Cat S22 Flip. Sadly discontinued as well as the manufacturer (Bullit) out the phone business.

Oh, yeah, the speculation is not unreasonable. I just don’t know if that’s necessarily a good thing (unless there’s a huge leap in durability preceding that).

I’m already rocking the foldable I like, anyway lol:

Remember “phablets”; almost all smartphones eventually turned into phablets.

Which is, arguably, for the worse. I miss smaller 16:9 devices I could use one-handed and reach all the corners of. Almost cried when I had to give up my OnePlus 3 and everything now is an unwieldy, tall-skinny rectangle.

I’ve not had a hands-on experience with foldables yet, but the reviews I’ve read imply they still seem too fragile for the price.

I use SnappyMail. It’s a fork of Rainloop that’s actually maintained.

https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail

And unlike Rainloop, the Sieve filter editor actually works.

Yeah, then I guess I’ll need to keep looking. The hardware can be great, but not when I can’t do what I want with it. Thanks for the insight.

XDA does show some people are able to bootloader unlock and root (which is basically all I need), so I may keep tabs on it and go from there.

I’d considered the Razr but was uncertain on the durability of it. Reviews were about 50/50 last I read.

That’s awesome you mentioned using it closed most of the time. I’m tired of the “tall, skinny rectangle” form factor (and not being able to use it one-handed despite having not-small hands lol). Since smaller phones seem to be extinct, it’s cool there’s a middle ground in being able to use it that way.

I do need to make sure I can find one that’s bootloader unlockable. Kind of a hard requirement for me and necessary to de-google it to my satisfaction. It’s not listed as supported by Lineage, but I’ll browse XDA and see what they’ve been able to do with it.

Thanks!

I have a single Nginx setup which is the frontend for all my web services. So I only need to deploy it there (and to its HA partner). My renewal script just scp’s it to the secondary and does an nginx -s reload on both.

I do generate separate certs/keys for my non-web servers, but there’s only two of those.

You could also, if you wanted, just generate one cert and distribute it and its key to everything with a script or other automation tool (Ansible is what I used to use).

Is there a way I can get Let’s Encrypt to dole out a wildcard certificate

Yep. Just specify the domains yourdomain.com and *.yourdomain.com in the certbot request. Wildcard domains require the DNS-based challenge, but you’ve said you’re already good there. You don’t technically need the apex domain (yourdomain.com) but I always add it since I do have services running there.

Any subdomains under the wildcard can use internal DNS or internal IPs on the public DNS (I do the former, but the latter works too).

I used to run an internal CA, and it wasn’t too hard to setup a CA and distribute my root cert. Except on mobile devices. On Android it was easy, but there was a persistent warning that my network traffic could be intercepted (which is true when there’s a custom root cert installed), but it since it was my cert, it got annoying seeing that all the time. Not sure if Apple devices can even do that, but regardless, it wasn’t practical for friends who wanted to use my self-hosted services to install a custom cert when they were over.

Oooh!

I’ve been rocking a de-googled but aging CAT S22 Flip since last August (low-end android smartphone in a flip phone form factor). Absolutely love it but sad there is no clear successor when I have to eventually replace it. It’s basically the same concept as this phone.

Sadly, this is not a “new” model. He bought it used on eBay, it’s got similar specs to my S22, and only runs Android 12. However, that screen is quite nice and would be a huge upgrade from the S22. The unfortunate conclusion is that there is still no clear successor for my S22 unless I want a slightly/barely less out of date phone and go with this one.

Is there EV support?

Looks like it, yeah:

The UI still shows Fuel, but it seems like you can enter the kWh and it should calculate. Maybe plug some values into the demo to be sure. If you do, let us know!

I use Fireflyiii for my money and budgeting.

I don’t see why not. I haven’t stood it up yet, but I’ve played with the demo. It does have a section for parts/repairs/upgrades.

Give the demo a try, and let us know.

Yeah, building a simpler version of something like that was on my ever-growing “to do” list but came across this today. Probably going to deploy it this evening or maybe this weekend (whichever day it’s supposed to rain lol).

Depends on what I’m transferring and to/from where:

• scp is my go-to since I’m a Linux household and have SSH keys setup and LDAP SSO as a fallback
• sshfs if I’m too lazy to connect via SMB/NFS (or I don’t feel like installing the tools for them) or I’m traversing a WAN
• rsync for bulk transfer and backups
• Snapdrop/Pairdrop for one-off file/text shares between devices with GUIs (mostly phone <–> PC)
• SMB if I’m on a client PC and need to work with the files directly from the fileserver
• NFS between servers
• To get bulk data to my phone (e.g. updating my music library), I connect via USB in MTP mode and copy from the server via SMB or sshfs.

