Security tip: Never post your home address on social media.

Hate to say it (re: security theater), but I think that is correct. I’ve read articles stating a drop in crime in places where they just have a cardboard cutout of police officers in the window.

HTC tried to make it usable with their TouchFlo (I think that’s what it was called) skin, but once you veered out of that, it was a mess, yeah. lol.

Which is kind of sad because under the hood, it was pretty advanced for its time.

Regardless, all of us combined are a grain of rice compared to the real meat and potatoes AI trains on

Absolutely. It’s more a matter of principle for me. Kind of like the digital equivalent of leaving fake Amazon packages full of dog poo out front to make porch pirates have a bad day.

Let’s go, already!

How you can help: If you run a website and can filter traffic by user agent, get a list of the known AI scrapers agent strings and selectively redirect their requests to pre-generated AI slop. Regular visitors will see the content and the LLM scraper bots will scrape their own slop and, hopefully, train on it.

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I had completely forgotten about that aspect of it until you mentioned it lol. I just remember rarely seeing WM after getting that Android build on there.

Technically true, and niche devices with QWERTY keyboard like the ones from PlanetCom still exist. But they don’t really benefit from economies of scale, are prohibitively expensive, and are usually at least a generation behind in hardware.

Plus Apple started, and Samsung joined, the “thinness wars” that got us to where we are today. Slide out keyboards were definitely a casualty of that, and I still hold some hope, albeit slim, that those could still make a comeback.

It’s been a while, but I think that’s mostly how mine worked. You had to launch it from within Windows Mobile, but after that, only Android was running the device. Android booted from the SD card and basically kicked Windows mobile out of memory and took over from there. AFAIK, WM wasn’t still in the background, at least on the Froyo build for it. I want to say that’s the case since the TP2 didn’t have much RAM, and Android ran way too well to be sharing memory with Windows Mobile lol.

Regardless, my interest in building and running custom ROMs was born the day I did that lol.

I blame Apple (and then Samsung for copying Apple) for stealing this form factor from us.

Didn’t have that one, but I did have the HTC TouchPro2 that came with Windows Mobile but was able to shoehorn a functional version of Android “Froyo” on it. Peak smartphone form factor limited by the technology of its time. Shame.

We have very similar device requirements lol. Though I can’t speak much for the camera portion (I’m not a shutterbug and deal with whatever).

I just upgraded my trusty workhorse OP3 to a OP Nord N200. It’s a few years old, but that usually helps since the custom ROM support is more mature.

OnePlus is usually pretty easy to unlock as long as you get an OEM model (e.g. not one branded / sold by a carrier). Been a while, but if you buy an OEM one, I think you can just unlock it without having to request an unlock code. I had to jump through hoops to convert this T-Mobile carrier model Nord into a global version, but after that I was able to unlock the bootloader with just the fastboot command (e.g. didn’t have to request and flash the cust_unlock.bin. Was still carrier-locked to T-Mob, but that’s who I use, so no biggie.

Similar to what you’re seeing with ASUS, Motorola used to be, but I think their unlocking policy has gone downhill as of late. Haven’t messed with their hardware for a while.

I haven’t used Nothing Phone at all, but they were contenders (and still are) when I was looking for a successor to my OP3.

Same assessment of Fairphone: ideologically pure, but other issues ruled them out for me.

Those are delicious.

Used to make something very similar, but we used a pancake for the “shell” instead of a tortilla.

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Should be pretty easy if you use Nginx. You can just proxy the full URI and params.

Main network:  192.168.1.0/24
Restricted network:  10.10.10.0/24
ShellyPlug IP:  10.10.10.5  (assuming it's REST API is on port 80, but adjust if needed)
Reverse Proxy IP:  192.168.1.10

Nginx "conf.d/shellyplug_proxy.conf": 

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name  shellyplug.lan;
  location / {
    proxy_pass http://10.10.10.5:80;
  }
}

As long as your reverse proxy (Nginx) on your main network can reach 10.10.10.5 port 80 on the restricted VLAN, it should work, and you should be able to use call the api from your main network at http://shellyplug.lan (or http://192.168.1.10) just as you would to it directly to the plug on its restricted network.

HTH

In that case, a reverse proxy on your “main” network that can access the Shelly Plug on the “restricted” network should work.

Ah, good to know.

I did know there were two sides of it (we explored MariaDB Enterprise at work, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out).

Any more, I just assume one company buying any other always results in a worse experience post-sale.

Easer cannot switch Wi-Fi networks: I was hoping to use the Shelly Plug’s local access point (AP mode) for a more portable solution, but since Easer doesn’t have permission to switch networks, I’m restricted to my home network.

What about setting up a reverse proxy on your main network that can then make the call to the Shelly Plug on its VLAN? I do this with my HomeAssistant and its devices which are all on an isolated network. The HA machine has internet access, but none of the other devices do (via firewall rules for that VLAN).

You’d have to make a firewall rule to allow the reverse proxy to be able to reach the restricted network, but that’s pretty straightforward.

Easer cannot start external apps: It also can’t trigger external apps that might help with network switching or more advanced controls.

Not familiar with Easer (will have to check it out, though), but can it make an HTTP(S) call natively?

I’ve never heard of K1.

Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?

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I’m not reading that as a “no” :(

Alternatively: TIL most of the people who climbed Everest only half-assed it.