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[–] vvv@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think you can link a second Whatsapp app, similar to the web client. your primary one needs a webcam to read the QR code though

[–] vvv@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago

A JavaScript VM in the kernel is inevitable.

[–] vvv@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

not by any means modern, but I used to really like pal

[–] vvv@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

and it's potentially an existential threat.

[–] vvv@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago

More than that, your editor doesn't run with root permissions, which reduces the risk of accidentally overwriting something you didn't mean to.

[–] vvv@programming.dev 18 points 3 months ago

it feels to me, like they're less looking for new people to start doing this "work", but more to connect with people who already happen to be enthusiastically going to events and showing off their laptops.

[–] vvv@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

Macy's now has a Toys Я Us branded toy department.

[–] vvv@programming.dev 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

... but there is a way, and it has been proven.

One of the more memorable physics classes I've had went into the history of discoveries that led to our understanding of relativity. The relevant story here, starts with how sound travels though air.

Let's say you're standing at the bottom of a building shouting to your friend peeking out a window on the 5th floor. On a calm day, that friend will hear you at pretty much the same time as someone standing the same distance away, but on the street. However, if it's windy, the wind pushes around the air through which the sound of your voice is traveling, the friend up in the window will have a slight delay in receiving that sound. This can of course be verified with more scientific rigor, like a sound sent in two perpendicular directions activating a light.

Scientist at the time thought that light, like sound, must travel though some medium, and they called this theoretical medium the Aether. Since this medium is not locked to Earth, they figured they must be capable of detecting movement of this medium, an Aether wind, if you will. If somehow the movement of this medium caused the speed of light in one direction to be faster than another due to the movement of this medium, measuring the speed in two directions perpendicular to each other would reveal that difference. After a series of experiments of increasing distances and measurement sensitivities (think mirrors on mountain tops to measure the time for a laser beam to reflect), no change in the speed of light based on direction was found.

Please enjoy this wikipedia hole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment , and please consider a bit of caution before you refer to things as facts in the future!

[–] vvv@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you using PersistentVolumes? If your storage class supports it, looks like there's a volume snapshot concept you can use, have you looked into that?

[–] vvv@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not sure what you're doing, but if we're talking about a bog standard service backed by a db, I don't think having automated reverts of that data is the best idea. you might lose something! That said, triggering a snapshot of your db as a step before deployment is a pretty reasonable idea.

Reverting a service back to a previous version should be straightforward enough, and any dedicated ci/cd tool should have an API to get you information from the last successful deploy, whether that is the actual artifact you're deploying, or a reference to a registry.

As you're probably entirely unsurprised by, there are a ton of ways to skin this cat. you might consider investing in preventative measures, testing your data migration in a lower environment, splitting out db change commits from service logic commits, doing some sort of blue/green or canary deployment.

I get fairly nerd-sniped when it comes to build pipelines so happy to talk more concretely if you'd like to provide some more details!

[–] vvv@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not even Chrome is blocking some of the add-ons...

is that something you know for sure? or has Google quietly complied with similar requests, without making a statement like Mozilla has here?

[–] vvv@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I do this with my xreal glasses sometimes when washing dishes or whatever. Connected to phone in my pocket with a desktop mode, set a black wallpaper, and drag the video into a corner.

It's nice for situations like that, where you're doing something with your hands and can't reasonably place a screen in a way where you wouldn't have to constantly strain your neck to look at it.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by vvv@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hi! I'm swapping my daily android phone for the nth time today and going through my set-up "check-list". As apps are updating/installing, I thought I'd check in with the hive-mind, what are you all doing to make the process easier? Maybe you know of a way to self-host some sort of android profile server? I'll post my process + list of goals & gripes below and if you have any tips or suggestions about what I can do better, I'd love to hear them!!

Current Process

  • flash clean rom
  • walk through the setup process
  • enable developer mode + adb
  • go through default app list disabling/uninstalling crap i don't want
  • use 'fdroidcl' to install all my fdroid apps
  • adb push a gpg private key to import into OpenKeychain
  • generate a ssh keypair in Password Store, put public key on my server via ConnectBot, clone passwords repo
  • log into firefox sync
  • log into joplin
  • configure fairmail
  • configure davx
  • log in to google account
  • download play store apps I was missing
  • go through apps one by one, logging in to accounts + doing configuration
  • deal with fucking whatsapp
  • hold old phone + new phone side by side and made sure i got everything

Goals & Gripes

App Installation

fdroidcl helps a LOT here, i can have a list of my minimal required packages - password management solution, browser, and notes get installed and it solves a lot of bootstrapping problems for me. I never need to do the dance of opening chrome, downloading fdroid, giving chrome install permissions, installing fdroid, etc.

that said, it is /slow/ and obviously limited to installing apps from fdroid repositories. maybe the slowness i can solve with self-hosting an fdroid repo, but i'm still stuck with having to install a bunch of apps manually either through aurora store, or play store.

App configuration

If i could push in arbitrary app configurations i would be sooooo happy. certain apps have config export/import, like my launcher, but that's far from all of them. i've tried a number of "backup" options, like Titanium, but obviously they don't work without root and don't always work /with/ root, especially going across devices. I've vaguely considered using Appium for this but ... ehhhh.

De-googling

Okay, so I can probably solve the apk problem somehow... I can solve the contacts sync... but I really like android auto, and that's a non-starter without a system google account afaik.

Whatsapp

i've never once managed to successfully move whatsapp to another device and not lose my chat history. it starts restoring from a backup, fails, and kicks me into being logged in without any chance of a restore.

Edit: oh and if you have any suggestion that'd make me not hate re-pairing wearos watch... 🥺

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