Simon Müller

Cat and Tech enthusiast from Germany. Account by @cyrus@wetdry.world

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Cake day: April 30th, 2024

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  • Maybe you’re interested in the latest testing versions of Lawnchair?

    They’re completely rebased it on modern versions of the Stock Android launcher, and they do support the Google feed on the left, the searchbar, things like PixelSearch and more, as well as customizing the experience to your liking

    it is not on-par in features with old versions of Lawnchair 2 yet, but for being a complete remake from scratch I find it quite remarkable





  • If you wanna go nuts on the data, probably Obsidian.md with the built-in Daily Note plugin and the Dataview plugin, which allows you to do all kinds of crazy operations on the data in your vault as if it was a database.

    If you wanna go less nuts, obsidian still has tagging, linking notes, daily notes, and all kinds of other stuff built-in and is extensible by things like the Calendar plugin from the community.

    And everything is stored as plain Markdown with the occasional hint of JSON (for some plugins) so you’re not locked into using Obsidian until the end of time. Your data is yours.

    (I realise this sounds like an ad but I’ve just been using Obsidian for years now and I enjoy it)




  • One thing that Steam/Valve has done with the Steam Deck is lock down the ISO by default, and provide no tools to modify your image persistently. That is of course on purpose, because that works for 99% of users, but the 1% of users may wanna use something where they can, for instance, overlay packages and keep them with updates, or apply extra gaming-focused tweaks that may be more of a hassle to maintain on SteamOS.

    For instance, I use Fedora Silverblue daily on my Desktop, and even though it is immutable just like the Deck, it offers me tools to modify my image as I see fit and have the same modifications be applied to future updates too.



  • Indeed, rooting usually beats the purpose.

    Not because it inherently makes you less private, but because having bad security makes it hard to be private, and opening up a way in android to allow apps to do what they want (selective root access) usually requires punching a lot of holes.

    Even with AVBRoot, which allows you to setup Magisk or KernelSU with full Verified Boot support, you’re still leaving open the possibility that something abuses the fact you’re rooted against you.

    But just so you know, if you insist, you can skip the step of locking your pixel’s bootloader and install Magisk, but do not expect any support from that point onwards.