moved from us instance

  • 0 Posts
  • 24 Comments
Joined 3 months ago
cake
Cake day: June 3rd, 2026

help-circle

  • “eblan” is supposed to be this guy’s name. It is also close to “yeblan” in Slavic languages, meaning “moron”. Also, many would transliterate the word lazily to “eblan”, anyway.

    When I saw that I sent a screenshot to all of my friends who would get it; some sent it to their friends and some used it as a reaction image for when someone is showing off a stupid setup…












  • Here’s what helped with my smasnug and the monitors of my friends:

    • Settings - Video - Custom - all sliders to middle/“normal” position (adjust brightness from OS)
    • If it has HDR and your system supports it, turn it the fuck on with EDID values and never off even when you never have HDR content and when said HDR content looks very SDR (unless screenshots are broken in HDR and you want to screenshot something of course) (and if you have a CD with the monitor with a color profile you better go use that of course lol)

  • “GMail takeout files” aren’t a thing. mbox is a standard file format from Unix. Some Unix-likes provide the mail command and on others you have to install s-nail, after which you can do mail -f {path to mbox} to view all mail inside. If there are multiple files, you can literally just concatenate them like so: cat /somedirectory/*.mbox > theultimate.mbox.

    Apart from that, most GUI mail clients allow viewing mbox. When the mbox file updates, the client says you have new mail. For example, in Claws Mail, skip setup, then go to plugins and enable the mbox plugin (while you are there, may as well enable pgp, s/mime, calendar, dillo to handle all formats). Then, go to create new account, and in the “Basics” tab, select “local mbox file” for "Receive protocol ". It will then ask for a file path.

    Also, if your Google account settings allow, you can literally just login to Google from Claws mail. Set protocol to IMAP, then set Authentication method to Oauth2 in both Receive and Send tabs. Proceed with setup as usual and it will open your default web browser to login. After that, it will download your entire history of mail.



  • Canta

    Don’t bother, there’s still Unihertz’s spyware in there. LineageOS and derivatives are buildable as generic images that use the OEM drivers, reported working on that specific device. It’s a complete pain to build but some random people publish premade files, see here (get the first “Vanilla EXT4”) and here. More options there.

    There’s a manual specifically for the Unihertz Jelly Star here. Although the download link there is outdated and the MicroG instructions are also outdated (follow the official ones instead).

    If you don’t want to use the phone, may as well give it to a comrade locally that wants it.

    in the US (…) we got rid of 2G

    Sad. Although there should be modern bricks with 4G that aren’t too expensive, usually marketed as “for grandparents”.

    There are other phone manufacturers than Nokia. Always have been. Shocking, I know.

    EDIT: looked around and the ones with reasonable prices are usually the carrier contract ones from the carrier stores and carrier prepaid ones from literal grocery stores :/

    FuriOS

    Never heard of it.



  • 50 USD

    That’s 2 weeks worth of groceries (at least where I am from), what the hell man.

    Linux phones

    You are probably thinking of the devkits. The community has mostly moved on to getting existing devices to run their favorite distribution. Which is mostly for fun’s sake, since pretty much everyone has a desktop computer with the same (although IIRC someone installed PostmarketOS from a public use PC, that was nice). The community is tiny since it’s right in between “modern day smartphones are a necessity” and “Android isn’t open enough”, anywhere below and above (incl. spectrums) are unlikely to think of getting (and daily using) desktop Linux on a phone.

    dumbphone

    (??)

    I keep stating this and I will state it again. An MT62xxx nugget costs ~10 USD new online OR ~4 USD old new stock at the closest to me bazaar. OR ask relatives if they have a keypad phone in a drawer somewhere, you will probably get it for FREE and it will have quite a lot more functionality and homebrew (not exactly a “dumbphone”, more like a “smartphone” but by 2000s definitions).

    not everyone on here is super tech savy

    Well, I personally wouldn’t consider it difficult. If you happen to get a phone that allows proper bootloader lock of course (bypassing gets more complicated, not end of the world most of the time). See here and there.

    Ask friends. If you don’t have any, I can volunteer to remote into your computer and do the thing, actually.

    bricked (…) Unihertz Jelly Star

    Do you still have it? Should be relatively easy to unbrick that nugget.