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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Me on Linux changing the look of notification area with CSS stylesheet after installing an icon pack that works not only on app launcher but in most of the system.

    PS Don’t forget to install this Magisk module that hacks Google checks so you can still log-in to your bank after you changed animations style via that other Magisk module.












  • Gets the job done, but shoudn’t and isn’t intended for non-programmer end user.
    I’m not mad at small programs or developers with not much time to setup a distribution pipeline, they should be praised for their work at the program itself. But different OSes have different places to unpack a program and this allows simple updates, we should respect that for consistency at user end. Expect it’s Windows, which is a unspecified mess anyway, let’s go and unpack everything raw on C:\ or into user directory.






  • If you did root your phone, you can turn RCS back on with the standard Magisk hiding procedures

    I really do not want to use hacks like that in order to send a text message.
    It reminds me of the:

    • Voting in elections now requires buying a Big Mac and having receipt for verification, I don’t want that.
    • No problem with that, just ask a friend to buy it for you. Or you can just fake

    A messaging standard that requires carrier, phone modem and phone operating system all implementing in order for it to work is outdated mindset from the era of flip-phones. We have Internet now, which allows sending any data to any device and we have installable apps that can send anything through it. Implementing an awful and already outdated standard in a most user freedom unfriendly manner just to replace even more outdated standard is not great.
    Imagine if Google now started promoting a FAX 2.0 protocol for fax machines, which would implement some of basic email features already being in email for 20. No, just use email and if your friends do not have it show them how to use it.



  • Terminal emulator is the window, the tabs, integration with your desktop, etc.
    Shell is more complicated but TLDR is this is everything showing in your terminal window by default, the base program you use that runs other programs. The prompt showing current user, saving history, coloring the input, basic editing keyboard shortcuts, etc.

    By having this AI integrations in a terminal emulator we are very much limiting ourselfs. It would look more fancy in popup windows, but it won’t work over remote connections and not be as portable.
    Usually when we do some smart functions like autocomplete, fuzzy search or integrations like that we do it as an shell (fish, bash, zsh) extension, then it will work on any emulator and even without a GUI.