The easiest way to get the voicemail to say your name to all calls, is to record a voicemail. Otherwise you need to manually add every contact, and then also know all future numbers.

That’s a problem if you want to use it for voicemail from a different phone number.

All I could find is old info, and just setting the name doesn’t solve anything. Made a new XMPP account on a different server, and then instead of saying my Jabber ID, it said the JMP.chat phone number.

Well, saying the JMP.chat number, or my Jabber ID, would probably result in some people not leaving a message. As then they’d think they dialed the wrong number.

You could use Asterisk or something with it probably, but do you need ports open?

You can get free Snikket hosting, but you have to contact JMP.chat support to get it. Does that need ports open? Probably. Guess I might just have to contact them, eventually. Or not. Just leave the damn thing as it is. Not fucking around with a VPN so it can be accessed from anybody. I’ll be able to access it over the VPN, is that good enough though? No idea.

And looks like Snikket needs ports open, bummer. No idea how to configure the VPN thing I use to do that anyways.

Apparently comchap doesn’t work. I’d have to edit it to make it work, or convert the audio. Not sure what the point in using comchap is actually. Just take the commands you need from it, then modify them, and then put it in my own script. Or maybe not. Don’t want that much crap in the file. Just remove everything I don’t need. And then do the chapter thing with the encoding I already do.

Got to love this outdated search engine, comchap isn’t even needed most likely anymore. Just output to ffmeta. And if you tell it to only show results from the last year, you don’t even get that many results. This search engine is not private. I bet if you search wit it, with some other browser, you’ll have no issues. Looks like I might as well ditch this search engine.

A bunch of options available in comskip.ini can be found here. The official site link, doesn’t work anymore, a nice 404 error.

Was looking for a comskip alternative, apparently it’s still basically the only thing.

Apparently, if you don’t set it up with XMPP, you can get Snikket without contacting them. Might have to contact them to do it now though, bummer.

Looks like my script works, at least the one to re encode a bunch of crap. Modified the other script, but won’t test it till this one is done. And at least one video failed to encode. Should have sent the output to a txt file, it’s long gone now. But then I’d have a giant text file.

There’s this, which can run in Podman. But uses Asterisk, which might need ports open. But there might be a way, without opening ports as well.

Dear Alien Overlords,

I have a simple request, about reincarnation. When I reincarnate, I’d like a dick, a vagina, and balls, and titties.

I’d also like some memories, or one memory. The memory of my purpose of having all those parts. My purpose will be for every time I reincarnate, to be a fucking machine.

I might need another memory as well, that I don’t give a fuck about who has what parts, including myself. Cause if I have an issue with having any parts, I may be unable to fulfill my prophecy. Also, can you outlaw everywhere I can reincarnate, the law that allows newborns to have unnecessary surgery against their will? Cause if you don’t, I may be unable to fulfill my prophecy.

Now if I can’t be a human, with all those parts, can I be a species that has all those parts? Well, that’s in a humanoid body. Also, the same if I can’t have any memories.

Also, where do I find more people that want all those parts as well? Cause, then we can have massive orgies. Especially, if all our purpose is the same, to be a fucking machine. I guess those people, will have to write their own letter.

Another human’s paradise, is another human’s nightmare.

Thank you for your time Alien Overlords.

One more thing, if the above happens, then I can go fuck myself easier. Oh I would have needed to request a very bendable cock possibly. I can then ask whoever tells me to go fuck myself, “would you like that on video?”, if video’s a thing wherever I am then. Can’t fuck myself most likely as I am, cause my dick probably doesn’t bend too well. And also, too lazy to try. In that case, I also would have needed to request not to be able to get pregnant as well. But that’s what birth control is for. Or surgery you do want.

No I didn’t put this on the wrong site either, I put whatever I want on any one of my sites, whenever I want.

Now to take my medicine, before I forget to like yesterday.

Damn, I forgot to put the song part in the request, oh well. But only applies, if we have a massive orgy.

Hmm, scratch the memory part. More fun, to see what happens, if I know nothing. I might be a fucking machine every life anyways. Good thing there’s no size requirements for anything, that’s boring. And if I reincarnate in Paradise, maybe I’ll just fuck myself for an eternity. Unless, I have no body.

I’ll only believe the Alien Overlords. As a human getting the required evidence, probably isn’t possible in one lifetime. They’d have to find the original equipment on a lot of people, past, present, and future.

And also, didn’t know until recently, that somebody could be born with a vagina and balls. They probably have a scar, to prove they had surgery. Who said what the surgery was for? It’s still a lie though. I’ll believe the person, because there’s people that have a dick and vagina. They aren’t too happy that they had an unnecessary surgery, thanks to their parents, and the law for allowing it. Or maybe weren’t happy, depends if they care anymore.

If I had a scar down there, I’d be pissed too. Unless I consented to the surgery.

But you know what some people don’t want to be legal? People under 18 taking hormones. Then it’ll be everybody after that. No wonder people don’t want a ban on abortion, they aren’t stopping at abortion. Don’t know where they’re at yet, as I don’t watch the news anymore.

Also, how do I get all political BS out of my head? Ahh, I should have requested, a political blocker in my head for all future lives anywhere with politics. I don’t want any of it, none from any party, or anything else that is political. Then I can live in peace, until whatever happens happens. Oh wait, too late. Well, might work in a future life, if there’s politics. Now how do I make a political blocker for my brain? There’s always memory loss as well. Might be better to wait for what a politician said happens though.

I wonder what options I need to change though. Looking at the script, I don’t see much that would matter. Guess I need to add options.

Will it work on bare metal and everything? It depends, does everything let you enroll the key? If no, then the answer is no. I don’t even know if my sister’s laptop will let me do that.

I’ll just try, it’ll work or not. I will buy another flash drive though, therefore I can put Linux and then Windows on that flash drive, and do it that way. Since I don’t want to wipe this flash drive and copy everything back over, too slow.

Apparently you have to use woeusb, or something similar, apparently using just dd does not work. I might have knew that, but I clearly forgot. Well, I had woeusb installed, so yeah, I probably knew at some point for some reason.

The command for that I used woeusb –partition /path/to/win.iso /dev/sdj3. Might work with a loop device, no idea if Grub will be able to boot that though. Yes, you can boot raw img files, but with Windows? I don’t know. The installer boots, but does it fully work? I don’t know if the way I’m doing it that either. All I know, is the installer won’t actually work.

I could test it on one of my computer’s, but I spent plenty of energy, trying to make this work, even after I thought it must not be possible. Well, when you search the internet, if you don’t search right, you don’t find what you want.

