I set up a Raspberry Pi 3 with AdguardHome for a friend of mine, and told him to disconnect everything at home and try to watch anything on his phone, being the only device using his home’s internet.
He just sent me this, and now he’s ready to #degoogle 🤣🤣🤣
He says there were hundreds in less than 5 minutes.
They’re just too much, seriously. He’s getting a Pixel 6 Pro to put GraphenOS on it. I have the 7Pro and have been on Graphene or Calyx for about 2 years now. No regrets.
Tell him to make sure to change the Connectivity check domains to GrapheneOS ones. Plenty of people im this thread explained you about those. In theory, ypu could disable it, but the main OS will assume you have no connection, despite actually able to connect, and some apps may break.
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GrapheneOS servernot the default?Don’t know how where to check to verify that. Hence me still recommending it to double check that.
Haven’t had any issues with it breaking. Some apps maybe need google play services to unfortunately I do use that since not everybody uses Unified Push
It’s really on more specific cases. I had it happen with a couple of apps that prevented me even trying to connect to it. I think the entire system should be fine working despite the connectivity check being entirely disabled.
Yup, that’s how I have mine as well. Good tip for all of us.
there are hundreds because they got blocked.
android phones actively retry connectivity checks every 3 seconds until a successful connection is achieved, then it ramps down to a check every 5 minutes, and the default server is google’s. (this functionality is used for the little exclamation mark next to the wifi icon if there’s no internet connection)
no data is sent along that request (it’s just a GET request), not even useragent etc (the only thing google gets is the source of the request, aka the ip address, which is basically meaningless if it’s not associated with any other data)
you should actually be able to point that domain to any ip that responds with empty body + http 204 code to /generate_204 and it should work as expectedOh, cool. I’ll look into redirecting these to a 204. That should be a pretty interesting experiment for me. Thank you.
I agree that these should be blocked for privacy, but the amount of these requests is really completely meaningless. The reason there are so many is because they are blocked, not despite it. It will keep trying over and over on failure.
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At this point, for me, any reason to dump Google is a good reason.
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They lie because it’s not about the truth. It’s about the clout.
Who’s lying? I’m confused.
To be fair, I do agree the connectivity check should not be there. It should just let you connect to the network, and if it doesn’t have internet, then so be it. You’ll figure that out the second you try to load something. Plus, it makes it really annoying to set up a new Wi-Fi router or something without internet because you have to disable data and then turn on Wi-Fi and connect to the network to force it to stay on the network and not switch over to mobile data.
Un-de- the English languange from Latin influence. Ungoogle yourself!
Why though?
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English is comes from the proto-Germanic family of languages. It was later when the Normans invaded the British Isles did the language begin to see Latin & French influences (which is one of the sources for English having terrible spelling rules). “de-” is of Latin etymology. “un-” is Germanic in origin. In many cases “un-” prefixes can be substituted. See: ungoogled-chromium.
The complete disregard for “purity” is what made English flexible enough to become the defacto default common language of most of the world. Your pursuit of language purity is in fact very un-English.
It is it de-English?
so wait why the preference for de
You should learn programming first. Then get to kernel development level.
Really curious now. Why should I learn programming?
Getting to the level of a kernel dev, you will have a different look on “degoogling”, and even “android”.
OK, thanks. I am actually trying to get my feet wet in basic programming (starting a course on Rust), and most of the terms I’m seeing are alien to me. I’ve found myself spending a lot of time looking for definitions and such. Any suggestions? I’d appreciate any pointers for a smooth-ish start.
Keep with Rust, don’t listen to the guy suggesting C. In fact Rust is starting to be used in the Linux kernel if for some reason you ever wanted to do that.
Big language which is not yet considered to be “powerful” enough by the guy who rewrites the whole kernel in C++. Slow compile time, high memory usage.
C is a small language and it is as powerful as assembly.
But learning any programming language can still get your mind up.
Yes, and the guy wants to learn to programming and, for whatever reason, went with Rust. C is a bad choice for a first language, they will likely not enjoy it and quit. With Rust they have a fighting chance.
Yes, and the guy wants to learn to programming and, for whatever reason, went with Rust.
Ok.
C is a bad choice for a first language, they will likely not enjoy it and quit. With Rust they have a fighting chance.
Untested.
Programming is like solving math, I think?
If I were you, I’d learn C instead. Rust is not used (much) on low level development. Currently C is not replaceable.
I’ve heard the authors of C said: “C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book”. But it is so powerful, simple, and fast.
You already have a course on Rust, for “basic programming”, so keep going on the course for a while. Learning any programming language can make your mind. And it is a course, so I’d expect the authors of the course to familiarize you with definitions.
Yeah, its been pretty basic the first week. Lots of definitions like “object oriented”, “compiling” and such. I never thought of C. I was going to jump on Java first, but Rust has a very good rap as far as I’ve seen along devs, which is why I went with that instead. Goes to show how ignorant I am on the subject. Thanks a lot, really.
For rust specifically, I recommend checking out NoBoilerplate on YouTube. His videos are short, sweet and to the point, and they make you feel better about the progress you’re making. Also, LetsGetRusty is nice for when you are first going through the Rust Book, because he explains everything with examples
Awesome. Thanks so much for the tip. I subscribed just now (over Grayjay, of course, he he).
