I meant this sound from this Youtube short clip from Chewkz . I am not going to rewatch the whole LOTR and cut the clip and post it here...

I also dont know what the actual sound is called. Luckily this short shows that sound. There are many other videos but i just dont remember which.

https://youtube.com/shorts/IY_q-xCkZXE

Anyway, you can hear right at the end where the guy screams because he doesnt know how to take his Tesla down.

In LOTR movies, you hear this sound A LOT. Especially in big battle, a random Orc gets killed and screams like this. It happens in all 3 movies lol, so I wonder if this is a Peter Jackson thing ...

I use Pixel on GOS but i welcome any other apps that can help achieve this.

Background: I have a smart home system that i can use my phone to lock/unlock doors, turning lights on/off...etc. This app can be accessed via house wifi and 5G.

Problem: sometimes theres a lag when the phone switches from 5G to wifi, or vice versa. This would mean that the commands are "stopped" until we have stable signals. Eg. pressing open door would not open, i have to press open door again.

I would like to setup so that this smart home app is always on 5G. The rest of the apps can run 5G or wifi..

I remember on old Galaxy phones, you can do that. But is there an app?

Yes, 90% of my contacts use Whatsapp. I am therefore trying to remove my main Google account from my GrapheneOS daily profile. I also plan to move over to Proton too, so there is no need for Google Drive.

To clarify, I'm fine keeping sandboxed Google Play with a dummy Google account for downloads/updates. I just don't want my main Google credentials signed into Android at the system/profile level.

WhatsApp backup is one of the last blockers. On a new phone, restoring a large Google backup can take ages, and in my experience WhatsApp wouldn't become properly usable until a significant part of the restore had completed. During that time I couldn't reliably receive WhatsApp calls/messages, which makes migration pretty painful. If your internet drops during that time? Start over !

Has anyone successfully relied on WhatsApp's local backup instead? Can I periodically copy it to Proton Drive/Linux and later restore it onto a fresh Android/GrapheneOS install if needed?

Especially interested in anyone who has actually tested a full restore from a manually preserved local backup.

My goal is to have a working offline copy of my email database on my phone, in case of no internet.

I know we can just go to Fetch Mail settings, choose:

• All mails for the Mailbox size

• Sync period to All time

But it is not as simple as that. For my case, I have around 200k emails. Using the above settings, Thunderbird would not even start to sync. The progress bar showed for like 5 seconds then hang. I made sure to check Cache / Storage size of Thunderbird after like 30 mins to see if it grows.. nothing happens.

Anyone managed to do this successfully?

Note: I also tried Fairmail and got even WORSE results than Thunderbird. Nothing against Fairmail, I love how advanced the settings are. But it just would not work reliably if you have a lot of emails. For comparison, I tried to fetch like 10k emails on both Fairmail and Thunderbird. After both finjshed downloading:

• Thunderbird: i can go Airplane mode, pick any emails and ALL contents are shown instantly. e.g. texts, attachments

• Fairmail: Airplane mode on, pick any emails and some emails are shown correctly, some are missing body texts and some just hang.

I have a lot of emails (~200k). I want to be able to access any of them even if the internet is down.
My current device runs GrapheneOS with stores like PlayStore, Obtanium and Fdroid.

My plan is: mass download the emails once, then when that is done, we sync the increments. E.g. I have 200k emails so first download all 200k. Then say tomorrow i have 5 new emails, so only syncs those instead of redownloading the full 200k.

If anyone has done this, what is your preferred app? I am trying on Fairmail right now. When select "Sync ALL messages", it looks like it is downloading all the messages. However, this would suck if Fairmail is your only email client; because while downloading all messages, you cant even view the latest emails (notifications do come through btw)

For me, it is the Tachi workout style ad. I said "style" because it started out to sell Tachi workout, then gradually moved on to sell you Speech training exercises.

Format is the same:

I'm {insert age above 50}, I dont follow experts instead i use the {insert their products} for {insert number less than 10} minutes per day.

For me it's Whatsapp. Like 99% of people i know use it so yeh.. i still need it. I am considering moving the Whatsapp Gdrive backup to a local backup btw.

Google photos is also a major problem for us. We have a lot of stuff that want to migrate to different service (or store locally).

Assume left handed driving, right handed drivers please reverse the direction lol.

