Thank you

I will check it out again if and when I need to do a clean out.

I do create a lot of duplicates as I move and transfer files between 3 laptops.

Hey Dessalines

I never got on with rmlint. It never felt safe to me.

I found fclones to be much better and safer.

Plus there is a GUI version for those not using the terminal

Gui Version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones-gui

CLI version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

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Usage

fclones offers separate commands for finding and removing files. This way, you can inspect the list of found files before applying any modifications to the file system.

group – identifies groups of identical files and prints them to the standard output

remove – removes redundant files earlier identified by group

link – replaces redundant files with links (default: hard links)

dedupe – does not remove any files, but deduplicates file data by using native copy-on-write capabilities of the file system (reflink)

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I did actually test this by creating a directory with duplicates.

test_dupes 186 files

scanned directory for duplicates and created dupes.txt

fclones group . >>dupes.txt

dupes.txt

remove duplicates to another directory

/home/user/Desktop/dupes

fclones move target_dir <dupes.txt

fclones move /home/user/Desktop/dupes <dupes.txt

test_dupes now has 173 files

Hey PragmaticIdealist

I dont like him because he seems to intentionally pick controversial subjects just to get clicks.

I mean. how controversial can you get by using the headline “LineageOS is apparently not private?” and then go about trying to prove your point by not referring to Lineage.

I can only assume that loads of non techy people would be put off by his claims.

Lineage does not send any information to google nor connect to google. However the apps you choose to install could connect to google. Especially if you use closed source apps.

if you stick to open source apps via Neostore, droid-ify and F-droid basic you should be fine.

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It is safe to disable Captive portal if it is already enabled on your phone.

I have disabled it on my aunts and uncles phones, they dont use lineage or any AOSP roms.

My aunt likes the idea of free wi-fi when shes out. she has a list of all the in-store wifi, in my local shopping centre, already stored on her phone, this means that she automatically connects to whatever wifi she is nearest to.

Lineage phones have captive portal disabled by default.

Looks like you are half way there.

A good VPN is also a good choice

Keep at it.

Excellent write up

Thank you

Hey PragmaticIdealist

The video guy is talking bollocks: plus he has about 50 crypto links to pay the wanker.

Honestly, I have install lineage since 2018 and installed CyanogenMod way before that.

He talks about “Removing bloatware Google packages” from Lineage, there are no bloatware google packages in lineage.

I have just plugged my oneplus 5T with lineage installed into my laptop, and typed this into my terminal: to give me a list of all the packages installed on my phone.

adb shell pm list packages -s >oneplus5-installed.txt

I have 213 packages installed. THERE ARE NO GOOGLE PACKAGES installed.

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Captive Portal is simple to disable using adb. Its not scary.

I have 5 family phones with lineage installed

I have just checked Captive Portal on all 5

db shell settings get global captive_portal_mode

all 5 phones the output is:

null

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you can change your dns rather than rely on your carriers DNS. I use Mullvad DNS

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

The eu has public dns servers:

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/public-dns

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not much info on itel-p55-5g on xda

https://xdaforums.com/t/i-want-a-vbmeta-img-and-boot-img-for-itel-p55-5g.4737042/

if you want to find out about Lineage, use their forums or use the https://xdaforums.com/ as above and have a good look around to see what people say.

Hey irotsoma

I do feel your dilemma

I would drive for an hour to buy anything from a small store rather than buying from amazon and increasing their profits. Obviously one person has no impact upon their obscene profits.

Amazon is the curse for small business and all its employees, drivers, sellers and customers.

good reseacrh here:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

The authors conclude that getting the best price on Amazon requires that you “first spend considerable time searching through pages of results and then utilize, at a minimum, spreadsheet algebraic capabilities to determine the product’s full price…[and] somehow de-bias from the psychological effects of anchoring, and labels such as ‘limited time deal’ and ‘Best Seller,’ as well as many other subtle psychological influences.”

Amazon says it’s entitled to use the consumer welfare cheat-code to get out of antitrust enforcement because it has so many bargains. But to get those bargains, you have to pay such minutely detailed attention – literally spreadsheeting your options and hand-coding mathematical formulas to compare them – that you’ll almost certainly fail. The price of failure is incredibly high – a 25-29% overcharge on every purchase.