Also, then I might spend a shit ton of time making it work bare metal. Doesn’t seem like a good use of energy. Opening a VM or rebooting the VM, is not only faster, easier as well. Well, maybe easier, cause you don’t have to wait as long. The HP laptop actually might be slower then this desktop as well when rebooting. Cause of all the “security”.

How secure does anybody actually think anything is? iPhones have malware, Android and so on. If somebody really wants to hack something, they are likely going to succeed eventually. But I guess “peace of mind” might mean something to some people. Got bigger things to worry about then “peace of mind”.

And yes, Apple is a liar, and their privacy, security, environment, those are at least three of their lies. Hmm, if Apple was lying, now Google is lying, and Microsoft might require Secure Boot for Windows 11, they are most likely lying as well.

The shim-install command I used is shim-install –removable –no-nvram –bootloader-id=Grub –efi-directory=/path/to/efi/partition –config-file=/path/to/grub.cfg. And if not using openSUSE Tumbleweed, you might not have shim-install. If using Arch Linux, they might have a command that’ll work. Or just run grub2-install with correct options, and don’t use disable-shim-lock, and then copy the shim to it manually, and make sure the Grub efi isn’t boot whatever efi. If it is, well you need to know what the shim is looking for, in openSUSE Tumbleweed, I think it’s grub.efi maybe.

And I probably signed that file and nothing else with sbctl sign /path/to/boot.efi. Or did I sign the shim and the grub? And does the Shim even need to be signed?

Looks like I signed three files, according to the history command, grub.efi, bootx64.efi, MokManager.efi.

And you can export the sbctl keys, and I’d copy the entire folder to the EFI partition. I might have more then one key installed, and you might only need one. If I get that far when I try fixing her laptop, well I’ll find out. You probably need to export them for them to be in the right format. Otherwise, you might get a nice error trying to enroll them.

And to boot Windows 11 installer that’s on a partition on my flash drive, I use the below: menuentry "Windows 11" { insmod chain insmod exfat insmod part_gpt search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 3759-E978 chainloader /efi/boot/bootx64.efi }

You can get the correct UUID with blkid /dev/partition. And not sure the insmod exfat is needed, probably not, as it’s using FAT32 I’m pretty sure.

Also, I tried with NTFS, thought it had the module, but it just said unknown partition, and couldn’t do much. So I’d just use FAT32. Does Windows 11 use FAT32 itself for the EFI crap? Well, probably. Otherwise, a lot of computers wouldn’t be able to boot it. I think I read that not all computers support booting NTFS.

Also, thought I read the chainloader didn’t work with shim, well it does in a VM. Well, probably didn’t read everything, or click the link. Somebody also said something about the chainloader shim and Linux. So you can’t boot Grub from Secure Boot Grub? Well, I can’t seem to get that to work, well Ventoy isn’t exactly Grub. I got it to say unofficial once. Then I got an error once, saying unsupported or something. Unsupported and they put code in to block you? Hmm, well the people that are doing that, can all likely find a way around it. If all the source code is available, then they can just remove the blocks as well. Also, I don’t know much of what I’m doing, I do know Ventoy seems to have grub.cfg files though. And somehow, I got it to say unofficial. And show a menu, but probably the wrong menu.

I wonder if those module things, work in Grub. Or if you get their thing in unofficial mode, and it’s loading your menu, and you try loading using the same stuff in the “official” config.

Well, that might be a good way, to get people to try harder to boot it. But I do know, that it won’t even boot my Linux ISOs on my laptop. Some memory error. Older version though. Might be out of memory, which clearly isn’t true. So it doesn’t even fully work, just was messing with it, if I couldn’t get Grub to boot Windows 11, don’t know if it can boot a Windows 11 ISO or not. Well, looks like you might just need Windows 11 installer on a partition, and use the right tool for the job.

Well, in that case, it may not be possible then. If you want to do the above bare metal. Easier to disable Secure Boot, but Windows 11 most likely requires it. And it’s not my laptop. Oh wait, I could disable Secure Boot, boot Linux, backup data she wants, then put Windows 11 on the flash drive I buy. And turn Secure Boot back on, and reinstall Windows.

Assuming it lets me disable Secure Boot. Oh and apparently there’s some other “secure” BS thing, that my flash drive might not work at all with, and if I can’t turn that off. Well, that’ll make this a big pain in the ass. Probably won’t be doing it at home, so I’ll have to use somebody’s computer. Guess if what I think is happening, they won’t care. But still annoying. If it can be disabled, then my flash drive might work. But don’t know shit about what that thing is, can’t remember what it’s called either. Just remember something, about something not working with it. Maybe the shim doesn’t work at all with it.

Well, I don’t think I’ll ever “upgrade” my computer. It’s bad enough that it has all this BS crap, that I can’t view the source code, nor can anyone else, like somebody that would understand it better then me. But better hope they aren’t a shill for somebody.

Better to understand all code yourself, and only rely on yourself with computers. But security doesn’t exist, so better to ditch tech.

Also why do I have a bunch of medicine ready? Well, better call my mom back, before I forgot again to tell her. And before I look at the CVS app, as then I might forget again. I thought only one thing was ordered, and don’t recognize all three or how ever many it is. One of them might be the heart burn, but wtf are the other two? Did my blood work come back already? Hmm, well need to tell her somebody called too. But no message left, couldn’t answer the phone, either in the bathroom or shower most likely. Don’t feel like looking number up. And also, not the right area code. Might just be my health care yet again.

I shouldn’t have answered the health care call once though. Then a day or so later, they call again. Then I have to say hello multiple times, I think now their phone doesn’t work, cuase then they asked something, didn’t hear what they asked, tried asking what they said, and apparently somebody hanged up or call dropped. Maybe they called back finally. Possibly from a different number as well. Not sure a VoIP service would solve this problem, as it might be on their end. Also, the “easy” way to get a VoIP, would be to port this number to it. And then Ultra Mobile will cancel my service. I’d have to ask them if I can port this number and get a new number, might cost money as well to do so, if I can. And I don’t really want a different service, or to have to resignup. Tello is cheaper, but I don’t really care.

I can’t even remember the exact reason for switching from Tello. Don’t really care though either. Probably should have just kept it actually. Lose my number if I kept Tello? Oh well. Well, they aren’t supposed to be able to do that, but this FCC or whoever’s is in charge of that, likely wouldn’t care. Unless it happens to a rich enough person. And they might own the cell service they’re using, so unlikely.

I was putting one of those flavor packets in my water, and she was acting how she does when I give her canned cat food or her treat.

