Hm… It’s out of date for sure, but I just tried it and it definitely works for both Lemmy and Reddit. You can add any instance you’d like to a custom feed.
you need to get a different device. As others suggested a watch is your best bet but dont expect those options to respect your privacy any more or less than google.
Soul browser because it’s the most complete and most customizable. Just a little bug currently made me switch to firefox, but as soon as it gets patched I’ll go back.
Pure Browser, and then I disable Javascript.
Give it a try! Browsing the internet is lightning fast, and for pages that need Javascript I just load them in my other browser (Ecosia)
Brave has a builtin ad blocker, though not as good as uBO in Firefox. You also have Cromite, which uses Adblock Plus and also the Kiwi Browser, which supports extensions so you can install uBO.
The alternative method would be to use professional equipment or send it to a data recovery specialist.
Did my suggestion to use photorec in your last post not work? How do you even know that the runs of zeroes are where the files you’re looking for are? Encrypted data and uninitialized space look like random data, so any runs of zeroes are either valid data or something explicitly zeroed.
I use Night Owl. It has a setting for time, but not battery level. You can set it between 0 - 100%, but 100 isn’t “completely black”. It defaults the brightness to minimum for the phone when it is on and goes further.
Are there any system apps that are worth blocking that won’t make my phone less useful? Kind of an ambiguous question, I know. I just blocked GBoard, for one.
Oh, never mind. It uses a pseudo VPN to filter traffic, and I’m using an actual VPN, so its not compatible. I only learned this after setting up some rules and finally trying to enable it.
It’d be cool if they integrated a VPN client into the app.
It’s working! Thanks! I got Mullvad configured inside Rethink, and blocked Gboard from the internet. I was enjoying HeliBoard, but it doesn’t have emoji search. ☹️ Also, autocorrect on HeliBoard was pretty bad. A combination of too aggressive and not aggressive enough at times. Plus the “swipe spacebar to select text” feature of HeliBoard never felt as good as Gboard.
Of course, now I can’t use the GIF feature of GBoard, which was another occasionally useful feature.
Man, does Rethink have a lot of options and settings. Definitely not for the faint of heart!
I also blocked “Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google” which I think is used when you do voice typing. Voice typing is still working, so that’s good. It does most of it locally. Except I noticed months ago that if I have a very spotty cell connection, Voice Typing takes forever to initialize. I thought it was fully on-device at all times, but it turns out it’s not.
Anyone else know some other things I should block? I blocked Chrome because I never use it and I pretty much immediately saw it was using the Internet in the background when I enabled Rethink.
Best one? I wish phones under 6" and more close to veing just 5" were still a thing, so it fits pockets nicely and I CAN TOUCH THE OPPOSING DIAGONAL EDGE WITH MY THUMB
No folders, no ability to freely arrange things, so your app drawer is everything, and unorganized. Same with the home screen.
Which, I guess that might actually work for an eink device now that I think about it (just bought a poke 5 myself), particularly one that’s only going to be used as an ereader rather than a general purpose tablet with an eink screen.
There’s just a minimum degree of organization that becomes a problem when it isn’t there, and the device needs to be easy to use. But, yeah, I think you may have just countered my “useless” opinion. It might well be perfect for that use case, both in its bare minimum features, and how lightweight it is.
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