hexagonwin's comments

On: Chuwi Minibook X

[hexagonwin]

maybe try a linux distro like tinycore or porteus? it puts the rootfs in ram so things run insanely fast, and sync changes to disk before shutdown

[egorfine → hexagonwin]

It's got 8GB ram. Not sure whether that will help.

Also some support from distribution is needed, because the screen is rotated as well, fan needs software support, etc

[hexagonwin → egorfine]

hardware support is provided by the linux kernel, it should be fine. if there's issues one could just switch kernels..

8gb is plenty. i've ran tinycore on machines with 512MB or less

On: Reddit Is Blocking Some Users from Accessing Its Website from Mobile Devices

[hexagonwin]

i believe you linked something else

edit: the parent commenter's comment history looks weird; constantly linking to that url. is this a bot i'm replying to?

[kurtoid → hexagonwin]

It's a bot

edit: or a human spammer, but no difference IMO

[hexagonwin → kurtoid]

i legit couldn't tell it aside from the sketchy link. this is getting scary.

On: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

[hexagonwin]

wikipedia is fine, and you can still use vector or even monobook skins. try adding ?useskin=monobook at the end of the url

On: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

[hexagonwin]

for a short time i had warcprox sitting behind my firefox and auto feeding its output to pywb, it seemed to work but i had connections failing randomly after having warcprox running for more than a few hours~days. not sure if it's an issue with pywb or warcprox but there were some urls missing that i did browse on firefox, and many dynamic pages couldn't be replayed at all.

[sunshine-o → hexagonwin]

I am not surprised...

I am unfamiliar with web caching proxies like squid [0] but I am wondering if that might be the most straightforward way to do this.

So use squid and then have a batch job that go through /var/spool/squid every day and update your web archive according to some defined filters.

- [0] https://www.squid-cache.org/

On: Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

[hexagonwin]

they silently ran the DDoS script on their captcha page (which is frequently shown to visitors, even when simply viewing and not archiving a new page)

On: Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

[hexagonwin]

RIP

On: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

[hexagonwin]

Is this open source? Would be cool to self host this..

On: LineageOS 23.2

[hexagonwin]

are there any examples of such device that got a recent version of LineageOS ported with the mainline kernel? it seemed like there's almost no android phone with mature enough support in the mainline kernel, and most android custom roms just backport needed functionality to old downstream vendor kernels.

On: LineageOS 23.2

[hexagonwin]

you can use a treble GSI rom, I use one for two of my devices that lack community features and all the features work. Just make sure to not get OneUI8 that blocks bootloader unlock.

[hexagonwin → hexagonwin]

Just noticed you mention already updating, in that case check for the bootloader version of the current firmware, if Samsung didn't bump the number (for anti rollback) yet you can get back to previous version.

On: Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback

[hexagonwin]

They can kill custom roms and force the latest vendor firmware. If they push a shitty update that slows down the phone or something, users have no choice other than buying a new device.

[bcraven → hexagonwin]

The article suggests custom roms can just be updated to be 'newer' than this.

At the moment they're 'older' and would class as a rollback, which this fuse prevents.