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Internet works on my iPhone on my own WiFi again. I removed the shitty NetBird app.

Just removed the Pod on my Orange Pi too.

And deleted my account.

I have no use for something that’s broken.

They have reverse proxies in beta now. Not what I want though. Upload too slow to do that.

Internet wasn’t even working on cell data. Had to fuck with the NetBird crap to get it working. Then completely removed it before I came home.

Do all iOS VPNs not work? No idea. WireGuard used to work, with old iOS. Guess I should get that info, so I can connect it to my local VPN at least. Or not. Doesn’t really matter.

Kind of a useless watch, no screen locking. I put it in my pocket, when I go to the bathroom not at home. And then if using it with iOS, it calls people. Can’t seem to disable that, without disabling a bunch of other stuff.

Well, don’t really like this watch anymore. Doubt it’s worth anything either.

Unless somebody really wants to use it with Gadgetbridge.

Thought I liked the big round screen. Not sure I care anymore.

I’d rather have a working watch. But I won’t use my Apple Watch Series 9, thanks to the burned charging cable. Threw it out. Don’t trust the watch itself after that. Didn’t even notice that when it happened. So when did it happen? With watch on it or not?

Looks like new Apple Watch SE’s are too expensive. I won’t pay much for an Apple Watch. The battery life sucks ass on them.

Apple refurbished is a big rip off too. Look at Best Buy’s price for a refurbished one.

Well, a better option, no watch. Amazfit might have a lock screen feature. Don’t get a round one, or the newest round one, and it’ll be under $100.

But then i have to use the Zepp app. Probably not much worse then using the Nothing X app.

Does the Band 7 Amazfit do more then what those Fitbit bands did?

That’s nice and cheap. On eBay.

If the screen can be locked, it’s better then this watch.

I won’t ask anybody to buy me a watch for my birthday, cause I really don’t need a watch at all. But I might buy one for $30, if it can be locked. Amazfit, likely better then the cheapo watch I bought on Amazon once.

Look at reviews on Amazon for the Band 7. Might have a problem falling off. A year ago, on Reddit, they said it’s easy to unlock the screen. Also, it sounds like it has to be locked manually.

Well, I’ll pass on any Amazfit.

I think the only other option for iOS, is Garmin. If they have a non round one, and it’s old, and refurbished, it might be more affordable.

Apple Watch isn’t a good option, neither are Google watches.

How is the Garmin vívosmart® 5 under $100 on eBay “new”? Might be stolen.

$120 refurbished on eBay. Says authorized, and not under $100. So might be fine.

Might have some bad reviews for some reason on some sites though.

Ahh, Garmin might add “features” to their software as well, just like Apple.

Well, a basic dumb watch would be a watch. But no watch is better then that too.

Apple might be one of the only with the SE 2 refurbished and no cellular. That’ll drain the battery, just like WiFi. Also, costs more money.

Under $100 on Backmarket, for SE 2 with cellular. How about $50 for the WiFi one then? Or is there no WiFi one?

$105 for the SE 3 “open box” on eBay. Says box is damaged. But how is it only $105? Everything Apple is in more demand then it should be. And buying a phone on eBay is risky. Not sure about a WiFi only watch. Oh wait, it is if Find My is turned on.

eBay automated feedback, from 51 people, all saying the same thing. That’s a red flag.

Guess I’ll need to recycle this watch, or give it to Goodwill.

And then go watch less. Better then buying a watch.

Oh yeah, I’m going to need some anti asshole itching cream anyways. That might be expensive.

How does anybody know if their “post” quantum encryption will actually work?

Well, the good news is, once Quantum Computers are easy to buy, everybody will find out “security” never existed.

Maybe some new jailbreaks for iPhones too. So everybody who gave Apple a bunch of money, can do what they want with the shit they bought.

Since Google might be going away with rooting, there might be some jailbreaks for that too.

It’ll be a good time to go offline. If I have any money, maybe switch to cash as well.

Using .htaccess to password protect a folder? Well, it might just stop working. In fact, don’t use shared hosting for anything not static. Or anything that matters.

Well, don’t have to share any photos I take anyways. Not paying for something to do it. Sending a bunch of photos by email, not a good solution. If somebody wants any photos I take, they can figure it out, cause it’s not worth my time anymore.

Sleeping is more fun, then having massive sleep issues.

Want to hear a bunch of paranoia? Go to the funny farm.

Only thing I was paranoid about, was the security camera was providing me with safety. Well, the staff are.

And they aren’t just watching the live feeds.

A staff member said, they check on me every 15 minutes. Don’t ask me how they did that, for so long, without me noticing.

What are the nurses doing in the nurses station?

They all have their pants down, and are watching the live cameras.

Wasn’t expecting that at all.

Couldn’t install using waydroid install. Oh wait, maybe cause I wasn’t root, I assume I wasn’t. Just said nothing.

Well, I copied it to ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Download, installed App Manager, and installed it.

I did use this to get ARM crap working. And widevine.

Does that mean ADBTuner works? Well, I should probably just put it in a VM though. And there might be a newer malware Android image for for Android TV.

