Blog entries by KleinesSinchen
Since a few weeks I've been trying a VPN for more or less all of my internet usage, including GBAtemp. I'll have to integrate that into Pi Hole installation at a later point for extended blocking features as the DNS blocks of the VPN aren't on the same level. Well uBlock and NoScript do the rest...
Alliteration? Man, I really suck at titles.
A lot of GBAtemp members are using a stupid banner from www.pcgamebenchmark.com as signature to show a percentage of playable current PC games on their system. → ???
Oh come on! What's the point in bragging with having spent 3000€ on a PC? I would...
![This Stupid Plug! [mini rant] (≈570KB pictures)](/data/attachments/427/427483-da0cec264b6c32db8591c0bd468e6b82.jpg)
Moved to another house last year… and now I'm back to plaster work on another attic. I hate the cement, the sand, the stinking (literally) primer and all that dust.
I'm not even good at this work, but the it has to be done. About 30 years overdue.
The old attic is full of dust. Then comes the...
It has been a long time since I posted tiny rants about things I classify as anti-features in my profile. The last one was on 6th December in year 2022. I stopped using profile messages for various reasons and this isolated episode wouldn’t fit there anyway. It needs way more room than a series...
It was clear, I had seen it coming. Not the first time something like this happened in an attempt to bypass the spam filter. Unicode offers many, many characters similar enough to common letters to be readable normally, but not matching some regular expression searching for words or phrases.
ℂ...
!["Use Microsoft Windows if you want your PC to just work" they said [Rant]](/data/attachments/423/423001-f93b0ddaa65c73c3b5b8d3d9fe4b9059.jpg)
"Linux is only free if your time is worthless"
There are more of these stupid slogans. My experience is that you will run into problems that cannot be easily solved – or not without looking it up online – on all operating systems.
Sooner or later it will happen. Windows in particular is...
I'm now living in a fairly big city, but not likely a primary target city. In the very possible event of nuclear war, I'll probably be among those crawling blinded through the remnants of human works feeling my body slowly disintegrating.
Not nice. I envy those within the blast radius of a...
![Floppy Disk Camera (Mavica) – MVC-FD91 [Pictures a little below 5MB]](/data/attachments/421/421281-39dce12452d327d5cd96d53b6de08593.jpg)
Welcome to another (long) blog entry about old electronics!
This time from the early days of digital photography. Last entry in this direction was about a CD based Mavica. Since then I took a lot of pictures with the CD camera and I’m surprised how good they actually are. Having only a limited...
![PlayStation 2 on Android Tablet? [Pictures 1.5MB]](/data/attachments/420/420169-7f75e32244cb1d96890e983eb74665a2.jpg)
Yesterday I asked @Nikokaro about his experience with bloatware on Samsung Android devices. Because I have a new Samsung tablet (well, new for me: it is a used device). It is a Galaxy Tab A (2020) SM-T505 and came with a load of crapware preinstalled. I've removed over 100(!) packages from the...
These spambots are getting on my nerves!
"Recover stolen cryptocurrencies with hacking… or with magic." → You expect me to believe that? My ass!
"Voodoo revenge spells. Death spells for your enemies." → Yeah, what's next? By the way: Does it work on spammers?
"Get rich by this perfect method...
![Experience with root (Magisk) and GSI (LineageOS) on Ulefone Armor X5 Pro [≈3MB pictures]](/data/attachments/416/416083-70a7ce6220f404af335dda02cc189fd4.jpg)
Part 0 - Preface
Warning: This is BY NO MEANS to be treated as a ready-to-use tutorial and therefore posted as blog entry (nevertheless all steps are listed at the bottom in short form). It is an experience report to the best of my knowledge. The description might contain fatal errors...
It has been more than a month.
For today Lora will make my life a little pleasant… to disappear without a trace while I'm asleep.
I've become modest. For most people my feelings on these rare days wouldn't be mentioning as they represent just a normal feeling in life.
For me they are are a...
![Sinchen vs. Android – Episode ? [Pictures ≈1MB]](/data/attachments/412/412250-ed189e72902946292c7b504b4326e434.jpg)
Sinchen vs. Android – Episode ?
(Preparing a tablet for actual usage)
My relationship with Android
Some of you might know my relationship with Android is – to be polite – not the best.
Two reasons for this:
A) The closed nature of the devices (bootloader, root status) and the associated...
Another of my random memories that pop up randomly. This time more than two decades ago.
When I was 15 years (almost 16) old I fell in love. This felt awful: Desire to be with somebody. Desire to be loved myself.
There was not the slightest chance that my love would be reciprocated. Nobody...
For no reason I remembered an incident from a few years ago:
It was one of those hot summers. In the morning I had opened the windows on the attic to let out the dreadful heat as much as possible... before the merciless summer sun started heating everything up again. Then I had breakfast...
My Windows knowledge is rusty and more or less stuck in Windows XP time. At university I was – against my will – responsible for the Windows part in administration and hat to deal with setup of Windows 7 a bit, but I never got warm with it. "I just need my computer to work." is what most people...
I don't believe it!
Sign up on Google to install CFW on your 3DS!
Yeah. Nobody has a problem with signing up on Google. The most normal thing in the world. Walking around with a device under control of an evil company monitoring literally every single step one does.
What could possibly be...
![Just Print, you %§&/"$R*! (rant) [1.2mb pictures attached + more linked]](/data/attachments/406/406164-2a3ae7565168e8a36b47dfcf2f7dfc8e.jpg)
This time I want to start an entry from here [Meme Box thread] with this image:
After having already mentioned the problems with my new 2023 printer in that thread I want to share a big moment of anger. The printer is just a few months old and already made more trouble than the laser printer...
After various incidents in my life I gradually decided to distance myself more and more from other humans around me.
Naturally this increases social phobia.
Having full blow panic attacks in a supermarket because getting triggered by nonsense is anything but tolerable and can bring yourself...
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Yes, blogs here go more or less unnoticed, but this really does not belong into a thread (personal story).
But I would be happy to get some comments on this. Do you agree on general the problem below? Do you have similar stories? Totally disagree and think I'm insane?
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Bad news is that BitLocker was cracked, so somebody could use a Pi Pico and probe the LPC pads on the motherboard to grab the key.+1 -
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BigOnYa:
My wife's doctor prescribed her a ointment for neck and knee pain, that cost $30. We just read the ingredients, and active ingredient is CBD, found exact ingredients in another off brand ointment online, for only $8. Our healthcare system at its finest. -
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Psionic Roshambo:
I always suggest kneepads with wheels to help with knee pain, then I get slapped -
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@ HiradeGirl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc&ab_channel=Apple
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Veho:
I get what they were trying to say but what the ad actually says is "we tried to cram a ton of features into the iPad but all of them got irreparably mangled+1
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