Thank you glimse

I Know. Lame duck.

I completely messed up my post. I got severely distracted ranting on and on.

Thats the main trouble with getting old.

Forgetting starts slowly, then all of a sudden you are rushed to hospital unable to remember your name.

I was talking about haventgotsacluetube (youtube) and not boatracecrook.

I do hope people will see through my obvious error

I have done this on a few friends phones who cannot afford a new phone, and or, their phone is not supported by lineage, E/os or any other AOSP custom roms.

I install Lawnchair which is not available on F-Droid unless you add the IzzyOnDroid repo. .

I use droid-ify or neostore, both make it easier to add repo’s and include lawnchair.

for the debloat:

Adb is the way to go here:

A lot of the google stuff can be removed, the caveat is that google play services and google play store cannot and should not be removed.

you can safely remove: Gmail, Google One, Google Wallet, Google Podcasts, Google News, Google Hangouts, Google AR Core Library, Google Docs, Google Play Movies, Google Music, Google Android Auto, Google Maps, google Chrome as well as facebook. youtube, amazon, ebay, netflix, linkedin, etc,

as well as all the other surveillance, data harvesting bloatware:

com.amazon.appmanager: com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping: com.booking com.ebay.carrier: com.ebay.mobile: com.facebook.appmanager : com.facebook.katana:c om.facebook.services: com.facebook.system: com.linkedin.android: com.netflix.mediaclient: com.opera.browser: com.opera.preinstall: com.spotify.music

A complete list here:

[GUIDE] Remove Google Play Services from Android without root via adb shell (more privacy for your malware phone)

https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-remove-google-play-services-from-android-without-root-via-adb-shell-more-privacy-for-your-malware-phone.4720085/

To enable ADB:

https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/

Be careful

For me.

This is how we all give Boatracecrook the cold shoulder and leave. The more people they block the better.

Boat race, is cockney rhyming slang for face.

At the very minimum, to protect future generations and our grand children and their children from; the banal, brainless, brain dead, manipulative surveillance.

I have never used Boatracecrook.

I must admit that as a new user on Lemmy, I do take umbrage at all the links to Boatracecrook videos that people feel they need to share and promote.

I trust people to watch the video and give a short written description, not add a poxy link in the avatar image.

I have got caught out more than once clicking on an user supplied avatar and I have been taken to poxy Boatracecrook.

To be honest, I was under the impression that lemmy was different and did not engage in the anti-human practices of Boatracecrook.

I cannot understand why anyone watching a Boatracecrook video, then suddenly decides to add a link for Lemmy users.

Then manipulatively hides the link in the avatar of the post, when the link could be added to the main text body for all to see, and give people a choice if they click on it.

I can only assume this is about self promotion and not about supporting the Lemmy community.

Hey SteveTech

I dont use internal or external SSD’s.

It maybe because I am an old greybeard, but I prefer to suffer the slight loss in speed of a HDD, so I can dd/erase/wipe them and reuse them again and again.

Though I have been using “disktest” to erase SSD’s and HDD’s recently and it has been working great. Much faster than zeroing with dd /dev/zero, shred or wipe.

https://crates.io/crates/disktest

https://github.com/mbuesch/disktest

However, I digress, I had not heard of f2fs before.

Ive been having an intersting read online.

It appears that it is a default for android phones.

I do have a few SSD’s laying around from when I replace them with HDD’s. So I will test f2fs on one of those.

Thank you

Hey ScoffingLizard

Airstrip One was the name of Britain in George Orwell’s book 1984.

Airstrip One is a part of Oceania.

In 1984, Oceania formed after the United States merged with the British Empire.

Its just my way of saying that my country is heading deeper into totalitarianism and fascism.

CCTV, facial recognition, the militarism of our police, police powers to kill people without facing criminal charge, the constant monitoring of its people, the uncontrolled power of big tech, big pharma, big agro and the rich. To me anyway, seems to indicate we are on the road to totalitarianism and fascism.

My niece, same age. no problems so far

I installed linux mint xfce on an old laptop for her.

we set it up together and she loves it. Themes icons and all that jazz.

I have hidden and removed items from the start menu. Just to keep it simple.

I also set up some aliases so she just has to open a terminal and type “update”. she loves that. Thinks she’s a hacker now and impresses her friends.

I have set up an alias to call bleachbit, so she just types “cleanup” in the terminal, types her password, and she can watch bleachbit do its thing. I explained to her how important it is to keep her machine clean, like housework at home.

I must say, Kids are a nighmare for attracting viruses and malware using windows, its not the best age to suddenly be thrust into the slop of the internet.

They are young and excitable and will click on anything and everything that catches their attention without giving it a second thought.

Its a big plus not worrying about viruses and malware on linux.

To stop her having free reign and accidentally seeing porn on the internet and protect her from the worst crap, I installed Mullvads DNS on linux and in the librewolf browser.

Mullvad have a fabulous family dns filter; https://family.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

here are the options:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

I have set the search engine to Startpage

I have also taken advantage of Ublock origin and added loads of these is the: my filters list

just a few of many to stop access to certain websites from the search pane

This one stops amazon links appearing in the startpage search

startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“.amazon.”])

startpage.##a[href=“.amazon.”]:upward(1)

This one stops ebay links appearing in the startpage search

startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“ebay.”])

startpage.##a[href=“.ebay.”]:upward(1)

I spent more time on this than anthing else;

Hi vimmiewimmie

My friend travels to the USA fairly often. or used to.

