kratoz29
@kratoz29@lemm.ee
- Comment on In one week, Lemm.ee will shutdown 13 hours ago:
I already moved to Lemmy.zip (they just accepted my account), I exported the lemm.ee settings from the configuration page to lemmy.zip, but I’d also like to backup my upvoted and saved posts (I am interested more in the latter), any ideas?
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 days ago:
Why is this a Google Pixel only ROM? Anything special with the Google Pixel?
I even consider Chinese phones a better hardware dela than what Google does, and I know Google software (I mainly use AOSP ROMs, Pixel OS in this case) but if we are swapping right away the ROM of the Pixel and the hardware is subpar what’s the deal with it?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #20 1 week ago:
Top notch content as always.
I like when you include fun or odd stuff, that resembles a lot of old magazines (yeah yeah, I suppose you get comments like that often).
Has anyone shared your posts outside the fediverse? I legit think this is unique and real content, no SEO or AI shit that I doom scroll on a daily basis, that could benefit users from other communities lol.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 1 week ago:
I am not sure, it is certain that heat makes it usable though.
It first began when it lost USB data transfers, I was like that for months, I thought I needed to replace the USB module as many users claimed that to be the solution, I didn’t, another common failure with this device is that the flex cable fucks up after a while, so you either replace it or add something to make pressure to the board and charging/USB module, I did the latter, applied black tape to both ends like 3 years ago or so, quick and normal charge worked since then, so I assumed USB data transfers failing me months ago was a symptom of my workaround giving up… Turns out it wasn’t.
Then after months I lost IMEIs, so no data transfers, I said, oh, I could use my phone as an iPod or something, but as this is my main device yet, I decided to look up for solutions, and playing around with QFIL, TWRP and lots of things (do note I had efs partitions backed up prior, which did nothing to help me), I was left without WiFi, so this one really hurts lol.
I forgot to say that when IMEI started to fail I detected that my phone USB data transfer worked for a while, so it was like a trade lol, that essentially gave me the opportunity to play around with it and flash something else.
Anyway, I said to myself, ok so be it, it would be a dumb phone (a very dumb one) no internet access whatsoever and USB data transfers gave up as well… I could load emulators or something (through BT perhaps) but as the partition image responsible of Wifi connection wasn’t loaded properly from the kernel it started to hinder the performance of the device with some wifi process (detected with FKM) if I try to kill it then it is replaced by a kernel binder process which I can’t kill (well I can but it auto starts), so yeah, having a phone that can’t deep sleep and is always wasting resources on that doesn’t seem smart…
Luckily the hairdryer and that Termux command (with quick charge) gave me everything back… Not all the times I get back USB data transfers (it seems like it is the 1st one to go when it loses connection) but I appreciate I can still milk this device that I got in November 2020 and somehow still can get 8 hrs of SOT from it (no gaming and with Wifi only).
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 1 week ago:
Yeah, but it happens with different kernels as well, it happened to me in the stock ROM actually, moved to a custom ROM and it didn’t fix it (I needed to heat it up first in order to flash it with adb sideload 😂).
Also, not everyone who shares these newer A15 ROMs suffer from this, this is a very documented hardware issue I am afraid, but I am totally with you that this workaround shouldn’t make it last for something more than a mere hours perhaps.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 1 week ago:
Me too, sometimes I feel it is a software issue, but if that was it wouldn’t happen in all the ROMs I tried, on top of that a restore of efs and modem partitions should be enough (at least for IMEI and Wifi), but sadly it isn’t.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 1 week ago:
I have been like this for a month with this workaround, and yeah, I backup with Google backups and rooted Swiftbackup nightly 👍🏻
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
If the customer support of my ISP doesn’t even know what CGNAT is, but AI knows, I am actually troubled whether this is a good move or not.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 1 week ago:
Yep, loops to heat up the CPU, in combination with fast charge to make it hot quicker.
CPU loses contact with the board or something like that making it not able to read modem, efs, and whatever is the responsible to transmit data through the USB port (charging works normally, even fast charge), it needs a reflow or reballing to fix this for good, but technicians nearby are… Simply put, thieves lmao.
So I’d rather keep doing this until the phone dies (the workaround makes it work for an undefined amount of time, which can be hours, days or almost a week) or change the motherboard myself.
I got the idea along with ChatGPT when a user in telegram told me that he got USB data transfers working again (in order to escape from MIUI once again) by heating up the SOC with a hairdryer, yes, that worked for me too to fix all above, thus I decided to create a software solution in the meantime 😅
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
I was expecting a joke comment mentioning Driver.
