u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is ThinkPad L390y running Arch.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

SDF Unix shell username: user224

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I used to do absolutely everything on my phone, until I got a ThinkPad.

    But yeah, I went from a terrible HP that had SMR HDD and a TN panel where I constantly had to move my head depending on what I wanted to read because it had no contrast to 2-in-1 ThinkPad with pretty nice touchscreen IPS and NVMe SSD that I can charge with the same power bank and wall adapter I use for my phone.

    I am not really joking with that screen. When I wanted to do something beyond text, I’d either connect it to TV, or use a HDMI USB capture card connected to my phone.





  • I’ll add something:

    For the DNS I use NextDNS. They allow for control and monitoring. I recommend not using the block page. It took me months to figure out what was (exactly - I didn’t see the app behave like that before) eating my data, but resolving to IP with different service makes certain apps go nuts. For example, NetMonster was trying to make connection every second. Also some apps don’t seem to care about HTTPS and just proceed to show whatever is shoved at them.
    Without block page, they get 0.0.0.0 and won’t send garbage to NextDNS.
    I used the RethinkDNS firewall app to track this down.
    I checked my screenshots, it was 2.3KB per request. With 24/7 on data, that’s 5.9GB/month of garbage. Yikes. And that’s just 1 app.

    For DPI, above or equal to 600, you get tablet UI. This changes layout of some apps and gives you app icons and app drawer next to navigation buttons, if you’re not using gestures. I usually use 705dp. A bit of extreme for most.
    Oh, and reportedly high DPI settings used to cause boot loop on some MIUI devices, but it can cause glitches on some other devices (broken navigation on Moto G54 5G when I tried).