The Amazon Paradox has dropped, and it drills into another way that Amazon overcharges most of us by as much as 29% on nearly every purchase, disqualifying it from invoking that consumer welfare cheat code. The new paper is “Amazon’s Pricing Paradox,” from law professors Rory Van Loo and Nikita Aggarwal, for The Harvard Journal of Law and Technology:

The authors concede that while Amazon does have some great bargains, it goes to enormous lengths to make it nearly impossible to get those bargains. Drawing from the literature on behavioral economics, the authors make the reasonable (and experimentally verified) assumption that shoppers generally assume that the top results in an Amazon search are the best results, and click on those.

But Amazon’s search-ordering is enshittified: it shifts value from sellers and shoppers (you!) to the company. A combination of self-preferencing (upranking Amazon’s own knock-offs), pay-for-placement (Amazon ads), other forms of payola (whether a merchant is paying for Prime), and “junk ads” (that don’t match your search) turn Amazon’s search-ordering into a rigged casino game.

From 2023:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23885242/amazon-prime-tv-movies-streaming-ads-subscription-date

I completely forgot about endeavourOS.

I used to have it on my gaming rig. Pretty desktop.

just remembered arco-linux too, but I think thats been discontinued.

Ho sfanculato Mozilla e Firefox 4 anni fa. Prima muoiono entrambi, meglio è.

transalation for you inglish:

I ditched Mozilla and Firefox four years ago. The sooner they both die, the better.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-adding-copilot-chatbot-features

Try Librewolf, doesnt have ai

As you are a noob, avoid arch.

It maybe great for your self esteem telling people you are an arch user, but vanilla arch is not a simple distro. it takes a lot of work.

So, unless you have a lot of linux and terminal experience try something else.

If you want to play with an arch based distro there is manjaro.

I have manjaro installed on my old Lenovo T450 for years and it works great.

Alternatively give linux mint XFCE a try. I usually install this for people who are new users of linux.

or I have MX-linux installed on the Mrs laptop. she has the lenovo T470.

install guides:

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

https://itsfoss.com/install-manjaro-linux/

https://www.debugpoint.com/install-mx-linux/

if you want to try vanilla arch

https://itsfoss.com/install-arch-linux/

I dont use either of those.

I only use my credit card to buy online. I would rather trust my bank than some third party USA shite company.

Credit cards, unlike debit cards, offer more protections than shitty paypal.

specifically here on Airstrip One, there are no protections if you buy with paypal, whereas there are strict protections if you use your credit card.

Buyers using a credit card might get a refund via chargeback from their credit-card company. However, in the UK, where such a purchaser is entitled to specific statutory protections (that the credit card company is a second party to the purchase and is therefore equally liable in law if the other party defaults or goes into liquidation) under Section 75 Consumer Credit Act 1974, the purchaser loses this legal protection if the card payment is processed via PayPal.

Who on this earth needs amazon? amazon, the company that represents all that is wrong with the internet, with its ads, tracking, sellers fees, ai driven sales, etc etc, enshitification and abusive conduct.

I have heard from many people, friends and family, that have tried to get a refund via paypal, only to be rejected with no recourse. wankers!

whereas a quick phone call to the bank and you get a refund immediately.

There is an option in the developer options to enable a fake location app.

https://github.com/lilstiffy/MockGps

Ideally you would want to remove your carrier sim. your carrier will know you are in a different country (roaming), and use a good VPN

I use mullvad VPN and that spoofs my GPS and location.

I use Lineage on my current phone with no google apps and dont use a fake location app.

If you are using a default, we love google phone, I am not sure if disabling the gps and location stops google and its apps from having access to your location data.

I dont trust them to honour the pressing of a button to disable anything, when location and advertising is so important to them, and their other surveillance friends

https://www.startupdefense.io/blog/honeypots-a-comprehensive-guide-to-cybersecurity-decoys

I find wireshark too confusing unless you have a lot of experience with it.

It looks like you are using linux because I see Wlan0 at the top of the image

I use ss

ss --help

to see what you are connecting to

ss -x -a

ss -o state established

ss -o state established ‘( dport = :http or sport = :http )’

what processes are using open sockets

ss -pl

TCP sockets

ss -t -a

UDP sockets

ss -t -a

a deeper guide here:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-investigate-sockets-network-connections.html

I use Tuta mail and protonmail.

There is no “unencrypted” transfer between sender and receiver if you both use tuta or proton.

If you send an email to me from a Gmail account, it is unencrypted until it reaches the Tuta servers and the Proton severs, once there it is encrypted and remains so until I login to my account to access the email.

TUTA MAIL:

The entire mailbox – emails, calendar and address book – are stored end-to-end encrypted in Tuta.