I am disappointed I had to scroll this far to find something like that.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 2 weeks ago:
And there is me using a 2019 (dying) device which I heat up with a termux command to get it back in working state 😁
For the curious the device is a Poco F2 Pro, known for IMEI and charging flex issues, the termux command I use to bring alive my IMEI, Wifi and USB data transfers is:
for i in $(seq 1 32); do sh -c ‘while :; do a=$((a+1)); done’ & done; for i in $(seq 1 32); do yes > /dev/null & done
This paired with fast charge will heat the SOC and make it work like the 1st day without an issue lol.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 2 weeks ago:
I have never had a Motorola smartphone… But Canta is a thing :)
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 2 weeks ago:
Yeah perhaps, we are here on Lemmy after all, which I consider a Reddit alternative, but with YouTube the thing is different because we follow individuals, and here we follow subjects, hopefully somebody can truly stand out against Google in the video field, a movement big enough to motivate content creators to check it out, the last thing I hear was about Odysee, which I think is a step in the right direction.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 2 weeks ago:
Yes they are, some from the very conception of YouTube perhaps, but they are not real alternatives a real alternative would be one where all your subscriptions also upload the same content there, it is totally not YT based and you get the same or similar ecosystem Google provides, I don’t think too many channels fit this.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 2 weeks ago:
That’s fine, still YouTube at its core though.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 2 weeks ago:
Fuck this place
Are you implying you don’t use YT at all? Or you use it and choose to be unhappy with it?
Just curious, I often get mad because they need to censor words, but not to the degrees to say 'fuck this place" and move to the other (unborn) alternative.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
I guess so, my previous ISP also gave me IPv6 address (I could navigate using it) but I could never access my NAS services with it from an IPv6 ready network, I thought it would be the same with the newer ISP, but nope.
Maybe some firewall is active by the ISP? I could not do much thinker back then as I used the stock modem (router) and it was heavily locked.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
I usually have IPv6 access in my home, on the outside it varies from the ISPs :/
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, don’t get me wrong, I can see value of getting a VPS, especially if you are gonna be using it for some other projects, I have had a DO instance in the past and I thinkered with WG back then BTW, but if it is only for remote accessing your home LAN, I don’t feel like paying for it tbh, especially when some users get it for free (public IPv4) and it feels even dumber for me since I have a fully working IPv6 setup!
BTW my ISP is funny, no firewall at all with it, I almost fainted when I noticed everyone could access my self hosted services with the IPv6 address and I did nothing regarding ports or whatsoever… They were fully accessible once I fired up the projects! I think I read an article about this subject… But I can’t recall when or where… I had to manually set up a firewall, which tbh, you always should do and it is especially easy to do in a Synology NAS.
Anyway, back to the mesh VPN part, if they enshitify so be it, but in the meantime we still can benefit from it.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
WG is worthless in a CGNAT environment… And as we are in 2025 and time doesn’t stop it will be irrelevant for everyone someday, unless they fully support IPv6 (which I don’t know if they do, if you can use WG in a CGNATED network with IPv6 I’d like to know though, I am very rusty setting it up, but it might worth checking it out).
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
I mainly use Tailscale (and Zerotier) to access my CGNATED LAN, headscale will require me to pay a subscription for a VPS wouldn’t it?
I really envy the guys who say only use them because they’re lazy to open ports or want a more secure approach, I use them because I NEED them lol.
If (when?) Tailscale enshitify I’ll stick with ZT a bit until it goes the same way lol, I started using it 1st, I don’t know if ZT came before Tailscale though.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
I am aware, but what choices do we have? I for one stopped using banking apps in my Android phone, not a big deal, we didn’t have banking apps there pre 2007 right?
I know not everyone can do it, but we can fight back in our own ways.
And voting with your wallet should be an obvious statement at this point.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
Degoogled ROMs are gonna be the bomb in the future.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Oh I see, thanks for the heads up.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
but more are coming (thunder).
I see, TIL, it seems like I can wait a bit then.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm 404 code 🤔
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I thought all of them were banned instances 😅
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy clients won’t work there?
I am out of the loop with piefed (I don’t even know if it is another Lemmy instance, it seems it is lol).
I am too attached to Summit and Voyager to stop using Lemmy at all.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Why both of them blocked lemm.ee lol.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 3 weeks ago:
I’d recommend maybe lemmy.dbzer0.com
I think this is gonna be the most logical direction to go for me now.