biktor_gj

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by biktor_gj 3y ago
First things first: I never implied (or wanted to imply) that you were introducing malware in that patchset, just that you could introduce it and I wouldn't be able to find that in a PR so big. Sorry if that came out wrong. Still, that
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by biktor_gj 3y ago
It has had different phone numbers before, but we always ended up having some issue with some app where the it (correctly) thought the number was invalid, wouldn't allow you to reply etc. So I settled with two easy to remember numbers:
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by biktor_gj 4y ago
Probably on every connect, there are ways to randomize your IMEI on every boot on certain phones though (that might be not very legal in some countries)
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by biktor_gj 5y ago
I did the mod with a Pinecil and some tweezers in my kitchen table in 15 minutes. Might look hard but if you have steady hands and a $25 soldering iron you can do it without issues
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by biktor_gj 5y ago
On the other hand, I have a XPS 15 9500 I use with Linux all day and never had an issue with anything. Always suspends, never wakes up by itself, no hardware issues... My work 16" MBP on the other hand killed the battery after one week
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by biktor_gj 5y ago
I'm no expert, but if you ask me, I would completely erase the phone, upgrade it via DFU, and start fresh. After setting it up again, run another backup and rerun the tool to doublecheck. That or ditch the phone
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by biktor_gj 5y ago
Given there's an electronic lock on the other side with a keypad, it makes me think that thing has its own actuator and didn't want to mess with it. Otherwise it would just be a matter of adding an "Electric strike?" ( h
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by biktor_gj 5y ago
There was no option to bypass cloud login when it got to my hands, apparently that has been "fixed" with some update, but if you buy a device and it comes with an outdated firmware, as it tends to be the case with their cameras an
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by biktor_gj 5y ago
After the Unifi Video fiasco, I bought a UDM Pro to test Unifi Protect. Once I saw it required cloud login I got scared. After I saw an ubiquiti ssh key preinstalled in a device with unfeteted internet access I shut it down to never bring i
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
You can connect multiple accounts from the desktop client if that's what you mean... If you mean nextcloud to nextcloud there's also federation, but haven't really tried that as I've never needed it.
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
That count is only of quectel and qualcomm binaries and libraries, busybox, sysvinit, scripts, config files etc. where not in that pack. True though, most of them don't do anything interesting, or only one interesting thing for the tho
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
Not parent, and I'm not going to say it sucks, the project takes a lot of work from a lot of people and I ain't the one pissing on other people's work, it definitely could use some improvements syntax wise though, What was it
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The Digital Markets Act: ensuring fair and open digital markets(ec.europa.eu)
1 points by biktor_gj 6y ago|0 comments
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
Right now, on Mobian, you will get more or less 2-3 hours of screen on time, with everything enabled (modem, wifi, bluetooth, max screen brightness and doing stuff with it If you just let it sleep (modem on registered to the network, allowi
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
It depends a lot on cable quality, what you have on either side and the connectors in between. At work we had to repurpose a pair 170ish meter cat 6 cables for some cameras and it has worked nicely for three years (with PoE even). We tried
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
That is not true since Mojave. It will always tell you you have a pending update, it will dump a notification to update to Big Sur (already happened to me this morning), and it'll do it's best to confuse you to update. Case in poi
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
More because the Inetrnet came and allowed every vendor to sell directly from their webpage instead of going through the distribution channel, making retail software stores obsolete There are two platforms that drive 100% of the mobile phon
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
The biggest announcement here seems to be the "Security updates from Google Play" I don't know if that means Samsung doesn't get to decide when you get updates or if it means "we're delaying security updates fr
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
Casio solved that problem 40 years ago with 4 screws and a rubberband. It is what it is, the same with soldered ram in laptops. Cheaper manufacturing + worse repairability == bigger earnings per quarter Two screws on each side of the batter
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
Crust runs in a RISC cpu inside the Allwinner chip, and it only works in that. I don't know if the NXP chip has a 'dedicated' core to manage the actual ARM cores, but all the work done in Crust won't be portable to the L
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
Well, probably this was the result of some corruption in a parameter in the flash. On the early days of the Samsung Galaxy phones if you broke part of the efs partition the modem couldn't read the IMEI and would fall back to a generic
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by biktor_gj 6y ago
It's even worse when you notice that two of the four "new" models come with an 8th gen Intel CPU, and DDR3 memory, it's like they replaced the keyboard from the previous model and they're calling it "new".
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by biktor_gj 7y ago
Doesn't the Android emulator run in QEMU? And doesn't qemu actually emulate a Soundcard? So it makes sense that when the emulator starts and boots the kernel in the VM it will probe the devices and act as an audio in&out pass
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by biktor_gj 7y ago
Truth is, Windows is a mess when installing stuff also. Beside installation folder and registry, there is also user's AppData folder, \ProgramData in system drive, and then installers tend to leave some MSIs in \Windows\Installer, all
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by biktor_gj 7y ago
I'm a sysadmin with a mixed knowledge in C, PHP and Javascript my first time both with Vue and the whole webpack & npm world went like this: Day 1 I didn't understand anything Day 6 I started getting confortable with the stack
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by biktor_gj 8y ago
If Rich Rebuild's Youtube channel is to be believed, that's exactly what happens with Tesla if they're declared as dead and then someone buys it, fixes it but in Tesla's system the VIN has been declared dead. They lock y
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by biktor_gj 8y ago
I don't speak lawyer, but what I understood is this: 1. Going forward, we'll allow two licensing tiers: full package and light 2. All manufacturers selling phones in the EU will have to choose the licensing level for new devices
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by biktor_gj 8y ago
I always wondered why... I mean I understand the processes will be different for each vendor, but shouldn't 1nm the same for all vendors? They might use different technologies to achieve it but it should be a measuring unit... What is
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by biktor_gj 8y ago
Unless the alternative is discarding the hardware completely. See, it's all about pricing, not quality of the parts. Last iPhone I sent for repairs at work came back with an invoice of 340€ for a screen replacement. At work that's
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by biktor_gj 8y ago
It's a self-updating hosts file. If you only do it once in a month you'll start seeing ads again. Also you can edit the hosts file if you're rooted, but you definitely can't if you're running a stock unmodified ROM.

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