What i meant was that are you able to leave perfect spaces on the left and on the right? Or you tend to drift little more to one side e.g. 51/49 drift toward the left instead of 50/50 exactly?

I notice that experienced drivers drift to the side too. So i am curious and i have my theories for this:

1. Drivers are more likely to drift just a bit toward their driver side. E.g. for left hander driving that means drifting toward the left. This is because the wing mirror is the closest to the driver, so it is easier for the eyes to follow and track.

2. I've been to places where we have to share roads with bikes and motocycles. So a lane road is literally 2 lane: cars need to hug the left lane to create spaces on the right. So drivers from those countries are keen to drift to the left; even when they are on the highway without any motocycles.

3. For left handed driving, you usually dont drift to to the right UNLESS you are on the phone or using the giant touchscreen while driving.

1. Are you a thin TPU film protector with a thicc case. The films are usually very cheap but can require skills to apply. Usually the shops charge you a lot of money just for the labor cost. The thicc case is.. well thicc, e.g. Otterbox.

2. Or are you a tempered glass / thin case? Tempered glass are expensive up front but they are so easy to install these days. Most came with a tray to help.

3. Or even tempered glass / thick case for that maximum thiccness?

Or just any protector and naked?

I ask because i've been having problems finding a perfect screen for my pixel 9 pro. I want privacy and matte but those only come in TPU. There does exist a tempered glass privacy matte version but that causes problem with the fingerprint sensor.

I'm trying to get into QubeOS. Coming from Graphene on phone and its compartmentalizations, I expect an easy transtition. But holy shit, theres like a qube for everything: usb qube, network qube, file manager qubem..etc.

I'm still learning but find it difficult, not because of its features (I like to tinker with things) but because my hardware cannot handle the OS. I have an intel i7 12th Gen with 40GB RAM laptop. It runs blazingly fast on other distros but really suffocating in QubeOS. By "suffocating", i meant just playing a video in Firefox can cause problems. Moving the Firefox window around can freeze the system.

Those who managed to switch to it, what was your hardware (laptop, desktop?) and how long did it take you?

I really like QubeOS, its controls are amazing. But the hardware just couldnt handle it.

I understand LUKs can be used to encrypt your data. But what would prevent somebody plug in a USB with and just wipe my drive?

On traditional BIOS like Lenovo, HP, Dell and even Framework you can set a supervisor password that locks the boot menu. So nobody can boot from the USB.

Coreboot is different though. I spoke with Starlabs whose computers run Coreboot, and apparently you can have the boot menu password. OTOH, Sys76's Coreboot doesnt allow such things.

I ask because i want to libreboot my T480, but the number 1 thing i worry is unauthorized USB boot.

This one: https://libreboot.org/docs/linux/grub_hardening.html#grub-password

seems to only lock the ability to edit the grub entry freely, aka press "e" to change stuff when grub fails to boot.

By admin console, I mean a blank profile with nothing but stock Graphene apps on it. No Gplay store, no F droid, nothing. Its main job is to control esim, profile creation, duress pass, wifi..etc.

Or just a normal daily Main, with secondary profiles OR private spaces?

What i currently have: main profile with main Google (unfortunately), all sensitive in separate profile.

So preface, I am extremely OOTL with the distros. I have my Fedora box for work and its been running just fine for 5 years now. Before that i am an Arch btw user with i3 config riced to the max. I wanted to get actual work done so i stuck with Fedora and have not attempted any other distros.

Anyway, this Omarchy seems like a big deal? Idk everywhere i search, people are saying stuff like it is the best thing for Linux. Recently, there was news that Omarchy actually got funded for like $8 million?? The money comes from some big names too: Dell, DHH, Stripe, Jack Dorsey...etc. The dev who is working on Hyprland also indirectly benefits from this funding.

Is this going to become a serious corporate backed distro? We have Redhat for that right? Or is this just hype

I used to think the "th" sound is hard because it is uncommon in my language, we do not use our tongues to hit the top teeth like that. But then, it became 2nd nature after living abroad for almost 20 years.

Recently i happen to work with a lot of architects and designers and 1 word comes up which I think is the most difficult to pronouncr: AESTHETIC.

It sounds very simple but if you break down the syllables, your tongue needs to do a bit of work.

