guttermonk

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Honest quetion, how/where are drivers license photos saved? Is saving photos at the state level more or less secure than saving at the federal level? Also, the TSA supposedly just uses scans to speed up and more accurately verify, and claims not to save the scans (for now). If they wanted a database of everyone's face scan, couldn't they just subpoena every state's DMV/tag-agency for license photos?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, I just tried it out and it works really well. Even works with AnySoftKeyboard.

 

Any privacy concerns with using the futo-whisper open source voice library?

I was able to add their apk repo to Droidify, but am hesitant to install Futo Voice Input. Although it looks like it integrates nicely with OpenBoard.

The other option is to install Sayboard, which works with the native Graphene keyboard. Although OpenBoard with Futo Voice looks like a more streamlined experience, IMHO.

Any thoughts on privacy here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The TitanX was always power hungry. Shortly after it was released, Nvidia released better GPUs and they got some criticism for the TitanX branding considering the newer cards were faster and ran cooler. I was disappointed because the newer cards came out a couple months after I picked up the TitanX.

Thank you for the suggestions. I'll add these to my Christmas wish list.

 

I have a Nvidia TitanX in my HTPC, which is known for its high heat output, and it keeps overheating when I play 3D games. The case has two intake fans on one side and two exhaust fans on the other, but lacks ventilation on the top panel. I'm tired of the random shutdowns during game play and was wondering if anyone had any recommemdations for a more efficient GPU.

Running Windows 10.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I liked the small circular QS buttons best from everything they've put out so far. If they brought those back and had an option to remove the button titles, I'd be happy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried Shizuku and was able to get it to work with Better Internet Tiles, which allowed me to split out the Data and WiFi tiles. When I tried Fabricate Overlay, it kept crashing when I went to save the overlay.

How do you edit the config.xml file that you suggested? Does that require root?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How'd you edit the menu? I don't have a option to separate those buttons natively on GrapheneOS/A13.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, Android 12 added the new Quick Setting tile called "Internet" that combined the Wi-Fi and Mobile Data tiles. Yeah you're right, I had big square QS buttons on my old Galaxy S4 but when I switched to Pixel it had the small circular buttons for a short period.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Are you saying you like the big buttons? Because Android 12 is when they were introduced.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

No you don't. You used to, and then the WiFi and Data buttons were both put under an Internet button. It's aweful design. All of it.

 

Yo how'd our hommie sideofburritos get old school quick access on GrapheneOS? Is this just an old version? The video's only a year old! So I'm on GOS Android 13 (aka big dumb quick access button purgatory), totally confused and totally jealous. I can only imagine an out of touch board testing a new android version and telling the developers to make the buttons bigger and dumber while they tell their managers "okay, we can do that" while they die a little inside. This is the most egregious design offense committed in the history of AOSP.

Please tell me this can be fixed with System UI Tuner or some other bullshit that doesn't kill my battery life or privacy.

 

Web pages were loading in the foreign language my VPN was in, so I tried using a free proxy but couldn't find a reliable way to make that work. Any suggestions?

 

Currently looking at:

  • jmp.chat with the Cheogram app - at $3 a month for each number, it's a little pricey.
  • VoIP.ms with either the linphone app or one of the other FOSS apps in their softphones list - $0.85 a month but calls and messages are a la carte, which is not my favorite but it's less expensive.

I know a lot of people like using MySudo or Grandstream, but I'd like to keep it FOSS and not reliant on google play services if possible. Battery considerations are also a plus.

So what are you using and would you recommend it?