Android applications

Sector11 · Yesterday 03:34:54

Colonel Panic wrote:

{snip} What I could do with is an easy way to turn the Oppo off. {snip}

Found this: How to Switch off OPPO Phone Without Power Button
Hope that helps.

johnraff · Yesterday 09:25:43

Sector11 wrote:

I have no idea if this is a "Samsung" thing or common to other Android phones.
Find it: > Settings > (search) assistant menu

Maybe it is Samsung - I couldn't find the assistant menu on my moto g24, but it offered a "digital assistant" which I didn't like the sound of.

Default action poweroff for me was similar to what the Colonel had - simultaneously press the power button and volume-up, which didn't always work anyway...

Colonel Panic wrote:

What I could do with is an easy way to turn the Oppo off; although it does turn off (contrary to what I first thought), you have to hold down the "power" button (on one side of the case) and the "volume up" one (on the other side) hard, and and at the same time, for at least ten seconds. It is wearying to have to do it that way every time.

After resetting power menu to a long press on the power button it's much more tolerable.

Sector11 wrote:

johnraff wrote:
{snip} set it to "Access power menu"
I'm guessing you still have to push a button though? It that similar to what I'm showing?

Yes, still have to press the power button, but it's only one button.

Colonel Panic · Yesterday 10:24:13

Sector11 wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
{snip} What I could do with is an easy way to turn the Oppo off. {snip}
Found this: How to Switch off OPPO Phone Without Power Button
Hope that helps.

Thanks! (and John's response too).

Sector11 · Yesterday 12:25:35

johnraff wrote:

{snip snip}
Yes, still have to press the power button, but it's only one button.

What abourt this, from 0:22 → 0:28, that was the second way then he continues with changing the function of the power button.

Sector11 · Yesterday 12:28:04

Colonel Panic wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
{snip} What I could do with is an easy way to turn the Oppo off. {snip}
Found this: How to Switch off OPPO Phone Without Power Button
Hope that helps.
Thanks! (and John's response too).

But did it work?

Sector11 · Yesterday 12:40:44

In all this for the people that use Google Play Store, as I mentioned to unklar.

Check out: Cx File Explorer, I've been using 'forever' it seems.

glittersloth · Yesterday 13:14:16

Sector11 wrote:

glittersloth wrote:
Rethink is probably the best firewall I’ve used on Android, but it’s not exactly the most user-friendly. https://rethinkdns.com/app
Hard to set up then?

Let’s just say it’s convoluted, with many interconnected settings spread out over various sub-menus/sections. Quite powerful once you figure everything out.

Project page: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app

Aside from the usual firewall features like blocking internet connectivity to apps, you can segregate specific apps to wifi or cellular data only, specify different DNS resolvers to different apps (you don’t have to use their own DNS service for this), block selected tracking domains for some apps and not others, or even split-tunnel WireGuard VPN tunnels on a per-app basis.

That last feature is, afaik, unique to Rethink. Most clients only allow split tunnelling from an on/off basis — some apps are tunnelled through your selected VPN server, and others are excluded and have to connect bareback — but with Rethink you can route different apps through different servers/locations. So, provided you have enough available “slots” on your VPN provider (and said provider has servers in your desired locations), you could, for example, have local apps tunnelling through an Argentine server, make fun of Milei’s hair via Tor onion routing, troll Neymar via your social media apps connected to a Brazil server, watch Youtube ad-free via having the Youtube app connected to Albania, and have Firefox on a SOCKS5 proxy to avoid captchas, all at the same time.

This is just scratching the surface. You also have powerful proxifiers for censorship circumvention and whatnot. Do you need any of these? Probably not, at least today. But you never know what kind of billionaire backed AI powered enshittified multiverse you’ll wake up to tomorrow.

Sector11 · Yesterday 21:11:04

glittersloth wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
glittersloth wrote:
Rethink is probably the best firewall I’ve used on Android, but it’s not exactly the most user-friendly. https://rethinkdns.com/app
Hard to set up then?
Let’s just say it’s convoluted, with many interconnected settings spread out over various sub-menus/sections. Quite powerful once you figure everything out.
{snip}
This is just scratching the surface. You also have powerful proxifiers for censorship circumvention and whatnot. Do you need any of these? Probably not, at least today. But you never know what kind of billionaire backed AI powered enshittified multiverse you’ll wake up to tomorrow.

OMG! What a read and probably way beyond my pay grade.
But will research.

johnraff · Today 00:31:43

Sector11 wrote:

johnraff wrote:
{snip snip}
Yes, still have to press the power button, but it's only one button.
What abourt this, from 0:22 → 0:28, that was the second way then he continues with changing the function of the power button.

Yes that's what I described above. Personally, pressing the power button feels like the intuitive way to switch off, even if you then have to go through the power menu that comes up.

But the colonel will be able to tell us if that's vanilla android or moto specific.

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