Then I finally noticed, the packaging looks like her treat packaging.

Not really an intelligent thing, more of a paying attention thing.

Dogs don’t care about packing, as if they smell meat, they want it the most. Apparently my mom’s dogs, do nothing if she’s eating a salad with no meat. Chips they want too though. But not salads with no meat.

Not surprising cats and dogs pay attention to different things. And apparently some people just don’t pay much attention to anything. Maybe some dogs look at the packaging. Some cats probably don’t as well.

But these flavor packets are probably expensive. No sugar, and no artificial sweeteners, but have more flavor then most flavored waters. The only one with a chance might be Spindrift. They have 15 calories somehow, even without sugar. Don’t even know how they make this powder stuff.

Think when I looked at ingredients, it said it had vegetable juice or something in it. Mom gave me some to try. Didn’t even see her grab them at Costco. She doesn’t remember how much they were, and I never knew apparently.

Might not have stirred it up good enough. But all of it tasted good, so I must have. Some people might use more water though. I don’t think I’d use less water. Says between 8oz-16oz of water. My bottle is probably at least 16oz.

I like plain filtered water, as long as it mostly tastes like nothing, I like it. And apparently the cheaper PUR filters are capable of that. At least for my taste buds.

I need to find out how much these are though. If they cost more then $9.49 or whatever, then probably not worth it. I think she was going to get some Spindrift, but I didn’t want her to spend a bunch of money on anything I’ll be drinking. And if I’m the only one drinking it, she probably shouldn’t. Finally found a cheaper one, I think it’s the L brand, that I should be fine drinking all the flavors. Sucks when you get two flavors you don’t like, and there’s only three flavors. I sent her money, for one thing of those, and some garbage bags. Too expensive for me to get my own Costco card, wouldn’t really save any money. Not even enough money to shop for everything there. Not to mention, too much food for one person. Be throwing lots of food out. I did get one food thing. Hmm, how much was it though? I don’t know if either of us know. Should have paid for that too. Oh mayube $8. Too lazy to do math on what I gave her, I’ll just ask tomorrow.

I finally took a bloody dump, wasn’t sure I was going to shit today either. Guess I needed to go to the digestive doctor to get my bowels moving. Barely worked though, with that constipation. Didn’t do much anyways, talk, take blood, pickup poop catcher, schedule more stuff, that I may or may not do, probably will though, if I can.

I don’t care about them sticking a camera up my ass, and a camera down my throat to look in my stomach. The only method they know of. There’s theories about the government having secret tech and crap. No idea, and don’t really care. Clearly it’s a secret if they do, and the doctors aren’t in on anything.

Though I will say, if the doctor says they like sticking camera’s up asses, or think they are saying that, you should probably leave and find a new doctor. Didn’t happen to me, but sounded like somebody was saying that about their doctor. I don’t think I’d have it done. Charge me? Then I’m going bankrupt.

The reason is, there was some creep, that was filming women, I think their vagina, while he was doing whatever, he was or is a doctor.

If somebody is putting camera’s up asses, and filming it, well, they are probably filming more then my ass, and some people would have a real problem with that.

No idea what it even means if a doctor likes putting camera’s up asses though. Doesn’t seem like it’s good though.

Didn’t really need to wait as long to go though. But might in my mind prove that women are better then men. What happens when you’re a kid, will likely shape what you think as an adult. Women seem to care more, and are nicer, and so on. But that’s just what I’ve experienced, probably some people have had the opposite happen.

If I knew I’d get this doctor, and how she is, then I probably would have just gone way sooner. Could have been years sooner.

Don’t understand depression at all though. Don’t think the brain fog being worse now, has anything to do with the depression though. I seem to feel better then I’ve probably ever felt in my life. And no idea how 25mg of this medicine can do that. They said most people take 100mg or maybe even more.

She tried increasing it, mostly because I didn’t think it would last. Well, that didn’t work, probably felt worse, and puked once. Went down, and everything is better again. Glad I didn’t try the other medicine, you have to take with a certain amount of calories, basically when you eat. Well, if you don’t eat enough, you might be puking.

That reminds me, I wanted to see how much I weighed at the other doctor place last time, since I haven’t been weighing myself. Scale wasn’t working, thought batteries were dead, but put on charger, didn’t look that dead based on voltage. Never bothered putting batteries back in to see if it works or not. I even got some new triple A rechargeable batteries, a different brand as well, but still haven’t done it.

I’d rather buy a new scale, that I can use with an open source app. But probably can’t buy such a scale in town. Well, the doctor didn’t say I should weigh myself or anything, so I guess I probably won’t. Actually, not sure anybody has.

I also need to get rid of some old batteries, since I got some double A ones too. The remote seemed to be dying sooner, but with whatever ones these are, still hasn’t died. Might just eventually get rid of all the really old ones. Not sure you’ll get the recharge count if they’re 10+ years or something. But maybe these batteries had an issue, and just using them and recharging fixed it. Better then doing the refresh thing on my charger. Did that with new batteries, on a low current, and took over a day. I forgot about that, should have done it on the charge/discharge mode.

That might only do three things. No idea how much the refresh mode does. Maybe the charge/discharge mode, whatever it’s called, charges, discharges, and charges. I forgot though, and don’t pay much attention.

Batteries might last longer if you don’t use a high current to charge them.

China made batteries are a hit or miss, I know that, got some of the R brand ones, and might have only got one use out of all the batteries. If they cost more then non rechargeable, a big rip off. Luckily Energizer is Made in Japan, doesn’t mean they are as good as Eneloop, but might be good enough for me.

Some of my Eneloop batteries, are I think Sayno or Sanyo, who owned it before Panasonic. Well, I don’t even know how old those are then. Most of them might actually be before Panasonic bought them.

Ended up buying these at Ace Hardware. Not a fan of Best Buy, Walmart or Target. CVS probably only has regular batteries. Took long enough to find them at Ace Hardware, even though I think their site said they have them. We were in the right spot, they just had a bunch of regular batteries too. Might still be there, if my mom didn’t find them. She wouldn’t, but I might. Unless they remove me from store. Or not, I’d probably just decide they don’t have what I want.

Wonder if Walgreens has rechargeable batteries. That’s like CVS, so maybe not. Or maybe CVS does, I don’t know. But there is one closer to me then the Ace Hardware we went to. Maybe there’s an Ace closer then that one. CVS’s site sucks on my phone though, probably because of my browser, or maybe it’s the app that sucks. And maybe their site sucks on my computer. Does the Walgreens site work?

Also, I think CVS’s site said no rechargeable batteries, at least if you search for whatever I searched.

