Lehmanator

Lehmanator, 13 days ago

@torben @frameworkcomputer Not familiar with their inputmodule-control CLI, but it might be worth also adding the nix config to use it to the framework nixosModules in this repo: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware

Lehmanator, 2 months ago

@tripplehelix Perfect except when picking an exit node on Android.

Scrolling the long list of exit nodes makes my phone almost unusable. Scroll for a while, then it ghost scrolls long after you've stopped, even affecting the system UI. I don't even bother trying to pick a US exit node for better latency anymore because it is too far down the list.

To make matters worse, it makes you re-select the exit node every time #Tailscale is toggled.

Works like a dream on desktop Linux.

@tailscale

Lehmanator, 2 months ago

@tripplehelix @tailscale me too! The app is super bare bones, so probably wouldn't be a huge undertaking.

Lehmanator, 2 months ago

I use #GrapheneOS, which does a fair amount to curb some of my biggest problems with default #Android.

...but at the end of the day, the ecosystem is built on behalf of & in service of advertisers & spyware manufacturers, so problems like every app spamming notifications persist.

Google has tried to fix the notification spam (probably to prevent competing advertisers from encroaching on their market share), but ended up exacerbating this problem.

Lehmanator, 2 months ago

Many versions ago, Google tried to address battery issues from each app perpetually running in the background to poll for notifications by providing its own cloud-based push notification service & blocking background services unless the app is posting an ongoing notification.

...so now, every app that needs to run in the background, FOSS or not, must keep a useless notification posted that does nothing but clutter the drawer.

Lehmanator, 2 months ago

Every app wants to notify immediately. Within 30 seconds of booting, I have 11 notifications (excluding the grouped ones).

The only stuff I actually want to alert me are: emails, SMS messages, missed calls, & direct messages.

...but half of these are so flooded with spam that anything I actually want is drowned out by noise.

This results in me just ignoring my phone.

My initial complaint is the kicker, the only thing I actually want notified by that isn't full of spam just doesn't work

Lehmanator, 2 months ago

for ref, I'm someone who has spent a HUGE amount of time/effort to avoid spammy services acting as a gateway to my brain for advertisers, self-host alt services that dont do this, & restrict notifs when I must keep a spammy service around

...and it still feels hopeless.

I feel so bad for non-technical people. I saw my grandma'a notification drawer when helping her w/ her phone, & it looked like a casino w/ 100s of attempts from various services to get her to buy or interact with their products

Lehmanator, 2 months ago

My phone, despite my best efforts, works against my wishes on behalf of others.

This is a device society expects you to carry 24/7 & acts as your primary gateway to both digital & IRL services. i.e. mandatory.

#Google is a cartel colonizing the attention spans of billions of people. It must be broken up & the #AOSP project should be put under the control of a democratic organization

#MobileLinux cannot come fast enough. I'l tolerate any level of jank to never have to touch Android again.

Lehmanator, 2 months ago

@mike Back at ya! Pretty cool to be welcomed by the instance admin! 😎

While I have your ear, any advice for running a Mastodon instance? I plan on setting up my own instance once I migrate my k8s cluster to NixOS.