Mull, which is based on Firefox, but removes all the telemetry and stuff. I forget why I chose it over other versions of Firefox. Someone here on Lemmy recommended it.

Thanks! I just got Rethink setup last night. I was able to import my actual VPN into it, and it works great!

It’s working! Thanks! I got Mullvad configured inside Rethink, and blocked Gboard from the internet. I was enjoying HeliBoard, but it doesn’t have emoji search. ☹️ Also, autocorrect on HeliBoard was pretty bad. A combination of too aggressive and not aggressive enough at times. Plus the “swipe spacebar to select text” feature of HeliBoard never felt as good as Gboard.

Of course, now I can’t use the GIF feature of GBoard, which was another occasionally useful feature.

Man, does Rethink have a lot of options and settings. Definitely not for the faint of heart!

I also blocked “Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google” which I think is used when you do voice typing. Voice typing is still working, so that’s good. It does most of it locally. Except I noticed months ago that if I have a very spotty cell connection, Voice Typing takes forever to initialize. I thought it was fully on-device at all times, but it turns out it’s not.

Anyone else know some other things I should block? I blocked Chrome because I never use it and I pretty much immediately saw it was using the Internet in the background when I enabled Rethink.

Nice! I’ll have to try it out.

Are there any system apps that are worth blocking that won’t make my phone less useful? Kind of an ambiguous question, I know. I just blocked GBoard, for one.

Oh, never mind. It uses a pseudo VPN to filter traffic, and I’m using an actual VPN, so its not compatible. I only learned this after setting up some rules and finally trying to enable it.

It’d be cool if they integrated a VPN client into the app.

I use KeePassDX’s “Magikeyboard” to type everything. I have an entry with every character in it as a custom field. My phone doesn’t have any other keyboard installed, so in order to use the keyboard you first have to unlock my database with a fingerprint.

Firewalled how? Custom ROM? Custom apk? Normal Android non-root firewall app? I’d like to know more.

You and me, mostly.

Neat!

The content isn’t long enough to scroll, and the superscript doesn’t look like a link. Tapping it just collapses replies now that I’ve replied.

Tapping the little arrow doesn’t collapse replies, so it’s doing something. It might scroll up if your comment were long enough.

sprang up to ~support~ pillage uninformed retirees

BTW, that syntax is for subscripts. Strikethrough requires two pairs of tildes.

strikethrough _subscript

~~strikethrough~~ ~subscript~

too tough/ fibrous

You just need some Thompson’s Teeth.

https://youtu.be/En6gbF34Hfc

This video by Steve Mould shows this with wavey acrylic designed to project an image using caustics:

https://youtu.be/wk67eGXtbIw

Thunder is fantastic. It’s so good now. Lots of customizations, and it’s actively being developed.

The markdown support is good, and spoiler tags are done right. It has it’s own YouTube video player now, too.

The only issue I’ve found recently is superscripts rendering funny. Let me try one again.

This number should be a superscript¹ more words.

Oh, it’s working now. The other day or at putting a line break before the superscript.

Are you not updating it regularly? They said, “Don’t update for long enough…”

It’s not a mirage. They’re reuniting.

Coffee with butter in it, and often cocoa, too.

Is it possible the heavy traffic is causing Lemmy to temporarily block this person and not actually crashing the instance?

This was the dino demo the article mentions:

https://youtu.be/k7Lk7idveeU

Just watch the Madam Web Pitch Meeting: https://youtu.be/Kc0Tyfb_-UU

I only recently learned about it and it’s genuinely fun! Jumping the balls gets stupidly hard at level 5 or 6, though.