Frequently(?) Asked Questions

Last update : 21/2/2024

Where are you located?

Somewhere in some group of islands, north off the Australian peninsula. More details coming in something like the heat death of the universe I suppose...

Why did you make this site?

Pick any of these reasoning.

Inspired by some website creators (they can speak for themselves, they know who they are)
Most Android sites (even XDA developers nowadays) suck - but then again Android nowadays suck (and will get worse), so this one's not a good excuse IMO especially since I lost interest in latest Android since A13 (or maybe A12 but I really lost it in A13).
Learn some HTML?
Simply because I wanted to - probably the most canon reasoning.

How do you make this website?

For html, copy/paste a basic template (or build stuff & then save as whateverpage.html) & simply build the content in there (and maybe add more h3 and/or h4 tags depending on content) using whatever html editor available on whatever computer I'm using (Geany for GTK / Artix (a.k.a. T470 for now), Notepad++ for Windows, etc.) before uploading & updating the files on Neocities & Codeberg. I'm sure there are many more efficient methods out there, but this is the one I usually went for.

As for the css, I just simply edited the original Neocities-provided style.css into the abomination it became right now.

Here's an article from unixsheikh if you'd like a longer reasoning.

Do you take donations?

No. I'd rather not fully tie this site into my life; as I'd rather do whatever I want over being indebted to anyone & having to maintain something I may no longer want to maintain. If you really want to "support" me, maybe consider creating the ideal custom ROM - I'll at least give you a shout out if you do so (moreso if you collaborate with existing established Android developers).

Do you even have any other accounts?

Aside from Codeberg & Neocities, not planned yet (and I don't open either unless I want to update). Deleted most of my online accounts at least a year before I started with this site (forgot exactly when) & handed my SIM card (including all accounts tied to it such as WhatsApp) to Bob (at the same time he lost his personal phone) just to avoid ze 2020 doomshots.

How do you keep playing FGO when you don't use any Play Store stuff?

Simple. Bob set up his old Samsung tablet (which usually is at either our workplace at workdays / his house during holidays) & Aurora Store (with one of Lukas' disposable Goolag accounts) for our latest FGO APKs. Solves our issue of not wanting Aurora Store (let alone anything to do with Goolag's full Play dis-Services) in our FGO-infested phones, but with a catch that if Aurora Store stops working (like in this issue for anonymous accounts), we're fucked (especially since Goolag Play Store doesn't offer FGO NA to "unsupported" nations).

21/3/2024 Update : Apparently fgo.bigcereal.com/apk.html provides the latest FGO APKs there, but I'm not sure about it for now (the most disdain I can muster at it is for Go-ogle certs & JS/XHR demand).

Any upcoming plans / roadmaps / etc.?

Meh. Let the site development be as chaotic as it is, because I update whenever I want. And don't expect me to write any FGO content, despite talking about it here.

But still, I have 2 upcoming targets as of the time of writing (17/1/2024) :

Testing out Jaguar ROM (which involves getting an actual OnePlus 6). So far, it's done.
Testing out & commenting on TheAnonymouseJoker's privacy guides; both on phone & computer. I'd probably have more to say on the phone though. However, since c/privatelife seems dead (21/2/2024 Update : not really), I'm not really sure on doing it. 17/1/2024 Update : To blazes with privatelife, I bashed those "guides", albeit incompletely as I got swamped from attempting to review the brands one by one.

Hey GearJail, test this (new phone from current year / old phone from the past / new custom ROM)!

Ask me before 2022 & I'd probably start researching into it before actually getting into it. But now, I'm a bit too jaded to even start researching - chances are whatever device you're asking won't have microSD, headphone jack, bootloader unlocking, or any combo (and/or all) of them; or the custom ROM you're asking is probably yet another Limbo / GApps-only crap (and/or some fake privacy ROM), so good riddance.

Between Neocities & Codeberg, which one do you prefer? Since you're on both...

At the moment, it could go either way for me. For the differences:

Not sure about Codeberg, but Neocities' free account doesn't support video files.
While Codeberg only allows updating 5 files per commit, Neocities allows as much as I like in one go (which is better for those updating several pages at once). But then again, this isn't that surprising since Neocities is focused on hosting websites while Codeberg is more of a Git hoster than a website hoster.

21/2/2024 Update (formerly 17/10/2023 update) : I personally confirmed Neocities is blocked in Indonesia (at least in Bali).

As for the similarities :

Both Neocities & Codeberg engage in censorship

Neocities had shadowbanned Koshka & lolwut's accounts in the past (which hides their updates out of the global feed & prevents them from commenting on pages of anyone not their mutual followers) for unknown reasons.
Codeberg used weasel wording to take down the deCloudflare project while it was hosted there. They also claimed deCloudflare contained "illegal" contents (some of which are public, but dCF content is GDPR-compliant), which they immediately deleted (both the "illegal" content & the investigation logs) without giving any chances at dealing with the problem. Also, here's some extra mirrors taken down & Codeberg not letting Baobab (the victim in this linked issue) fixing the issues; which eventually resulted in Spyware Watchdog being abandoned (since it doesn't seem like Spyware Watchdog got a different Git hoster).
Codeberg took down Orenom's wikiless repository after being allegedly(?) contacted by Wikimedia (and also claimed licensing issues, which Orenom couldn't fix because of timing issue). Wikiless got brought back on GitHub by Metastem & so far it's still alive there, at least until Metastem got taken down by the western spies.

Both Neocities & Codeberg requires an email address to sign up for an account. As for the differences in either :

Neocities makes it somewhat easier to sign up by putting the form in the index page, but it requires hcaptcha (cuckflare's recaptcha clone, down to the user-hostile issues).
Codeberg has its own page for signing up, but has a simple captcha.

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