Somebody else might have more options on rechargeable batteries that isn’t Ace, Target, Walmart, or Best Buy. Well, there’s the battery store.

Walgreens has Energizer batteries on their site. Doesn’t seem like any other brands for rechargeable ones though. Might not have at local store either.

Only went to Target for microwave, because it was easier, and more likely wouldn’t have to look somewhere else a different day. Well, was a good choice, this microwave was on sale. Didn’t have that many though.

There are some bad reviews on Energize on Amazon, but probably are for Eneloop too. As long as they don’t completely die, and the capacity is reasonable for long enough, good enough for me. Also, reviews on Amazon, are probably mostly useless now. Based on the crappy cheapo “smart” watch I bought. No idea how that has so many good reviews. Now this one, I think is the best watch I’ve had, and only $60. There’s plenty of people who have a problem with this one as well. I don’t need much though. I mostly want notifications. Don’t care about replying to anything either. Oh and working in Gadgetbridge.

The long battery life is nice as well. One less thing to charge every day. Except the phone isn’t draining enough. But then I’d have to charge at weird times. And I might need to answer it.

And no, you don’t need to date anybody, or fall in love, to completely change your perspective on lots of stuff. Looks like The Last Shaman is kind of right. Also, you shouldn’t probably be in a love relationship, if you are super depressed or something else anyways. I know it would be hard for me.

Also, I know what choices my dad made, when it came to his drinking. He went to rehab, stopped for a while, started back up. Maybe more then once. You have to want to do something, to do it. Depending on how bad depression is, you may not want to do shit, include think positive things. If you aren’t thinking anything positive, you probably won’t feel great. No idea why he didn’t want to stop drinking. From the things I heard, it sounds like his childhood wasn’t very good. So he may have been drinking, because of issues. Don’t know if that’s the case for everybody, but might have been for him. If nobody is helping him or he doesn’t want to, address those things, he probably isn’t going to want to stop drinking either.

The worst thing is, I don’t know how many people even cried when he died. Probably me, and my sister’s. And maybe his other kids. But who else? He has other family. If not everybody in your family, that you know, had a relationship with, cries, then that seems kind of horrible to me.

I do know, somebody didn’t want him at his mom’s funeral, so I don’t think he knew about it, my sister’s didn’t, I didn’t. Probably because they’d be embarrassed. I think anyone should be at their parents funeral. If they aren’t causing any issues, and are drunk, I don’t care. If they smell bad, I don’t care. Why care about that?

Well, I guess I’ll forget all that anyways. Humans forget, and God and the Divine forgive.

For some reason, him not knowing about the funeral still bothers me a lot. He most likely is fine now, is with his mother and so on.

And also thinking, might make you cry. but if you don’t process anything, that isn’t good either. Crying a shit ton like I did after Tonka died isn’t good either. Processing it though, is much better. I’m pretty convinced that if you cry about somebody that died or is “dead”, that it affects them. Might make them sad as well. But crying a little is probably fine. Not crying at all, could affect them too.

I do know dogs usually handle death better then me. Two of the dogs I grew up with, we let see Buddy was dead. Well, they seemed to be able to handle it way better then me. Doesn’t mean they didn’t care. Could mean, they understand shit I don’t. But I really don’t know what it means, other then what I saw. They weren’t crying like me. Don’t think that means they don’t love him either. They most likely are experiencing all of this, very differently then a human.

An elephant, is experiencing this very different then all creatures on Earth. They got more neurons. They might process things with things, that humans don’t. Doesn’t mean they are going to have tech and crap or be in a humanoid body. I doubt tech is the point of anything. It can help a species survive, but it can also cause them to not survive.

Personally, I’d rather be more spiritually evolved, then technically evolved. Maybe that’s what will happen to me, I don’t know.

One of the best things to do on this planet, is to pet animals. Then some people will say sex. I’d rather pet animals.

Good name for Secure Boot. Saw that on GitHub.

But I think doing what I’m trying to do so it works in Secure Boot isn’t possible now.

Now to see what happens if Grub isn’t signed, but has a partition with Windows 11 on it, will it boot that partition? If so, then good enough, since I don’t need or want Windows. Going to try fixing somebody’s laptop, and they want and/or need Windows.

I suppose Grub in Secure Boot mode, might work with Windows on a Partition. But I now want to know what happens if Grub isn’t signed but something else is. Also, might be different in a VM then on bare metal. Also her laptop could have a hardware problem as well, and then I won’t be doing much.

Apple doesn’t want you doing what you want with the shit you give them money for. Google apparently doesn’t anymore. So I doubt Microsoft does. Good way to not let people do what they want? Secure Boot. It’s not about security. About money? Not even sure of that.

Clearly somebody or a group of people, have been planning on what’s happening in the US for a long time.

Something on internet said you can’t select the profile to boot from.

But if you use a VM, and it has secure boot turned on, it’ll try to boot the partition with secure boot. Said some of the shit Windows does, but couldn’t find it, probably because it wants the first partition.

And if you click enter fast enough, it just goes to the menu thing where you can go into the settings or try booting the drive again, but then trying to boot drive again, it does nothing.

Well, either way, it doesn’t work in a VM. Bummer.

Not the way I use it, the dock and eGPU, isn’t plugged into a UPS. Froze the laptop. Turned it back on, but then turned it back off, correctly that time though. Not even sure that monitor is plugged into UPS, might be, but turned that off. Unplugged the dock as well.

Not sure my UPS has enough power for the dock + eGPU. Might not play games on the desktop anymore or anything lately, but desktop still does shit that uses who knows how much power. Don’t want two UPSes, and don’t want to buy one with more power.

A good UPS with more power, isn’t going to be very cheap. I want one, I can easily replace the batteries in. I bought some CyberPower one, well it was defective, thought it might just be the batteries, replaced batteries, still didn’t work. Didn’t return it, too hard to reconnect batteries or whatever. So a big waste of money. Won’t buy any CyberPower UPS again, and probably not any “Home” ones either.

And I don’t think the cat likes this weather. Maybe that prophecy or that remote viewer guy, is right, shit is going to happen. There was flooding in Seattle apparently. So some shit already happened. If time doesn’t exist, it can be easy to get the date wrong.

The cat seems nervous, and was twitching her tail. Now she might just be looking around, while laying by me. She didn’t care about fireworks. But this could be worse, animals can sense shit we can’t.

The power flickered once, and that wind is loud. And the cat doesn’t seem to like it. Those are the only reasons I know of, for why I don’t like it myself. Might as well, mostly be because the cat doesn’t like it. Leaving the laptop off, not a big deal.

