You’re supposed to tear it off before wiping, dude!!

Fuck me, I actually laughed at a Garfield strip. Well played, Mister Davis.

I was having issues getting my Android device to use my local DNS server over VPN, what worked for me was setting it up through RethinkDNS. There’s a setting to prevent DNS leaks by capturing all traffic on port 53 and directing it to the DNS server you set. It doesn’t feel like an elegant solution but hey, it works.

Note, you’ll have to make sure your private DNS setting is off, in the internet section of the system settings.

Speaking of Fedecan, the fedecan.ca website is showing a GitHub pages 404 error right now. I wanted to link it to encourage people to donate, I’ve been really appreciative of the way this instance is run (and have donated in the past). Thanks for all the effort the team puts in to make this a good home instance.

Putin should be a poutine but with (gasp) mozzarella shreds instead of the proper cheese curds.

I had just turned 14 the first time I smoked weed. I stole some from my parent’s stash after encouragement from a kid I played Team Fortress 2 with and smoked it in the garage when they were gone. I kept on doing this on a weekly to bi-weekly basis throughout my teenage years. My parents only learned about it when I told them a few years ago.

Was 17 the first time I got drunk, in a small garage (or large shed, depending on your perspective) with some friends and some adult supervision in the form of my friend’s parents zonked out in front of the TV in their home.

Other drugs (LSD, coke, but mainly shrooms) I experimented with in my mid 20s.

From a quick Lemmy search, I’ve seen Njalla and 1984.hosting being recommended for these kinds of uses.

Archived link to bypass paywall

I’ve never worked in a bar, but I have worked in multiple coffee shops in the past few years. Anecdotally, I’ve had much better experiences with Gen Z customers than any other age group. They tend to be pretty chill and understanding customers, and if anything they’re too kind. I’ve had kids apologizing after I spilled their drinks.

The only person one can ethically call an egg is themselves.

However, if one is self-referring as an egg, they’re obviously trans, so referring to themselves as eggs is transphobic.

On desktop I really like FreeTube, if you’re interested in an alternative. I don’t usually want apps for things that should be websites, but I use YouTube enough (and Google invests so much energy in making youtube.com a miserable experience) that it justifies having a dedicated app for it, in my case.

I’m not sure how it would do multiple languages however, as I’ve not tried it.

As someone who types the majority of my thoughts in Frenglish, Heliboard is the only FOSS keyboard I’ve found that would remotely accommodate that while still having useful autocorrect.

Add 40 million left leaning socialism supporting voters to the USA

Man, I wish I lived in the Canada that exists in your head. It sounds so much cooler than Real Canada.

I love the look of it, federated blogging is such a neat idea!

What software do you use to do this? WriteFreely?

I don’t have traditional TV service so I’m unfamiliar with what “shit” Google is pushing through the TV app. However, if it’s what I suspect (ads), a possible option would be using a local DNS server (like pi-hole or Unbound) to block Google domains on your TV.

VERB THE NOUN

I’ve been using Lynx Launcher for a couple of months after being ultimately unsatisfied with the FOSS options I tried. I like how it’s different from a stock home screen but not too different.

Here’s a screenshot of what my main screen looks like, to give an idea.

I’d rather not open ports I don’t have to. I don’t see why I’d have to open a port when Unbound works on my local network and I have access to my local network via Wireguard. I can access a whole slew of services through that one Wireguard port, why wouldn’t Unbound work?

Thanks anyway for trying to help, bud.

I could do that, but I want to avoid opening ports on my router’s firewall apart from the one necessary for Wireguard. I can access all my other stuff through Wireguard, but I can’t wrap my head around why it seemingly can’t access Unbound on the local host.

The reason for the VPN is to have access to my Unbound DNS on my phone from anywhere, not only my local network. If I just wanted to configure the DNS on my local network, I’d set up static IP for my network in Android’s settings and input the DNS server manually. This works fine when I set it up, but like I said I want to use Unbound on my phone anywhere via Wireguard.

I’m not sure what’s the second thing you want me to clarify! Sorry for the confusion, I appreciate you trying to help out :)

Android doesn’t let me add an IP address under private DNS, it needs to be a domain (like dns.quad9.net rather than 9.9.9.9).

I tried adding a quick DuckDNS domain to my reverse proxy towards port 53, where Unbound is listening. It works, as in I can nslookup using the DuckDNS domain on my desktop (or on my phone when not connected to Wireguard) but if I try to set that domain as my private DNS on Android it says it can’t connect, whether or not I’m on my VPN.