The last time I seriously used custom ROMs on Android was also probably when CyanogenMod was still a thing. As for nowadays I've heard good stuff GrapheneOS and LineageOS but not sure of the hardware compatibility of either.
These days I just use a flip phone and barely at that, but back then custom ROMs were neat to mess with. I do wonder if Android device OEMs still do the awful custom UI things like they did back then like Samsung's Touchwiz for example.

>>4322
>GrapheneOS
>Pixel hardware
Apparently Google is making changes to Pixel so that you can no longer (easily?) create a customROM for it.
I don't remember the exact contents of the video...
>>4323
>android for its freedom
Freedom to shoot yourself in the foot and sell your data to as many vendors as possible.
iOS seems more privacy/security focused than android.

I use cheap phone from brand I know

>>4324
>Bless you. Please take many cat pictures.
and then please give them back

>>4327
Closed source software is inherently untrustworthy. Apple can talk about how private IOS is until the cows come home, but you as a user know very little of what it is actually doing under the hood. That's not to say that open source is itself always trustworthy, you still need to be careful, but it at the very least can be independently audited.

Update. I thought this was close to being done because it was up to the Ys when I last posted. But when I checked this morning it started over in the Ps for some reason. I thought it was close to done because it was getting close to the number of series I was hosting on Plex. But it turns out it now lists each season/cour as its own series like anidb does. So now I think it's only about 1/4th of the way done.

If that's true I'm looking at 2-3 more weeks until it's finished. On the upside, it seems to be finding the correct match for several files so the number I should have to manually fix has dropped from 8,000+ to less than 3,000 at the moment. But it has also mistakenly found duplicate episodes for files I know aren't related. So I'm not looking forward to sorting all that out.

I have no idea why it's taking so long and the only thing I can think of is it's limiting the amount of requests per second that it's sending to anidb to avoid getting my IP banned. Which happened once already but hasn't since.

This dedicated server for metadata seems nice but I absolutely hate the fact that the only interface for managing it is through the web browser. But that's most modern software these days I reckon. After it finishes and I manually sort the files it didn't find automatically I'll give it a proper review.

I have no idea why it's so damn complicated to properly fetch metadata for anime. The several different places like tvdb, tmdb, anidb and MAL all list it differently for some reason. Some group by seasons. Others by cours. It's a real mess. You'd think someone would have made a proper metadata database for this by now but it seems no one is interested in sorting out this mess. Anidb still seems to be the best because it actually lists fansub/rip releases when all the others like MAL dropped support for that in an attempt to 'go legit'.

Its been over a week now coming up on 2 weeks and I'm still not to the point where I can actually test my new Jellyfin server. I tried using its native metadata fetcher for my anime library and it's garbage. In addition, it has littered all my directories with .nfo files and images which I'm now going to have to manually delete. Not looking forward to that. Will probably have to get creative and write a script for that since there is no way I'm doing it manually through a GUI.

scared

>>4300
Show CPU. This system been churning away at 20-30% for almost 2 weeks now. Still nowhere near finished fetching metadata. By the time it's done I'll have an entire new season of seasonals to fetch.

>>4301
here's the CPU graph

>>4211
>What dumb things did you do on your computer today anon?
opened more tabs than i closed again

You may be interested in this thread >>391
(not saying a "condense your threads" thing, just letting you know)

The scale of this project is insane. Love it. Happy to see that there are still gems like this in the far corners of the Web. I Started going through the rabbit hole and it runs so deep. I particularly enjoyed the interview with the developer at https://lobste.rs/s/w3zkxx/lobsters_interview_with_bjorn_stahl

"The distance from what has been done and where my mental model currently sits compared to what is written down or published is several years"

I do wonder what he has in store after showing a way out of terminal emulation, replacing Xorg, VR desktop, the dataflow .. thing ..

I'm too dumb for any of this, but it seems cool!

>>4297
>I'm too dumb for any of this, but it seems cool!
Let's try something simpler then!

https://man.openbsd.org/mg
https://github.com/ibara/mg

Introducing mg, probably the best text editor ever made for any OS. Ported to most every UNIX-like OS. Created by the OpenBSD developers to be a small, fast and easy-to-use text editor for programming and editing config/text files that could be included in the OpenBSD base system without any concerns about security holes. Based upon emacs bindings and coming in around the same size of vi and ed. From the OpenBSD man page:

>mg is intended to be a small, fast, and portable editor for people who can't (or don't want to) run emacs for one reason or another, or are not familiar with the vi(1) editor.
>It is compatible with emacs because there shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi(1).

