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Now that’s walking aroud money!

Listen up piggies

I want a hovercopter, and an unmarked sandwich, and a new face with like a… Hugh Grant look.

And every five minutes I don’t get it, someone’s gonna get stabbed in the ass!

I’m aware, I used to use adaway several years ago.

I had the same feelings as you, in that I needed to have system-wide ad blocking, but I revaluated that requirement a couple years ago and realised that I don’t use any apps featuring banner ads and such.

Several of my apps will just fall back to system webview and Firefox (+uBo) will power that too.

I see. I admit I sorely missed the app startup at boot control permission (app ops) toggle when it was removed from the Android permissions framework, but the new power and background software management framework eliminates the need for it.

Also damn, you have a modern xperia? Hardware wise they are massively appealing to me. They have nearly all of the HW amenities I can think of (SD card slot, headphone jack, dedicated FP reader / button, notification LED, no camera cutout).

If they supported bootloader relocking with sself signed keys, they’d be the perfect phone for me.

I made the admittedly difficult discussion to move to a Pixel so I could use some of the most private and secure software possible on android with little effort or thought behind it.

I sorely miss my headphone jack but at least I feel like I can depend on this tiny computer to not fuck me over with unfettered personal data collection (and save a lot of power in doing so, I suppose).

Adaway was what I used prior to ublock origin on Firefox. The network access toggles can be found directly in ROMs like Calyx Grapene, Lineage, Divest, though I’m not sure if they’re widely seen elsewhere.

I know the process you’re referring you WRT gadgetbridge. I used to do the same thing until I switched to a pinetime.

I’m not familiar with permission manager X. Does that deviate from the android permissions framework in some way?

Can you tell me more about the hardware tweaks?

Manifest v3? I gather they’re already moving towards this but not in a manner which harms ad blocking

okay cool but what are you specifically using system or systemless root for now?

out of interest, what use cases do you have in mind that require root access?

I used to use a root based solution to block ads system wide via hosts but now I just use ublock origin in Firefox.

Out of curiosity, how does dwl compare to dwm today?

I haven’t played GTA 5 or online in a good few years now, but I’m curious, does this affect popular mods like fivem in any way?

E: TIL fivem was acquired by rockstar 🤡

Worth noting from the original article

Fedora is working around this in their latest packages by beginning to probe SimpleDRM immediately. Fedora / Red Hat though isn’t the only ones using Plymouth but is largely in use by all major Linux distributions of the past decade. But in recent years the AMDGPU driver has only continued to grow much larger in supporting newer GPUs and tacking on additional features and optimizations.

my charger is fine, but could you pet the cat for me? 🥺

Would it almost be equivalent to snap on Android?

I’ve heard very little about it. Is there some controversy around it?

I suppose the title meant to say Xbox 360 console rather than Xbox controller

Aside from that, very interesting thread. I Vividldly remember having several friends resorting to the towel fix back in the day. thank you for sharing

do ski socks count?

the fact that valve went and provided official support for a popular, third party, higher res display is pretty wild.

Correct - FSR already applies CAS. I don’t think applying another CAS pass on top of that will work out too well.

FSR already incorporates CAS towards the end of the scaling process. The Adrenalin equivalent is called RIS but applies CAS to the entire rendered frame. I believe some apps allow you to tune CAS individually (2077 comes to mind?)

For basic parts / geometry, I think FreeCAD will serve you decently well. There are several nice tutorial series for FC on YouTube and adjacent platforms.

Def stick to dedicated CAD software for your use case, though. You can technically use something like Inkscape for technical illustrations but I think it would become a bit of a battle. If all you need is 2D design, maybe LibreCAD or QCAD will work?