ayushnix

ayushnix , 4 months ago to piracy in What VPN would you recommend for torrenting?

Not only is UPnP a security risk, it’ll work only if a user has an IP that can expose ports. IPv4 addresses are becoming rarer on home networks and CGNAT connections can’t expose ports even if one turns on UPnP.

ayushnix , 8 months ago to android in Motorola just launched a new Android phone to take on the Pixel 8

Sure, yeah, taking on the Pixel without specifying the number of years of OS and feature updates and without GrapheneOS support. Pretty good title for the post

ayushnix , 8 months ago to android in Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates

There isn’t one. Maybe Fairphone 5 but even with custom ROMs, running Play Services as a sandboxed user app isn’t possible. And even vanilla iPhones can’t be as privacy oriented as GrapheneOS is.

ayushnix , 8 months ago to programmer_humor in D or d come on

It would be a default on almost every distro that follows XDG specifications to have stuff like Downloads, Pictures, Videos in the $HOME folder. One of the first things I do as part of an installation is to modify ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and set a specific folder, say /data/downloads or ~/downloads, for every XDG base directory.

ayushnix , 9 months ago to programmer_humor in D or d come on

using capital letters in file/directory names on Linux :|

ayushnix , 9 months ago to android in Apple Music 4.5 for Android getting new iOS 17-style widgets, more

You cannot listen from multiple devices at the same time. You can have multiple logged in, but only one can be actively playing a time.

This wasn’t my experience. I was logged into Apple Music on my iPhone and whenever I logged into Apple Music on my web browser, it did play music for a while but then music would stop playing randomly and I was told something similar to what you mentioned about only one device being active. I had to reload the page to make that warning go away but it came again after a while. This was when Apple Music wasn’t being used on my iPhone, it was just logged in.

I don’t see how Apple Music can be considered a useful streaming service with this limitation unless one doesn’t possess more than one computing device (literally just an iPhone, or just an iPad, or a just a desktop/laptop and nothing else). Sounds absurd. This isn’t an issue with either Spotify or YT Music.

ayushnix , 9 months ago to android in Apple Music 4.5 for Android getting new iOS 17-style widgets, more

Can I listen to Apple Music on my desktop on a web browser while being logged in to Apple Music on my iPhone/Android? The last time I subscribed to Apple Music (back in March or April 2023), it didn’t allow being logged in and playing music on multiple devices simultaneously.

ayushnix , 11 months ago to linux in Is there a way to turn off animations system-wide? (debian+swaywm)

Umm, I can’t recall ever seeing any animations in swaywm. You’re sure you’re using sway and seeing animations in it?

ayushnix , 11 months ago to android in The state of Playstore

It is. Those fake accounts that Aurora Store uses stop working randomly. I learned the hard way to never rely on Aurora Store ever again and just use sandboxed Play Store on GrapheneOS.