Switched to Pi-hole. Apparently some of the developers for AdGuard are in Russia. Problem isn’t the developers though.

And DNS over HTTPS works with Pi-hole, I’m using the Control D CLI app.

That’ll speed up an iPhone, block lots of crap. Maybe add all Apple domains too.

The only lists I currently have.

The latency on 5G was around 40ms. Did take a second or so to load one of my sites. But on WiFi, it’s under 30ms. Cellular adds latency.

Control D I think has a completely free plan. Non like Nextcloud.

AdGuard Pro app sucks, if you want to use a local VPN at home. Making a shortcut doesn’t fix anything, except makes the at home VPN work. But then the DNS protection has to be enabled when not at home.

Update
Might be too much latency on 5G at some times. So switched to Quad9. I used the profile from here for iOS. Used this, to add an ondemand thing, so it doesn’t use it on my WiFi. Used the web version. On my iPhone using Firefox.

Apparently Firefox sync no longer works, manually synced phone and desktop.

And you need the exact right search engine to find the same thing again.

The speed test on 5G, was better then my shitty Comcast. Well, except the upload sucked. About the same as Comcast for the upload speed.

I don’t use T-Mobile directly either.

Good news, the problem wasn’t DNS. Apple must have added some nice new features to iOS. I wonder, what new features the latest stable release adds.

Well, there’s a cheap solution, cancel my cell service. I likely won’t ever buy an iPhone again. They cost too much.

Finally got dnscrypt-proxy to work. It doesn’t run as root, like ctrld. The instructions on the Pi-hole site is wrong, editing the socket file doesn’t work. Had to edit the dnscrypt-proxy.toml instead. Also, copied the one from /usr/share/doc/dnscrypt-proxy to that folder too.

Found a “cheap” WD Green SN3000 1 TB refurbished on eBay. Well, the TBW is only 150. My smaller Crucial has a 300TBW. Not sure when I bought it, but written around 60 TB.

Don’t think using that as a boot drive, would be a good idea. According to power on hours, 224 days.

It was sold directly by SanDick.

I tried canceling it, and they claimed they shipped it already. No shipping email, eBay doesn’t say shipped either.

Around $130 after tax. Well, $30 or so more, and probably could have gotten a better drive.

Kate is better then MarkText. Try using two dollar signs, on the same line. Not worth my time, fucking with it.

Well, I just got a tracking number. They created the label after I tried to cancel it. If I send it back, I’ll need to make a video. I’ll just slap a label on it, without opening it. They might say it got damaged, and my fault, even though they packaged it.

To return it, I’d have to pay for shipping. Somebody said they ordered from them and it required a signature. If they send it back, will I get a full refund? Just don’t sign, or decline the delivery.

I won’t pay return shipping though.

They also, don’t give a warranty direct. It’s some third party. Seems like they are just trying to get rid of “refurbished” junk.

Well, don’t think I’ll buy anything from WesternDick/SanDick again.

Update
They got their drive back, and I got my money back. Guess I didn’t have to pay to return it, or did they take it out of the refund?

Their iOS app is too damn slow. Just try viewing images.

Not worth paying for something that doesn’t work.

How is pCloud a good option? They have lifetime plans. Which means, when they are no longer in business, no more space.

Surprised they are still in business. They claim Nike and Uber and various other people use them.

Might have to contact them contact them to use rClone as well.

I’ll pass.

Only need it to share files. I’d use my shared hosting, but I setup password protected folder, and then it stopped working. Shared hosting means zero control, and not worth my time to fuck with it.

I will only use static HTML if using my shared hosting.

There’s Filen Filen, but their iOS app might be no good. Just look at recent reviews.

Didn’t know there was a third party files app.

Bummer, Firefox for iOS, no longer has working sync.

Also, thinks I have two iPhones. Probably cause it made me resign in.

That Documents app is good, if you want to pay a subscription.

How slow is Koofr from the US? Not many reviews for the iOS app.

Well, I just won’t share any videos or photos anymore. At least not using the internet.

