First as tragedy then as farce

I wonder if it’s going to make installing the initial f-droid apk a huge pain though. Since normally you need to just download it in your browser and install it.

If I had to take a wild shot in the dark my best guess is that your router’s upstream connection settings are a bit messed up and whenever your ISP gives you a new ip dhcp is taking a long time for whatever reason. You could try to pay attention to if your outgoing ip changes whenever this happens https://www.showmyip.com/

I guess also I’m assuming you’re using a router with a built-in either cable or fiber modem? If you have a separate modem you might want to see about resetting it as well.

Wow that is fucking bizarre… this isn’t using powerline networking (ethernet over your power system via little wall sockets) or anything like that is it?

I’d definitely start with a factory reset of your router. Some routers have a little pin you need to hold down with a paper clip. With others you’ll have to do it from their web interface…

You can usually get to the web interface by entering your default gateway in a browser. Something like http://192.168.0.1 or http://10.0.0.1 are common. It might be written on the back of your router. You can also usually find your default gateway in your connected network settings pretty easily: on my android phone it’s just called “Gateway”.

Once you’re in the web interface you’ll probably need to put in login info which is almost always written on your router. Then navigate that hellscape until you can do a factory reset.

Also if you’re in the US and have a router provided by one of the big ISPs like Comcast, Verizon, Frontier, etc you’re almost certainly renting your router for like $10 a month from those bastards. So call them up and make them fix it or get you a new router if they can’t figure it out. You might as well try this before spending money buying a router. I saw your other comment that you’ve actually bought this router yourself. Resetting it might be slightly more tricky since you might need to configure the modem settings a bit, but it’s usually pretty easy. Probably worth looking up and downloading a pdf of the manual for your router before you reset it though in case you need to read it without internet.

Is it happening at consistent times? Also next time it goes out, see if you can plug an ethernet cable into the router and see if you’re getting a connection over ethernet. Also is the connection like completely severed or just a very high rate of dropped packets / slowness?

running z-library

Would’ve actually gotten him a few votes

I don’t know the current status on this, but it worked by recording your phone’s mac address (or bluetooth address) when your phone scans for wifi networks. So it could track you without you even needing to join the network. AFAIK this particular tactic was countered by Android and IOS randomizing the mac address it sends out (your networking stack can simply lie about it).

Yep… might be a good idea to archive your favorite videos, tutorials, etc before it’s rolled out to everyone

Sadly this approach is very likely impossible to block. It’s much more computationally intensive for google, which is why they haven’t done this in the past, but it is essentially impossible to block if done well.

been doing this for years and at this point I’ve got such a huge backlog it’d take me years to get through it all

Basically when you “move fast and break things” eventually all those broken things catches up to you

Just changed it to 70ch and yea I think I prefer this

I think the only major things would be around the css selectors like footer > * + * {, but it wouldn’t really take too many changes. It basically already works in w3m

Incredible! That’s pretty much what I was gonna say. Might throw this dockerfile in the extras folder.

Yea the hexbear specific stuff basically boils down to the taglines, the emojis, and the header in home.tmpl. There’s quite a few things I could do to make it a lot easier to use for other lemmy instances … there’s not a lot of configuration right now, but I tried to leave a lot of comments in the code.

Jesus Christ it’s a dollar here and I still complain constantly that it isn’t free

In general the high end “flagship” devices have unlockable bootloaders, but the devices that the vast majority of people can afford do not. I expect to see a similar thing in laptops. If you can throw down 2-3,000 USD on a new XPS or Thinkpad X1C you’ll likely get the privilege of an unlockable bootloader. For most of the non-US world that’s a huge chunk of everyone (including developers) salaries.