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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • A big thanks for doing all that research!

    I had kind of a fix for the flashlight, but this is much better. KeyMapper is really polished, the icon doesn’t do it justice (I’m superficial like that).
    I could customize the press duration, vibration, all good stuff. Only thing missing is a timeout.
    I did have a bit of a weird behavior, with actions sometimes launched during button press and sometimes only after release. It seems to be fixed for now. For other users: I did grant root to the app but don’t know if it was required for this function.

    Traffic Light is again a well made app, but it updates too often and I don’t like persistent app notification in the drop down window. I’ll give it a try though.


  • On Graphene now, I dearly miss simple Lineage features I used 10 times a day: the network speed indicator and long press power button for flashlight. I just assumed GOS would have them.

    I browsed the forums and they’re not interested in implementing it. One answer was “buy a flashlight”

    Even after a few months I still feel like going back.










  • I rarely listen to a whole album nowadays.
    Pretty much since streaming music has been made easy I’ve seen people make playlists of thousands of artists. I don’t see how you can easily achieve this by pirating or buying the albums.
    Making playlists on youtube I guess, but it’s not nearly as polished an experience.
    There was Spotube that did a very commandable job at making a Spotify-like UI for that, but it was still way jankier than using the real thing. And it stopped working (might be back up)

    I’m not trying to be a contrarian, but I see comments saying there are good alternatives all the time and I have yet to find one



  • No advantages privacy-wise, but it’s like a seedbox! I keep the torrent client running. Also I’m on a limited mobile data plan on my router at home, so this helps.

    When I found out you could get a free 200GB VPS (look up free tier vps) - and because I had another paid VPS already anyway - I decided to make a seedbox. It’s not a ton of storage but it works really well, very happy with it.


  • Both comments are me. Configuring Tailscale (or Headscale?) is on my to-do.

    To be clear, connecting to the VPS is not what I use for the anonymizing part, it’s the gluetun container that connects to ProtonVPN servers. This way I can still access my VPS with its real IP. Not sure if there was a confusion there.

    Simply using my VPS as relay would still attach my browsing to a single IP I’m the sole user of… or not? I do not know how that works.



  • ProtonVPN has started to become blocked on tons of websites. I have to switch servers all the time, to the point I won’t be able to keep a VPN connection up like I used to.

    I’ve read Mullvad has worsened as well. There seems to be a general ban on VPN use (there was always some of course)

    My last hope: non profits who offer VPN. They keep logs, don’t allow torrenting, and require a real name to subscribe. Very few server choices, if any.

    I’m… fine with that. I just want privacy. No surveillance. And I trust the non profit. Plus I torrent on a VPS anyway

    What I would like to see are local VPNs, with a small enough pool of users on each server to not get flagged. A rotation between servers from time to time. Compliant with the law of course (as long as the law doesn’t require total surveillance, evidently). The goal is to hide everyone’s activity from the providers and websites (yes, I know, fingerprinting)

    But maybe there’s some other existing tool/service I’m not aware of?