Nicotine+ has such a weird UI

Very cool to know Tasker can draw dots and such.

I think the long term solution may be for me to update my phone so I can use Tasker again (long story with microG being partially broken) and/or just buy sideloadable Tasker, and do this myself.

Short term since I am broke enough that paying for BuzzKill is difficult, I am trying an app from the Play Store called Notification Dots. I don’t like it but it’ll probably work for my needs for a while.

Interesting, thank you for the info!

BTW I looked into Tasker and I’m thinking I need to either update my phone to recent LineageOS + microG or see if the author is still selling a completely PlayStore-free version for donating to his Patreon.

I actually don’t have a LED on my phone so what I’m looking for is something that can draw a dot on the screen.

But! One thing I also want is an occasional soft reminder chime when I haven’t looked at notifs in a long time.

I’ll look at Tasker too, I paid for it years ago but I think the Play Store “forgot” at some point since.

unreliable

I get that uptime isn’t the only consideration, but my phone has been up for 52 days and it’s running Android 12.

the GrapheneOS guy is clearly a high-conflict personality, but I’m still considering it for whenever I have sufficient $ to get a new-to-me phone.

I tried this once and it did in fact work.

Different radio channels are often used in different regions to get the bits from phone to tower and back. Software-defined radio only goes so far, at some point the hardware RF filters and the like have to be compatible.

go back to reddit

I live with two junkfood vegans and oh my god dude. I’m literally broke and eating from food banks and my diet is less bad than theirs.

Native SIP phone capability

WPA and WPA2 gear still has plenty of vulnerabilities.

WiFi 6 has made this a lot more viable than it used to be. I’ve done a fair amount of parking lot leeching and new gear is worth it.

Back when I was housing insecure but still had a place of my own to live, I first set up a point-to-point wifi link to some kids across the street to defray my internet expenses - they paid part of my bill instead of having their own internet. That was more than a decade ago and the hardware & software weren’t so reliable. When the arrangement fell apart and I no longer could pay the bill, I cracked the network of some neighbors in my building and used the same antenna to provide internet for myself and 3 others in my house for about a year. The neighbors were a nice young couple so I did my best to be decent about it - set up an always-on permanent VPN and used flow control to limit our max throughput.

It’s still possible to do this, and I’m still broke, so after a few years not needing to do any such thing, I cracked a network to have internet during a housesitting gig (house did not have internet).

Edit: get WiFi 6 or better gear for this. Trust me, the improvement in performance in marginal situations is well worth it. WiFi 6 was a big improvement over WiFi 5, which was a big improvement over WiFi 4, when it comes to staying connected and getting data across a dodgy link. I haven’t done much straight up piracy lately but I have done plenty of leeching in parking lots, and WiFi 6 gear is absolutely worth the money.

Pirating wifi doesn’t preclude any of this. See also the GL.iNet devices, such as the GL-MT3000.