I am a right muppet. I recommended e/OS a few days ago.

heres me old 12 year old Samsung S4.

Its got the e/OS, recovery-e-2.2-r-20240719418592-dev-jfltexx running with android 11

Those were that days. 16gb with 2gb ram, a fucking powerhouse, and more importantly, no fucking ai shit

I should say its my kitchen timer.

No more udates.

Working like a charm, battery last a week.

looks like I wont be using anymore of e/OS roms.

Half my family have e/OS installed.

I will be busy removing e/OS, and that ai shit with it, over the next few days.

Hey Zerush

Safety first

that sounds like hell to me.

If that ever happened, I for certain would stop using the internet, cancel my broadband subscription, buy a dumb phone and act like a dim wit, who hasnt got a clue.

You forgot about a compulsory little placard proclaiming the wonders of our political leader.

Something like;

I love The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP.

Now that is a muppet if I ever saw one.

It could be a trumpian version of course for USA residenst.

I love Big Don

your a star ScoffingLizard

keep at it

We could send in the passports of our entire family by post.

With the names and adresses of our children’s school’s and school teachers.

you could then contact the teachers directly to confirm that the children are of age.

Then, Go online and spread the “we have nothing to hide”, “we must protect our children” mantra.

yep! thats sounds about right, for a one eyed, single celled mollusc, living under a nuclear radiated rock.

LOL!

To the legislators of Mississippi.

one of my favourite songs: Tough shit wilson by Splodgenessabounds. great band

Tough shit was born in Mississippi (orignially Tennessee*) He was deaf and dumb, he measured 4 foot 3 He had one arm, one leg, no teeth, and one plum He married a girl in 62, she was a 60 year old leper, called Mary Lou But she died of cancer on her anniversary

[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson Toughshit, thoughshit was his name Toughshit was left with a baby son, who died on leukemia, at the age of one And toughshit was left with his guide doggy called roach Till one day crossing with his dog on a wee doach But roach didn’t see the coach approach And the wheels rolled gently over toughshits head

I think a doach is a railway track, but Im not sure, its scottish. Who the fuck can understand those bastards.

[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson And toughshit was his name They call him toughshit And toughshit was his claim to fame At tough shits funeral, no one came The vicar was late and it poured with rain They dropped the coffin down a flight of stairs But let us not forget toughshits pain And perhaps he never died in vein but when it comes to that Who fucking cares, not me I don’t See upcoming rock shows Get tickets for your favorite artists

I must say you guys in the USA do have a hard time with your shit carriers.

I would never root any phone, there really is no need. I have bricked many rooted phones and it is totally unsafe and insecure. I think its the equivalent of using windows XP.

Here is a guide; It might give you an idea. Its quite a simple process to follow.

https://droidwin.com/unlock-bootloader-and-root-samsung-galaxy-s25-plus-ultra/

the “Unlock Bootloader on Samsung Galaxy S25/Plus/Ultra” section.

A lovely anagram

Mike Bad Enoch

I knew there was an Enoch in there somewhere

Hey ScoffingLizard

I am always the sceptic, but I have read that the monocles browser uses the monocles webview.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.monocles.browser/

It says here: In the defaults, the monocles browser uses the monocles webview

here it is more in depth:

basically they are saying that unless you are using an up to date custom rom, currently android 15 on my lineage phone, there maybe security issues with webview

https://docs.monocles.eu/apps/browser.app/

Limitations and Known Issues#

Security Issues#

As monocles Browser is based upon the WebView component, it is dependant of the underlying Android ROM and it’s updates.#

We thus recommend to use the latest available Version of Android for your device and - if necessary - upgrade to an aftermarket ROM like:

DivestOS

/e/

LineageOS

If a device has no modern firmware updates anymore and Aftermarket - Firmware is just not available, then please consider a different Browser like Fennec, which is privacy-enhanced version of Firefox for Android nee Firefox Mobile or Tor Browser which you can also get via F-Droid by adding or enabling the Guardian Project repository.

Of course she will, said the right wing tory muppet supporting newspaper, stirring up hatred and division.

It will be in the daily mail in a few days, to keep the anger and hatred fresh in people’s minds.

The telegraph is now owned by some american hustle company Redbird.

In May this year, RedBird Capital, an investment management firm, bought the stake owned by Emirati royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Sultan al-Nahyan who had bankrolled an earlier bid.

RedBird Capital owns AC Milan.

