Well, if you’re using Mullvad’s malware/ad filters etc there’s really no need for a PiHole in the first place (unless you’re doing some funky custom filtering).

Mullvad’s DNS. It’s available for non-subscribers as well, and their privacy policy explicitly claims they do not log DNS requests in any way. https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/

They support both DoT and DoH, and also have various servers for blocking ads, trackers etc (if you wish to use them): https://github.com/mullvad/dns-blocklists

I that case, check out Fedora CoreOS.

https://www.talos.dev/

It runs entirely in RAM, administration is super simple, no ssh, easy to update/and upgrade, immutable, minimal distro designed specifically for secure container usage.

How about Gogs? The whole thing is < 30 MB, and is lightweight enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. You can even get a native binary package if you want to run it without the overhead of Docker.

Yep

Yep, just use the rectangular selection from the edge panel and you can save it as a screenshot or extract the text.

Native Alpha is an opensource alternative.

Probably Oblivion and Skyrim. Depends on the controls though, some PC games require a mouse and keyboard to play (like Age of Empires), so it would be interesting to see how they handle button mapping and mouse drags/gestures.

This hasn’t aged well:

I wonder if getting a smartwatch with tap-to-pay, like the Pixel watch could help with that? You could still continue to use GrapheneOS on your phone (assuming the watch has no phone dependencies).

- 2011, HTC Desire

Running ADW Launcher on probably Android Froyo, and the Tron Legacy theme. Tron Legacy was released only a month prior to this screenshot, and I was a huge fan, so I themed everything I had with Tron themes. It was a tough decision whether to go for the Nexus One or the Desire, in the end, I picked the Desire because it had slightly more RAM and physical navigation buttons. Plus, the optical joystick on it was awesome. Also most likely running a custom ROM, not sure which one but possibly Oxygen.

- 2013, Nexus 4

I guess I was testing out TeamViewer for Android here. Not sure about the launcher, but still stuck on the Tron theme lol. Running Android Jellybean, Paranoid Android, with pie controls in the second screenshot (man I miss the pie controls. And old PA, with the per-app DPI, Halo and other cool stuff).

- 2013, Nexus 4

Still on the Tron theme (don’t judge), but this time I’ve switched to Smart Launcher. This is probably the launcher I liked the most and stuck with the longest, thanks to it’s automatic app categorization, which meant I no longer had to create folders and manually organize my apps. I stuck with Smart Launcher until it’s inevitable enshittification started. Running CyanogenMod 11 (KitKat).

It’s November 2013 and I finally got over Tron lol, and started getting more into minimal home screens.

Running XuiMod (Xposed module), which brought back the Gingerbread-style recents. (on KitKat).

Bonus video showing off my entire setup running Smart Launcher, crDroid and a few of my apps at the time: https://youtu.be/2JMBPtKzx2o

I’ve got tons more screenshots and videos, but don’t want to spam this thread. If anyone’s interested though I’ll be happy to share. :)

Does it handle application updates as well?

Cassia is a Wine fork + FEXCore + easy to use GUI with the ability to create Wine prefixes. It’s made by the same guys who made the Skyline Emulator, which was prolly the best Nintendo Switch emulator on Android, so the expectations are pretty high.

From from what I heard, apparently it’s a lot slower than Box4Droid, although it’s easier to use.

There’s also the upcoming Cassia emulator, which looks promising and should be better than either of them.

As for the use case, there are plenty of good PC games without a decent Android port/equivalent. A lot of us spend more time on Android than on PC, so it makes sense that we’re starting to see more and more projects like these (besides, most native Android games suck).

Just tested this - looks like it only works if you’ve got the direct link, if it’s an album link (ie URL containing /a/), then it’ll only show up as a link.

Essentially, yeah.

I left Reddit because Spez is an asshole and he killed third-party API access (which, btw, impacted more than just clients - many useful bots/scripts died too as a result of this change).

For many of us, Sync was Reddit, and killing Sync basically killed Reddit for us, but now that Sync is back (for Lemmy), many of us are more than happy to pay a subscription to support the dev, instead of supporting Reddit. ljdawson is an awesome developer who actually listens to his users and updates his apps regularly. If you don’t want to support him and/or use a different app, that’s your call of course, but for fans of Sync, it’s like coming back home after a long time and getting that feeling of “there’s no place like home”.

That could represent the non-standard Androids, like Huawei. :p

With A/B devices

The problem is, many popular devices still don’t have A/B partitions - Samsung being one of them.

I’m not sure even if the S24 / Fold 5 have it, haven’t heard anyone mention anything about this yet.