Interesting. Possibly useful to some. I have also discovered that the simplest, most privacy-friendly way to update location is just to do it manually when you change location.

I have a simple script that does this by querying OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim server with the city name. It feeds the resulting coordinates thru a Python library that deduces the timezone, and sets the system time to this.

Good to know.

And so what? Why are you so bothered by it? I’m a Linux user of 20 years and I couldn’t give a fig that someone is running a forum called LinuxSucks which, unsurprisingly, contains little “positivity or praise” for Linux.

So: you posted a serious contribution in an unserious community, and got treated unseriously. It’s not very newsworthy.

As for that community’s existence, why is that even up for discussion? As a Linux user I’m happy for people to say what they like about Linux. If the jokes are funny, all the better.

I use Ubuntu btw and it doesn’t suck. Well, not that much.

This is the best answer. Most of the others jump straight in at the deep end. The entirely predictable outcome of asking this question to a bunch of earnest geeks.

Well done for taking a stand. The problem, as ever, is that most people prefer to comply obediently even if it feels wrong. And then next thing we know, it becomes standard practice.

BTW I have been in your situation and responded similarly. Usually it ends in the clerk inputting dummy info, sometimes after I irritably tell them to do so.

Model and price is unimportant. But if metal’s too expensive and they can’t do a fake chrome finish that doesn’t wear off in 5 minutes then then they should just stick to white or black.

My laptop, similar Taiwanese brand, is fairly new and already beginning to look like this. I don’t know why they have to be such cheapskates with the crappy fake metal finish. Somehow we can find enough aluminum to make disposable Coke cans out of it but it’s too expensive for a laptop casing.

Good question. No, but at a small cost in security. The key I generated using sha512sum using a very solid memorized passphrase. This means I can regenerate the key in the scenario you describe.

Locally.

Here’s one that probably nobody else here is doing. The backup goes on my mobile device. Yes, the thing in my pocket.

• Mount it over SSHFS on the local network
• Unlock a LUKS container in the form of a 30GB sparse file on the device
• rsync the files across
• Lock, unmount

The backup is incremental but the container file never changes size, no matter what’s in it. Your data is in two places and always under your physical control. But the key is never stored on the remote device, so you could also do this with a VPS.

Highly recommended.

Why would you want to toggle air plane mode with Termux? That’s doesn’t make sense.

You would think of some reasons if you tried very hard. The point is that it’s my device and I shouldn’t have to beg permission.

This conversation was about doing things with Termux

Then your device must be powered by magic, or more likely it’s not a recent Android version. That the toggle is there does not mean it works: it doesn’t work without root.

Incorrect. Wifi only without root.

But who decides what I need? For instance, I want to toggle airplane mode. Without root: not allowed.

Giving full admin privileges over device? Doubt it.

Yeah but to do that one thing that you really want to do, you need root and daddy says no.

And yet there they all are, using corporate garbage.

Citation needed, man page says nothing about that. Of course, you can use GPG directly to get symmetric, that is what I chose to do