For the British English version, the "t" in tic is pronounced quite strong, as in "tick". Mostly, your tongue only needs to worry about the "THE" sound, i.e. ES-THE-TIC.

In US English, the "t" is most often pronounced as a soft "d". This means "TIC" will sound like "DIC". So your tongue needs to flick up for the "THE" sound and then immediately flick down for the "DIC".

This gets even harder if you consider the adverb: AESTHETICALLY. A lot of tongue gymnasium involve...

Any other words or phrase that you think is dificult?

I know the US is a shitshow right now but please im looking for sensible answers.

I have some documents from a bank that need to be mailed. PDF is not an option and no matter how much i push for a secure email option, they still stick with slow turtle mail.

I live outside the US and this slow mail process has been very frustrating. And not just banks, any other business if you request some form of paperwork, their answer => MAIL.

That is very weird consider to mail the document, they need to type out an electronic version then print and mail it. So why waste too many steps?

And i just discovered today theres a thing called mailforwarding service..... Aka you buy a US mailbox, letter gets sent to that mailbox then they help to forward those internationally.

In contrast to when I am in China and Singapore, EVERYTHING is digital. It is so much better that the only thing i carry is my phone.

I have a lemur pro from sys76. That thing is very lightweight and has quite a bit of flex in the middle of the keyboard. It runs very well but i try to be very careful with it, to avoid scratches.

Beside applying a custom skins, does there exist a custom casing for laptop too? Or for that we need our own 3d printer lmao...

I read how most laptop vendors nowadays force S0ix (Modern Standby). You can no longer pick S3.

On Linux the names for these policies in the kernel are:

• deep, aka the S3 sleep or suspend to ram

• s2idle, aka the new Modern Standby or S0ix or suspend to idle.

I am thinking of getting the new Framework laptop, but after talking with their CS, they mention that all Framework will run on S0ix and will not support S3 sleep.

There was a video of LTT bashing S0ix/Modern Standby years ago and he was correct. I had a Thinkpad and it defaulted to S0ix: resume and suspend were very unpredictable. Luckily that laptop also supports S3 so i can just switch to it.

Is resume / suspend getting better on Linux with this forced S0ix? Or i better hold on to an old laptop with S3 lol?

BTW, those with Framework, is resume/suspend reliable? Almost Mac like?

I'm getting a new laptop with hardware that supports Linux very well. Although my old thinkpad is still working, i need something with better CPU and higher RAMs (when i am able to afford) for work. I could get a new Thinkpad too but recently Intel made suspend/standby in Linux to be unreliable.

I notice that for the Linux first vendors, there are 2 types: ones who design their own chassis (Framework, Starlabs), and those who use an existing ODM design and put their own software tweaks on (Sys76, Tuxedo, Novacustom).

For the ODM, these vendors usually go with either Clevo or Tong Fang. From most comments i read, Clevos are criticized for being flimsy, weak hinges and the batteries can get swollen.

Anyone with laptops from these vendors? How is the quality? I heard great things about coreboot, but if the hardware sucks then theres no point.

I'm seeing a very strange issue on a System76 Lemur Pro (lemp11).

What I've observed:

Fresh install of Fedora Silverblue → system boots with the wrong date/time.

The issue also occurs on Secureblue (which is based on Silverblue).

chronyd is running, but the system is sometimes not synchronized after boot.

Resetting or changing the DNS configuration causes the clock to immediately jump to the correct time.

The confusing part is that I can't reproduce this on other distributions. The same laptop behaves normally with Fedora Workstation and Pop!_OS.

I haven't been able to reproduce it on a ThinkPad X280/T480. The clock on those work fine post install.

That makes me wonder if this is something specific to the Silverblue/Atomic boot process or service ordering on this hardware, rather than a failing RTC or CMOS battery.

Has anyone seen something similar, particularly on System76 hardware? Any ideas on what to investigate next or which logs would be most useful?

I'd be happy to provide more details or run additional tests.

I have so many questions for yall lol.

So for the letter t, do you just keep track in your head to write the vertical curve first then remember the horizontal dash after? For longer words, do you sometimes forget these final touchups?

Also does signing a signature come natural for you, i.e. due to the non stop motion?

And not just "t" and "i", if you do the same thing for letters from other languages like accents from other languages too, e.g. á, à, ü...etc. Then please share your thoughts too.