• 0 Posts
  • 18 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 15th, 2023

help-circle
  • For Android: learn the hard reset combo for your phone, especially if you encrypt it.

    After rebooting, pattern/PIN will be required to decrypt the phone. Biometrics won’t work for this step. This is what graphene does for security, tries to keep the phone in a “before first unlock” state by rebooting on a timer. You can’t even read anything over USB/ADB, it’s scrambled until you unlock the phone.

    The only drawback to just keeping your phone in this state is none of your apps are loaded, so no notifications/updates/processing at all.





  • Nintendo went after a emu dev team that was actively (and demonstratively) enabling piracy for something they are currently selling. On top of that, the dev team is making significant money off of that work, to the tune of 30k/mo. Every other dev is probably thinking “finally, the other shoe drops on this obvious outcome”, most avoid making money off it, and also avoid current systems, both for just this reason. The relieving part is Nintendo’s argument isn’t about the emulator specifically, there’s nothing in the injunction stopping yuzu from continuing, and a settlement means no legal precedent.

    Edit: Read more, the settlement includes stopping development.






  • Nook Simple Touch. You can get one with backlight for less than $40 usually.

    It takes microSD, android 2.1 (lol)

    There’s an easy app to root it, then you install whatever (fbreader, moon, etc), or use it’s built-in reader. The ancient android version means you’ll have to dig for apks that work with it, but once it’s set up, it’s done.

    The biggest draw vs newer stuff, is… it’s tiny and light. there’s almost nothing to it, it just works. No browser, no apps, just book.









  • Early wyze cams with openmiko/dafang or wz_mini_hacks will do what you want.

    Both have options for local recording. openmiko and dafang are complete firmware replacements, so no internet needed at all. wz_mini is a overlay on top of stock firmware, so it may call home (and not work properly if it can’t) if you’re using that.

    Wyze Cam v2 is stupid cheap rn ($17 shipped from wyze above), and run off usb, so bring your own 5v otherwise, through whatever method you want (large battery, solar charging brick). Add microSD for the local recording. You even get some night vision with it. Openmiko is easy to install and configure, so it scales well.

    As far as #4, nothing is going to connect directly from phone to camera to view videos without some cloud service or intermediary. You can access whatever on the cameras via SSH/SCP, but that isn’t “simple”. And either way, it will “need to be connected to any type of network like WiFi” for this access, so #1 and #4 are mutually incompatible for the most part.

    I haven’t seen anything that has a bluetooth connection for access.

    If you want to get really fancy and can leave them connected, you can use a (free) aggregator like iSpy (NOT Agent DVR, their paid replacement) to get it all recorded and in the same place. Then you can use stuff like motion detection to reduce recorded video to useful footage, and save money on the SD cards.