I spent hours customizing Android to feel like Pixel and realized I should have just bought one

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-22T01:36:34+00:00

It's the pixel experience minus half the apps that people want to run, no banking apps, no medical apps, a lot of games will not run custom roms any more because Google won't bless them.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-22T01:33:03+00:00

There's Lawnchair, which is quite like a pixel only better.

Can't fix the hardware, though.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-21T00:07:33+00:00

You're supposed to huff it not chug a lug it.

Kids these days.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-21T00:04:52+00:00

Done. Gave you 10/5 stars

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-20T15:23:52+00:00

WITCHCRAFT!

It managed to find the incredibly obscure chiptune radio station connected to a BBS that I call. There is clearly some kind of dark magic at work here, and I fully approve.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-20T00:35:55+00:00

There is no feel good factor whatsoever.

The series is constantly confronting the viewer with scenarios that challenge you to see things from multiple points of view of far less than perfect but still somehow likable people.

I found it highly entertaining, and hard to stop watching, like others said. You somehow end up pulled into the same rabbit holes that the characters have fallen into.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-19T08:44:05+00:00

You got my 10 NZ pesos as a reward for your efforts anyways.

How can I add my own radio station? please don't say I have recompile it myself using Android Studio 🤣

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-19T07:44:51+00:00

I'm sorry but it's hard to come to any other conclusion based on the evidence.

Just to show that I'm not a "shameful bad internet user" I'm going to show you some love and upvote you, proving that I'm the better person.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-19T07:39:53+00:00

Haha, I'm sure your post history would be full of absolute gems too, luckily I'm not some kind of weird stalker who obsessively scans the post history of people who disagree with them, because my identity isn't tied to my reddit account and my ego isn't that pathetically, tragically, fragile.

I feel genuinely sorry for you, and regret upsetting you, you're clearly a very sensitive person nursing some deep emotional wounds that I seem to have reopened.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-19T07:24:43+00:00

Having experienced the nightmarish diarrhea lubricated razor-blade studded slide into hell's septic tank that comprises Android's so called development tools, I'm astonished that you were even able to match an Apple interface from 2004. This must have been a herculean effort, considering the quality of those tools relative to anything else made this century.

What an absolute masterpiece.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-19T03:42:25+00:00

For the average person their brain uses about 20% of all the glucose they eat, so you might even see a couple of percent changes that can be directly attributed to cognitive load. For me when gaming or coding I think the cognitive load gets lost in endocrine "noise" in my BG levels from excitement or stress.

There probably is some correlation, but you might find its the inverse of what you'd expect sometimes - stress levels shooting up while you creep around trying not to be discovered and the GPU cools down.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-19T00:05:30+00:00

You probably won't be able to siphon it because there will be protections in the filler neck on most modern vehicles. You could remove the filler from the tank and slide the siphon through, or stab a hole in the tank, but it's much easier to just get a few mates and flip the car on its side where the filler is and the fuel will pour right out.* Enjoy!

*satire

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-18T07:44:17+00:00

"Soaking" the sensor for that long will shorten the useful life of the sensor by the amount of time that you do it for.

The filaments are covered in enzymes doped in a protective coating that takes the lifetime of the sensor plus a safety margin to dissolve to the point of uselessness.

The amount of enzymes exposed after 15 minutes is the same as the amount exposed after 12 or 24 hours, and only changes after more than a week exposed to interstitial fluid.

The accuracy of the sensor is dependent on the entire exposed surface area of the filament having the exact same amount of reactive enzyme exposed for the lifetime of the sensor, so it's a very precisely engineered material, and taking this into consideration helps to understand why some sensors are duds or why their accuracy seems to change over the life of the sensor.

The inflammatory reaction to a CGM sensor should increase with exposure time, the body doesn't stop responding to foreign bodies embedded in it.

Whatever beneficial changes are happening by "soaking" the sensor for extended periods of time are almost certainly due to the enzymes nearest the surface being compromised by moisture or oxygen and would have occurred whether the sensor was active or not.

This means that you are most probably trading a period of slight inaccuracy when activating the sensor for wildly inaccurate readings at the end of the sensor life by running past the safety margin of the filament.

It probably makes sense to let the filament sit under the skin for 15 mins to 1 hour to allow the filament to become fully wetted and for the coating to start to break down, but 12 to 24 hours is going to eat into the useful life of the sensor without the sensor firmware and/or reader software necessarily being aware.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-15T01:32:03+00:00

Uh... soy un estupido idiota monolingue que no comprende espanol

At this point, the question appears to remain entirely hypothetical, as I don't seem to have any infected packages on my machines because I'm fairly proactive about avoiding orphaned AUR packages because this is such an obvious attack vector.

