vvv

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[–] vvv 7 points 1 week ago

don't forget to install gti

[–] vvv 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Comparing idioms is fun. "Great minds think alike" has an equivalent which is literally translated as "Idiots have similar thoughts". Kinda reflective of the cultures too: self congratulating vs self deprecating.

[–] vvv 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most REPLs can be closed with Ctrl+D which is the EOF character.

[–] vvv 56 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

the macos file browser, Finder, lets you set a background for a folder, move file icons around to arbitrary positions, other shenanigans. in order for this to work across systems on removable storage media and network mounts, they have this.

[–] vvv 2 points 3 weeks ago

it's mostly fixed now, after convincing fxtec to send me a new USB board, but in the time it took to do that, I've moved on to a flippy razr phone. for now, single handed use beats having the keyboard for me

[–] vvv 1 points 3 weeks ago

for what it's worth, the screens are very easy to replace and readily available on AliExpress ( search for elephone u screen replacement )

[–] vvv 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I loved mine while it worked and it's quite tragic that we're unlikely to see another one. f(x)tec, the company, doesn't have a great record.

[–] vvv 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

check out https://sandstorm.org/ , the project is pretty dead but they had the right idea

[–] vvv 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd like to see this fix the most annoying part about subtitles, timing. find transcript/any subs on the Internet and have the AI align it with the audio properly.

[–] vvv 4 points 1 month ago

I think we're closer with hardware than software. the xreal/rokid category of hmds are comfortable enough to wear all day, and I don't mind a cable running from behind my ear under a clothes layer to a phone or mini PC in my pocket. Unfortunately you still need to byo cameras to get the overlays appearing in the correct points in space, but cameras are cheap, I suspect these glasses will grow some cameras in the next couple of iterations.

[–] vvv 8 points 1 month ago

start with December 7th

[–] vvv 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's no way you're "covering up" an antenna. Frequently the antenna is the body of the car itself.

Look up the fuse box layout of the car model you're interested in to check if the communication system is on a separate fuse that you can pull without disabling anything else useful.

 

Somewhere between API resources, queue workers, repositories, clients and serializers there is a class of ... classes/modules that does the needful. Gun-to-my-head, I would call them "services" but I'm looking for a less overloaded term. Maybe capabilities? Controllers? Pick a term from the business domain? What do you call them?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by vvv to c/[email protected]
 

Hi! I'm swapping my daily android phone for the nth time today and going through my set-up "check-list". As apps are updating/installing, I thought I'd check in with the hive-mind, what are you all doing to make the process easier? Maybe you know of a way to self-host some sort of android profile server? I'll post my process + list of goals & gripes below and if you have any tips or suggestions about what I can do better, I'd love to hear them!!

Current Process

  • flash clean rom
  • walk through the setup process
  • enable developer mode + adb
  • go through default app list disabling/uninstalling crap i don't want
  • use 'fdroidcl' to install all my fdroid apps
  • adb push a gpg private key to import into OpenKeychain
  • generate a ssh keypair in Password Store, put public key on my server via ConnectBot, clone passwords repo
  • log into firefox sync
  • log into joplin
  • configure fairmail
  • configure davx
  • log in to google account
  • download play store apps I was missing
  • go through apps one by one, logging in to accounts + doing configuration
  • deal with fucking whatsapp
  • hold old phone + new phone side by side and made sure i got everything

Goals & Gripes

App Installation

fdroidcl helps a LOT here, i can have a list of my minimal required packages - password management solution, browser, and notes get installed and it solves a lot of bootstrapping problems for me. I never need to do the dance of opening chrome, downloading fdroid, giving chrome install permissions, installing fdroid, etc.

that said, it is /slow/ and obviously limited to installing apps from fdroid repositories. maybe the slowness i can solve with self-hosting an fdroid repo, but i'm still stuck with having to install a bunch of apps manually either through aurora store, or play store.

App configuration

If i could push in arbitrary app configurations i would be sooooo happy. certain apps have config export/import, like my launcher, but that's far from all of them. i've tried a number of "backup" options, like Titanium, but obviously they don't work without root and don't always work /with/ root, especially going across devices. I've vaguely considered using Appium for this but ... ehhhh.

De-googling

Okay, so I can probably solve the apk problem somehow... I can solve the contacts sync... but I really like android auto, and that's a non-starter without a system google account afaik.

Whatsapp

i've never once managed to successfully move whatsapp to another device and not lose my chat history. it starts restoring from a backup, fails, and kicks me into being logged in without any chance of a restore.

Edit: oh and if you have any suggestion that'd make me not hate re-pairing wearos watch... 🥺

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My carryonable 3d printer (blog.ofvlad.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by vvv to c/[email protected]
 

I've posted this to reddit before, but the post has gotten lost among an automod flurry. I've got some longer travel coming up and this thing has been on my mind again, so I'm looking for some suggestions!

 

An example: https://www.thenextdroid.com/topics/tutorials/root/. This Ellis Gibson person. Very good with the find/replace button.

Maybe you know of a browser extension to hide all these?

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