So we have an editor as small as vi with standard emacs (ctrl+<something>) bindings that comes with a well written man page. Unlike emacs, vim and other full blown IDEs it doesn't come with a massive scripting interface that requires a life time to learn. Nor does it pull in an entire browser engine and tons of 'bloat'. It's small and it works and it does pretty much anything you need an editor to do.

It has replaced vi/vim and ed as the standard editors on all my systems including those I work on remotely. Since I love emacs but sometimes I don't want to load up a full emacs instance or deal with remote files in my local emacs instance/port my config to other OSs. I don't have to worry about mg being an exploit into my system(s). Since unlike emacs and most other full blown IDEs it doesn't attempt to connect to the internet all of the time.
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>>4296
Arcan and surrounding projects is something I want to do a write up on soon. But I'm happy to see you've gone down the rabbit hole already. That blog is a treasure trove of good information and the lead developer of the Arcan project is a great guy. He's also the type of person that quietly works on things without causing drama and attempting to beg for donations and/or raise a stink everywhere.

Arcan as it exists now is already a great project and usable as a daily system along with everything that comes with it like A12 and his new IPC protocol. It solves so many issues with how the desktop works and problems things like dbus are attempting to solve and doing very badly. The only reason it isn't more well known in my opinion is organizations like FreeDesktop/IBM/Red Hat are 100% opposed to improvements in those areas that aren't their own protocols/implementations. Really hard to compete and get exposure again an organization like IBM/Red Hat/Freedesktop as it has the might and money of the major tech companies and the US military/NATO behind it. As we've seen most of the things coming out of their camp have been a disaster. dbus itself is a massive security hole and doesn't solve the problems it claims to be solving.

Arcan is great because things like Xorg/Wayland can be abstracted away and the applications designed for them can continue to work while running under Arcan. The main issue with Arcan at the moment is there aren't any big DEs/WMs written for it. There are two though both of which work pretty well. But they're reference implementations intended to show off what it can do instead of being used as a day-to-day system for most users. Thankfully, Arcan is finally getting more attention and people are working on filling those gaps. But just imagine if it had the excitement behind it like something like Wayland currently does. But it won't since it's really hard to beg for donation money if you base your software on something that isn't flavor of the week/month.

I suspect Arcan will finally break out and become more well known once some bold person builds an entirely new Linux distro and/or BSD around it. Perhaps one being sold on hardware the same company is producing where everything 'just works' out of the box without requiring the end user to configure everything and hand pick hardware. There exists a huge segment of thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Yeah a burner phone sounds nice for that purpose, but a monthly fee not so much. IT SUCKS! WHY IS THE INTERNET LIKE THIS NOW?!
I was thinking of making a youtube account since I lost access to my old ones and I need a phone number so it's either I do what OP is doing or try one of those online service things that kind of freak me out.

>>4061
>to give for promotions and advertisements and such
... Do you browse the shopping channel, Anon? I can't possibly think of a scenario where else you would see telephone numbers for that sort of thing...

>>4095
Well if you go to stores sometimes and they want to sell your data to spam companies for signing up for their dumb service or something for 20-30% discounts then it's useful to not get inundated with too much spam.

If you're still around what you want is tracphone; https://www.tracfone.com/home

Pre-paid pay as you go. Aka still has "minutes" like old pre-paid plans. As long as you aren't using it to constantly browse the web it's decent. I think the data is truly unlimited. I pay about $50 a year for my Grandmother's tracphone and she uses it all of the time to lurk facebook and makes phone calls/txts all year. Never runs out of time. Sometimes she needs a re-up in 10 months and sometimes it's 15+ months.

If you want month-to-month instead of minutes like this then go to Wal-mart. They sell cheap flip-phones with decent screen and basic web browser for about $45-$50. Then the monthly fee is $15 or $25. Can't remember exactly. I bought one a few years ago for a vacation and kept it activated for a few months. But then I decided I didn't want it anymore. I was going to re-activate it a few months back but the battery in the phone is dead and I don't feel like finding a replacement.

Note you can't get a true burner at Wal-Mart. If you want a real burner phone+SIM card like the drug dealers go to the Mexican run grocery stores/gas stations. They all sell flip phones, sim cards and pre-paid cards for cheap. Most of them will turn off the cameras or you can run the purchase through the owner's name by request. Since the vast majority of people buying them are drug dealers and illegals. So they understand not wanting your name/ID attached to the phone number.