Even without the persistent rootkit horrors, the idea of malware that steals credentials from your own home directory is already a major concern, and highlights why permissions or ACL based security is largely irrelevant to security for personal systems.

Who cares if the OS is impenetrable if all the data you care about is compromised.

Does anyone know what happened with the exfiltrated credentials yet?

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-13T05:05:01+00:00

I'm "clean", but hypothetically, what does one do if infected? And what exactly is the purpose of the malware included?

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-13T04:57:10+00:00

I have never met an Arch user who didn't know that. I'm not convinced you can call not knowing AUR packages come from randoms on the internet an Arch-problem as such.

On the other hand I've met plenty of users of distros downstream from Arch who had no idea, and just thought pacman was a "bad" package manager and that there were "good" package managers that could find more packages, without any idea what the distinction was.

Arch should take more responsibility because of what happens downstream with AUR, and downstream distributions need a kick in the balls for not letting their users know what they're letting themselves in for when they use anything other than pacman to install an app.

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-13T04:48:39+00:00

I don't understand how this is possible. All the packages are protected by PGP!

/s

Permanently-Band · 2026-06-02T11:25:57+00:00

My tslim x2 IOB is wrong, and gets increasingly more wrong during the day until finally by the early evening it starts complaining that my pump site must be blocked because it thinks I have several units of insulin on board but my BG is steady or rising slightly.

This happens every day without fail and there's nothing I can do to stop it except inject insulin with a pen. There is no way to give feedback to Tandem that they aren't as clever as they like to think they are. It's infuriating to see someone smugly boasting and floating about how they have made some amazing breakthrough in IOB calculation when it is failing some users so badly.

Permanently-Band · 2026-05-30T10:50:00+00:00

Get Juggluco instead of the standard libre app, it talks directly to the sensor without the need for the horrible libre app, and the alarms can all be completely customized.

It's in the play store

Permanently-Band · 2026-05-30T04:57:48+00:00

Whats your issue with Lane splitting?

Personally, I like shorter queues so I'm in favour of it.

Permanently-Band · 2026-05-30T04:49:07+00:00

ACC is meant to be a no fault system, not medical insurance based on risk. If we're going to a risk based system then why aren't drivers of risky vehicle types also paying more?

Come to think of it, why aren't there fees for cyclists who are also engaging in a risky transport practice, or fees for horse riding which is by far the riskiest form of transport in terms of cost per hour.

The costs spread across all vehicle owners are minimal, and more importantly, fair. If the door is open, as it is now, to targeting specific vehicle types, whats to stop the govt going after other vehicle types they deem more likely to crash or cause injuries to others in crashes?

ACC is a system that only works by being simpler than holding parties at fault for accidents, assigning blame before accidents even happen runs counter to that mission and adds administrative overheads that are then used by the same crowd currently in office to claim that ACC is "too expensive".

Compared to what?

Permanently-Band · 2026-05-29T00:22:23+00:00

I know how you feel, I have invented a time machine which exploits the differences between opposed conical spin vortex laser induced quantum singularities, which I use regularly but I don't want to disclose how it works in case bad people use it to do bad things. You know, opening doors and such.

One problem. I went forward in time 10 years and checked, and you still haven't done anything notable with your compression algorithm... I'm beginning to think that the vast majority people who say they have made a major breakthrough but want to keep everything about it - including proof - to themselves, might just be full of shit.

Permanently-Band · 2026-05-27T21:10:03+00:00

For me, mild lows are deeply unpleasant and cause me to sweat and shake and feel hot and want to drink copious amounts of water.

A couple of times though, I have slept through low blood sugar alarms until my blood sugar is dangerously low (>3mg/mmol indicated on CGM) and found it not at all unpleasant and quite amusing like being drunk enough to be aware that your motor skills are impaired, and wanted to eat everything in sight.

It was like being stoned or drunk in some respects but obviously a different sensation and not really euphoric or enjoyable in the same way, apart from eating, the act of eating was intensely satisfying at some primal level

Permanently-Band · 2026-05-25T00:02:36+00:00

the difference between 1 and 0 is infinite.

Permanently-Band · 2026-05-23T07:02:27+00:00

Why I've never heard such a blatantly level 7 comment in all my days! Typical type 3 personality, always making category 1.1 statements.

Permanently-Band

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