Oh, so we’re playin Inception at a whole world scale. Nice.

Xmanager doesn’t compile the apk. I downloads the same files you have on telegram.

The main advantage of it over manually downloading the files is somewhat easier usage and update notifications.

I think you can use already maintained ones like magisk module alt repo

• https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.sanmer.mrepo
• https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.dergoogler.mmrl

I only needed to see blockchain tokens. No need to know anything else.

I think the situation here is similar to Telegram. Russian connections, but not in a impactful way. I use both without worries, but if this doesn’t suit somebody, there are alternatives.

That’s your decision. I experience no issues with my setup, but you do what you want.

There’s something interesting about mobile banking. I constantly see stories of issues with it on non-stock / unmodified software. The funny thing is that I have never had any issues personally. Until recently my banking app worked even without Magisk’s Denylist (and the most picky app was McDonald’s). Now (since few months) I have to add it to Denylist, but that’s the only requirement, no SafetyNet, no Play Integrity, nothing.

KernelSU? Hadn’t heard of that one before.

It’s relatively new, few months old at most and started as a joke.

Do you get proper compliancy with the Integrity API?

Screenshot_20230804-134241_Play Integrity API Checker

Feel free to ask more questions if you need. For me getting to this point was quite an experience, so I’d be happy to help.

Have you tried KernelSU? Also if you’re careful with magisk you can get SafetyNet to work, even Play Integrity API (but only Basic and Device integrity as Strong requires locked bootloader (or a really bad implementation of security mechanisms as seen here))

Essential? no.

Worth it? maybe.

Nice to have control of your own device? absolutely.

I have two devices, primary with root (through Magisk as KernelSU still has some issues for me) and secondary without root. Anytime I have to do something more demanding on the unrooted device I really wish I had root. Local terminal access, ability to disable some annoying “features” (verified app links) and multiple other things I use daily make it worth it for me.

EDIT: I saw mentions of custom roms in other comments. I have a custom rom installed (AOSP based). If I was on a stock rom (or god forbid something like MIUI) root would be a must for me.

Doesn’t play in the jerboa, but I love it regardless.

I think it’s a different story with the original seasons. The intended version was 4 seasons, but Fox being Fox aired the episodes out of order, ending whenever they wanted and that’s how 5 seasons came to be.

One might try to call it artistic privilege, but I don’t think it holds when you’re responsible only for distribution and not making.

I use MediaTracker which takes information form imdb and tmdb and it labels it as following:

• original series (seasons 1-5)
• Comedy Central (seasons 6 and 7)
• Hulu (season 8) with season 0 (specials) containing movies like Bender’s Big Score

Plex and Jellyfin are good and all, but you know what’s better?

UPNP - simple, efficient, effective. I recommend Gerbera.

Custom roms still offer this. Additionally you can even enable Pulse (audio visualiser) if you like.

Syncthing plays nicely with obsidian if you ever have to synchronise the vault between multiple devices.

Not so much about testing, but one time I really needed to get to my backups I lost password to the repository (I’m using restic). Luckily a copy of it was stored in bitwarden, but until I remembered it, were perhaps one of the worst moments.

Needless to say, please test backups and store secrets in more then one place.

It’s the first time I hear about resticprofile and it looks nice. So far I’ve been using crestic for configuration files. Do you know how they compare?

Yes that works. I think it’s even more reliable then chrome, which just prompts you to restore tabs rather then just doing it.

In the 3.x era, fully replacing the windows shell was easy and there were lots of options.

That’s such a good occasion to share a video I found recently, here: https://youtu.be/iD7AezjG5YE