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This has been a problem for a while now. That green dot and popup notification persisted on my Mullvad browser makes me feel like using a bloatware than a FOSS. The right way to do this is either follow their upstream Tor browser update model—just force updating seamlessly without any user interaction. Or, like LibreWolf, manual update with the system package manager. This situation might be because of I’m using the portable version of Mullvad browser. If that’s the case, I shouldn’t blame it. ...

This post was originally published on February 2025, and I recently updated the IPATool section in the end as a alternative method to prior ones. iPhone Talks There are a many cellphones that make me feel nostalgic. None of them is Android nor iPhone. Some of them are QWERTY, some are flip phones. Phones were much interesting back in the days when Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Sharp, Blackberry and more are still competitive in the market. Today’s smartphones are indifferent and rather being “boredphones”. And all of these boredness are rooted in the “iPhone Moment”. ...

It has been a while since my WiFi is getting more and more unstable, and I finally decided to retire my NETGEAR R6300v2 which has served me well since in 2017. It was in used condition when I bought it, so this is a good time to get a “new” router. Because the ISPs in my area are very bad, I still have to stick with the low speed Internet for probably quite some time. So I decided to buy a used Linksys MR7350. ...

To boost my article visibility on the fractured internet, reposting to larger platforms is my strategy to grow and HackerNoon has been my choice for years. However, this platform is a boat which sinks even faster than Medium. I have been rejected arbitrarily by the editor earlier this year just for minor formatting improvements, which is still tolerable. This time, they not only rejected my submission, but also banned me from the platform for no reason whatsoever. I can’t find any information in my Inbox, notifications or anywhere else. Whenever I’m trying to edit or write a post, I get a red warning saying “You have been banned”. ...

As a book reader, I read over a hundred books each year and collect much more. The preferred format is absolutely EPUB, however, I can’t always get books in EPUB/MOBI especially for rare or old books. Usually, they are available in PDF if at all. Some of these PDFs are manually scanned in a barely readable condition. I wouldn’t blame on them since I’ve been doing that before and know that is not easy. What I need is a tool to convert the not so readable book into a readable one with OCR and LLM, that is MinerU. ...