user224

joined 2 years ago
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

Not sure if "good" is the right word, but at least cool.

Torrenting, high speed mobile data modem (especially with manual selection of frequency bands on MediaTek), local OpenSpeedTest server (available as app), WiFi analyzer (most used channels), VNC client, the slowest x86 emulation in Qemu-based Limbo PC emulator, SDR receiver software (SDR++, SDRAngel, Welle.io, dump1090, SatDump), RTL-TCP server, SSTV decoder and encoder, HTTP proxy server, Kiwix server, NGINX web server/proxy, Navidrome server, Cloudflare proxy client, SSH server, VNC server (only for Termux's desktop), satellite tracker, Mifare Magic NFC card programmer (MCT), audio spectrum analyzer, serial terminal.

I wanted to attach screenshots, but realized it's way too much stuff.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you are also white, not only will you be granted entry, you'll also immediately get citizenship.

 

TTL

The default TTL for Android is 64. Default for Linux is 64. Default for Windows is 128.

When a packet passes through the router, its TTL is decreased by 1. So a packet from your phone will have TTL of 64, while one from device on hotspot will get decremented to 63 when passing your phone, acting as a router.

Unless it starts with 65, then gets decremented to 64, the same as with your phone directly.

On Linux you can temporarily change this with

sysctl net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl=65

as root.

If the carrier just checks the TTL, congrats.

I haven't played around with IPv6 hop limit.

HTTP proxy

If that doesn't work, you can try to proxy traffic through the phone. I like to use Tinyproxy in Termux.
The config is pretty simple, and also supports (unencrypted) authentication with username and password.

Another option is an all in one app like TetherFi. It creates WiFi Direct group (without direct internet access), and has a built-in HTTP proxy.

Both ways allow also using your phone's VPN.

The HTTP proxy can be easily configured in Firefox, for example. For Android, there is a pretty cool app called NekoBox which is a proxy client for many different protocols. It uses the VPN interface to pass everything through the proxy, thus giving you full device connectivity on the other device.

TinyProxy: https://tinyproxy.github.io/ (can simply be apt installed in Termux)

Termux: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/ (terminal emulator for Android)

TetherFi: https://github.com/pyamsoft/tetherfi

NekoBox: https://github.com/MatsuriDayo/NekoBoxForAndroid

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Slovakia

Notify my employer that I won't show up, go to doctor and wait in the waiting room. When the nurse shows up, give her the insurance card and wait for your turn. They'll check you, and if it's nothing special (requiring a specialist), you'll probably get prescription for some meds to pick up.
Then you get those in a pharmacy. Either it's electronic, or if the system is once again broken, you hand them the Rx paper that the Dr. gives you in that case. And then you figure out what you're about to pay. A lot of things will be fully covered by insurance, but potentially you'll have to copay. There's also a chance the Dr. tells you to get something that isn't covered, like some specific eyedrops, cough meds, probiotics (if you have antibiotics for example), etc.

The pharmacist may recommend a cheaper alternative, will likely tell you recommended dosage, tell you that once again this specific Dr. prescribed something that hasn't been manufactured for the past 30 years, and in the rare case, tell you the prescription seems dangerous and to contact the Dr.
And also decrypt any handwriting/encoding.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

wait until it’s below 20%

Not quite the same. No reason to discharge it before topping it up. If you do want to top up from 70% to 80&, that's not a problem for the battery, just perhaps the charging connector if you do that a lot.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I had luck with VNC, although it's still worse than RDP. There's also some RDP implementations on Linux that are apparently better, but VNC works well enough for me.
But there's no sound, I don't know if RDP has that. I've used VLC for sound forwarding. I also tried PulseAudio TCP module, but that didn't quite work. With VLC I can do lossy compression.

What I wish would work better is X11 forwarding. That could be so awesome, just having the remote windows local-like. But from what I can find, in the past, programs used X11's drawing features which would save a lot of bandwidth, while now they just draw pixel by pixel.

To give you some idea, I've tried it on LAN with gigabit ethernet, ping below 1ms. It would saturate the port and still be kinda slow.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

I also found it OK-ish, at least after my usual disabling of BITS and SuperFetch (SysMain now, I think), and disabling auto-updates, I think in gpedit.msc, and using the provided BypassNRO.cmd to create local account.

Alright, maybe not that OK, but after the initial setup it ran fine even on officially unsupported computer made in 2007. Just had to modify the installer by merging W11 image into W10 installer.

Anyway, the Windows store or whatever isn't that used, and I got tired of updating every random program coming from .exe files. But similarly I don't like the large hops in versions like Windows 10 -> 11, or similarly with Linux Mint, so I went with Arch.

Anyway, I'll be a smaller minority. I most liked Windows 8.1. It was really well optimized.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

~~^test^~~

Eh.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

I think this could rather be related to power saving if the screen is locked.

