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How is everyone dealing with Android 17's "Nearby Devices" change? It took me a while to figure out why many of my self-hosted services were intermittently failing to connect on my phone after updating to Android 17. I eventually figured out there’s a new ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK permission which means the “Nearby devices” permission is now required to access devices on the same network subnet. For an avid self-hoster, this can be quite a bit. I had my DNS configured so my public-facing server resolved to a local IP address when on my LAN. This meant that my web, immich, xmpp, NTP, jellyfin and DoH servers all resolved to a local IP address on wifi. On Android 17, it all broke without warning. No error messages. No asking for extra permissions. Just silent packet dropping. I’ve solved it by configuring my public-facing services to resolve to my external (static) IP address, even when inside the network. I couldn’t make any internal services resolve to the external address (SMB, CUPS etc) because they are (obviously) not bound to my WAN interface. I get why the change was made. A lot of apps were snooping around people’s networks to gather intel. A potentially massive privacy violation. Has anyone else had this issue? Is this the cleanest solution?

I don’t think anyone is gonna solve that problem until it’s actually a problem.

I ran a packet capture on my TV as I left it turned off overnight. They wake up in the middle of the night, do “stuff” then go back offline. Like a zombie.

With RFK at the helm, I’d expect Polio at a minimum.

They didn't look all that advanced...

GrapheneOS and LineageOS don't ship with any Google services at all, so Google's policies shouldn't affect them.

I have immich running on a server that’s under the stairs. It’s a bit loud, but it’s out of the way. I can only access it over SSH. For backups, I wrote a shell script to do it. I just plug in my external drive, run the script, and unplug it again. The next day I’ll swap the drive for one that I keep in my workplace locker. There’s also a mirrored RAID for the server. That’s 4 copies in total. Yeah, it’s still a bit of work. I couldn’t imagine teaching anyone else how to do it.

Motorola will probably want to ship a compliant* device in those regions. "So be it" may mean you'll just buy the device with stock AOSP, and a warranty condition that allows flashing GrapheneOS. Hell, you'd slip a piece of paper in the box with flashing instructions.

It's a GNU program, not a Linux program. It runs on multiple platforms.

Not the strongest name. Sounds kinda weak. Maybe "Photographic Image Manipulation Program"?

Run a Win11 debloat script. It will remove a lot of privacy-invading windows components. Apart from that, install a browser that isn't Chrome, and use an ad blocker. Don't install any garbage that gives the Uni IT department any control over the device.

It's the next 3D. They try to expand in all dimensions. Bigger panels. Higher res. Higher bit depth. Increased contrast ratios. Stereoscopics. Higher refresh rates. Yet to find a real world use for anything over a 65" QHD at 60Hz 8bpp.

It actually made it worse.

I'm in my 40s, and have only ever dated within 1 month of my age.

This is my preferred one. Just paste one command into a powershell console to run it. https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Does notepad even have syntax highlighting? They should make the web browser render.md. that would be far more useful.

Yes.

I haven't heard the song "Cream" by Prince in over 30 years, but my brain DJ just started spinning it as I woke up. It's on loop. Tomorrow will be a different song.

The fedora-wearing nerds are ones with 244Hz ultrawide 4k HDR monitors. What you're describing is everyone who just wants to watch a TV show comfortably on their sofa. You could swap any TV for a base-model TCL the same size and they won't notice. Even the gamers won't want 8K. You'd notice the drop on FPS more than the increase in quality.

Okta Verify works fine on mine, if that helps. The only permissions are network, notifications and sensors.

Host all the things! Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT... I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven't even realised it yet.

A “per user” graph is not indiciative of the number of users, or any change in that metric. You cannot use this graph to determine any effect of the total user count.

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I think many of us have several GBs of JPEGs that have accumulated over the years. It would be nice to shrink them a bit. However I wouldn’t do it until the majority of my software supports it. At least with JXL, you can transcode it back to legacy jpeg without losing quality

Do Americans think each country has their own way of measuring things?

It’s because people keep finding ways around them and they evolve in nonsensical ways.

The big thing it was missing was a text search index, and I don’t see it in the feature list.

Yeah, it’s been getting harder as time goes on. It’s basically only pixels that are supported and still on the shelf.

I was frustrated by how buggy and unresponsive this was. Tap for spoiler Then at the end it told me that is froze on me 4 times for the lulz. 10/10 top troll.

Nope. SSL certs are pinned to the hostname, not the IP address. I can change the IP address in DNS and it will still work.

It won’t be a problem on a de-googled phone. Get it running LineageOS or GrapheneOS. Then install F-Droid (and probably Aurora store too). Some Google junk won’t work, but you’ll soon be more limited by having Google services on your phone than not having it.

My favourite: It says you have an unread message. It won’t tell you where. You need to go hunting for it.

That sounds like a bit of a ride. I just selfhosted everything. There’s still things tied to my gmail, and probably always will be. However they’re not seeing the important stuff like medical, school, banking and services. NGL; selfhosting is quite a commitment too. Especially for email. There are a lot of hoops to get trust as a server, and full text search took me years to get working right. Hosting a keepass database on a personal webserver is not as convenient, but there’s 100% control. I inherently don’t trust any company that sells trust or privacy as a product. I’ll only fully trust open source software running on my own metal.

If you walk through the Toyota manufacturing plant, all of the industrial machines are branded as Toyoda.

Features from 2016 are new?

s/machine/rich person/g

The current messaging app doesn’t even have a search function. This is well overdue.