Top quality meaningless reporting.

My bank alone has closed 99 of its high street branches this year.

I used to do a 2 minute walk to my local bank, then they started closing them further and further afield, until I now have to drive 20 minutes to my bank.

I am predominantly a cash man.

I dont buy anything online from any of the big names like Amazon etc. I search around until I find what I want in a store that I can drive to.

To be honest I would rather spend an hour driving to a store, and pay the extra money on petrol, than pay poxy rip off delivery charges and waste my valuable time waiting in for the wankers.

I also avoid all banking apps like the plague, in fact all apps that are recommended by any store staff. not that I can install them on lineage phone anyway.

I can only login into my online bank via VPN if I am using French server. I dont know how long that will last. I refuse to allow my ISP access to my online habits.

I am gutted that the UK government closed down all our bitcoin ATM’s. This was the first warning sign something was going to change. Take away our freedoms yet again

At least when bitcoin was cheaper a few years ago, I could spend some money out of my state pension, buy £20 worth and save for the future.

I would be a zillionaire by now Rodney! LOL

But this ultimately leads us into the government crypto currency (Central bank digital currency) when we will all be fucked, because they will control everything.

I recently changed my gas and electricy supplier because they would not let me pay online while I had my VPN on, even if I was using a UK based server. wankers, didnt want my money, so I dumped them. My new provider is better and I can pay anywhere in the world.

All they want is everyone to have a fucking smart meter installed, so they can rip us off and charge extra for using gas and electricity in the early evening peak period, when we are cooking for our families, and bathing our children. Wankers!

FOSS browser, FREE browser, Privacy browser and monocles browser are all pretty similar to me.

For basic browsing I am sure they are all OK.

monocles browser will switch to a custom WebView called Privacy Webview.

https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-android/core-privacy-principles/

I use the monocles browser (rebranding of Privacy browser) for quick searches with javascript and cookies turned off as default.

For instance, if I am searching git for something and I see what I want, I enable javascript with the button, to see the latest releases and download sections.

I like the turn on javascript button. and the selection of EasyList , easy privacy, fanboys annoyances list, Ultra list and Ultra privacy list for adblocking and tracking.

From what I remember they all have the Delete browser data on exit. Monocles Browser makes it easier to “clear and exit” for me.

To clear, history, cookies etc. The “CLEAR AND EXIT” button is at the top of the left side drop down menu, so it is easier to find. unlike the others where it is at the bottom of the drop down menu.

I suppose its all about choice and personal preference.

https://codeberg.org/monocles/monocles_browser

Hey utopiah

It does seem pointless to me that people get hung up on browser loading speeds.

Its like that old Bruce lee quote from Enter the Dragon:

Don’t Concentrate On The Finger Or You Will Miss All That Heavenly Glory.

hey Hexarei

I know, a fatal error on my part

pedantic is OK

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.

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.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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.

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/i-speed-tested-11-browsers-and-the-fastest-might-surprise-you/

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

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.

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.

My niece, same age. no problems so far

I installed linux mint xfce on an old laptop for her.

we set it up together and she loves it. Themes icons and all that jazz.

I have hidden and removed items from the start menu. Just to keep it simple.

I also set up some aliases so she just has to open a terminal and type “update”. she loves that. Thinks she’s a hacker now and impresses her friends.

I have set up an alias to call bleachbit, so she just types “cleanup” in the terminal, types her password, and she can watch bleachbit do its thing. I explained to her how important it is to keep her machine clean, like housework at home.

I must say, Kids are a nighmare for attracting viruses and malware using windows, its not the best age to suddenly be thrust into the slop of the internet.

They are young and excitable and will click on anything and everything that catches their attention without giving it a second thought.

Its a big plus not worrying about viruses and malware on linux.

To stop her having free reign and accidentally seeing porn on the internet and protect her from the worst crap, I installed Mullvads DNS on linux and in the librewolf browser.

Mullvad have a fabulous family dns filter; https://family.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

here are the options:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

I have set the search engine to Startpage

I have also taken advantage of Ublock origin and added loads of these is the: my filters list

just a few of many to stop access to certain websites from the search pane

This one stops amazon links appearing in the startpage search

startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“.amazon.”])

startpage.##a[href=“.amazon.”]:upward(1)

This one stops ebay links appearing in the startpage search

startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“ebay.”])

startpage.##a[href=“.ebay.”]:upward(1)

I spent more time on this than anthing else;