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Getting encryption to work on Redmi Note 4 with LineageOS 15.1 and newer
I have been using LineageOS on my Redmi Note 4 phone from the day I bought it. Till yesterday, I was running LineageOS 15.1 on it with encryption enabled. Since I wanted to try out the new Pie release, I tried installing the Resurrection Remix 7.0 ROM based on the Android Pie release. After setting…
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2018: A roller coaster ride
2018 is almost over and it was an unbelievable year! It took me through a myriad of situations, experiences and emotions and I can barely believe that I was able to get through. My daughter was born in the beginning of the year and it was an amazing experience being a parent for the first…
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Setting up Synergy 1.8.8 with SSL on OS X El Capitan as the server and Ubuntu 16.04 as the client
Update (May 2020): Use Barrier, which is a maintained fork of Synergy that supports SSL by default and has builds for Windows, macOS and Linux. Synergy is a free and open source software (licensed under GPLv2) for sharing one keyboard and mouse between multiple computers. The source is hosted here on GitHub and the Synergy website provides…
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Getting rid of Truecaller from Cyanogen OS 12.1
Cyngn has struck a deal with TrueCaller to integrate it with the default dialer app on Cyanogen OS 12.1. For a privacy-conscious person like me, it was totally unacceptable given the notorious reputation of TrueCaller. Read this post on XDA-Developers for more details. Here is how I got rid of TrueCaller. Before installing the OTA on…
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Enabling captive portal detection in GNOME 3.14 on Debian Jessie
GNOME 3.14 supports captive portal handling but it is not enabled by default in Debian Jessie probably due to the privacy concerns. To enable it, create a file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-debian.conf with the following content: [connectivity] uri=http://network-test.debian.org/nm response=NetworkManager is online interval=300 Then restart NetworkManager using the command service network-manager restart as root user (or use sudo if…
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Disabling automatic download of software updates in GNOME 3.14 on Debian Jessie
GNOME Software application automatically downloads the packages to be updated and presents a notification in the notification area. It might be a good idea to disable it avoid excessive data usage on metered internet connections. To do it from the command-line $ gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false Or open dconf-editor and navigate to org ->…
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My contributions to Mozilla Input
Apart from writing Free/Libre Open Source Software, I have tried to contribute to existing ones whenever I can – mainly in the form reporting bugs, fixing documentation errors and so on. But I have always had the dream of making non-trivial contributions in addition to what I have been doing. In pursuit of that…
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Feet off the ground
In the past month, I have had my feet off the ground for most of the time. I got married to my sweetheart, we had our first air travel, we celebrated our honeymoon at Taj Mahal just a day off Valentine’s day, getting our own 2-wheeler which has given me my precious first full-time driving…
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Happily ever after