>>4208
One other thing I should have mentioned. Issues with firmware aside;

SSDs/NVME drives don't allow for truly encrypted data. Since you have to rely on the firmware of the device to do wear leveling and don't have direct access to it. So even if you write a bunch of random data to the device you can't ever be sure if it really did it. Simplifying a lot here but that's the gist of it and it's important to remember. For this reason I never use them for anything but software. None of my "real" data is stored on them. By that I mean anything I want to truly keep private.

HDDs don't suffer from that problem despite the fact that they also have firmware doing funky things. We can generally trust that when we write 1 or 0 to a sector that it actually did it.

Let's assume we're setting up a new system that we want to run FDE on. The very first thing we have to do is 1) get rid of anything that is already there and 2) write random data to each and every sector. Otherwise, once we try to use the device as an encrypted device there will be large gaps on it that have no data at all. Making it easy to pin-point where the real data is and that it's probably encrypted.

So what you end up having to do is use a tool like dd to write random data to the entire disk. Something like this:
>dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdx bs=1M status=progress

Which can take a long time if you have a storage device you've bought in the last 10-15 years. The last time I did this to write random data to a bunch of 1-8TB HDDs it took over 24 hours.

As far as SSDs are concerned we do basically the same thing. People will give you advice to use sherd command instead. Which you certainly can. They claim dd isn't good enough. Such people have obviously not read the sherd source code because if you peek inside you'll see it is using dd to. :^)
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>>4209
One last important thing:

Most of the people I've personally known that got scammed on the internet fell for those stupid "Your computer is infected with spooky virus call Microsoft customer support as <number>" web pages. You'd think people would know better but I've seen several people fall for this and then hand over all their information to Indian scammer over the phone.

If you ever stumble upon something like that the best thing to do is try ctrl+alt+delete and kill the web browser. Typically, it's just a scam page with some javascript that won't let you close it of navigate away. If you can't kill it for whatever reason simply hard shut down the computer using the power button. Nothing bad will happen. Losing some files is much better than talking to the scammer over the phone.

You'd think people would know better but I've seen this happen multiple times with both older and younger people that can't into computers. Usually they freak out because they're in the middle of typing a document for work or something and call the number because they're trying to hide it from their boss or fear losing their work. Seen so many people I consider smart fall for this and the random scam calls over the years. I bet thousands fall for it everyday. If it wasn't working those overseas call centers wouldn't be running the same scams for years after all.

I bring this up to point out that most of the people actively attempting to scam/"hack" into your stuff are just entry level script kiddies. Who don't understand the technology anyway. In general, people with skill have better things to do with their time. So your main concern is avoiding the script kiddies which is pretty easy. The state level actors (NSA, Mossad and friends) already have access to all your stuff and know what you're doing. Since they own the networks that comprise the internet and they have deals with hardware companies to put backdoors in everything from the factory. If you're trying to avoid them or getting on their radar the best things to do are 1) not put anything you don't want them seeing in/near a device in the first place and 2) blending in with the average dumb user when using the usual things like social networking and when playing stuff like vidya.

There are a lot of dumb people giving dumb advice like
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>>4209
>Also concerning /dev/urandom: It's not truly random of course and we're trusting that our CPU is actually doing what we're telling it. Which in modern times it probably isn't. But we have to work with what we've got.
I can't find source right now (phoneposting) but Intel's RDRAND instruction was intentionally screwed with by orders of the US government. Its not a reliable source of entropy.
However, the /dev/random special file uses many other sources of entropy and thus can be considered fairly secure.
In case of hard drives, I'd say its more than enough. They probably wanted RDRAND compromised so they could break encryption more easily. If you're writing random data to a hard drive, that one block of data that "isn't as random" shouldn't pose you any threat
> Most of those people try really hard to snoop around your storage to find anything of value. Since they'd much rather drain your ATM for $2k+ and get a big score instead of simply making $100-$200 off a computer they spent hours wiping then re-installing Windows on
I always thought these were two, mutually exclusive sets of thieves. The kind of thievery where you just nick a laptop and sell it to a shady shop, and the kind where you try to log into peoples accounts and steal their money are very different and require different skill sets. A theif will do what's least likely to get him caught, right? But you're right, I wouldn't want any of my data accessed by thieves.
>So your main concern is avoiding the script kiddies which is pretty easy
Even basic encryption with a strong password is going to get 99% of attackers off your back, unless you're being targeted. TPMs aren't foolproof, BIOS things aren't foolproof (read about Toshiba using the exact same encryption keys from 2004), so a determined and skilled attacker could still potentially get in. You should use a good password, I met a guy who turned on his work laptop, and the Bitlocker password was just a number. It was long, sure, but any autist with a powerful graphics card can crack a numeric password in a couple of days at most.
Then he tells me all his work laptops only have numeric passwords for bitlocker.