Now to send this image to my phone, using LocalSend, since Cloud providers are useless. At least MEGA is.

All that to make a custom watch face for my shitty Garmin watch. That’s another brand, you don’t get what you pay for.

Sorry about the blurry image, had a time limit before screen decreased it’s brightness.

Also, had to turn the brightness up. If using a dark black background, wouldn’t recommend a back light higher then 10. Even at 10, it doesn’t look right.

And even with 10, the battery life still sucks. The crappy Nothing watch lasts longer. But can’t lock the screen.

Remove a ton of packages.

All I did was type “sudo apt reinstall -f bluetooth” or bluez or something.

The good news is, I copied everything it removed. And yes I typed y and enter without reading a thing.

Go through the text file, and guess what I might want.

And then ran sudo apt install $(zcat /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n ’s/^Package: //p’ | sort -u), to make sure I have everything Linux Mint came with.

Still had a bunch of KDE crap too. Now I get to reboot again.

No wonder it was being kind of slow. I broke it in more then one way. If removing the NIXOS package manager, and system-manager, you might want to change the shell for the root and nobody account. I removed system-manager manually, after removing the NIX stuff.

Well, Remarkable might be broken. Click a suggestion, and it doesn’t change it.

If somebody has a bad liver, can they take any medicine?

Looks like Remarkable Remarkable is better, at least for markdown.

Good for lazy people too. No more manually typing markdown.

FeatherPad FeatherPad works, but to spell check, I have to go into the menu and check it. Doesn’t check it all the time.

The text editor that comes with Linux Mint is apparently broken. I forgot the issue I had though.

Well, FeatherPad works for bash script file editing.

Don’t recommend installing any KDE stuff in Linux Mint. Slowed it down, then had to remove it all.

The downside of exporting a text file of everything installed in openSUSE Tumbleweed, and installing everything in it, without even thinking.

Nice, Linux is using under 8 GB of RAM. macOS doesn’t work very well with only 8 GB of RAM.

Does seem to be being a little slow. But according to the system monitor, it isn’t doing much.

Not using ffmpeg & VAAPI worked for me. Maybe the ffmpeg in Linux Mint has issues. Or maybe VAAPI with an AMDGPU, doesn’t make good videos. I added the tag the internet claims will make it work.

Sound and no video in the photos app is all I got.

I tainted Linux Mint, by installing the Pro AMD driver. And converted a video with HandBrake using the GPU, and it plays. Before, I just used the shitty Insta360 Studio app using Wine. That played too. So software encoding works as well.

100 FPS less with HandBrake then ffmpeg. Probably cause it’s using CPU to decode.

Also, if installing the Pro driver doesn’t make it work, you need to update linux-firmware as well. I just backed up the amdgpu in the firmware folder, and then copied the new files over.

And don’t download the latest version if using a AMD 6000 series.

Version 6.4.4 amdgpu-install worked for me. Somewhere on AMD’s GitHub somebody said to use that version. No more AMF encoding, with newer AMD Pro drivers in Linux, if using an older GPU.

Good news, I’m too cheap to buy a new GPU.

The iOS software sucks, and so does the Windows software.

Don’t use Windows. Too lazy to manually kill all the wine processes, so I ran sudo reboot in a tty instead.

I guess that means, I don’t need to do anything to this video with their shitty software then. Probably not too much noise, since it was outside with an ISO of maybe 400. Or 400 max. Also, how do I see the ISO of the video? Apparently not in Insta360 Studio.

Well rendering the file with Kdenlive, didn’t do anything to it. HandBrake not very useful with AMD GPU’s and Linux. Unless you want to install AMD’s driver.

File still too big, over 100 MB for under 2 minutes, and 1080p.

Might be better to make it H264, cause MEGA sucks. Share a HEVC file on MEGA, and to download from an iPhone, you have to request the desktop site.

Still too big, around 70 MB. Too tired to stay awake.

Got it to around 40 MB. Think it can be downloaded from an iPhone in a browser, cause it’s small enough. But might not be able to play it, without installing VLC or something else.

