So it can only be used for one thing at a time? (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphe89d61d66/ios)
Even my cheap Android phone does this better, although I wish there were more modes like triple, short then long, 2 short then long, or changing action for when screen is locked vs unlocked (e.g. flashlight when locked, toggle VPN when unlocked).
But it's at least something.
After a year there's only something about linux-firmware requiring manual intervention.
I thought I wasn't reading the news in correct place. Manjaro had update snapshot discussion threads, and usually there were things to fix manually. Usually just minor things.
NO fish pics
Are you referring to fishing or phishing?
I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly
Someone's probably trying to stop that already, in a way. Low(er) sentences for rape and abortion bans. Maybe will be followed by something else, like decreasing age of consent. Or banning things like hysterectomy, salpingectomy, vasectomy.
All the good solutions /s
Germans skip to ich_iel.
Not sure if "good" is the right word, but at least cool.
Torrenting, high speed mobile data modem (especially with manual selection of frequency bands on MediaTek), local OpenSpeedTest server (available as app), WiFi analyzer (most used channels), VNC client, the slowest x86 emulation in Qemu-based Limbo PC emulator, SDR receiver software (SDR++, SDRAngel, Welle.io, dump1090, SatDump), RTL-TCP server, SSTV decoder and encoder, HTTP proxy server, Kiwix server, NGINX web server/proxy, Navidrome server, Cloudflare proxy client, SSH server, VNC server (only for Termux's desktop), satellite tracker, Mifare Magic NFC card programmer (MCT), audio spectrum analyzer, serial terminal.
I wanted to attach screenshots, but realized it's way too much stuff.
Slovakia
Notify my employer that I won't show up, go to doctor and wait in the waiting room. When the nurse shows up, give her the insurance card and wait for your turn. They'll check you, and if it's nothing special (requiring a specialist), you'll probably get prescription for some meds to pick up.
Then you get those in a pharmacy. Either it's electronic, or if the system is once again broken, you hand them the Rx paper that the Dr. gives you in that case. And then you figure out what you're about to pay. A lot of things will be fully covered by insurance, but potentially you'll have to copay. There's also a chance the Dr. tells you to get something that isn't covered, like some specific eyedrops, cough meds, probiotics (if you have antibiotics for example), etc.
The pharmacist may recommend a cheaper alternative, will likely tell you recommended dosage, tell you that once again this specific Dr. prescribed something that hasn't been manufactured for the past 30 years, and in the rare case, tell you the prescription seems dangerous and to contact the Dr.
And also decrypt any handwriting/encoding.
I had luck with VNC, although it's still worse than RDP. There's also some RDP implementations on Linux that are apparently better, but VNC works well enough for me.
But there's no sound, I don't know if RDP has that. I've used VLC for sound forwarding. I also tried PulseAudio TCP module, but that didn't quite work. With VLC I can do lossy compression.
What I wish would work better is X11 forwarding. That could be so awesome, just having the remote windows local-like. But from what I can find, in the past, programs used X11's drawing features which would save a lot of bandwidth, while now they just draw pixel by pixel.
To give you some idea, I've tried it on LAN with gigabit ethernet, ping below 1ms. It would saturate the port and still be kinda slow.
I also found it OK-ish, at least after my usual disabling of BITS and SuperFetch (SysMain now, I think), and disabling auto-updates, I think in gpedit.msc, and using the provided BypassNRO.cmd to create local account.
Alright, maybe not that OK, but after the initial setup it ran fine even on officially unsupported computer made in 2007. Just had to modify the installer by merging W11 image into W10 installer.
Anyway, the Windows store or whatever isn't that used, and I got tired of updating every random program coming from .exe files. But similarly I don't like the large hops in versions like Windows 10 -> 11, or similarly with Linux Mint, so I went with Arch.
Anyway, I'll be a smaller minority. I most liked Windows 8.1. It was really well optimized.
~~^test^~~
Eh.
Just because I can.
But it also proves 2G is still at least somewhat usable.
I would just switch my phone to 2G only and then continue the download in Termux using wget because that's most reliable way to download files.
I let it run overnight, then stop it when I needed my phone during the day, then let it run again at night when not needed anymore.
However, 2G is quite inefficient, so this actually drains the battery a lot.
I wonder if the carrier just sees a weird spike in 2G data usage.
Anyway, calculation time. Wikipedia Kiwix ZIM file is approximately 110GB. 109,886,078,976B to be precise. With average speed of say 21KB/s, it would take around 2 months to download the whole English Wikipedia with low res pictures over 2G EDGE.
But also EDGE is quite better than original GSM Data (CSD), which offered breathtaking 9600bps.
My bank blocked my card due to a "high risk transaction"... again. This time they told me unblocking isn't possible, and issued me a free replacement.
And as the title says, as a kid I wanted to try putting a cut-out bank card chip into a phone. Yes, I grew up in 2FF era.
I also stripped the front foil because I was curious what's under it. Nothing. The card is just flimsy without it, and the chip contacts raise above the card.
The abomination in comparison to real SIM cards:
I have contactless and magnetic payments blocked. Only chip + PIN, thus the wear.
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Status | state: failed
| failed reason: sim-missing
| power state: on
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At least it detects something. Contact and SMS storage says "SIM not initialized"
The "Searching network" eventually fails (what a surprise), and switches to "Insert SIM" after a few minutes.