Might not be a good idea to watch TV though. And I wonder what else lost power or rebooted. Might need to turn most of my shit off, or risk losing data. My Raspberry Pi and Orange Pi have lots of data, and no UPS.

Well, think everything lost power. Got to reboot pfSense, well first check it, then reboot modem, then pfSense. Fucking MAC Address “security”.

And if the power does it again, kind of a problem. Need to download Windows 11 ISO, if I don’t have it. Cause my sister needs help with laptop.

Ahh, she got a new laptop, cause the one I gave her, is only good for browsing and basic stuff. One of her kids is using it. I put Windows on it for her. Linux worked fine for whatever I was doing when I used it, probably not much. Thought it would work for homework, but not with Windows maybe. Use whatever OS you want. Her homework might also need Windows. Maybe not everybody wants to figure out how to do it in Linux or use a VM. Might just want everything to “work”. Whatever that means. I wonder though, if she’d want my Mac mini. Easier then Linux probably. I refuse to use it though. Apple is a liar, don’t care about privacy, or the environment. And why is their shit manufactured in China? Their shit should be way cheaper if it’s made in China.

Google is a liar too though. Their moto used to be “don’t be evil” or something. Well, some rich companies and people, love to deceive.

Well, internet might almost be working again. Should fix the problem, of the internet needed a bunch of work, when this happens, or even if the internet just goes out. Think all I’d actually have to do, is change the MAC address in pfSense to match whatever it is on the host. And make sure it’s not going to get an IP in the host. I don’t need the host to get an IP on the interface itself, just the VM. Passing through may or may not work with pfSense, because of the chip on the network card. Linux supports more network cards probably then FreeBSD.

Hmm, do you just disable “connect automatically” in Cockpit for the VM? It’s only assigned to bridge interfaces. Not sure I need to do anything. Other then change MAC address in pfSense.

And Cockpit might suck, won’t let me copy the MAC address easily. Or this browser won’t. But doesn’t look like it will get an IP.

Now to SSH so I can run a command, so I can copy the fucking MAC address.

Then I get to reboot the modem and VM again. Got to love this so called “security”. More like to make it so people that know nothing, have to use their shitty router. Or no router. Oh and after it connects, I should reboot the computer the VM is on, to make sure it comes back up, without me doing crap. And to make sure the host isn’t getting an IP. Maybe just check network config on SSH, since Cockpit is kind of useless.

Did I check for updates on it yet? Not sure. So maybe do that too before rebooting it.

And looking at nmcli, it should be fine.

Apparently apt dist-upgrade, will remove shit you don’t need, even if it’s doing nothing else, like upgrading something. I checked my running kernel version, not the same, so should be fine. Unless it’s lying, or I’m blind, or insane.

Now rebooting the computer.

If making the MAC address match, isn’t good enough, then I might need to make a script to fix it for me. But how will it know if the internet is just out? So completely automatic, might be too much work. Now you could put a Limit on how much it does, and how often.

Guessing it should match the actual network card’s MAC address. Not the bridge. But who knows. Too lazy to look anything up, or think of what to look up. Search engines only work if you know exactly how to search for what you are looking for.

Hmm, didn’t work. Does Comcast require you to reboot the modem if the router reboots? Well, there’s more MAC addresses to try. Or do nothing. I could just leave it not working as well. Maybe whatever the “default” MAC address works though. Instead of cloning it. Wonder what it was cloned to before anyways. Maybe what I “changed” it to. Just deleted the cloned MAC address. Now waiting for it to apply. Guess I can get off my ass and unplug the damn thing again, and plug it into the damn smart surge protector, so I don’t have to keep getting off my ass. Thought that thing was broke, but I think the USB cable that was plugged into it, the cat chewed through, and might have made it reboot. Hasn’t done it again though, that’s all I know or remember. Hmm, wonder which port this is on surge protector? One? One way to find out though. And wonder what all is plugged in, same way as the other way to find out.

And it’s one. How do I rename the outlet in Home Assistant? Might have to edit the config file, too much work. Easier to make a note, that says modem is on outlet one. But easier to just guess. Go to entities in Home Assistant. It’s under Devices.

And the cat might have noticed, when I turned the power back on that outlet. Might make a noise, or used to. Couldn’t hear it though. Other noise though. Hearing might be worse too.

Phones are dicks, they refuse to use WiFi by default, if there’s no internet. Just used the Home Assistant web interface on my computer. No wonder phones are mass surveillance devices. And the internet.

And if rebooting doesn’t work this time, Comcast is a dick. Well, that’s a fact anyways. Giving me a shitty upload speed, and it’s been shitty the entire time Comcast has been here. They refuse to upgrade their shitty network.

TDS’s network is new, but how much better is it? Well, mom’s upload is at least 100 MBPs, but more like matching the download on whatever WiFi is getting. I’d have to do a wired test to know much. WiFi sucks. And so does Amazon devices, like their WiFi routers. It’s her money, use what you want. Thought it was fine at the time, and also it wasn’t always owned by Amazon I don’t think. Probably was when she got it.

Well, how do you do network bridging with pfSense and reboot the host, and not do anything so internet comes back up? Might not be possible with bridging. Bummer. Not sure the network card is supported in pfSense directly. Or might work for a while, then crap out. And if pfSense wasn’t in a VM, or you passthrough the network card, would it even start fully working again with Comcast anyways? Might not even do that with a modem + any router. You might need an all in one router for that.

I do have an EdgeRouter, I could test it out. And plug the WAN from pfSense into the EdgeRouter. And get lots of natting. Or maybe some bridge mode on it would work as well. Don’t open ports, so how about double protection?

Hmm, Direct Attachment mode, can use virtio, and might be using that anyways. Fine so far. Should check though. Then reboot the modem again. Well, might have to clone the MAC address to the host, cause I don’t think I can set it to the interface with the attached interface. So that probably won’t fix anything either. Since the network has to boot up first, then the VM. Might not be possible then, without passthrough.

And if you set the MAC address to the interface “Cannot set interface flags on ‘macvtap1’: Address already in use”. Well, you could get the IP on the interface, then use it’s IP maybe. They can share an IP maybe.

But does this have a firewall installed? pfSense has a firewall. Kind of lazy. Well, need internet to figure out how to configure a firewall, or install one if it doesn’t even have one installed. UFW is easy, but it’s not installed.

