Sorry im a bit confused. Gnome does allow app grouping in little bubbles similar to on a phone. Do you mean in the activities menu i meant the applications menu extension. having custom categories? I basically never use that when i use gnome i just hit the super key or do a 3 finger swipe up twice on the trackpad to open the app menu. For desktop ive recently switched to gnome too and have been using the dash to panel extension so i can click the app menu button on it.
I run Debian Stable. I wanted something i could just set and forget. I don't need updates, or want them outside security stuff. And i want stability. My machines pretty old so i dont need newer drivers or anything anyway. It also has all the software i need.
I see you saying United Statesian have you heard the term Oosah, USA phonetically? Its used in some latin american nations. I like it so ill sometimes use Oosian "USian" irl lol.
I asked ChatGPT about it since I'm not sure how to go about it, and got this. Might be worth a try.
Prompt: In a recent update to the fedora operating system they changed it so mobile broadband modems are now flagged as WWAN devices rather then ethernet devices. This is causing it to treat a usb tethered phone as a WWAN device instead of a ethernet over usb device, and the tether is not working as a result. How could a user fix this on their system?
Answer: You can teach ModemManager to completely ignore your phone’s RNDIS interface so that NetworkManager will handle it as a normal Ethernet link again. Here’s how:
Find your phone’s USB IDs
Plug in your phone with USB‑tethering enabled and run:
bash
lsusb
You’ll see a line like:
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 18d1:4ee7 Google Inc. Nexus/Pixel (tethering)
Note the idVendor (here 18d1) and idProduct (here 4ee7).
Create a udev rule to ignore it
As root, create /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-tether-ignore.rules with these contents:
udev
# Tell ModemManager to ignore my phone’s USB‑tether interface
ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4ee7", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1"
(Replace 18d1/4ee7 with your phone’s IDs.) citeturn5search4
After that, your tethered phone will no longer be treated as a WWAN modem but as an ordinary USB‑Ethernet device—DHCP will kick in and Internet will flow as before.
Tip:
If you never use a cellular modem on this machine, you can also just uninstall ModemManager entirely:
So its treating your phone like a WWAN device like if you had mobile broadband built into the computer instead of treating it like a ethernet over usb connection. If there is a network connection showing up for it try to go in and force it to allow the phone to handle DHCP. Tethered phones act as the DHCP server in most cases, but if it thinks its an internet WWAN device the computer might be trying to be the DHCP server causing a conflict. Or force it to somehow recognize it as an ethernet connection.
I've been working on a phone tethering router so might have some insight here for you. Android can use CDC or RNDIS to tether. It depends on your phone which ones gonna be used. Try to figure out which one its using (can do this by watching logs when plugging in usb usually itll say there which type of device is connecting). When i was doing the router i had to make sure cdc_ether and rndis_host kernel modules were both loaded to ensure compatibility. It might be as simple as manually loading a module in the new kernel version. Although I'm not exactly sure how it'll work on fedora i was doing this all on OPNsense.
What i was doing was tethering the phone to a router (old thinkpad running router OS) then passing that connection on to its network and connecting to the Access Point on the network with my laptop. I still havent fully worked out the kinks yet but its going pretty well. Sorry i can't be more specific for your case, but hopefully it gives you some terms you can use to google more effectively at the least.
It doesnt matter tbh. Even assuming they could entirely prevent non-US downloads it would take perhaps a few months before non-US alternatives were up and running. Its not like the entire worlds gonna go oh ok guess we wont have that stuff then. They'll just host their own downloads. It probably wouldn't even take that long. It might cause some short term chaos, but long term it wont do a thing.
I remember reading about how cars in other countries like China, and Europe have LED headlights that will detect where other cars windshields are and turn the LEDs that would shine in that direction off re-actively. But that it was illegal in the US for some reason.
Huh? Distrust the encryption? I never said i didnt trust my encryption. Im confused lol. Im looking to make sure my local network is secure. The VPN i have is fine for security on the internet.
I had asked Chat GPT about it and got some suggestions for my firewall settings, and about making sure the router management interface is not accessible remotely etc.
For a long time now i have been doing my best to buy as much as i can from Chinese companies. With the tariffs i may have some trouble i guess lol. But i can atleast still buy 2nd hand items which i do a lot too. Buying used is a great way to both recycle something and not give money to a US company. Estate sales, and craigslist have tons of everyday household items for cheap.
Im imagining a future where i finally manage to move to china and not only is it awesome because its not the US and its just nice to be somewhere sane, but id never have to see a US made product again. 哦哦哦哦，谢谢。 我爱你特浪普！ 中国胜利了。美国不好哈哈哈哈 (^ _ ^)!
what baffles me is they managed to get all those other symbols but not the multiplication? So weird. Kinda makes me think they used ai to generate this and the ai just had them all next to eachother so the human added asterisks manually for some reason.
Russia's revolution was led by peasants. The Russian situation vs the rest of Europe was very different. The Russians who led the Russian revolution were not benefiting from colonialism, and in some cases were themselves the colonized people. As Russia conquered lands nearby rather than having far flung colonies. A colony of a European power has socialist potential (Think Vietnam) and Russia while it did engage in imperialism and colonialism did not have a revolution led by the people who benefit from those systems. Its a very different situation.
ya like i said theres exceptions to everything. But when you have a centuries old societal tradition of colonialism that gets engrained into the culture. Its not like genetic. Its the conditions they exist in. It takes a lot of effort, and usually luck to not fall into that reactionary mindset when your born into those conditions.
That's a big If. These are Europeans we are talking about. Theres a reason they supported fascism then, and theres a reason so many Americans support it now. Theyre imperialists to their core. Committing violence against others to profit off them is normalized for them. You can't just undo centuries of colonialism just like that. Sure there will always be some people who see the light so to speak, but the majority of even the proletariat in these imperialist nations are very reactionary, and will always support fascism over socialism.
Thats why its necessary to dismantle the imperialist systems they benefit from first. They'll all collapse into fascism, turn their colonial violence inwards, and then after that collapse process ends they will be ready for socialism.
When a nation becomes organized in such a way that it is propped up by extractive violence via colonialism and imperialism it will always seek to do so more and more. This process won't end until its inevitably turned inward. Or in rare cases where its disrupted by some powerful outside force. The turning inward is the fascist stage. Thats my take on it anyway.
Ok im at my computer now so i can look at this.
You can make categories like this if that works for you.