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I received a regular android phone recently. It has modern hardware which I would never buy for myself due to it’s incompatible to open bootloader/firmware. The only phone I would like to buy are Pixels either to use GrapheneOS for privacy/security or LineageOS for root privilege. However, even such a phone with stock ROM can has its use case in my hand. It works well as an iPhone alternative for low key life activities, or gray man strategy if you prefer that terminology. ...

In my previous post, I mentioned that have a remote portal machine in my friend’s house where I use RustDesk to access into. However, in some use case, like access LAN resources and managing online services across multiple devices, the best practice is not using a remote desktop tool but having a VPN tunnel. Old Stories In the very early days, I used to use Hamachi to play LAN games like Counter Strike, Warcraft 3 and Minecraft with my internet friends. After I started doing homelab, I have used ZeroTier for quite a while before Tailscale came out. ...

Welcome to the Shinobi Hackerspace. I am the host, Shinobi. You are seeing this probably because you have visited the Hackerspace in person. As the host, I am supposed to give you an on-site orientation for the first time, but unfortunately this article is all I can do for you right now. This hackerspace (or so called hacklab if you will) also functions as a tool library for the local community. It advocates the idea of mutial aid and Free & Open-source movement, so using the on-site equipment or borrowing tools is free of charge. ...

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”. ...