Also, to make ADBTuner work, you either need an HDMI encoder, or you know, do some custom stuff to make it work.

Too lazy to search nowadays. The reason I wanted to see if it worked in Waydroid.

Want a usable Android phone? Use Waydroid on your computer. Also, I now wonder how fast Apple’s custom CPUs really are. The only way to find out, is to use Linux on one of them. And on my Mac mini, kind of pointless, still not all GPU stuff working I don’t think.

I do know macOS sucks with only 8 GB of RAM. One reason the Mac mini is off. It’s also spyware, just like Android, and Windows, and basically everything. Including the internet.

Fast CPUs, that are basically useless. It’s all about “security” and “privacy”. Just like Google, they don’t do evil. Well, in the future, you may be unable to install anything except for regime approved.

The future for “smart” TVs is looking good too. Nothing will be able to be plugged into the “smart” TV. Regime approved crap only. They have all the tech needed to make it happen.

Did have to login to Philo with my phone number for some reason.

Well, does ADBTuner do rtmp? Then I just need OBS, and then an rtmp server. Might as well test it on my laptop, as it is currently setup. Before putting anything in a VM.

Is there a Kodi add on for Philo? Or some way to send Philo from Waydroid to it? Then I don’t have to use a browser.

I noticed a while ago, I have an FLIRC or whatever too. So plug that into one of my computers, laptop or desktop. Did it on laptop, not sure how easy to setup Waydroid in openSUSE Tumbleweed is.

Or actually, don’t bother with that, just use Bluetooth on the remote. Then I don’t need line of sight. Then I can stream it from my desktop or laptop, and control it without being in front of computer.

And you need an Android TV box to use ADBTuner. Well, maybe you do, sort of.

Just get a HDMI encoder, plug computer into it, and put Waydroid on it. ADB is supposed to work with Waydroid.

Nice it has it’s own IP address.

A VM might not exactly be needed. Just make a new user, and lock it down. Except, some of it by be root. VM probably safer.

Also install a self signed certificate, so you can see what it’s doing on the internet. Nothing like decrypting SSL, on your own device.

Looks like human beings have too much freedom on this planet, now the selfish humans are going to fix that.

Playing stuff works, didn’t turn volume on though.

Well, it could be easy to fix ADBTuner if it breaks, as easy as Chrome. Or maybe not that easy.

Might just need the deeplinks.

And I do have root as well. Philo doesn’t seem to care. Don’t have it registered either. Not even sure I needed microG, which the standard one installs Google Play. Which I don’t want. Might try without microG if I redo it in a VM.

Also, is this Android app compiled for x86_64? If not, pretty good performance. Better then compiling shit for ARM from Linux, using qemu.

And OBS is setup on desktop, and so is the rtmp thing. Well, good thing I know how to use SSH.

To use the waydroid_script with pyenv, you just run sudo -E env PATH=”$PATH:/usr/sbin” PYENV_ROOT=”$PYENV_ROOT” python3 main.py, but clicking hacks doesn’t work. Didn’t try specifying a hack though. Worked enough to install crap though.

Now to install podman on laptop. Don’t want to lookup how to install this crap in openSUSE Tumbleweed.

And want to see if ADBTuner works before using a VM.

Update

Waydroid broke itself a while ago, never really used it. Well, too lazy to do anything about it. Tried a little. Then was doing something else. Just will use Philo in a web browser.

Without logging in there was some deal for new customers. So thought I should just login.

And logged in, and I got the legacy plan for $25 a month.

Comedy Central, Discovery, and History. And only one bill. That goes to people that aren’t complete dicks.

Also, all my saved shows are still saved, so should start recording shit again.

DirecTV seemed to say, once it’s cancelled, you’d have to re add the shows as well, if you happen to sign back up.

Also, my prepaid card worked just fine.

Don’t care about recording it to my local drive. They have a DVR. I can stream it to Kodi, using LibreWolf, and OBS, and a rtmp server. And you can probably do it without OBS as well. Maybe with just ffmpeg.

Could record with Channels DVR, but not paying for that. Not sure I want to automate anything to use a browser to record. Don’t want to get banned as well. Not sure they would. But it would be my fault if I did. cc4c might even work with Philo, without modifying it. Not sure I care enough to try though.

As if it doesn’t work, or stops working, I won’t mess with it again. Might just be a waste of time.

I assume it renews for that price as well.

Also, the only reason to get their $33 plan, is if you want HBO Max and AMC+, unless Discovery+ has something not on the Discovery channel, or on HBO Max. All I watch, I was getting on Philo before.

Instead of paying a dick, that won’t let me easily use the browser I want to watch it, I’ll pay these guys instead. Changing the user agent isn’t hard, but now I don’t need the damn extension. Too lazy to change it for everything. And also, people using LibreWolf, probably don’t want to do that anyways.

Makes their tracking work better, if we all have an almost identical ID. But you got to use Tor Browser, or Mullvad, for the best anti tracking BS.

Both probably work without connecting to Tor, or a VPN. But I’m incredibly lazy.

