I realized I spend more time on the Level1Forums more than twitter (a great place to feel down). Discourse has markdown, special formatting, and unlimited words. All these features are better than twitter! Posting and drafting posts here is easier than hosting a blog, where a lot of work is needed in setting up a configuration for embeded previews of content, favicons, and other fun janitorial website duties.
Stick around, maybe I might find something that interests you.
Before finding the apk mirror, I uninstalled fennec, so that nuked my setup of custom addons.
If there’s anything worthwhile, I learned how to downgrade app versions and found a neat new addon that allows for video playback in the background. This was a feature firefox had a while back and removed later.
If Mozilla wants me to upgrade, they should work on getting all the extensions working. I installed firefox on android because of the extensive library of addons. If I wanted a fast fancy chrome looking browser with limited features, I would have installed google chrome or brave.
Carlos has really stepped up the jazz arrangement game. The range of instruments this man has in arrangements in recent years have increased dramatically from the start of just a keyboard.
For example, this arrangement has a a good variety of instruments.
I found his channel while looking for piano covers of pokemon music
These were my favorite piano covers
I was looking for victory road from Pokemon Platinum
If I had to describe the style, the format is pretty similar to nakeyjakey, instead of sitting on a medicine ball behind a green screen he sits on a futon and other furnature pieces
with a delivery similar to knowledge hub
The topics are varied and is a hybrid between Knowledge Hub and Jake Tran
At this point, I don’t really care about mobile processors, as long as it is good enough to run DS Games and have decent battery life. After all, I am not a mobile gamer.
This song has been in my head when I was writing this
I got a new phone the Realme XT.
the issue
I wanted the phone to ask which browser before opening the app, unfortunately oppo had chrome as the default, and chrome was unable to be removed/disabled (even after uninstalling all the chrome updates).
I decided to document my process of solving the problem here
the research
I decided to search realme disable google apps
I found this xda forum thread
that had the following as a solution
using adb on fedora linux
updated instructions
setup android usb debugging
navigate to the directory cd /platform-tools
run ./adb + command for all adb commands
pair your android with adb using ./adb devices and click allow on your phone
initialize adb shell ./adb shell
run your pm commands
the solution
I ran pm list packages | grep googleand found the gboard and google search packages. Then I tried looking for chrome the way to find it was to run pm list packages | grep android
to delete the packages, I ran pm uninstall -k --user 0 <package name> to remove the google search, gboard, and chrome.
When I was uninstalling the chrome package I accidentally ran pm uninstall -k --user 0 android, luckily the phone denied the request and disconnected from my computer. I thought I had borked the phone.
After removing chrome, I decided to remove facebook since, I didn’t think it was actually removed. Running pm list packages | grep facebook found the facebook packages. I removed each individually.
reflection
After using Linux for 4 years and solving problems in the command line, I have gotten me more comfortable with the command line. I doubt I would have felt as comfortable running these commands
So Oppo’s do not disturb only does it for time periods rather than by calendar events. Using polite can alleviate this, but it’s weird they cut it out when regular android has had this since android 8.0.
It’s one of the drawbacks with custom android. On my Huawei Mate SE, you can’t change notification sounds and on my Realme XT, you don’t get a native bluelight filter or do not disturb by calendar events.
Though if I had to chose between those two options, I’d take the XT any day over the Mate SE. I rely heavily on custom notification sounds to decide responses
I learned today in Cinnamon that if all your windows are in different positions after leaving your computer (in a multi monitor setup), restarting Cinnamon (Alt + F2, r) will restore the old positions.
Before, I would have to reposition all my windows each time I logged on. This would usually take a minute or two, and long term I would be wasting a lot of time getting my windows into productive positions.
I asked a while back about what are recommended ad autoskippers and listed two I was interested in. I decided to use this one since it was open source with a github repository
The autoskipper worked fairly well, until I decided to install it on my firefox work profile. While looking at it on my work profile, I decided to mess with the youtube channel whitelist. It was then, I found out I could skip ads with the extension. So I decided to remove the autoskipper addon and just used the channel whitelist to skip ads instead