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ladfrombrad

@ladfrombrad@lemdro.id

not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, but not my own. That sucks.

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ladfrombrad,
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A contactless card in the back of your phone case?

Note - The above answer doesn’t take in where you’re from since you didn’t state so and I imagine there’s plenty of places that can’t simply do that but…even though I could?

I personally won’t bring my C&P / contactless card out of the house unless necessary since it allows would-be finders instant access to withdrawals from my bank account, without any authentication required whatsoever unlike, GPay on my phone which at the very least needs my fingerprint?

It also pisses me off to be honest that my bank won’t supply me with a C&P, non-contactless card like my last bank did :/

ladfrombrad,
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No doubt, and there used to be an app called “all for one IR remote” or something like that that I can’t find from a cursory skim.

It allowed programming of codes from your existing remotes and also the bonus of using a URI for a IR code which then meant you could fire them off with other apps.

Problem these days is the hardware that supports IR Blasters is controlled by the likes of Xiaomi, and the apps available to use said hardware is limited to in-built system apps :/

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I’d be curious how many account holders in the UK have actually been prosecuted for copyright infringement.

In nearly two decades with the same ISP (Telewest > Blueyonder > VirginMedia) I’ve had a grand total of two emails from them with no teeth in it, and still download what I want from public trackers to this day.

I get an actual letter from them? Yay, free toilet paper!

*typo

ladfrombrad,
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See the thing is, I’m pretty sure Tasker can do that and we ain’t gonna let this meme die?

Make a Tasker widget that invokes said Termux script and we have nice UI too?

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Or stop uploading screenshots altogether.

ladfrombrad,
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They’ll take my TVHeadend servers out of my cold dead hands if they think I’m signing up for that?

ladfrombrad, (edited )
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I have two Rasp Pi Zero’s stuck behind my TV that cost me £10+£10 DVB HAT’s x 2 (before the COVID scalpers took effect) as a poor mans Homerun server that have plenty of storage - be that a new USB drive stuck in them or even using my NAS with NFS for storage.

Device cost/viability isn’t a thing here.

It’s getting people signing up to a (e: tracking) service that’ll be plastered with adverts every 15 mins? I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.

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    ladfrombrad,
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    I’m a lad from Bradford, in the UK.

    And it kinda rhymes.

    ladfrombrad,
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    Ya know, it is kinda ironic these days with the great views 1 mile each way and the cheaper prices compared to the rest of our homeland :p

    Obligatory

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7HVo7TgRPA

    ladfrombrad,
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    Main thing is Capt, you’re here to tell us your best stories.

    Tell us your most favourite food please, and how you came across it? Mine’s carbonara and an Italian girlfriend who loved that shit.

    ladfrombrad,
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    Don’t fret.

    Things like this are next year and some other intern will have a new product name to bolden their advert battalion.

    The cycle never ends, and they don’t click on that we ain’t having it :/

    ladfrombrad, (edited )
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    I’d posit those numbers are much, much higher, and some guys who used to do our Megathreads over in r/Android now keep getting random bots commenting against months, even years old posts - archive.is/OmW0f

    I spotted em years ago over in their many test subreddits and reddit actually outsourced them as a QA testing.

    ladfrombrad,
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    I don’t want no Thames water thank you very much.

    Yorkshire Water, rip us enough already and is an easy supply.

    ladfrombrad,
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    www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXMhwF4EtQ

    We’re on about clean water here for clarity?

    ladfrombrad,
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    In a world of hate for the 3.5mm jack and lack, of it (I’m an Android nerd)?

    👌

    ladfrombrad,
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    Needing 5k for either/both is a good night out. Don’t fuck about these bois do they, and can we speculate some more since it’ll probably be true?

    Yeah, I know it’s 3am but I seriously need this…

    ladfrombrad,
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    I was going for illegal drug shortages at first from the title, and then that made me ponder the efficiency of the legal trade routes Vs illegal.

    ladfrombrad,
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    I’m lost. Why is this ruining Android?

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    I’m just waiting for everything they haven’t killed to merge onto YouTube

    Me and ye both.

    Using the “website” YouTube in my mobile browser sucks and I have to disable their “app” because it’s a system app for some reason or other, to then allow me to use a better app like Newpipe without their system app popping up in the share menu every time I get an update.

    Speaking of updates my Xiaomi just updated to A14, and even thou I have Chrome disabled I now get this…

    https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/594ba475-0f41-4b2a-9ef8-0a0644edde85.jpeg

    You couldn’t make it up.

    ladfrombrad,
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    If you’ve got decent throughput at home buying a rasp pi 3/4 means you can have your own VPN

    tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes

    ladfrombrad,
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    DIY enthusiasts rejoice! You can now try to attach 80KG+ to your wall. Above [your bath]https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/ddb09eaa-711d-4914-a0e4-776ec448cc57.jpeg even, all in relative harmony!

    Things won’t go wrong, promise.

    ladfrombrad,
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    https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/d11e0dd8-d7b0-4842-a077-2f3a89bb3426.jpeg

    lol, I thought you were inferring that she had literally left the building but I’ll fix that typo for ya

    www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xvdh

    What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

    It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

    ladfrombrad,
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    I had to leave VirginMoney because the lady on the phone told me I needed an iPhone to reset my password (seriously) even after trying with three separate Android devices.

    There’s no desktop functionality (mobile is king with them) and it amazed me that day I had to use the Current Account Switcher to go to an equally meh banking service.

    Sorry state of affairs across all mobile apps to be honest and as seen by the prevalence of MDM and accessing data Vs doing the very same, on a desktop “PC”. Why the data is more precious on a mobile device to them is telling…

    ladfrombrad,
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    I simply use Tailscale and a family members router / AP which take SDcards to have a backup of my onsite backup, off site.

    And then use Mega + Proton drive for backing up the really important things so things are in three (four if you include my phones photo storage) separate places.

    Never again am I falling to disks failing, and paying so much to the cloud peeps kinda irks me especially when they can just shut up shop like UbuntuOne did.

    ladfrombrad,
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    Having a Rasp Pi 3/4 with Tailscale installed made it idiot proof for me.

    Hell, I gave a spare pi to a family member which means I have off site storage and also get to VPN straight into their network to help them out (they technophobes and have no idea what’s happening). If I can do it, you can.

    SMB Syncing is fun ;)

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