Also, you probably don’t want any extensions, in it, other then what it comes with.

So maybe just use those browsers, for most stuff. Like the tracking shit.

Pain to login to sites though. Well, I use Linux, so I could find a solution, or make my own, without copying and pasting. Just basically need a system tray icon for the password manager, that lets me do everything from it.

Need to check Mythtv to see what it was recording from DirecTV. Make sure it’s all on Philo. No idea if I even added any new shows to record either since I signed up for DirecTV.

Make sure you try signing up for Frndly TV before cancelling Philo though. Cause if you use the wrong type of card, good luck.

They don’t take prepaid debit cards. See here.

And you know why? Cause, if they did, they wouldn’t be able to automatically charge you as easily.

Well, that may be a good enough reason, to not bother ever signing up with them. No matter how “cheap” it is.

Philo I could get again, and not have to pay for anything else, and get most if not all the shit I watch anyways. They took my card no problem.

I used a prepaid card for something once. And they just kept trying to charge me.

Guessing you can’t cancel Frndly TV then without calling them. Well, no thanks. That’s why they kept trying to charge that card, cause I didn’t want to call them.

Still don’t want to call somebody just to cancel something.

Comcast you probably do as well. But the good news is, if I have no money, good luck charging me anyways.

Also, I pay with Comcast for that reason. I don’t put a checkmark to save any info. But I don’t trust them.

Want a lie, see the cancel page here.

We understand that canceling subscriptions isn’t always easy, so we made the process as simple as possible.

Hmm, and then look at instructions for if you signup on Frndly TV’s site.

How about click one link, and it’s cancelled? Or two links. Not three. Or one link, and an un cancel button. Just say the damn thing is cancelled after clicking it, and then provide an un cancel button for those who “accidentally” click it. Or they could just design the site better, so no one clicks it accidentally. Might be a pain to find for some reason though. Considering they have that on their help site.

How about all of them, put a cancel at the top of every fucking page then?

Well, no Frndly TV for me.

Even if I get another account, and use it for paying for stuff. To stop that, they’d have to block my entire bank most likely. Good news is, I “researched” enough, to know I don’t want it anyways.

Not paying to play a cat and mouse game.

And a bunch of other reasons to not pay for it as well.

If you login too many times, then at least one method to get a “security” code is gone. Got to wait 24 hours.

Well, if you cancel, it can take three business days to cancel. So good thing I did it now.

You can pause it for “free” for up to three months. Then forget to unpause it, and pay to pause it.

And if you don’t get an email with the “security” code, then what? You can’t login. Took long enough to get the damn email anyways.

Somebody looks into your account, they can just keep clicking resend, until that method is no longer available.

Where’s the two step code app option that is also “security”?

Where’s the passkey option?

it’s all about security isn’t it?

Oh and it likes logging me out of the account thing as well. And I have to then get another “security” code to login.

Even using a supported browser, I get logged out.

Easier to cancel it now, then deal with this shit.

And if I can’t login, better make sure there’s no money in PayPal.

Well, got to go to the bank soon anyways. See if I can get another account, so I can use that debit card for online shit instead of PayPal.

Easier to get a new card from them as well, just go there, and get one, the same day. No need to rely on the secure mail either.

Is that the same as the Beurer BF720? They look similar, but not exactly the same. And might use a different app.

Well, I’ll find out tomorrow, if it works with openScale. Too tired to mess with it tonight.

And if it doesn’t, I’ll probably just manually enter the weight.

I paid $25 at my local CVS.

Likely the same thing, the app name for it is slightly different in the US apparently.

beurer HealthCoach, this may be the only one I can locally buy at a store that might work with openScale then.

The other scale wasn’t working, and the batteries seemed to have a charge. And never put any batteries in it, different ones, or same ones. Don’t know if it works or not. Too late to try, and don’t care.

Update

It works, nice. Wanted a new scale that works with an open source app after all. Took 30 minutes or so to get it working with the app.

You need to make a profile. And setting the app up correctly will save you time. Enter the wrong consent code. Might as well force close app, as that’s how good Android is, and then clear all the data.

I deleted the database first. But instead of force closing and reopening, I just cleared all it’s data as well. Still showed my user, couldn’t add my user.

Can’t seem to change the consent code, which is basically the PIN code. Don’t ask me if the profile is setup right, I didn’t read much of anything. I just click set on some stuff, except for the obvious stuff, like my birth year. The time when first setting it up. The year when first setting it up. And my height.

Didn’t even read the PIN on the scale either the first time. Didn’t notice the thing that asks for the PIN, until I clicked pair at some point in the right order. Might need to setup a profile after setting the time to get that to show up as well. Well I finally found the PIN, and then was fucking with the app for a while.

Might have lost weight. No idea, the last weight I know, I had clothes on. How much do my clothes weigh? No idea. Too lazy to weigh again with my clothes on.

Also, I’ll be getting weighed soon anyways with my clothes on. Though I do wonder, would they care if I just take all my clothes off? It’s in a hallway basically.

They might say “You can leave your clothes on”. But my clothes means an inaccurate result, as far as I know.