Virtual Network, is recommended for dynamic interfaces. But I could just clone the interface to whatever the bridge is and see if that works, and how I want. The Direct might work how I want, for the WAN interface anyways. Need to recreate bridge if I do the bridge method though. The direct depends on the switch. If the host and guest can talk to each other. Do they need to talk to each other if it’s a WAN interface? Also, the direct mode, might still need the MAC address changed on the host, since it’s different in VM. Well it’s booting. Is the modem still off? Should have been 30 seconds or more by now. Well, the router VM has to boot to turn the modem outlet back on. Home Assistant says all of them are off. Probably no connection to it.

Nice that you can add smart homekit surge protectors to Home Assistant. Don’t want to buy a new smart outlet. Now if I can get an Ethernet one, I might. Cause WiFi sucks. Oh yeah, can’t search internet, modem is still turning on.

Is the power going to flicker again? Cause I’m going to want to watch TV, after I’m done messing with this. Doesn’t mean I’ll get this working how I want. But I might just stop messing with it.

Well, IPv6 might not be working, can’t ping Google. IPv4 might be working though. Well, reboot anyways. Oh yeah, it always does that with pfSense, but I don’t think both network interfaces can have the same MAC address anyways. So reboot and see what happens. Then maybe give up.

Well, it might work how I want. But does IPv6 work? Looks like it does, and fixing it wasn’t that hard. But how secure is using pfSense in a VM? Can the host be accessed by the WAN IP? Too lazy to port scan myself, and would be best to do from not my own connection. Don’t have a VPS or anything, and might violate their terms as well. Oh yeah, there’s online port scanners.

Guess I should see if any common ports are open now. Or the port of Cockpit. If so, just change where it’s listening maybe. Nope, I know nothing about the Virtual Machine tech, or the different network modes. That’s why I left it broken for so long. I’d also have to look at the source code to know anything as well.

The Windows 11 ISO is finally downloading though. Well, this port scanner site might not work, at least in LibreWolf. This site might work, but doesn’t tell you your own IP. Got to look that up. And also, they only give you two free scans. I can scan one port on two IPs, one IPv6 and one IPv4. But I need three, to make sure pfSense isn’t listening on the port Cockpit is on as well. Well, it might not scan IPv6 anyways. Off to another site.

Oh yeah, just use this for IPv6. Nice, you can even add a custom port and scan the default ones, all at once. Still scanning, but no echo. Nice, I thought you had to be pingable with IPv6. Also, that test has said echo worked in the past. Not sure with pfSense. Also some ports were open, that might not have been anything of mine as well. Maybe Comcast is blocking all incoming connections to IPv6 now.

Well, looks like it works how I want.

No more food stamps after next month possibly. All Social Security has to do is ask the food stamp people, to not give me food stamps anymore. No reason needed either. It’s not the regular food stamp program either. Right before a possible government shutdown.

Well, if the government shuts down, and reopens, maybe they’ll have a backlog of applications. I might do it online and fill out the paper.

The government causes the price of food to go up, and thinks they should take food stamps away. They should increase food stamps if food costs more. Dicks.

First food stamps go away, then Social Security.

Some people that voted for Trump get both, guess they don’t actually need either. Can’t think of any other reason you’d vote for republicans.

And the government shutdown is the republicans fault, they won’t negotiate. Not to mention, the health care crisis they caused by passing bullshit bills. And the bill they want to pass, has laws that should be unconstitutional, possibly are, but the Supreme Court is corrupt too. So the government deserves to be shutdown.

Update
Apparently it was a “mistake”.

The next version might on the Fairphone 5, not sure what if any other phones. I forgot in the US, you needed that. You may or may not be able to even connect without it.

Sounds like if 2G is available, not sure when they said that worked, you can change it to that, and get calls.

But there’s another option, get a hotspot, and use VoIP on a Linux device, doesn’t have to be a phone.

postmarketOS has experimental VoLTE. But Ubuntu Touch & postmarketOS aren’t collaborating on bringing it to devices, not sure why. There should be a more unified development of Linux on phones, but apparently there isn’t. Somebody from postmarketOS tried contacting somebody from Ubuntu Touch, but didn’t get a response. Didn’t read all the posts, so don’t know if they ever did.

Oh and another option is to wait, and see if the iPhone 15 gets some kind of exploit, to jailbreak it. Might be too late for me, if they find a software exploit, on the latest iOS 18, I won’t update to 26 or whatever, don’t care. If it’s a hardware exploit, they can support more iOS versions easier.

I might just wait and see what happens, might not even live long enough to need a new phone of any kind. Not sure how long I’ll last with the BS the ones that control the government are doing. Might have a heart attack. Or a stroke.

And finding a good seller of old phones in the US won’t be easy. I might have found one seller that might be worth the risk, it comes degoogled, so the bootloader can be and is already unlocked. But then I remembered it’s used, and doesn’t look like it has a new battery. Probably not worth the price. Doesn’t even have 5G. Not that it’ll matter when World War 3 is happening.

The phone I wanted, the seller is also selling a used pin locked phone, sounds like a stolen phone. And some concerning back feedback. Not giving them any money. Too risky. Not to mention, they could be stolen phones, even if new, somebody in another country, could have stolen them, and sent them here to be sold. Something fishy might be going on. Most of the phones on eBay are either stolen, or not what they say it is.

If you buy one on Backmarket, you may not get an unlocked one, and the next one might not be either. Apparently they have no way of knowing what is being sent to you in advance. Even a review said they got multiple, maybe 4, all Verizon phones. Were they locked though? Well, some or maybe all Verizon phones, can’t have the bootloader unlocked, so good luck flashing Linux on it.

Some T-Mobile phones, might require you be the original buyer to unlock. You need to unlock it to unload the bootloader. If it’s made by OnePlus, you also get to flash it to the global ROM, and only Windows is supported for flashing it, can’t use a VM. So even if it’s T-Mobile and unlocked, not worth the trouble.

I won’t import a phone, not paying tariffs, which is basically giving money to assholes, so they can do more BS.

The seller might have a Xiaomi Mi A1, which works with postmarketOS. Nope, some really old Sony crap. Got them mixed up. Nope, no good sellers of that on eBay. Good luck finding any phones from Xiaomi in the US from a good seller, that work with Linux. Sounds like depending on the one, you might have to jump through hoops to unlock bootloader as well, not that one I don’t think.

LOL the seller of a OnePlus Nord N10 5G gave me an offer, maybe $5 less then list price. It’s T-Mobile unlocked, too lazy to reboot desktop with an external drive, and Windows 10 on the drive. Under $100, but no idea if it’ll get VoLTE either. Maybe it has experimental support with postmarketOS. Not sure I trust that seller anyways.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 might work with postmarketOS, I had or have some old Samhung tablet. No idea which one. Probably too slow. Only 1 GB of RAM, might work as a bare minimal softphone for VoIP. Don’t do anything else on it though.

