get a older cell phone. Put lineage OS on it, or calyxos… share your VPN over hotspot, these are the only two ROMs that I’m aware of that allow you to do that
That’s what I thought too. So I tried it on my CalyxOS phone and… it doesn’t work: the hotspot doesn’t route through the VPN. And from what I read, it’s by design.
I have an old Nokia 4.2 running LineageOS. I might try that one.
end-to-end VPN
Incidentally, do you know if the GL.iNet devices can act as a VPN server too?
There are others that aren’t Chinese but nothing anywhere near the price bracket you’ll get from GL.Inet
Can you give me some pointers to non-Chinese equivalents of those GL.iNet routers? I’m quite ready to suck up the extra cost.
What software do you use to forward the texts automatically?
Actually I kind of had the same idea but for the whole phone - i.e. leave a cellphone with phone features at home (so voice and texts are received on this static phone that never gets used for anything else) and forward calls and texts on another cellphone with data only. But I don’t think there’s anything to set that up easily.
Interesting thanks. I’ll dig into the privacy issue.
Using things like Signal and WhatsApp may reduce your footprint further.
I use Signal with most of my family and friends. The phone things is for random people or companies that need to call me, and the texts are mostly to get notification when I receive a parcel, or confirmations for appointments, that kind of things.
WhatsApp, being owned by Facebook, can fuck right off.
I was planning on using a VPN.
But anyway, even if I’m connected direct from a known fixed WiFi, it’s still less precise than cell triangulation.
EDIT: actually I just did a test with the VPN, and WiFi calling totally bypasses it. Damn 🙁
Well, I know it’s all going through the internet anyway nowadays, so yeah it’s technically always voice-over-IP even if I use the cell network. The only difference between normal calls and WiFi calls is how it connects to the internet really. I just don’t want the extra baggage that comes with staying connected to the cell netowk method of getting on the internet.
And of course what I referred to when I said VoIP is pure VoIP providers that sell you a number and access to a SIP server, independent from your cellphone provider.
the blue gel was phased out decade(s) ago
But I can still buy it?
Good advice though. That’s why I come to Lemmy: I learn useful stuff all the time.
not using it with a food microwave
The microwave sits in the workshop and is not for cooking food. It’s strictly to do nasty stuff with materials I work with.
I wasn’t aware. I’ll look into that. Thanks!
I use industrial silicagel granules that I buy in 5-liter jugs. The granules are blue when dry and turn purple/red when they no longer absorbs humidity. Then I throw them in the microwave for 5 minutes and the granules turn blue again - and scalding hot too.
It’s not perfect because it gradually turns more and more silicagel granules to dust as they explode like popcorn. So after maybe 10 to 15 cycles, the silicagel becomes ineffective and the blue granules turn more and more to brown, Then it’s time to throw it away and use a fresh batch.
It’s possible to extend the life of the granules by drying them in a regular oven at low heat rather than in the microwave at full pelt but it’s slow and annoying, and silicagel isn’t that expensive, so I don’t bother.
I usually use 0.4 because it lets me print connectors that holds pogo pins with a 0.05" pitch. But it’s slow for big things.
I don’t usually print big things with tiny features, so I could have one extruder with a smaller nozzle and one with a larger one and use one or the other. But if I could use both at the same time, it would speed up printing of even my small connectors - because obviously not the entire connector requires fine features.
I didn’t know about the Voron, but it looks great! But it also looks like it’s quite a project and not something I could get going quick.
But I wonder if perhaps it would be a good idea to buy a cheap second-hand Prusa and build a Voron with it. Then I’d have a printer to print stuff at least as good as the one at work, and also work slowly towards building me a better one.
Glad to hear that!
Do you have more than one extruder with yours? I read it’s not possible to have several nozzle sizes. As in, say one extruder with a large nozzle for quick printing and one with a smaller one for details. Is this true? Did you try that yourself by any chance?
What is your tolerance for tinkering?
High. My problem is time. Between my work and my other activities, I don’t really have the time to spend hours messing about with a 3D printer. So if I can’t get it going good once and for all over a weekend, I suspect it’ll be sitting there for weeks and that’s going to be frustrated.
There are flexible resins.
Yeah but what I intend to print has 90% support and 10% flexible bits. That will be super-wasteful, not to mention I read somewhere that supports made of flexible materials tend to be a bitch to remove.
If you’re curious, I intend to design custom shoes for foot amputees. And if they work well for me, I’d like to come up with some software to let others in my situation scan their feet and print their own custom-made shoes too.
Kind of like what Ian Davis is doing for finger amputees, but for feet - since that’s what concerns me. I really like his approach and I’d like to follow in his footsteps.
Interesting this one, thanks!
Yes I kind of wrote off Bambu for those reasons - not least of which because Bambu was founded by former DJI employees, which in and of itself is alarming if you care about privacy.
Put it on its own wifi guest network so it’s isolated from the rest of your devices.
It sounds like getting an angry ferret because it’s cheaper and keeping it in a cage to avoid getting bitten when i could get a nice cuddly cat for a bit more.
Oh wow I totally missed that. It works great! Genius!
Thank you for that. Suddenly it makes repurposing one of my old cellphones a very simple and viable proposition.
(and I’m posting this from my laptop connected to the hotspot connected to the Calyx VPN 🙂)