Don’t worry, it’s probably going to be even more locked down.

I miss Android 7 and prior. The only improvement I see is permission management and UI on tablets (dp >= 600). And perhaps app updates without prompting user from 3rd party app stores (like F-Droid), but I don’t like automatic updates anyway.

Maybe a stupid idea, but try manually selecting the SSD in boot menu. I don’t trust UEFI/BIOS to do what it’s supposed to after finding out that HP UEFI simply wipes all boot entries after booting an external drive.

I tried switching to the Nvidia drivers but all I got was a black screen.

That does sound familiar from when I used GeForce 8600M GT laptop. Nouveau mostly worked, but the official NVidia driver did this. What worked was switching to an old kernel, Linux 5.4 on that thing. But I don’t like this “solution”.

I too have no idea what this is about. I never used tailscale, and I have no idea what immich is.

But perhaps your problem is that the app expects to be on the root? Perhaps that could be a problem. Can you instead do another sub-domain level like immich.pcname.tail$$$$$.ts.net? Or does the app (immich) allow you to set URL root?

Anyway, seems that may indeed be the issue, and also that tailscale cannot do those sub-domains as I thought based on the discussion I found. It seems this is the same issue: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1679

And someone probably has a solution: https://gist.github.com/aveexy/4b2b22b2198636b0a91c7c142ec11b37

Again, I have no idea what Immich even is in the first place, Tailscale, I just know it exists. Consider me about as useful as AI, I just did some googling, with only prior info being that I had to set base URL in both kiwix-serve and Navidrome for them to work properly under a directory or whatever the part after slash is called.

Just look at where their servers are.

Kind of… al around the place? What do you mean?

Also, in the mail you don’t send the account number, just a payment token. So the postman won’t be stealing your account, just your cash at most.

Vouchers are probably the safest, but I actually like sending mail, and this is basically my only opportunity to do so nowadays.

Well, yeah, because most apps depend on Google services.

Termux: “Look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power”

Maybe they could rather fix AOSP. Based on that recent LTT video Google doesn’t really give a fuck about it anymore.

I just recently bought 2 phones (one returned, other isn’t far from that), one with A14 the other with A13. Changing minimum width to >600dp (to simulate a tablet (larger screen) and trigger tablet mode) has very wild results now. I mean like overlapping icons in notification shade, completely non-functional 3 button navigation, app tray squished to less than width of 1 icon (completely unusable), icons getting off-screen, gesture navigation occasionally not working either, notification shade icons and notifications offset from their background (just a visual problem) and a lot of wasted space everywhere.

Sure, it’s in developer settings, but so far whenever I did something to this in up to Android 11 including, the phone just beautifully adjusted to this and everything suddenly made more sense on a large screen.
Though maybe I was just lucky?

I am currently typing this on an old Moto G5s Plus (2017) with the now discontinued PixelExperience (11) ROM. My last bug-free Android experience. I can even route hotspot over a VPN, how cool is that.

Seems to just be a normal Lemmy instance, so why wouldn’t it be? You just need to choose some client app, or use the browser, whichever you like more.

https://join-lemmy.org/apps

How are you using it remotely? VNC?

Perhaps the server config started defaulting to XFCE. Maybe what happened is entire XFCE DE got marked as a dependency, installed during update, and then when some config defaulting to XFCE thanks to this became valid, you ended up here.

If it’s VNC, what do you have in ~/.vnc/xstartup? Maybe a line like xfce4-session &?

something that isn’t an SD card to the /sdcard directory?

Could be.

On my phone (Poco X3 Pro - stock Android 11, MIUI 12) the /sdcard is a symlink pointing to /storage/self/primary which itself is a symlink pointing to /storage/emulated/0, which is /data/media, the user-accessible portion of internal storage.
Though from what I can find it anyway is just emulated FAT filesystem which is actually ext4 under that.

Something about backwards compatibility as the directory used to actually be used for SD cards in the past.

I am talking about some devices using /sdcard to mount internal storage.

Not Mullvad’s fault, they’re just on some of the used blocklists. Not really much you can do about it besides finding a not yet blocked servers.

But is it an SD card.

I mean, the directory name says so, but…

~ $ realpath /sdcard
/storage/emulated/0
~ $

…it may also not be.

Cisco used to not be that selective.

They used to give out free Meraki APs to everyone just for attending their webinars. The catch with those devices was licensing. You’ve got some limited-time free license, and then you either paid or kept a paperweight.
At least officially. Some of them were later supported by OpenWRT, but newer ones are more locked down.

This is obviously more elegant, but you can also use GPG in Termux.

Just saying.

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I thought FAQs were always just made up.

As far as I know they don’t have audits done, so who knows about the logging. Both IVPN and Mullvad pass those. Could still be fine though, but I’d rather trust Mullvad or IVPN.

Only if you need (cheap) port-forwarding.

Well, why don’t you just try NextDNS? Don’t like signing up to try a service? You don’t have to. Go to nextdns.io, click “Try it now” and there you go. No account required for 7 days.

You don’t need to add domains yourself, you just choose from existing blocklists they provide. Each have some description, just like all the settings.

Alternatively, Mullvad freely provides DNS with some blocking too, but you can’t edit anything.

Hear me out, the entire universe is most likely temporary, so technically all the code you write is in fact temporary.

I just wish Mull (and Tor on Android for that regards) did what desktop Tor and Mullvad browser (I know the devs are different) do with specific window sizes to remove unique window resolutions.

Currently both Android Tor and Mull lead to a unique per-device fingerprint.