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.

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?

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.

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.