Data that Tuta encrypts end-to-end:

Emails, including subject lines and all attachments

Entire calendars, even metadata such as event notifications

Entire address book, not just parts of the contacts

Inbox rules / filters

And the entire search index.

Tuta uses symmetric (AES 256) and asymmetric encryption (RSA 2048 or ECC (x25519) and Kyber-1024 as quantum-safe algorithms) to encrypt emails end-to-end. When both parties use Tuta, all emails are automatically end-to-end encrypted (asymmetric encryption).

PROTONMAIL:

Emails from non-Proton Mail users to Proton Mail users

The email is encrypted in transit using TLS. It is then unencrypted and re-encrypted (by us) for storage on our servers using zero-access encryption. Once zero-access encryption has been applied, no-one except you can access emails stored on our servers (including us). It is not end-to-end encrypted, however, and might be accessible to the sender’s email service.

All messages in your Proton Mail mailbox are stored with zero-access encryption. This means we cannot read any of your messages or hand them over to third parties. This includes messages sent to you by non-Proton Mail users, although keep in mind if an email is sent to you from Gmail, Gmail likely retains a copy of that message as well. Password-protected Emails are also stored end-to-end encrypted.

Subject lines and recipient/sender email addresses are encrypted but not end-to-end encrypted.

Hey eelectricshock

I know what you mean

It does make me wonder about Airstrip One, the government, palantir and GCHQ.

Do we really believe that they stopped all that invasive surveillance after Edward Snowden.

I doubt it very much. They just renamed the programs, got microsoft, google and meta and the rest of the sycophants to run them, hidden behind private enterprise out of public sight, instead of Homeland and the CIA.

Hey Droechai

How about trying Sparklinux

They have stable, oldstable and oldoldstable images.

based on debian.

I use sparky on both my raspberry pi 3B’s.

Sparky 7 still supports i686 architecture (32 bit).

ISO MinimalGUI i686 (32 bit)

https://sparkylinux.org/iso-minimalgui-i686/

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sparky

Im an old therapist and I always recommend the power of silence.

I’m not nice to my co-workers. I am courteous, professional and set boundaries.

If someone asks me a private question about my life, family, children or anything I consider personal. I just remain silent.

Silence is simple. It take no brain power, whereas trying to think of ways to deflect questions will be stressful.

It is not written in stone that I have to answer questions. Silence is a powerful tool.

I never get into justifying to anyone why I do not want to share my personal stuff. Its personal for a reason.

I am a right muppet. I recommended e/OS a few days ago.

heres me old 12 year old Samsung S4.

Its got the e/OS, recovery-e-2.2-r-20240719418592-dev-jfltexx running with android 11

Those were that days. 16gb with 2gb ram, a fucking powerhouse, and more importantly, no fucking ai shit

I should say its my kitchen timer.

No more udates.

Working like a charm, battery last a week.

looks like I wont be using anymore of e/OS roms.

Half my family have e/OS installed.

I will be busy removing e/OS, and that ai shit with it, over the next few days.

The question: How do I live the rest of my life?

You must ask yourself, how did I manage to get to where I am today.

Reading your post, you say you have not been diagnosed.

The spectrum today, in comparson to 20 years ago has expanded exponentially from the original.

Personally, I think an introvert could get a diagnosis.

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You are a human being, you are not a Label or a position on a spectrum.

There is no perfect human being, we are all different, not one of us is a diagnoses. That is why we are given names at birth.

I dont know anyone called, adhd, autistic, psychotic or depressed.

Diagnoses are what the medical profession likes to use to label us and put us in little boxes.

The rest of the world see each one of us as some random human walking down the street.

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During my psychotherapy undergraduate years at University, my peers and I did an experiment.

The experiment was to challenge the status quo, and assess how easy it was to get a diagnoses and get a prescription.

So being your typical, annoying under grads, a few of us. including me, went to our respective doctors and complained about; feeling down, unable to sleep, not eating very well, and extremely stressed because of the work load at university.

My GP referred me to see a psychiatrist at my local hospital. I was diagnosed with clinical depression and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) with a likelihood of a personality disorder.

He prescribed me the anti-depressant Mirtazapine and pregabalin for the anxiety.

Obviously, I was healthy 30 year old and didn’t go the the chemist to get my prescription. I also told my doctor so he could remove any referrences to mental ill health added to my medical history.

We knew it was a stupid thing to do, but it did give us lots to think about, regarding the state of attaining a medical diagnoses, being prescribed unnecessary drugs and being given labels.

By the way, psychotherapists dont label people.

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