On keeping a physical copy of your passwords:

- This gets unwieldy when you have a lot of accounts. Having separate email addresses for different purposes is a good privacy practice. Making a lot of accounts is just a byproduct of using the internet a lot.
- It is difficult to type in passwords that use a variety of symbols. The big offenders are ` and , and . and ' but there can be more if your handwriting isn't good.
- You have one copy. If you do decide to go through the hassle of copying every page of your notebook, you will still have to update every copy manually every so often.
- If your attempt is rejected, you have to consider whether it was because you typed in an email address instead of a username or if you just typed the password wrong or if you left caps lock on. And if you reset your password, you'll have to update all your copies.
- Anyone with access to your notebook(s) has access to everything.

>>4234
This is true if you have a lot of accounts which are important. For most people, they have like 4 or 5 important accounts, and the rest of the accounts they own are inconsequential. That's the case with me. So I preserve/remember the usernames and passwords of my important accounts, while the inconsequential ones get a temp-mail address (or an old yahoo email address if they refuse the temp mail) and a kuso password like Password12345. The important ones have unique passwords.

>>4098
It does seem pretty simple. The true art of the 2.5D style are the models that look weird at best and absolutely horrific at worst. Like, "lower face missing" kind of horrors.

>>4015
That's probably normal, and that's why analog tech is scary.

>>4002
der rooner

>>4223
die sager

>>4223
the rooner
>>4232
the sager

>>4117
>shat
just bit your sexy hot anime tabs

>>4117
I group tabs on a topic, save them, and close them until further use.
I have 15 tab groups at this point, and 5 more groups pending to be made.
Temporary topic interests go into incognito mode — that's where I bookmark only a few links before I close it all.

>>4117
sounds like your drive is failing? have you checked it lately?

>>4126
could be that. ram being full also leads to freezes like that, don't think it does anything to pin or tabs though

>>4126
drive, or power supply

>>4179
>>4180
Actually, looking over it again, I realized I solved it completely differently.

>>4179
>>4184
Decided to take a more interesting approach and see if I can come up with a solution that doesn't involve a concentric circle.

The first shape that comes to mind is, a rectangle inscribed inside the circle but that doesn't seem to be possible. As the rectangle dimensions needed to create equal area portions result in one of the sides being longer than the circles diameter. I used pythagorean theorem to calculate chord length in terms of apothem and radius. The apothem can be rewriten as the rectangle width/2. So I can use this to write the area of the rectangle in terms of chord length and radius. Then by applying the 1/2 circle area constraint from >>4184 on the rectangle area I could do a bunch of algebra and solve for chord length in terms of radius. I may have messed up my algebra and lost track of roots but I ended up getting length ~= 1.82 * radius. Taking this value and plugging it back into the chord formula to solve for the other side of the rectangle I get width ~= 2.706 * radius. This width value is obviously larger than circle's diameter of 2 * radius.

Seeing as a rectangle doesn't work, I doubt any regular, inscribed, polygon fits the conditions (a triangle probably can).
I wonder if there is any inscribed polygon that can satisfy the OP constraints and do these polygons have to be convex or have to be concave or can they be either (excluding triangles)?

>>4185
My immediate thought would be an octogon since 8 pizza slices and whatnot, but I'm too tired to solve it now, should work though, I think.

measure the area of the pie
now impose a circle of exactly half that area into the center of the pie, and cut that circle out
if you want an actual mathy answer I don't have it, but if it's area/2 in the center then it's exactly half and chris gets all the crust which satisfies the prompt

>>4168
are those lagrange points

>>4099
>gedit
erm

gedit somehow manages to have both terrible performance and few features. I'd recommend switching to something better. I use mousepad since I don't need extra features.

My main text editor is actually this random barely maintained thing called JuffEd, which I chose after searching far and wide for something that resembled Windows's Notepad++. It doesn't really fit the bill but everything else is worse.

>>4103
I bought a UPS for a reason.

