Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgtoAndroid@lemdro.idJust look at Huawei’s trifold phone
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    3 months ago

    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’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!



  • 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.








  • 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.