I prefer to use a dedicated internet radio app. VLC also works if you obtain the direct stream (check online or play around with element inspector).

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Voyager

Have you replied to the wrong person?

If you were replying to me, the WebUI is best optimized for landscape use, and I don't like using my phone in portrait mode much, especially if I want to type.
Plus I get tabs. The Android multitasking is unreliable, and switching is inconvenient. There's no desktop-like panel, and background apps often die if more of them are open at once.
Lastly, embeds. Apps usually only work with images with regular URL, the WebUI works with Images, Video, Audio also in base64 data tag for tiny images, and images can be made into buttons.

Let me give you examples:

This is the Bulgarian Radio 1 stream:
Probably broken in most Lemmy apps.

And here's a button, but in base64 so it's directly in the comment, since it is pretty small:
Probably also broken in some apps.

These are edge cases, but an advantage too. If I wasn't lazy, I could use animated bullets and lines like on the old web, but in Lemmy comments.

Welcome to this example comment

Make sure to:

Have fun
Use Linux
placeholder_text

bottom_text

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Firefox on Android was a bit of pain for desktop sites. First the tabs on top were missing, and until recently, the scaling was screwed up compared to Opera/Chrome.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago

Me spraying everything with LMG and extended mags:

My teammates: 💀

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Quite ironic to read this during the war in Ukraine. /j

What's the connection between the two?

 
 

Better photo available here: https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/ukraine-begins-treating-soldier-scarred-with-glory-to-russia-phrase-from-russian-captivity-50522497.html

The words, written in Russian, were branded into the right side of the body alongside the letter "Z," a symbol of the full-scale invasion that many Ukrainians and critics of the war liken to the Nazi swastika.

According to the United Nations, more than 95% of freed Ukrainian POWs have said they were tortured during their captivity. Survivors have recounted harrowing treatment, including being brutally beaten, electrocuted, and forced to endure painful stress positions.
Many have faced mock executions, threats of rape or death, and were denied basic medical care. Some were left without food, locked in isolation for weeks, or permanently marked with burns or scars.

For Turkevych and his team, seeing the scars left by Russian captivity on Ukrainian POWs has become a routine part of their work.

[...] Turkevych and his team have treated several released defenders bearing swastika-shaped scars, some even on their foreheads [...]

 
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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to c/reddit@lemmy.world
 

Ironically, it worked with one of Mullvad VPN servers.

 

Original post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34817172

Previous post summary: I wanted to activate foreign (Czech) eSIM, it didn't work, so I traveled to Czech Republic (neighboring country), it didn't work there either

So now I just tried it again (in home country). I just got the idea that, perhaps, I can try different LPA software. Can't lose anything. I downloaded the profile, enabled it, AND IT FUCKING WORKS.

But OK, I tried the previous software with the second SIM. It... worked too?

To be fair, I still had the alternative installed, so maybe it did something in the background. (Like in terms of profile download notification.) I am not going to try a 3rd SIM.

The software

So, at first I tried EasyEUICC (https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/OpenEUICC), or rather the rebranded JMP variant since that's the same thing but also available on F-Droid.

Now I tried NekokoLPA (https://github.com/iebb/NekokoLPA) and that worked, but so did EasyEUICC so no idea if it is related.

I originally chose EasyEUICC because I like the UI more, and also Nekoko says "super unstable, use at your own risk"

AAAAaaah...

 

Who needs sleep anyway?

Edit: Replaced Catbox with Imgur as it didn't embed

 
 

Edit: Found answer here: https://groups.google.com/g/tigervnc-users/c/c4mihwmz_bI
Apparently only local sessions have access to certain HW. Audio devices are also in group audio, so I added my main user to that. Might be the fix for other stuff if I figure out the exact issues.

So I have a Mini PC running Linux Mint (headless) that I want to (sometimes) access over VNC remotely.

Using just TigerVNC has issues. First, XFCE got reset to its defaults. I don't mind this too much. There are some password prompts and all power options other than "Log Out" are inaccessible (DBus seems to be running if that's related. But also, more just annoying than an issue.)

The biggest problem is with audio. There appear to be no audio devices with aplay -l when run as regular user, but they do show up for root.
I tried running a session as root, but...
User
Root
I don't even get the Dummy Output.
It seems to have a problem with connecting to PipeWire (maybe because root can't use DBus? (just a guess, remembering errors of some apps when run as root))


So that's what happens before logging in with LightDM.

If I do login in GUI, things will magically work

(The Mint customization stays broken after it happens once)

So I am guessing some more stuff is started when using LightDM, and I'd like to know what exactly it is, to reproduce it.

As for why not keep using autologin:

  1. I don't want a GUI session running when unnecessary
  2. x11vnc is somehow extremely slow compared to tigervnc even with same compression, quality and resolution

Thanks.

 

There goes me using laptop as a monitor.

 
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