And Microsoft if you use anything from them. Bowing down to dicktators is unacceptable.

I’ll probably try Ubuntu Touch first, they have the supported devices on their site.

I just need to find somebody to buy the phone, that wants my iPhone and Apple Watch. They aren’t giving me money, I will give them some money, they can sell the iPhone and Apple Watch for the trade in value, or keep one or both. I will give them whatever is owed after the trade in value of both. Or I could get a different cheaper phone. But it claims to be refurbished, but doesn’t say if it has a new battery. The other phone claims to be new.

Both phones are old, and I don’t give a shit. Linux should be fast enough on either of them. Linux is generally fast on lower end devices.

Now if I give them the Mac mini too, I won’t owe any money. But it’s only worth $150, so it’s basically worthless now. Linux works on it, but not sure what all works. I might put Linux on it someday, it’s turned off for now. Too lazy to make a VLAN for it, and block it from the internet.

And the Apple TV I will stop using eventually too, I can use my Atari VCS with Linux on it.

I could care less about having many apps, or Linux being far along on phones. The browser should work, so who cares. If I need to do something, I can probably rig up my own solution if there isn’t one.

If I had the money for the phone, and enough money left over, I could just smash the iPhone instead.

Using tech to hurt people, is evil, not love.

Oh and there’s some flaws with Tor, found an alternative, but not as many people use it. If the directory or whatever, I think with the servers gets compromised, it can cause issues. Though Trump only seems to like incompetent people around him, or I should say his bosses, since he’s a puppet. So I’m not sure they’ll have any luck hacking anything. They would probably force I think EFF who makes Tor, to hand it over or something. Probably they will try to get rid of the EFF.

No I don’t believe the propaganda on TV, don’t care if I ever watch any news on TV again. I’ll find more reliable sources online, until there are none.

Lots of people are canceling Disney+, they deserve it. Bowing down to dicktators. I’d cancel it, but it’s included in my DirecTV streaming service, and I use TV Everywhere to record some shows, then record the shows I can’t on DirecTV. Not all the channels support TV Everywhere.

But eventually I’ll probably lose Social Security, so I’ll use Mythtv, and record OTA only. If there’s anything to watch that is. Ahh won’t need a cell plan when that happens, WiFi only. No more scam texts and calls. That’s assuming nothing gets better.

LibreWolf is a good browser for Linux and other OSes. Just don’t change the window size, I think the Tor Browser claims that makes it easier to fingerprint you.

I don’t give a shit about HomeKit anymore either. There’s other ways to view your cameras remotely anyways.

Tim Cook and the CEO of Google have no balls. Turns out the no evil shit from Google was a lie, and the best privacy was Apple’s Big Beautiful Lie. Should have thought about all the data Google and Apple collect before ever using any smartphone. And before creating a Google account.

Other countries, that aren’t a fan of fascism, need to make their own OS, or use Linux, and make and manufacture their own tech. But there’s no point, World War 3 is coming next year. Just ask France, they are getting ready to fight Russia.

That’s called the ripple effect. Maybe fascism will be a ripple effect too, and the world will be a police state, while the ones in charge can do whatever they want. And the ones still alive are a slave. If the fascism isn’t put out, then that can easily happen. Oh and voting based on religion, is the oldest trick in the book. Abortion is a religious issue. George W Bush started the religious voting I heard.

Leaving the country, may be pointless now. World War 3 will affect the world. And it’s coming to the US. If somebody is nonbinary, or any other LGBTQIA+, if you are in Canada, and they try to send you back, the court still works, and will say they may not be able to. Because of how the US is treating LGBTQIA+ people. So you may be able to get asylum.

And isn’t this nice. The Supreme Court wouldn’t have allowed Biden to do all of this. What are they scared of? Or are they just the most evil people in America almost?

There’s people in the military asking for a letter from higher ups, that they aren’t responsible for following what they know is wrong and illegal. Well, that won’t save them. If Trump fails, they too, might be prosecuted. They are supposed to take an oath to the constitution, not a dicktator. If you know it’s illegal, you can refuse to do it, you might get kicked out of the military, but if they all refuse, I guess they’ll need a new military. Maybe the Proud Boys and other hate groups will be the new military. They aren’t terrorists, but trans people are. Most mass shootings are done by straight white cis men. Oh and sane. Just full of anger. They deleted the study on one of the government sites that said that, I think. They delete shit that is true, and doesn’t align with their lies.

The democrat party isn’t great right now, barely any of them are doing much about the BS that’s happening. So most of them need to be replaced.

Good news, most law enforcement is banned from wearing masks in California. Maybe those ICE fellows will get arrested, that would be funny. But would surely piss Trump’s bosses off. They say you can’t film ICE agents, but the constitution says otherwise.

There’s always telephoto lenses. AI can be used to unmask them. Being a citizen won’t save you. Being here legally, won’t save you.

Trump doesn’t need anyone’s support or votes anymore. The midterms will most likely be cancelled.

Oh and ICE is arresting pregnant women, yeah they are big time criminals all right. When they start dying in ICE custody, where will the Pro Lifers be to protest? They just murdered a woman and a “baby”.

Apparently having two companies make the OS for devices most people carry with them all the time, was a very bad idea.

I don’t think there’s a real jailbreak for the iPhone 15, so that isn’t an option, best to get rid of it. Some people may be working on getting Linux on older iPhones, but not much works currently, maybe they gave up. Not smart enough to find exploits on it, to jailbreak it myself. If I was smart enough to make an AI, I’d make an AI to do it. I’d look for hardware exploits, so they can’t patch it. Also, make the AI reverse engineer the hardware, so Linux can run on it.

Apparently Google made Android less secure as well.

Well, those in some other reality, so they claim, may find themselves arrested in the future, when Apple and Google quietly enable their spyware. Not all of them, just some. The criminals that want to run the world, will still be allowed to commit crimes though.

A lot of info is on Reddit, on the degoogle one. They will probably ban it though eventually, to try and censor people. The reason, alternatives to Reddit exist. Oh and all info on the internet can’t be easily deleted. Now when the bombs start dropping, that could get rid of a lot of data.

That alternative to Tor, I should use. But they only have a deb package, no idea if that’ll work in a root Distrobox. And should you connect VPN first or second? It works with all internet traffic, so you can even play games using it.