Apart from what's in the preface, the documents I signed still mention the standard 10 EUR charge. I asked to see what I am signing this time rather than just issuing the signature on their tablet and trusting the employee.
This time around, there is "fee will be individually assessed and charged" as well, and if I do get charged, I was told to dispute it at the bank.
Last time when giving me a card at the bank they just charged me anyway. Interestingly, that time the official reason was given as "card not delivered after 2 months". If that were indeed true, why should that be my problem?
That was when I just opened the account. They told me that I could get the card immediately ("free") rather than wait for it to arrive by mail.
Message from automated system approx. 12 hours before card blocking:
Plus, the payment worked on second attempt.
OH, FUN FACT: I didn't even use the physical card, but a digital single-use card generated in the bank app.
So, they blocked physical card, after suspicious payment made using digital card, and even if that made sense, they waited 12 hours and let my second attempt through.
The other 2 times the blocking happened after donating to archive.org
Ironically, it worked with one of Mullvad VPN servers.
Previously I just played around with a faulty DVD burner to make some lame stripes: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/28673131
https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage
It creates an audio track with carefully placed data to create visible images with pits and lands.
Quite crazy when you realize that this is a 5.38km long spiral
So... yeah... did I say I don't know to use GIMP? Well, how about some LibreOffice tomfoolery?
The presets needed a bit of fine-tuning since it isn't exactly the same Verbatim disc, but it was close enough already.
Thankfully it was pretty close, and I only had to change 1st track length. Although it still doesn't look quite perfect. I am not sure what "Track delta" could be, and honestly not even the 1st track. Maybe the former refers to exact track pitch? Dunno.
Art by Chimmie Firefly
https://xenia.chimmie.k.vu/
https://e926.net/posts/4557942
Looks good. The photo source is X (formerly known as Twitter), so that sucks source-wise.
But an alternative is here: https://railcolornews.com/2023/11/20/cz-finally-bolt-the-railway-dog-reveals-locomotive-name-after-himself/
As the URL hints, this is a photo from Czech Railways' introduction of Siemens Vectron locomotive named "Boltík" after Bolt's fursona.
Unfortunately, it's missing the name after being repainted, I don't know what's up with that, but that's also off-topic.
So, the images are cool, and they are quite crisp (if I don't use LibreOffice as image editor xD), but how does it sound?
You see, it's just an audio track.
Here you go: https://files.catbox.moe/kjhumj.flac
And for Lemmy WebUI users, an embed should work too:
Maybe. It's FLAC, I've used it with MP3 successfully, will depend on browser too.
Most apps try to display this audio as picture, but there is no picture. Well, I mean, technically a few meters of it.
TL;DR
I wanted to convert Czech SIM card to eSIM so I travelled to Czech Republic. I failed to do so there as well. ~600km both ways (373mi) (summed). I photographed some trains and pet a cat.
So, ehm. I have very random interests, and now I just play around with SIM cards a bit.
So 6 months or so ago I bought Czech T-Mobile Twist IoT Standard SIM, just for fun. There were instructions on how to activate it from abroad, and it worked. Better yet, it can connect to 3 MNOs in Slovakia.
Cool. But I've advanced. I've found about these external eUICC chips like ThinkPad Thales. In the end I got 9esim V3. Also has STK profile switching.
I wanted to also convert that T-Mobile IoT card to eSIM, but failed to do so. Profile downloaded and installed just fine, but the SIM wouldn't connect. T-Mobile's website says it may not be possible to activate eSIM in Roaming in some cases, and to rather do so in Czech Republic.
Now, you see, I am a totally normal, sane and reasonable person. So I figured out my only option was to ~~give up~~ travel to Czech Republic.
Unfortunately I don't live near the borders, so this took a while.
I arrived in Olomouc. If I were to get stuck somewhere, it better be some normal city rather than a small town or village.
I've had 2 of those SIMs to try 2 slightly different ways since I am not sure if it makes a difference.
Neither worked.
Relevant screenshots:
Theories:
My carrier 4ka barely ever managed to connect in roaming. It would take minutes to register at least in 2G which it would take again if it disconnected. It also wiped the correct APN which I had to manually add back. 4G it managed to connect to twice for a short time.
It also had issues registering in home network back in Slovakia. I had to switch it to 2G only first, and just then back to 4G in *#*#4636#*#* menu.
But anyway, my data plan doesn't have any data allowance in EU, just €0.014/MB.
So I just bought BNESIM.
I also had some issues with anxiety until I was finally on train to CR. I couldn't stop my leg, I was a bit shaky, and when I checked my HR was 117BPM while just sitting. Not that high, but still a bit too high for resting HR.
79BPM on the final train.
Also found this "vehicle for measuring of RF networks", but unfortunately it was locked away from me, so I just have this bad photo:
It was in the Púchov station back in SK. Just heard a loud meow when I was waiting for a train back home and walking around the station.
Not sure what to do now. I wanted my primary SIM as physical one in slot 1 and random eSIMs in slot 2, including this one. Crap.
Who needs sleep anyway?
Edit: Replaced Catbox with Imgur as it didn't embed
I appreciate how the image is gradually loaded from this server by basically fading in, rather than appearing top-to-bottom as usual.