I used to use Geany, but switched to Kate. Kate is SLOW but one day, I'll switch to using an SSD and then it won't matter.

>>4070
why do you think it's complex?

>>4074
because for some reason vichan takes ages to move a single post and tell you action complete instead of the second it should take

Well everyone uses vichan and others for a reason. I think it might be largely that good software doesn't necessarily make a good user experience, or mod experience. Then there's the thing that there's no promise that said software will end up being used by any popular enough board.
In the end "good enough" is all that is needed.

>>4084
Wait this sounded smarter in my head. I mean, good software for users isn't necessarily good for mods and vise versa.

I think the main reason people use vichan is because the other imageboard software is all ugly and overly modernized when the average altchan is tiny as hell and performance does not matter one bit.
Now can you change the other softwares to look more like vichan? Sure, but you may as well just install vichan. It's familiar and loved by many. Very easy to configure too once you're read through the config.php documentation and the templates are incredibly easy to change. I don't know if I trust the team that took over the vichan codebase though ever since people circling around a certain person were handed power.

>>4070
>>4075
A big reason why vichan takes a long time to perform actions is because vichan cares about the lurker experience and generates a ton of static pages, but it does so without much caching of their own. When you move one post from one thread to another you'll likely need to regenerate both those threads, your /all/ page, your /recent/ page which is usually the frontpage, you might need to regenerate the catalog, you'll also likely need to regenerate several pages on the index because you moving a thread will shift every position of every thread and those will need to be regenerated on the index which again means querying and shuffling through all the threads and replies a dozen times.

It is possible to code your way into optimizing this into being a slightly more performant experience, but there's no point unless you're 4chan tier size, even then it's even easier to just set up multiple tiny servers to spread the load and a chron timer to update the frontpage every now and then instead of every single post like vichan does by default. I think Infinity/OpenIB used the chron timer, and it's possible to just not regenerate the index pages at every single post as well with a timer and just being okay with a moved or deleted post to hang around in the index/pagination for slightly longer than it should be there and people having to wait a tiny bit longer for new posts to show up outside the threads they have open.

If 4chan can get Futaba to run well, anyone can get anything to run well with a bit of work. They won't need to though.

>>4038
I miss the era when different models of phones actually looked different
Fuck smartphones
Agreed on size too, I replaced the iphone 5 SE I'd ben using since I first got a phone with a samsung something or other last year and even though it was the smallest thing they had it's still way too big. It's hard to use one-handed
I have small hands though

Designers want them big because it makes it easier to cram the laundry list of pointless features and bigger numbers that they crave in.
Sales wants them big because the age of miniaturization is over and big is where the money is at.
Consumers want them big because they want to be able to stare at the damn things all day long and don't own computers anymore.
And the makers like this because the more people move to phones for the more and more expensive phones they need to buy. It's the same reason why you can't buy a phone without the best camera they can shove into it, because they don't want anyone to have a reason to buy cameras anymore.

I hate it. 10 years ago I was happy about getting an extra inch of screen space over the iphone, but they killed it by making it impossible to keep the OS up to date enough to use anything and now I'm stuck with a goliath that can't be fully utilized with one hand and keeps falling out of my pocket because it's too fucking loooooooooooong.

is that your phone or are you just happy to see me

>>4058
Big Data want them big because you can cram more ads into a big screen. (God bless AdAway btw)

>>3747
Anglos invented the modern world.

>>3745
Lmao
When is the next one being held?

>>3745
After some very scientific tests, I would estimate that my ping is roughly 10-20ms faster (from 250 to 230-240).

>>4017
Cool. It actually is a somewhat valid strategy

>>4017
In my country starlink is the only viable option because 99% of ISPs are a bunch of faggots that want a 6 gorillion mark up

who are you quoting
is it the devs or the users

I understand. Western decadence in the programming space is discombobulating our efficiency.

more like bitchcoin

>>3815
You can fork it but the changes needed to shift its algorithm would render it no longer actually Bitcoin.

Quantum resistance is a meme to sell you other coins. Problems can be solved when they are closer to being reality. You don't focus on future flying cars when building roads in your country.

>>3817
Stop buying gold ya bastards I need it for my hobby. Also the gold market is really concerning right now and I wouldn't trust holding it, the price already went insane and now people are going "buy buy buy" which is firing off all kinds of bubble warnings.

the markets are stupid because it's easily accessible and the fed has been flooding everyone with cash.