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  • No. Not enough, still often overridden by router or whatever.

    Edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf:

    [main]
    dns=0
    rc-manager=unmanaged
    
    Full file I suggest
    # Configuration file for NetworkManager.
    # See "man 5 NetworkManager.conf" for details.
    [main]
    hostname-mode=none
    dns=0
    rc-manager=unmanaged
    
    [device]
    wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=yes
    
    [connection]
    ethernet.cloned-mac-address=random
    wifi.cloned-mac-address=random
    connection.mdns=0
    connection.llmnr=0
    
    [ipv6]
    addr-gen-mode=1
    ip6-privacy=2
    

    And disable/delete “Avahi”.


    Restart NetworkManager twice. If you don’t know how, restart the computer twice. No, I don’t know why twice. Now, edit /etc/resolv.conf:

    nameserver 2001:470:1f15:b80::53
    nameserver 91.190.185.43
    

    Servers grabbed from here: https://servers.opennic.org/ (OpenNIC itself is kinda barely holding but the servers are pretty good).

    Note that your browser will ignore this. Open up Firefox (or derivative), Settings, Privacy and security, DNS over HTTPS, Own settings, Own, and paste something like https://dns1.slowb.ro/dns-query into it. Again, you can grab a server from opennic (look into description for URL). No, you cannot use opennic.glue addresses here.

    Now, note that this may still be tampered with, if your ISP/government cares enough. Not in the browser, but system wide yes. In this case, you will have to use dnssec-proxy, route your DNS over I2P/Tor OR run your own resolver. In all of these scenarios, you will have to make sure the program providing it is listening on port 53 (and nothing else is taking it) then just make /etc/resolv.conf this instead:

    nameserver ::1
    nameserver 127.0.0.1
    

    Obviously, all of this only affects DNS tampering and nothing else.

  • I had alpha updates on and got this early. I then mistook this for malware.

    Because it fucking sucks. This is the only time I had to wait for fucking F-Droid to load.

    All because they are still sucking Google’s dick and abiding by their orders of “meh use this 320GiB framew*rk so that this button can be this much rounded”. They have been bitten quite a few times and they still haven’t learned anything.

    AND the alpha didn’t have offline sharing. I figured they would add it later. They did not. It’s gone. In some places, one rarely ever goes online. The app auto-updates once and the feature is gone. Reduced to atoms. Cannot share anything.

    Also, they used corpo speak to justify it.

    I repeat, this so called “collection of nerds” used corporate speak to justify something.

    EDIT: I guess they added it, but the corpo speak was so bad that the blog post makes it read like it was not added.

    My conclusion is fuck Android, fuck smartphones, that platform is dead, go back to Thinkpads. Older ones. And not E series. And not L series. These Thinkpads. Normalize sharing .c files via an Ethernet cable.

    Thanks for coming to my ted talk.