Super quick breakdown of the most essential security applications for Android OS.
ADAWAY
► Effective hosts adblocker AFWALL+
► Root-based firewall based on Linux ip-tables EXODUS
► Check your applications for telemetry trackers and secure your privacy YET ANOTHER CALL BLOCKER
► quality open-source call blocker Forked mod for Russia region
. Fork is manadatory thing for people living in a Russia because access to application online database was blocked by Czech owner, due to war initiated by bunker rat.
No bla-bla-bla here. Just a little breakdown of best computer games ever.
Fallout 1/2
X-COM: Enemy Unknown
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Tyrian 2000
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
Civilization II
Diablo I
The Incredible Machine III
If you would like to play these games on modern computer you are in luck, coz most of them were forked to open-source or remastered versions.
I suppose that many of you will be interested in looking at the most important operating systems of the past. Today it is possible even withour virtual machine. You can observe vintage operating systems right in your browser. ATARI ST
MACOS 7
[ver II]
MACOS 8
AMIGA OS
WINDOWS 98
BONUS PART
CHIPTUNE.COM
chiptune tracker music site heavily inspired by Amiga OS Workbench v1.
UPDATED ON: 2022-04-19
Due to heavy blockade of anonymizer services like VPN and TOR in Russia
check out following sites, which still can be reached within Russia region.
▒ VPN SERVICES ZOOGVPN
[Greece] LANTERN
[USA] HIGHLOAD
[Russia] AMNEZIA
[Russia?] PSIPHON
[Canada] ◄ Site is blocked in Russia.
For you convenience i’ll provide download links of Psiphon software on Mega.nz
hosting: Windows client
Android client
▒ TOR RELATED STUFF Also make sure not to skip following stuff:
I already wrote about Neutron player
.
Provided information will be useful if you are using Neutron with high resolution digital audio player [DAP] and would to like
squeeze a bit more of that quality.
Here is a list of the most important settings to maximaze your audio output to the boundaries of existence.
VER 0.1B [SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOMED]
¶ ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTION Finally I get up all one’s courage to compile and publish essential stuff regarding Windows 7 optimization. Note that full version of the guide will be released somewhere around early 2023. Check the warm place to stay on the edge. And now….Let’s dive into the tweaking process!
All console commands should be executed from command line with with administrative privileges.
FAQ ver 0.1b
▓ PREFACE This comprehensive guide will be handy for those of you who can’t figure out why hp printer is not detected by windows using usb connection and for those of you who are asking himself/herself “why do i need to do usb plug to setup device for wireless work?”
hp is notoriously known in terms of really s#cky printer drivers. During all my career of system administrator i’ve constantly ran into driver related problems with hp devices.
Crew was kindly advised by Belka205
Some recent hits at your disposal.
Crappy YT can show
This live event is no longer available. Just reload the page couple of times to fix things up.
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▒ HARDWARE Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Ultra BIOS: F34 [F35b breaks compatibility with Windows 7]
I think that guide will be useful due to nightmarish non-ergonomic structure of Gigabyte’s BIOS menus.
▒ UEFI vs MBR Windows 7 supports UEFI only partially, there is no native handling of this modern tech. I don’t see any reason to use UEFI, only if you want to boot from drive which is larger than 2TB.
v0.88b: please contact me
if you find errors or inaccuracies.
In this guide i will quickly show my system configuration tweaked for privacy. I’m using essential stuff like 4G/WiFi & BT. Additional pleasantries are blocked.
█ ANDROID 8: OS WITH MINIMAL TELEMETRY Operating System: Android 8.0 [Android 8.1 ain’t good, coz it brought support of neural networks to do effective data mining] Security patch: 1st September 2018 FW Version: 47.
It is a known fact that dxomark resource
is a complete sellout and very prone to assign fake rankings. And no one in sane condition will use their results as a reference, because of their prepaid nature. dxomark’s cool conclusion of the past
that iphone is better then Nokia PureView 808
in terms of detail, makes me laugh till today.
Days go by and it looks like we have another “winner” here – dpreview
, to be precise.
