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hellfire103

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Young humanoid in the UK. Proudly LGBT. Slava Ukraini! | they/them

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  • Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Machine: Acer Aspire 5742z
  • Desktop: KDE Plasma 5
  • GTK Theme: Breeze
  • Qt Theme: Oxygen
  • Plasma Theme: Oxygen
  • Colour Scheme: Breeze Dark
  • Icons: Oxygen
  • Fetch: Hyfetch
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This one?

hellfire103 OP ,
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I’ll give it a go! Is there a GTK theme that goes well with it?

hellfire103 OP ,
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I thought it was just the Qt theme, but I could be wrong.

hellfire103 OP ,
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Time to get an Android, I guess.

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Something Android has had since version 1.0: the ability to install apps from places other than the App Store.

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Wasn’t my choice. I was 10.

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Possibly, but for the sake of sideloading I’d may as well just buy an Android.

hellfire103 OP ,
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I got it for free. It used to be my Gran’s.

hellfire103 OP ,
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Wait, really? Why is it in such a state‽

hellfire103 OP ,
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My situation is complicated.

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hellfire103 OP ,
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I will as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

hellfire103 OP ,
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…batsense.net/…/ios-17-2-sideload-apps-what-you-n…

hellfire103 OP ,
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I use ProtonVPN 24/7, and it hasn’t changed anything. It’s a firmware thing, I think.

hellfire103 OP ,
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It wasn’t my dumb idea.

hellfire103 OP ,
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I don’t want an iPhone, and it’s a long story as to why I’m stuck with one.

hellfire103 OP ,
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So, I’m 17 and my Dad is an Apple fanboy. He started using Macs back in the '90s, and he’s always been using their stuff. Over the years, he’s managed to get my mum and her parents to ditch Android, and his parents to move on from their RAZRs. Now that everyone has iPhones, I have no hand-me-down routes. I have asked to get an Android, using my own money that I earned, but he always brings up the same arguments:

“Androids are inherently less secure than iPhones”

“We all use iPhones”

“Apple’s proprietary ecosystem just works”

“I had an Android once. Once.”

“Are you just trying to stop the Find My tracking? What if I need to find you?”

That last one could easily be misinterpreted. It’s an emergency thing; he’s not spying or anything. Don’t worry.

I have an old Android in a drawer somewhere, but it’s running 4.4, it isn’t supported by any ROMs, and the battery barely lasts half an hour, so there’s no point in trying to get it to work.

I’ll also be going to university this year, so I should be able to get a cheap Pixel on eBay and flash GrapheneOS onto it soon enough.

hellfire103 OP ,
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To cut a long story short, it’s 2.

hellfire103 OP ,
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Thanks!

hellfire103 OP ,
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Thanks! The last one won’t work, since it’ll be all MicroG’ed, but those are still some great counterarguments.

hellfire103 OP ,
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You’ll be able to sideload. The mandate includes the EEA (which includes Switzerland), as well as the EU.

hellfire103 OP ,
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Linux phones are cool, but not ready for general use yet… unless that’s changed recently, in which case I’ll look into buying a PinePhone.

On desktop, I use Debian and FreeBSD.

hellfire103 OP ,
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Aw, seriously? I’m getting worse at spotting that.

hellfire103 ,
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I use master because I’m nostalgic. If it matters that much, though, I’ll start using trunk (like we used to back in the days of SVN).

hellfire103 ,
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Ha! Yeah, I remember that phase. I was planning to install LXDE as my first distro, simply because I thought the wallpaper looked cool.

hellfire103 ,
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Since Old Reddit will be dead soon, have a look at kddit and Eddrit. They’re like Libreddit, but not blocked (yet). However, you should try to avoid using them, as they get ratelimited quite easily.

hellfire103 ,
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NoScript generally helps this. No JS means no uBo detection.

hellfire103 ,
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Try changing your user agent to a Chrome one (e.g. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36). Works a treat!

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Whoa! Thank you!

hellfire103 OP ,
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What’s the problem with running an older OSX? github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

I am running 10.6. Chromium Legacy is for 10.7 and above, and the same is true of a lot of software. Meanwhile, on my Linux partition, I can have Firefox Nightly if I want. It’ll run heavily, but it’s possible.

As it happens, I do have a somewhat recent browser installed in OSX, but it’s not great.

Also, running an older OS like that isn’t a good idea, as it won’t have received security patches or microcode updates.

That’s the thing, you can run a 64-bit distro as long as you’ve a 32 bit grub starting it :)

I hadn’t quite considered that somebody had implemented this. Thanks for the info!

There was also another user who gave me a link to some software that modifies mixed-mode ISOs so that they will boot on my potato laptop.

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That be a Conky. I’ll give you a copy of my config in a bit, if you like.

EDIT: Here it is: mocha.conf. If you don’t have the font, JetBrains Mono, installed, you will need to edit the file to reflect this.

hellfire103 OP ,
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Well, there are two main methods of package management in FreeBSD, which (according to people who seem to know their stuff) should not be mixed.

Packages are pre-compiled binaries, which are installed with either:

  • # pkg install <package>

    or

  • $ doas pkg install <package>

and can be found at FreshPorts.

Then there are ports. You have to enable this during installation. Essentially, it gives you a directory containing all of the available sources, known as the ports tree. You cd in and run the command, and it pulls in the code, compiles it, and installs. However, due to my ancient processor, I do not use ports and so have no idea what commands to actually run or even where to find the ports tree in the first place.

Remember to check the documentation!

hellfire103 OP ,
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Yeah, they’re having some trouble with Pictrs. I’ll relink.

hellfire103 OP ,
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UCAS is the organisation that deals with applications to higher education (e.g. university) in the United Kingdom.

EPQ stands for “Extended Project Qualification”, and is an A-Level enhancement subject. In this subject, you pick a topic in September and spend the next few months writing an essay on it.

hellfire103 OP ,
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There are plenty of queer 17-year olds like me here, too!

hellfire103 OP ,
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If I messed up, my representative should return the form in due course.

hellfire103 OP ,
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A-Levels are a British standardised exam, at the same level as the American SATs. However, they are much harder.

An enhancement subject is (AFAIK) a way of getting more UCAS points, which increases your chances of being accepted at some universities.

hellfire103 ,
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If you’re after an online dictionary, I personally like Wiktionary.

hellfire103 ,
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What themes/configs are you using?

hellfire103 ,
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Thanks!

hellfire103 OP ,
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Especially since WD-40 changed its recipe.

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