I keep meaning to grift the SovCits, with new and exciting producta. For example, license plates with yellow fringe on them to indicate they are actually seagoing vessels portaging overland between navigable waters. You just have to drive them to a boat ramp and let their wheels touch the water from time to time, to make them subject to maritime law. This allows you to use them even for commerce without needing to register them with the DMV.
There is an app on f-droid called “shelter” that gives you access to Android Work Profiles. This is a sandboxed area of your phone that makes it function like a second phone. You can install apps that are only accessible from within that sandbox. You can install a second, sandboxed copy of an app. You can shut down all your sandboxed apps simultaneously.
I have a bunch of bullshit, garbage apps I very rarely use installed in my sandboxed “work” profile (Facebook, restaurant apps, and some other assorted trash apps) so they won’t harass me at random.
Wow.
That’s… Awesome.
Edit: That has pretty much every major feature I’ve been looking for.
Long shot, but does anyone know of any mapping app where you can easily project a bearing/azimuth line, or a point a given bearing and distance from another point?
The only app I’ve found so far that can come close to what I need is Backcountry Navigator, which has a terrible UI. Everything else seems to be focused entirely on GPS navigation from where you are now to a known destination; I have yet to find one that allows even basic triangulation, to be able to identify the location of an observed object.
Dual boot sucks donkey balls.
Install virtualbox and spin up a Windows VM on a Linux host.
Fuck all that.
Install Linux, any flavor. Install virtualbox, and set up a Windows VM. Go ahead and install any of your windows bullshit on that VM. That’s your crutch, your failsafe: a windows instance that you don’t have to leave Linux to access.
Save snapshots before and after any changes, so if/when it goes to shit, you can roll it back to where it was still working.
Any critical devices should be airgapped while in service.
Funny, mine did a couple BSODs then restarted just fine, at first. Then a fist shaped hole appeared in the monitor and it wouldn’t turn on again.
Weird bug.
My first thought (which probably isn’t the best method, but I’ve done similar before) is an Arduino between the mouse and the system. The Arduino normally just passes the mouse commands to the system, but it listens for the button and blocks movement if it sees the button press.
Because it’s all done in hardware, this method would be system-agnostic. You could plug it into anything.
I used a Teensy 3.6 for a similar project.
Need to add shipping charges to the price…