IMPROVING FIREFOX PRIVACY & SECURITY FIREFOX ADDONS [Part I]
Finally I’ve managed to finish this part of the FAQ. Note is a loooong-read, so mistakes can occur » please report them to me
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One of the most distinctive features of FireFox was customization. With each new version it becomes less customizable, thanks to marketing people at mozilla corp. They do everything to make Firefox look like google chrome. I stopped using plain FireFox @ version 80.
Batch files tested under Windows 7.
SHUTDOWN PUTER shutdown /p /f REBOOT PUTER shutdown /r /f /t 0 RESTART AUDIO SERVICE net stop "AudioSrv"
net start "AudioSrv" DISABLE HIBERNATE powercfg -h off DISABLE/ENABLE LAN INTERFACES netsh interface set interface name="Local Area Connection" admin=disabled netsh interface set interface name="Local Area Connection" admin=enabled Where: Local Area Connection ◄ the name of your network connection
TERMINATE FROZEN APPLICATIONS taskkill /F /IM vegas180.
Some really quick software lists with information on which version of application is a last one to run on Windows 98/2000/XP/7.
Windows 98SE Gold
Windows 98SE KeX
Windows 2000 SP4
Windows XP SP3
As for Windows 7 SP2 ESU i maintain my personal list of trusted’n’latest software
. Coz Seven is my daily driver system. So Windws 7 list will be constantly updated!
Don’t forget about my dedicated WINDOWS 98/2000/XP/7 support page
Imagery by spacedrone808
And will not sing praises on how cool Linux is. Because I know that it has its own quirks and inconveniences. For testing I almost randomly choose Manjaro Linux
with lightweight XFCE desktop
. Manjaro is based upon Arch distribution
.Yeah, ubuntu is too much pop for me. Key benefits of Manjaro are quite transparent: modern & stable environment and pretty vibrant community. I understand that Linux don’t have all software, which I need and try to find software replacement in a while.
In case you are wondering regarding status and the main purpose of my blog feed. Here is some legal stuff you might want to know.
SITE WILL NEVER CONTAIN FOLLOWING THINGS:
ADS “TRENDY” NEWS POLITICS COVID NONSENSE ALSO YOU DON’T HAVE TO:
SUB PUT LIKES SHARE STUFF WRITE COMMENTS All these boring things you can do in your favorite social-scroll-down-network [if you have such].
UPDATED ON: 2022-05-20
NOTE: list will be updated in the future. Also i’ll do my best to provide last Windows 7 compatible version of software. Contact me for suggestions and error reports
.
List of essential software needed for smooth and hassle free system performance. I use these applications on a daily basis. Selection is really private, but nevertheless of this fact I want to share my knowledge with you.
DON'T EVEN THINK THAT WINDOWS 7 IS DEAD!
Official extended support for Windows 7 operating system ended on January 14, 2020
. Home users can’t extend support for the operating system while business and enterprise customers may extend support by up to three years till January 14, 2023
, to be precise. This is done by joining the ESU program which is available per machine [business] or per user [enterprise].
Here is a short breakdown of the most frequently used commands, which could be launched from the START menu. [WIN] + R ► START ► RUN ► …. CONTROL PANEL control panel LAN CONNECTIONS ncpa.cpl REMOTE DESKTOP mstsc SYSTEM SERVICES services.msc USER CONTROL PANEL control userpasswords2 MICROSOFT CONFIG TOOL msconfig DIRECTX DIAGNOSTICS TOOL dxdiag SYSTEM INFORMATION msinfo32 REGISTRY EDITOR regedit TASK SCHEDULER taskschd.msc GROUP POLICY EDITOR gpedit.msc
Imagery by spacedrone808
UPDATE 2020-10-11: Added Excellent APKGrabber
ALTERNATIVE FIRMWARE As for firmware, I recommend to use LineAgeOS
if your device is supported. Neat FW with minimal tracking and no bloat from big corps. If there is no native LineAgeOS support check XDA forum threads
for unofficial ports by community enthusiasts. If your device is not supported in both cases I do not recommend to update stock firmware to prevent bloat’n’telemetry installation.
The roots of bench-marking tools come from Demoscene
.
The most quality products were crafted by Finnish and Russian coders.
Here is a little breakdown of most notable benchmarks just for your convenience.
Most of the applications can be found on F-Droid market
.
All of them checked for unneeded permissions by Exodus
.
Only IceCat browser has some minor tracker.