Before she goes, she has an old laptop that she rarely uses. I wipe the drive and re-install her favourite linux distro and do a basic set up. She has a laptop with a newly installed linux going through customs with no password. nothing to see here.

She has a spare Oneplus 6, especially for the USA, with Lineage on it, with no social media or any signed in apps. It is factory reset before she goes again with no password. she also takes usb drive with a distro already on it.

When she gets settled in the USA, she connects to wifi and installs the apps she needs. VPN, messenger etc, and emails me.

Between us we set up Signal messenger / molly. She installs it on her phone, I use her phone number from home and I send her the code/details via encrypted email.

once she is set up she only uses Signal to phone her friends, no open line calls or text messages, she only uses Signal’s camera to take any photos, so they are not stored on the phone.

she has nothing to hide, she is not a criminal, its just that we value privacy and confidentiality.

anything that she needs, she messages me and I send it to her via signal.

When she leaves the USA, she resets her phone. I have taught her how to erase her drive with the USB using dd and re-install linux from there.

She has decided that she will not go to the USA after the recent nightmares for foreign travellers.

Thanks Maeve

The recipe is originally from Trabic.

I changed the hydration and timings to be more beginner friendly.

It does taste extremely nice.

This recipe is going to be my go to recipe for Hot Cross buns but with cranberries and the usual dried fruit mixed in.

Hey pitiable_sandwich540

Thank you

I dont know why I have been so focussed and stuck on exFAT for all these years.

It must have been something I read somewhere that led me to it.

from all the decent feedback i have gotten on here, ext4 seems the best way to go.

I should have known this being a linux user for over 20 years.

Hey IanTwenty

Thank you

ext4 seems the way to go for me

What I really like about this dough is its natural sweetness.

I usually make breads, buns and cakes for the poeple at my local mental health charity, and the one day a week coffee morning, at my local church. Even though I am a Athiest.

My bun like recipes, cinnamon buns, cardamom buns, chelsea buns, hotcross buns, sticky buns etc, all use a sweet dough.

with at least 80g butter and 50g caster sugar per 500g flour.

Whereas, this dough has no extra sugars or fats.

with no extra sugar or fats, that has got to be a good thing.

Thank you Eideen

I have never used any back up programs, Maybe I should consider it.

Both Borg and Pike-backup are in the offical repos (extra).

I shall check them out

Thank you nyan

I will look into the dmask and fmask mount options.

Definitely a no! in regards to attaching my drives to any windows machine.

The last windows machine I turned on was a Windows 95 machine when they first came out.

I thank god, That I wouldnt even know how to turn on a windows 10 or 11 surveillance machine.

Thank you Hack3900

Thank you SavvyWolf

This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.

Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.

I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives.

Thank you Eugenia

Compressisng the files sounds a great idea.

I have in fact compressed a 12Gb file that I split into 10Gb chunks that still decompresses without problems.

This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.

Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.

I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives. I will test it this week

People in the USA do have more rights than people here on Airstip One.

Though we are both under the big black boot of government friendly fascism.

Since October 2007, we have had Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 or RIPA.

We cannot refuse to give up a password or access to an encrypted device.

Section 53 of RIPA makes it a criminal offence to not comply with a Section 49 notice, carrying a sentence of up to two years in prison, and up to five years in cases involving national security, terrorism or child indecency.

We have no Fifth Amendment covering self-incrimination laws to protect us from over zealous police and state.

Who in society is going to argue against laws that are sold to us to protect our children?

I am an old retired psychotherapist. I remember the introduction of the CRB (criminal records bureau) check, here on Airstrip one in the early 2000’s. Now called a DBS check.

The CRB scanned the Police National Computer for any criminal offences that you had committed, this also included juvenile, aged under 17 offences. Which empowered all employers to use the CRB checks to get rid of staff and refuse to employ certain people. Discrimination was rife.

You were now judged, not on your competence to do your job, but whether you had a criminal record.

I would not have minded so much if they solely searched for any offence that were linked to child abuse, terrorism or national security, but they provided your entire life criminal offences.

My enhanced CRB check showed that I had gotten fined £3 for riding my bicycle on a pavement in the mid 60’s when I was 11 years old. My mum had to pay. My dad earned about £10 per week as a lorry driver.

What a danger to society I was! An employer could refuse to employ me just because of that little bit of information.

Sold to the UK population as a means to protect our children from sexual predators. Of course no one complained.

Yet, forward just a few years and you needed a CRB check to work at:

The airport, the local supermarket, as a gardener in a school, as a handyman sweeping the car park of the local doctors practice.

you needed to have a CRB check if you came within 100M of a child or vulnerable adult.

Even University students now have to have a CRB checks if they are on a psychology, counselling or psychotherapy course, because they may come into contact with children and or vulnerable adults.

This is the slow creep of government policies expanding, with no oversight, sold to us under the guise that they are protecting children and vulnerable adults.

fear is a great driver for change. scare someone enough and they will give up their granny.

I think this is also linked to Airstrip One’s governments, continually attempting to remove all encryption from devices by using child protection as a reason

Thank you for replying. I can upload another montage image that I have juts reduced. fingers crossed that will be all the images Sorry about your friend

Here we go. the complete set

nope, it only allowed one image

I will upload some more photos to show the whole process when someone replies