Unfortunately, especially with lower budget, that often ends up being choice between hardware and software.

I didn’t want to run custom ROM on the X3 Pro due to warranty. I had the motherboard replaced thrice, on average surviving for 9 months each… But there were theoretically options.

Armor 24 doesn’t seem to have any custom ROMs available, as seems to be usual with MTK devices, but the hardware is quite unique. I already had numerous strangers ask me what that phone is, how often it needs to be charged, or “what can that thing do” and “I am not surprised it has such strong light anymore” (it’s a massive 85.14Wh brick).
To be honest I like how it feels in hand compared to a fragile thin slab.

But the only ones making crazy devices like this seem to be brands like Ulefone, Oukitel and Unihertz (they even have a projector phone like Samsung did, but modern) which most likely won’t see custom ROMs, and I am too dumb to try building and maintaining something myself. I don’t even know how it works with device-specific drivers.

I did, as I said, by returning the phone xD

I think I also (unsuccessfully) tried ADB.

Not a carrier phone. I don’t know what specifically it is, Google Play… something. I disabled automatic updates in Play store, so probably something else. I usually just quickly pull down notification shade and click “Cancel”.

Even disabling all available restriction settings often doesn’t quite work. For clock app I set it to unrestricted and disabled optimization in DuraSpeed, still, it’s a dice roll. The chances are lower when charging. (Ulefone Armor 24)
On previous phone Unrestricted setting and locking in recent apps also didn’t quite work, but that phone had more issues. I’d often find that everything just randomly crashed overnight. (Poco X3 Pro)

But it also seems per-app. From experience, the most kill-resistant app is Termux (terminal emulator), but only if you disable child process restriction in developer settings. LibreTorrent also survives well, making the 2 only reliable large background download methods LibreTorrent and wget in Termux.

But anyway, my Alcatel 1066G dumb phone was just 10 bucks. A more reliable solution (and it supports animated GIF wallpapers 🙂).

It often feels like I am just a user of someone else’s device.

Even from the stuff that is shown like “Your device has new features” and “Settings changed by carrier”. And how Motorola tried forcing updates by using non-dismisable (they would re-appear immediately) full-screen notifications, and trying to disable the app led me to “Blocked by your IT admin” (I returned that phone).
Also when I connect any modern phone to Wi-Fi not manually set as metered it starts downloading a bunch of random shit automatically.
It keeps killing apps I want running (I had to use a cheap dumb phone as alarm clock with the past 2 smartphones), but keeps all Google services conveniently spending data and battery.

No, I sort by date (last downloaded) and keep replaying few newly added songs on loop for hours until I download another.

Although it depends on way of access.

Folder music player on phone - sorting by date or shuffle playlist - rapid playlist (directory) switching
VLC player on laptop - sorting alphabetically or shuffle playlist - rare playlist (directory) switching
Navidrome server - whole albums or newly added played individually - rare playlist use (shuffle)*

* playlists generated using ls playlist_dir/* > playlist.m3u

Akshyually, that would have been 00000000.

According to nuclear safety expert Bruce G. Blair, the US Air Force’s Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes for the Minuteman ICBM force would not be available, so it decided to set the codes to 00000000 in all missile launch control centers. Blair said the missile launch checklists included an item confirming this combination until 1977.

I used wget to download static sites, or at least ones with simpler JavaScript, but it won’t download any required files that are only linked in JS code, so it probably won’t work for many sites.

You also need to be careful when spanning hosts so that you don’t accidentally (attempt to) download the entire internet. And rate-limiting, useragent, robots file, filename limitations (so that it doesn’t save files with filename characters that have other uses in URLs like # and ?), filename extensions (to serve them back with correct mimetype), getting filenames from server rather than URL when appropriate, converting links (works in HTML files only), and I am probably forgetting something else.

Oh, and it’s a single process doing one request at a time, so even just a page with too many images will take ages. E.g.: http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/ (currently offline).

You can then easily serve them using NGINX, or just browse as files, though the latter may not work well on something like a phone. Oh, one more thing, image.jpg and Image.jpg would conflict on Android, and some websites have differences like that. It can only be stored within Termux (and served using NGINX in Termux).

The article is from 2016.

those users are using a lot of bandwidth and the piracy forms a handy excuse.

Or they could improve their network for torrenting like some Indian ISPs did in the past

Several Internet providers in India have found a clever way to reduce the load BitTorrent transfers put on their network, […] They’ve teamed up with Torbox.net which offers a fully fledged torrent search engine that connects users to ‘local’ peers to guarantee maximum download speeds.

Some have had their own custom ‘caching’ setups but increasingly they are teaming up with the torrent search engine Torbox.

Torbox links them to peers in the local network, which means that the traffic is free for the ISP.

Most people who visit Torbox will see a notice that their ISP doesn’t have a peering agreement. However, for those who have a supporting ISP the torrent site returns search results ordering torrents based on the proximity of downloaders.

TorrentFreak spoke with EBS director Victor Francess, who says that with this setup most torrent data is served from within the ISP’s own network.

“It all creates a very powerful user experience, so in fact just about 10-20% of all torrent traffic comes from the upstream and everything else is local,” Francess says.

I tried, unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get recognizable sounds out of the “images”. However, it seems perhaps some music SSTV image generator could be made. I found this image that makes interesting and for SSTV unusual sounds: https://files.catbox.moe/vr9yjw.png

At least with RGB modes. Screen record with Martin 1 mode: https://files.catbox.moe/s5c9kh.mp4

Image passed a few times over Robot 36, Robot 72 and PD 50 from speaker to microphone at lowest volume in a room with other noise.

So the capture of RF out is closest, since it’s actually analog modes meant for ham radio use. The noise is just not from RF but audio.

Nah, fuck that. Buys e-ink monitor

Best I can do:

Doesn’t seem to be the case here, but could it be due to subpixel rendering?

Banning users based on IPs is extremely stupid. VPNs, CG-NAT or even just dynamic addressing.

Hmmm, they didn’t want a phone number from me.

Well, look how much unique data your browser sends: https://www.deviceinfo.me/

You can fingerprint a user based on that. Probably just a different browser or device. You can try Mullvad browser which will get the same fingerprint with many other users, but that could also mean it will just be blocked already.
Or maybe TOR browser - Reddit has an onion site, maybe it can also be used for signup.

Other than DAITA, Quantum resistance may also be a problem. From experience, the key exchange needs near-perfect connection, otherwise it keeps failing.
This is further made into a problem by Android’s private DNS handling. If it times out for long enough (seems like 10 seconds), then even after Mullvad finally connects, the DNS won’t work.

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. Just VoIP numbers often get rejected.