In what way?

So you’re suggesting more “network” control. I like it.

AFWall+

I use NetGuard, but I don’t see any benefits from having root in it.

PcapDroid

Hmm, interesting, I think the closest thing that I use now is TrackerControl.

AdAway

I’m using my VPN “socket” with TrackerControl.

define your own custom firewall rules is very powerful

Yeah, and also easy to mess up connections so they no longer work properly. 😆

I redirect all DNS requests to my own DNS with a custom rule (for apps, like Termux, using hardcoded DNS lookups instead of what the phone is set to)

That seems cool. For now, I’m using Mullvad’s public DNS service. See their dns-blocklists.

I also know App Manager, and I’m using it and with root it with ease blocks any necessary trackers and other things. Have you tried it?

From the security standpoint, I think rooting is always against the security. That’s why DivestOS and GrapheneOS are against it, and it shouldn’t be tried. However, I was interested in Shizuku that also is some another hole to patch up when exploited.

KernelSU is unsafe

Is any root safe though?

lsposed manager

I don’t know what that is.

it hides root much better

To me, that’s the funniest thing. I come from Linux and I want to have - let’s say administrator (root) of my Android, which is also Linux as far I know. I know the Android is praised for its security, but come on, I wish to have control over my system as a working System Admin. That’s the main purpose of my set-up. How come, any app can just check whether I have root or not? That’s some bullshit.

1. Custom ROM - LineageOS
2. microG so I don’t use proprietary Google Play Services
3. and root so I can have full control over my smartphone

Google Play and their services are so tightly integrated with Android, no wonder GrapheneOS did their sandbox… However, I thought of doing the same with microG.

Let’s see how apps will adapt it.

Any guidance on this?

No, I have never heard of it. Thanks!

I don’t even know what Kernelsu is. Magisk is already applied to the phone, never thought there are alternatives.

It is still hidden, but one of the reasons why the native Linux version is better than Proton.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408

Asynchronous saving

Many of you might not be aware that Factorio has support for saving your game in the background, without freezing while it does so. This feature is tucked away in the hidden settings and only works on macOS and Linux. This is one great example of taking advantage of a platform’s features to benefit the game, which would not be available to us if we simply went through Proton.

Asynchronous saving works by using the fork syscall to essentially duplicate the game. The primary instance - the one you interact with - continues playing, but the newly forked child runs the saving process then exits on completion. I have used it for many years and have never had issues, but the setting remains hidden because there are a few unsolved problems with it and it requires a significant amount of RAM to work.

I would love to promote this feature away from its hidden status in 2.0. If you are playing on Linux or macOS, please enable asynchronous saving (ctrl+alt+click Settings -> “The rest” -> non-blocking-saving) and report any issues you find. I am particularly interested in reproducing a seemingly random freeze that occurs at the end of the process. Thank you in advance!

Cashew

Looks great, thanks!

Yeah I tried it with Windows too.

with ext4 or btrfs?

R-Linux seems nice but I don’t see any mention about BTRFS…

Yeah but backup is the most optimistic scenario. I’m looking for something that really bad happened and maybe the data wasn’t overwritten so I can find it and copy.

Those are for snapshots not like data crawing. More like a backup your data tool than you fucked up but maybe something is written so you can have it back.

Yeah I agree and understand. I guess btrfs is too young compared to exts file systems.

I tried it yesterday with SystemRescue, but nothing found that I wanted.

Yeah I btrfs-restore and btrfs-rescue. However do they work on not allocated drive but once was btrfs?

At least that’s my opinion. Oh… But I can’t seem to find it in any F-Droid repos.