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  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Can't we do anything as google is killing AOSP and custom ROMS
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    3 days ago

    I only use Lineage and have done so for years without any problems since CyanogenMod 10.1.

    Do remember that it is the choice of the developers to use google services and nothing to do with google.

    When you say “Le Chat”, do you mean Mistral AI assistant/chatbot? Its probably stopped working since GPT‑5.

    Currently it is not possible to run “Le Chat” ai on a phone without google,

    Again its the devopers choice. They could develop a non-google Le Chat.

    who on earth needs a chatbot on a phone?

    I have never have any problems finding open source alternative apps.

    MAPS: Comaps, Organic Maps and MagicEarth, all provide Turn by Turn navigation

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-by-turn_navigation

    I dont use any Banking Apps. Why do you need a banking app? I login to my bank in the comfort and safety of my home.

    Lineage:

    https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

    If you must use google try E/OS. It Uses MicroG and works very well.

    microG is a FLOSS implementation of Google play services

    https://doc.e.foundation/

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Recommend some open-source tools for privacy!
    4·
    8 days ago

    yes, you can still use signal, molly and signal-foss. I have signal on my desktop and some of my family have molly and some signal-Foss.

    The signal servers are primarily hosted on AWS with redundancies on Azure or Google Cloud. Molly and Siganl-FOSS use these too.

    The official Android app generally uses the proprietary Google Play Services, although it is designed to be able to work without them.

    Hence we use the signal-FOSS and Molly on our phones that do not have any google services.

    Like any AOSP rom, Lineage, there are no google play services.

    Its the google firebase that manages push notifications that seems to be the main privacy issue.

    MollySocket allows getting signal notifications via UnifiedPush, not google firebase,

    https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What are some cool things to put on a 32gb flashdrive?
    8·
    9 days ago

    I install a full MX-Linux distro on an old 32Gb usb drive.

    Particularly helpful when family or friends have IT problems.

    I install the latest downloaded distro on a usb with dd:

    sudo fdisk -l

    sudo dd if=MX-23.5_x64.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress

    The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1

    boot into the live distro F12,

    fully update the live disk.

    set it up as you would your new linux device. network manager, web browser, text editor, email, VPN, etc and any tools you want.

    whatever you change here goes into your new usb distro settings

    once complete, install and run bleachbit as user and as root to clear all the caches and install data.

    install another blank usb into the laptop

    Open MX-Linux tools to create a snapshot

    select Snapshot.

    select a different snapshot directory. use the blank usb you just inserted,

    usually: /dev/sdb

    rename the snapshot to a name of choice.

    once the creation of the snapshot is complete, safely remove the usb drive and shut down the live distro.

    boot into your daily driver.

    Insert the usb drive with the MX-Linux snapshot, and transfer it to a new folder/directory.

    insert the 32Gb usb. format it with gparted, fat32 is fine

    open the folder/directory with the snapshot.iso

    open a terminal

    then install the snapshot onto the usb with dd.

    sudo fdisk -l

    sudo dd if=snapshot.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress

    The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1

    always double check with:

    sudo fdisk -l

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•'Wipe' SSD before reinstalling Linux?
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    9 days ago

    I have been using disktest to overwrite my SSD’s.

    I overwrite the SSD’s before encryption. works just as well on HDD’s too.

    A 2TB HDD takes about 3.5 hours to overwrite with the encrypted seed

    A 250GB SSD takes about 17 minutes to overwrite with the encrypted seed

    https://crates.io/crates/disktest

    https://github.com/mbuesch/disktest

    install with cargo

    cargo uninstall disktest

    much faster than your usual suspects like dd.

    it runs as root: so add this $PATH to the root .bashrc export PATH=/root/.cargo/bin:$PATH

    recent test run on 250Gb ssd with just write with no verify:

    disktest --write -j0 /dev/nvme0n1

    The generated --seed is: omNw4JreY1ZVAfwD4dgooF061R10Ra0vnmYv5SrU Use this seed for subsequent --verify.

    Writing /dev/nvme0n1 (512 bytes sectors), starting at position 0 bytes… [15:09 / 00h:00m:10s] Wrote 7.62 GiB (8.18 GB) @ 779.3 MiB/s …

    [15:26 / 00h:17m:16s] Done. Wrote 238.47 GiB (256.06 GB, 256059113472 bytes) @ 235.5 MiB/s. Successfully dropped file caches. Generated --seed omNw4JreY1ZVAfwD4dgooF061R10Ra0vnmYv5SrU

    Success!

    to check my SSD’s I use:

    prometheus-smartctl-exporter

    sudo smartctl -i -a /dev/nvme0n1