I’ve always thought the firewall color codes were arbitrary, though I might just have not paid attention all these years lol.

Just to clarify: I meant connect your OpenWRT device to your hotspot instead of the AP you’ve been working with. Just to rule out multiple MACs being blocked on the AP.

Beyond that, I’m not really able to help troubleshoot further, but worst case and if all you need is internet, you can set your OpenWRT device up so that it just NATs your downstream connections. Double-NAT, in most cases, is fine.

Hmm. Is the upstream AP some kind of fancy deal or a run of the mill consumer router?

I’ve seen some Cisco APs configured to not allow multiple MAC addresses from the same station. Caused problems when trying to do VMs on my laptop that had the network in bridge mode.

Are you able to put your phone into hotspot, connect to that instead of the upstream AP, and see if it works?

I did that with a GL.iNet travel router after flashing stock OpenWRT, and used it as a wireless bridge for several years. It uses relayd to bridge the Wifi station interface and Ethernet. Once you have an ethernet bridge, you can connect another AP or do whatever from there.

If you create a second wifi interface in AP mode (in addition to the station/client one connected to the upstream), you should be able to add that to the LAN bridge alongside the ethernet interfaces. That bridge will then be part of the relayd bridge, and it all should just work (should, lol. I haven’t tested that config since I only needed to turn wifi into wired ethernet with this setup).

Interfaces:

LAN Bridge: Ethernet interfaces to be bridged to the wifi

I have both of its interfaces in this bridge, and it also has a static management IP (outside of the WLAN subnet). This management IP is a static out-of-band IP since the devices connected over ethernet won’t be able to access it’s WLAN IP (in the main LAN) to manage it. To access this IP, I just statically set an additional IP on one of the downstream ethernet client devices.

The LAN bridge is in a firewall zone called LAN.

WWAN: Wireless station interface that’s configured as a client to the AP providing upstream access. I have this configured statically, but DHCP is fine too. Firewall zone is WLAN.

WLANBRIDGE: The relayd bridge (Protocol: relay bridge). It’s interfaces are the LAN bridge and the WWAN interface.

Disregard the WGMesh parts; that’s separate and not related to the wireless bridging mode.

Look at RCS

I’d rather not lol. Google basically forces you to use your phone in a Google-approved configuration or RCS silently fails. So if you’re rooted, no RCS for you. You can spoof SafetyNet attestation all you want, but they constantly blacklist fingerprints (even legit ones) and RCS stops working (but still says “connected”). After 3 months of fighting it, missing messages, or having to wait 90+ seconds for outgoing messages to fallback to SMS, I just disabled RCS and went back to SMS/MMS. Since that was the last Google service I was trying to use, I just disabled Play Services and completed the de-googling of my devices.

If RCS is to ever succeed, , it needs to be a carrier service and not a Google service. As it is now, it is impossible to use RCS on Android without Google Play Services (e.g. De-Googled device). That’s absolutely unacceptable.

Honestly, I dread the e-SIM only future. They’re okay as something that complements a physical SIM, but I much prefer swapping the physical one than going through the carrier to transfer it.

I tend to use devices and mobile OS’s that aren’t carrier-blessed (but are otherwise compatible with the network); it’s often necessary to first activate the service in a “supported” device and then move the SIM to the device I actually want to use.

I also change devices often, kind of like choosing the right footwear for the event. I’ve got a general purpose “daily driver” mostly dumb phone, but I also swap my SIM to a few other devices depending on need. e.g. occasionally, I’ll need my actual smartphone and move my SIM into that for the day or I’m going backpacking and move my SIM into my rugged smartphone which is otherwise a beast to carry but nice in the wilderness, etc.

Plus, I’ve had phones just up and die. With my cell as my only phone (and sometimes only internet connection), it’s a little difficult to reach the carrier to move service to my backup device. Much easier to just pull my SIM and move it.

If I were doing all this with eSIMs, I’d probably be setting off all kinds of false alarm bells swapping around so much; all false alarms that, to date, haven’t been an issue with a physical SIM. That’s not even getting into the artificial restrictions that will eventually come. Wouldn’t put it past some shitty carriers (cough Verizon cough) to limit the number of times you can swap in a month and/or to charge a BS “activation” fee for it.

Nice! Yeah, I’ve been a big fan of it. Planning to eventually replace my custom Snapdrop with Pairdrop since they’ve made quite a few other improvements.