Estudante de Engenharia Informática apaixonado pela área; algures em Portugal.

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Computer Science student, passionate about the field; somewhere in Portugal.

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Cake day: September 10th, 2021

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  • Ah right, airplane mode makes a ton of difference. I also tend to have it enabled as much as I can, usually when I’m home (and thus reachable through VoIP services) or at work. And I (almsot) never turn it off, I just leave it in airplane mode. I limit the charge to 75/80%, with ACCA, so I get even less juice.

    And I’m sorry, I also dislike big phones with huge screens and batteries, there’s no real need for that. But I know that you can fit better batteries in smaller phones as well. My previous device was smaller than the Pixel 4a, but had a bigger battery, while having almost identical weight.
    I wish manufacturers would make smaller phones, really. I’m very unsure what other device I will get after this one dies or gets broken…



  • After my 6 year old Redmi 4X’s screen touch decided to die, I got an opened-not-used Pixel 4a (in perfect condition) at the end of 2022, because it was one of the few small-ish phones that had good modding support (Pixel phones are ofc known to be very good to degoogle). I love it. Feels good, works well, has a great camera (got a GCam mod too), etc. Only downside is the smaller battery (3100 vs 4100 mAh), but honestly it isn’t that big of a deal, I can just carry a powerbank on my backpack or, you know, use my phone less.

    Back then, it was the perfect choice for me. Now, I don’t know, haven’t been keeping up with current models.


  • Não conhecia a plataforma mas parece-me uma excelente iniciativa, tenho pena que desapareça.

    Dei uma olhadela ao arquivo.pt e ao web.archive.org e não encontrei nada de elucidativo. Simplesmente desapareceu no primeiro semestre do ano passado.
    Decidi fazer uma pesquisa WHOIS na pt.pt (a entidade reguladora dos domínios portugueses) que, mesmo quando o titular e a entidade gestora do domínio são confidenciais, permite tentar entrar em contacto com as pessoas por trás de um domínio. Eis a página.
    Nunca usei esse formulário de contacto, mas experimenta, pode ser que tenhas sorte!

    Se conseguires saber alguma coisa, comenta aqui ou faz uma nova pub, fiquei curioso!






  • The Mullvad Browser is the Tor Browser without Tor, that is, it’s a Firefox-based browser with lots of privacy and anonymity improvements, but without the Tor network layer. Mullvad actually sponsored the Tor project in return for some help getting it done, or something along those lines.

    As far as I understand (I’m not super familiar with LibreWolf), Mullvad fork should be “better” in that regard.







  • It is, the the fault isn’t entirely on the tourists (specially if they’re respecting and give two fucks about the places they’re visiting); the governments have been pushing tons of pro-tourism stuff everywhere for years, hence why we grew that industry so much, often without thinking of long term consequences and economic balance. So now, we have an economy overly dependent on tourism (with all the good but mostly bad stuff that brings), which, in addition to other shitty decisions like massive roadway investment instead of railway (we have one of the best road network in Europe, but a shitty railway one, significantly shrinked down in the last 40 years), have led to lots of serious issues preventing good development of a lot of other industry we could have and once had. The classic example is Algarve (the southernmost region) is so dependent on tourist they had a very hard time during COVID. Outside of Lisbon’s (<2M) and Porto’s (>1M) metro areas, every other city has less than 500k people, and the vast majority less than 100k, which presents obvious issues.

    Anyway, sorry for the shit dump 😅