxy Boatracecrook.
To be honest, I was under the impression that lemmy was different and did not engage in the anti-human practices of Boatracecrook.
I cannot understand why anyone watching a Boatracecrook video, then suddenly decides to add a link for Lemmy users.
Then manipulatively hides the link in the avatar of the post, when the link could be added to the main text body for all to see, and give people a choice if they click on it.
I can only assume this is about self promotion and not about supporting the Lemmy community.
Hey SteveTech
I dont use internal or external SSD’s.
It maybe because I am an old greybeard, but I prefer to suffer the slight loss in speed of a HDD, so I can dd/erase/wipe them and reuse them again and again.
Though I have been using “disktest” to erase SSD’s and HDD’s recently and it has been working great. Much faster than zeroing with dd /dev/zero, shred or wipe.
https://crates.io/crates/disktest
https://github.com/mbuesch/disktest
However, I digress, I had not heard of f2fs before.
Ive been having an intersting read online.
It appears that it is a default for android phones.
I do have a few SSD’s laying around from when I replace them with HDD’s. So I will test f2fs on one of those.
Thank you
Hey ScoffingLizard
Airstrip One was the name of Britain in George Orwell’s book 1984.
Airstrip One is a part of Oceania.
In 1984, Oceania formed after the United States merged with the British Empire.
Its just my way of saying that my country is heading deeper into totalitarianism and fascism.
CCTV, facial recognition, the militarism of our police, police powers to kill people without facing criminal charge, the constant monitoring of its people, the uncontrolled power of big tech, big pharma, big agro and the rich. To me anyway, seems to indicate we are on the road to totalitarianism and fascism.
Hi vimmiewimmie
My friend travels to the USA fairly often. or used to.
Before she goes, she has an old laptop that she rarely uses. I wipe the drive and re-install her favourite linux distro and do a basic set up. She has a laptop with a newly installed linux going through customs with no password. nothing to see here.
She has a spare Oneplus 6, especially for the USA, with Lineage on it, with no social media or any signed in apps. It is factory reset before she goes again with no password. she also takes usb drive with a distro already on it.
When she gets settled in the USA, she connects to wifi and installs the apps she needs. VPN, messenger etc, and emails me.
Between us we set up Signal messenger / molly. She installs it on her phone, I use her phone number from home and I send her the code/details via encrypted email.
once she is set up she only uses Signal to phone her friends, no open line calls or text messages, she only uses Signal’s camera to take any photos, so they are not stored on the phone.
she has nothing to hide, she is not a criminal, its just that we value privacy and confidentiality.
anything that she needs, she messages me and I send it to her via signal.
When she leaves the USA, she resets her phone. I have taught her how to erase her drive with the USB using dd and re-install linux from there.
She has decided that she will not go to the USA after the recent nightmares for foreign travellers.
Hey pitiable_sandwich540
Thank you
I dont know why I have been so focussed and stuck on exFAT for all these years.
It must have been something I read somewhere that led me to it.
from all the decent feedback i have gotten on here, ext4 seems the best way to go.
I should have known this being a linux user for over 20 years.
Hey IanTwenty
Thank you
ext4 seems the way to go for me
Thank you Eideen
I have never used any back up programs, Maybe I should consider it.
Both Borg and Pike-backup are in the offical repos (extra).
I shall check them out
Thank you nyan
I will look into the dmask and fmask mount options.
Definitely a no! in regards to attaching my drives to any windows machine.
The last windows machine I turned on was a Windows 95 machine when they first came out.
I thank god, That I wouldnt even know how to turn on a windows 10 or 11 surveillance machine.
hey Hexarei
I know, a fatal error on my part
pedantic is OK