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I suppose some instances cut others off as well (I see only 6 total) so you have a fair point

And despite that, if was still newsworthy enough to be posted like 6 times in total 😅

I see. You can temporarily edit your grub before the OS loads. This should afford you the opportunity to boot into the system without EDID modifications, though im not sure if your modified EDID will still load under this scenario. If so, you may need to switch into a CLI session to undo your changes.

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I’m sorry to hear that. Does this system only have access to this single display? Did you use a kernel command to modify your EDID? If so, are you able to temporarily modify your grub before booting into the OS?

Archwiki references a [@<refresh>] (presumably denoted as [@144] for something like 144Hz) property, hopefully that’s all you should need to define, though I’m not sure if you’ll need to manually recalculate vertical and horz timings or something.

Maybe this can help fill in any gaps

https://tomverbeure.github.io/video_timings_calculator

You want to look into modifying your display EDID.

I don’t believe there’s a GUI for this on Linux but this post referencing the Archwiki might come in handy

https://foosel.net/til/how-to-override-the-edid-data-of-a-monitor-under-linux/

I’m aware, I used to use adaway several years ago.

I had the same feelings as you, in that I needed to have system-wide ad blocking, but I revaluated that requirement a couple years ago and realised that I don’t use any apps featuring banner ads and such.

Several of my apps will just fall back to system webview and Firefox (+uBo) will power that too.

I see. I admit I sorely missed the app startup at boot control permission (app ops) toggle when it was removed from the Android permissions framework, but the new power and background software management framework eliminates the need for it.

Also damn, you have a modern xperia? Hardware wise they are massively appealing to me. They have nearly all of the HW amenities I can think of (SD card slot, headphone jack, dedicated FP reader / button, notification LED, no camera cutout).

If they supported bootloader relocking with sself signed keys, they’d be the perfect phone for me.

I made the admittedly difficult discussion to move to a Pixel so I could use some of the most private and secure software possible on android with little effort or thought behind it.

I sorely miss my headphone jack but at least I feel like I can depend on this tiny computer to not fuck me over with unfettered personal data collection (and save a lot of power in doing so, I suppose).

Adaway was what I used prior to ublock origin on Firefox. The network access toggles can be found directly in ROMs like Calyx Grapene, Lineage, Divest, though I’m not sure if they’re widely seen elsewhere.

I know the process you’re referring you WRT gadgetbridge. I used to do the same thing until I switched to a pinetime.

I’m not familiar with permission manager X. Does that deviate from the android permissions framework in some way?

Can you tell me more about the hardware tweaks?

they’re trying to ensure an acceptable UX with their browser.

I suppose the root of the issue is developers specifically targeting and testing on chrome.

I don’t understand how this would make Firefox look bad unless you’re pointing at the dire browser share situation.

it do be that way :(

okay cool but what are you specifically using system or systemless root for now?

out of interest, what use cases do you have in mind that require root access?

I used to use a root based solution to block ads system wide via hosts but now I just use ublock origin in Firefox.

Their latest microcode update from 7 days ago was declared as final. Time will tell about the efficacy of the most recent fixes.

Unfortunately it may only be available via board partners as beta BIOS updates at present.

Isn’t this the kernel driver included by default?

I see, appreciate the info. I’ll have a poke around on fedora later today

Oh right. Do you have a distro specific example of this?

You shouldn’t need to install anything for the amd gpu

ah right, glad to hear.