Thought the iPhone could record H265. Well, apparently, it can only play it, if it records it. Without using a third party app. That’s how “smart” it is.

Not on a Orange Pi 5 with 16 GB of RAM. I tried mounting my backup for UrBackup, and the entire thing became unresponsive. UrBackup said the database was corrupted, but no longer says that. Too lazy to care.

How much RAM does Kopia need?

Looks like just as bad as Restic. Isn’t Restic written in Go too? Well, I have to prune with my desktop, cause there’s not enough RAM on Orange Pi 5. Looks like Borg it is then.

Maybe switch my desktop to use borg as well, in case someday 32 GB of RAM isn’t enough. Or just use TimeShift, think it came installed with Linux Mint.

Even a web UI for borgbackup. Maybe I can get rid of UrBackup then. Backing it up is a pain. I don’t waste money on RAID. That’s not a backup.

Reinstalling Podman with brew.sh, cause compiling is a pain. And I want the newest version.

Well, looks like brew can’t be used with multiple accounts easily. Bummer.

The web interface requires a UID of over 1000.

Interesting stuff, and kind of a pain to use. I put it in the fridge, for ten minutes, then left it in there till I got the computer ready. Maybe it’s easier if left in the fridge for two hours like somebody said to do.

Temperature is higher, but their site seems to say, that it might take a while for it to work as good as it can.

Says something about ten thermal cycles above 60C.

Also, are both of the CPU fans on? Well, the loud fan is on. Turn the fans down, and it’ll do 60C more. Turn the fans off, and it’ll get toasty. The fans aren’t letting it get to 60C. Well, not when doing nothing.

Maybe I should have got their Hydronaut instead. Or some cheapo regular thermal paste.

Also, how much am I supposed to use? No idea how you can get two applications out of this stuff. Maybe I used too much. Do the same with thermal paste though.

Well, maybe streaming games works now. Since I’m using Linux Mint. And this text editor sucks, keeps putting a extra ’ in everything.

And now I know why the USB cable for the C front port wasn’t connected. Got a over current condition. Had to turn computer off, and unplug it. That’s the good thing about computer cases, the USB ports die, or come dead. Luckily, I could do it without taking the computer off desk again.

Also, the thermal stuff might be getting better already. Now the temps are the same as before idle.

Finally found a Linux Mint theme, that shows a checkmark by the SSH key to automatically unlock it, so I don’t have to keep copying and pasting SSH password in.

Soul-Light

Somebody on Reddit, said they changed theme and got the checkmark to show up. Too bad they didn’t say what theme.

Can’t use Wayland, cause it has an annoying issue, black bars or something. Wanted to try a different Synergy like program, but the one I found is probably better with Wayland.

Well, USB switch for keyboard, and button on new mouse to connect to laptop.

Apparently one drop of rubbing alcohol isn’t possible. I removed the heatsink, and over by the counter, tried getting a drop out of the container of rubbing alcohol, got a lot more. Well, it did make it easier to get the thermal paste off. Didn’t try that on the CPU though.

Also, Q Tips suck. Just use a rag of some kind. I have something that I bought for the 3D printer. Cut some off, since it’s a big piece.

One of the pictures shows where some of the thermal pad went. I set a timer for 3 minutes, like the instructions said. And screwed the thing down, without removing the other tape.

Downloading it, might try it on my desktop. Not sure how long I want to wait for the Packman repo to be updated, so I can stream with Steam, using VAAPI. Without using the Flatpak Steam.

There’s an official deb package on Steam’s site. Don’t know if that’s the one to install in Linux Mint, probably makes it easy to install, without downloading from Valve.

/dev/nvme1n1p3 on /home type ext4

That was smart, I don’t have to copy my home data back. Still making a backup. But might mostly need to reinstall stuff. Used flatpak list for that, and some rpm command. It’s in a text file. And no newlines, just the name I need to reinstall it. I’m sure some openSUSE stuff will have the wrong name, from the rpm command.

And stuff will need to be reconfigured, the /etc folder.