Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)PI
Posts
0
Comments
378
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • The "magic remote" from LG ...

    It's so magic it makes you pay for a new remote with features that should already work on the regular remote.

    But I get it. We're talking groundbreaking features like navigating up/down/left/right, back and even selecting stuff! /s

    The solution I found for my parents' aging LG TV begging for a "magic remote" was adding an AndroidTV box with its own remote and an updated OS with an actual selection of working, relevant apps (as opposed to the native OS of the TV), for a cheaper price than a "magic remote" IIRC. Finally, replacing the default launcher of the AndroidTV box with the minimalist FLauncher made the replacement a somewhat less crappy experience than it initially was.

  • I recently bought their Flint 2 (GL-MT6000) based on multiple recommendations online when looking for a router that supports OpenWRT. That's preinstalled, with AdGuard Home and WireGuard VPN on top of it. I'm looking forward to set it up and play around with it.

    What do you exactly mean when you describe their approach in software as Android-like? That it's easy to install services in OpenWRT?

  • Would you want to run OpenWRT on the phone? If yes, why? I'm genuinely interested in examples of actual use cases.

    Or are you hoping something new will emerge that takes advantage of the MediaTek chipset, similar to what OpenWRT already does for routers etc. but with a slightly different, smartphone-focused approach?

  • Wait until I debunk you by publishing these articles:


    Is no always the answer to questions in headlines?

    Yes but no.


    How can you know the answer to questions in headlines?

    No, you know.


    Why is no always the answer to questions asked in headlines?

    No. The answer is no, and that does not really answer this question.

  • An inspiring, simple, yet powerful workflow, and I think it lead to a beautiful and interesting result! Lovely pixelart input as well.

    I just started doodling with pixels myself about a week ago in the PixaPencil app, and your work here makes me want to try something along the same lines. I've also been thinking of outpainting from a 64x64 or such already, keeping the style consistent, just to see what would appear by expanding infinite worlds from my own small pixelart seeds. Have you tried something like that?

  • Showly

    Jump
  • The reason could be that Trakt integrates with media server apps like Jellyfin or Plex, or apps like Kodi, and that you can thereby bring your watch history with you across apps and you don't lose it if your server crashes, library is corrupted or something... I have never used it, but I'd imagine that'd be a reason to use it. If I knew of a libre alternative, I'd actually consider using it for Jellyfin.

  • No idea why, but I don't see their comments anywhere in this thread. Thanks for confirming.

    EDIT:

    I found this metadata file, is that the one?

    https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/de.mm20.launcher2.release.yml

    From the file:

    MaintainerNotes: |- Kvaesitso uses several external APIs for search providers. Several of them require signing up to obtain a developer API key: gdrive search, openweathermap, HERE and Meteorologisk institutt. It's not possible for users to provide these keys as explained here: https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso/issues/227#issuecomment-1366826219 If keys are not provided, these features are automatically disabled during the build.

    core/shared/build.gradle.kts and plugins/sdk/build.gradle.kts have configurations in them for publishing artifacts to maven repos. They are not used during the build, but detected by F-Droid scanner anyway. We patch it out from core/shared/build.gradle.kts, since this module itself is still used in compilation, and delete plugins/sdk/build.gradle.kts because it's not used in app compilation.

    Kvaesitso depended on different libraries used for gdrive login in the past that pulled GMS dependency, however it's not the case anymore:

    https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso/issues/583#issuecomment-1775268896 The new libraries pull OpenTelemetry though, but it's unclear if it's used (considering gdrive integration is disabled).

    Max heap size is reduced in gradle.properties to avoid gradle daemon being killed by OOM manager.

    Older versions of Kvaesitso had onedrive integration that depended on non-whitelisted maven repos, but it was removed.

    Upstream provides an fdroid flavor, however there's no difference with default flavor except for different versionName.

    For some reason, F-Droid fails to pick up the correct gradle version from distributionUrl if subdir is used.

    It seems to be the case that F-Droid removes gdrive and onedrive in their build. Though, there seem to be no mentions of Wikipedia.

  • This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service

    When viewing the app in F-Droid, the note below this part tells, that it uses a third-party service for currency exchange rates.

    I don't know if the fact that it can show Wikipedia results, and that you can connect it to your Google account (to show cloud files from Drive and such in the search results) plays a role too, but it isn't specifically mentioned under the anti-features... On a sidenote, searching your own Owncloud or Nextcloud is supported too.

  • I just tried this on an Ultra.cc seedbox with yt-dlp installed, and the Fintube plugin configured to the right path for that, yet when I go to Dashboard > Fintube and click the Submit button to add a video to the download, nothing happens. Can't figure out what's wrong.

    Maybe Jellyfin doesn't have the necessary write permissions to write the file to that folder, but I'm not quite sure how to change those on such a seedbox, if that's the case.

    Any experience with this to share? Would the Submit button usually lead to a different view, or does it just stay on that video submission screen while the download happens silently in the background? The lack of action I experience when clicking it feels a bit awkward...

  • I found this site, pakphones.com with a link for the US730. Right now, unfortunately, cloudflare can't reach the ul.to host, but if you haven't tried this one, one could hope it actually works some day.

    I also found a (possibly dead) link at this site, lg-firmwares.com, though it's cookie, captcha and waiting time protected, and the download doesn't begin for me right now...

    Your search string also lead me to this forum thread, where I found a relevant filename to look for: LG730ZV8_05.S8_00.P61009.cab

    1-LGExtract -kdz name of flash file with kdz extention(as :LGExtract -kdz US73011b_03.S11b_03.P15107.kdz) 2-result of 1 is a file as: LG730ZV8_05.S8_00.P61009.cab 3-extract [it] by winrar here 4-LGExtract -wdb name of flash file with wdb name of flash file with dll asLGExtract -wdb US73011b_03.S11b_03.P15107.wdb US73011b_03.dll).

    This lead me back to the pakphones blog, where I found these (possibly dead) links to relevant files on this page:

    LG Venice LG730

    Flasher LGNPST Store & Lab.zip

    Firmware LG730ZV8_05.S8_00.P61009.cab [mirror]

    Components & DLL LGNPST_Components_Ver_5_0_20_0.zip LGNPST_GenericModels_Ver_5_0_12_0.zip LG730_120831.rar

    Service Manual EN_LG730_SVC_ENG_120919.pdf

    User Manual RDL-1209-00011_LG730_Boost_UG_EN_V1.0_120925.pdf

    You have probably already seen all or most of this, but maybe there's some missing puzzle piece somewhere in this information?

    Note: the .cab files mentioned in this post are not URLs, even though (at least my) Lemmy client formats them as that.