Oh and I’m not the only one thinking of ditching Apple and Google. I will do so if I can. I’m done with their BS and lies. They will probably ban Linux from the internet and cell towers eventually though, so no internet for me. Unless I want to play a cat and mouse game. And possibly get arrested. Until all the smart people are arrested or dead, there will be a way to get Linux online. Also, they like incompetent people, so it won’t be hard to bypass. They may have no luck blocking Linux. LOL.

I just want to read news, without screenshots being taken and analyzed by AI. And then some of it being sent to whoever, possibly for being a false positive. Waste of resources.

How long until all Android phones in the US can’t have the bootloader unlocked? And the Android fans said Android is better. Not when it’s exactly like iOS. Just looks different, and possibly on slower phones.

Linux is better then both.

Just think if somebody uses Windows, their kid is saying “fuck Trump” or something else Trump doesn’t like, and they get a knock on their door and everybody in the house is dragged out. Same for iOS and Android.

The current choices are Linux or nothing for a phone. Eventually, the only choice might be nothing, if you want privacy.

Hmm will the Xbox have spyware? Probably is spyware already. Well, they raised the prices, so a used one might be worth more then before they raised prices. Oh yeah, they need AI to listen to what you say in games. LOL. Probably the PS5 too.

The original Switch can be hacked, and I leave mine offline. Not sure the Xbox Series S can play games if you are offline, even offline games. So it’s pretty pointless to keep. The PS5 might let you.

Look at this, yes it’s on Reddit. But probably true, because Apple was going to release AI junk to scan for illegal images. Saying you have nothing to hide then too, isn’t very smart, because it had/has false positives, so it’s going to send private data to somebody.

If you still think that, would you think that in China? Look at what Trump is actually doing. But I guess some people just want to believe the propaganda on the TV. Freedom of speech is under attack, if they don’t like what you said about Trump, well you might get arrested and/or killed.

I think Trump wants to make the US worse then China, until there is no US anymore, and the entire world is a police state.

No wonder they waited so long to take over the US government, not just Trump, he’s not the boss. They wanted tech to continue developing, and for more and more people, to give data to US companies, like Apple and Google. Might be a conspiracy theory, but republicans have plenty of those.

Apple never cared about privacy, they only care about money. Google never meant do no evil, they only care about money as well. Maybe they both planned for the police state in the future.

But remember, there’s things out of control of humans, like asteroids hitting the Earth. So if they make it to a police state, a ton of people will die either way, and on the way to a police state.

I turned my Mac mini off, too lazy to disable the security thing so I can disable the spyware. The spyware is already there, they just need to activate it. I’ll eventually wipe the Mac mini, either get rid of it, or just let it sit unused. Maybe destroy it, since it’s just a hunk of spyware. Putting Linux on it isn’t the best option, I doubt everything works in Linux on it.

Maybe I’ll buy a Linux phone soon. Well, an old Android phone, that can run Linux. The camera might not work on the one I’d get, but I don’t care. It works in Android, or should, but not in Linux. It’s faster then most Linux phones, the one that might be better, I think is a pre order, and you have to import it I think, so tariffs.

I don’t want my phone or any device’s resources wasted on AI to spy on me.

The only problem is, good luck getting everybody I talk/text to get a Linux phone, and to not use the cell towers for calling or texting. Use an app that encrypts it.

Oh and eventually, you probably won’t be able to use the internet without the spyware, or without pretending the spyware is on it. It’ll be a cat and mouse game. If they can find you, you’ll be arrested and/or killed. Maybe you can make what’s displayed encrypted to all other processes on the device. So they get a bogus screenshot.

One state wants to ban VPNs, so I guess no more working from home in that state. Better hope, where you work, there’s a server, not in a remote location. What the red states are doing, will be done in all states, if Trump succeeds.

Don’t use Tailscale, if it’s a US company, it’s no longer safe to use. Too lazy to look who makes it. So I got rid of it. Just using WireGuard, but local only, not opening ports. Too paranoid.

If a country, wants privacy for their citizens, they’d need to make their own hardware, and use open source software. No manufacturing the hardware elsewhere either. In the future, if Trump succeeds, and humans last long enough on this planet, new hardware will have spyware built in. You’ll have to know how to hack the hardware to do anything about it. So future hardware/devices will be useless.

Then again, there might be no new hardware or devices, since they want to murder a ton of people. If they murder all the people that know how to make stuff, well good luck getting any new tech.

Well, now you know what the problem with having tech in a primitive species is. Instead of using it for good, they do the opposite.

Aliens or whatever you want to call them, probably won’t stop humans from wiping themselves out. They might protect us from bad beings we know nothing about. But ourselves, would be interfering with our free will. But then again, some people believe we are alone in a massive universe, with multiple dimensions. It’s a bunch of emptiness. That makes no sense, why would the universe need to be massive for only humans?

Well, Earthfiles will probably cease to exist at some point. Does that mean some of her info is true? If she gets arrested, then I’d have to say yes. Then there’s your proof Aliens exist. Even though there’s plenty of other evidence, if you open your eyes.

If I keep getting money long enough, and live long enough, no more Apple Watch for me, I probably won’t get a different watch either. And I probably won’t run Android apps on the phone I put Linux on, you can if you know how. Well, maybe apps that aren’t in the app store, that don’t have spyware.

Another option, is to port my number to a VoIP provider, and use a soft phone on one of my computers.

Maybe I won’t follow the instructions that get the GPS working, that can be used to spy on you. But so can cell towers.

I wouldn’t use any Apple devices just on WiFi either. If the spyware gets turned on, it’ll just make it slow. Even if you make it so it can only access white listed IPs. You can do that on your router or hardware firewall, pfSense is nice. Make sure you don’t allow any Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and a lot of other IPs.

Hmm, maybe I should block all those IPs now, and see how much internet I can’t access. Some people get servers from Google and Amazon, and Microsoft. Or maybe I should run an anti Google site on a Google server. See how long it lasts, and till I get a knock on my door.

Might be fun to destroy my Apple spyware junk with a hammer, and film it, and post it. Not on YouToot, I stopped going to YouToot. An anti Apple site. No, I don’t care if it’s worth money. I have bigger worries then money now.

If you want to fuck with Apple’s or anybody’s spyware, make an app that triggers the false positives constantly, and sends the data to them. Not the exact same content will be shown, it can use AI to generate text and/or images, that they probably won’t like. That would be the only use for my Mac mini. Yeah, you might get arrested and/or killed, but it’d be worth it. Hmm, wonder how long till the mini dies, if you do that.

Oh yeah for people that think everything is fine, you can find documents on the actual government sites, with alarming stuff. Like against freedom of speech. But if you see no problem, well good luck.