Frequently(?) Asked Questions

Last update : 13/3/2025

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...

How do you usually live life?

For starters, as of 1/1/2023 I've moved in with Bob & Lukas. As my employer & landlord in one, Bob takes a cut of my & Lukas' paycheck in return for these things (which does leave me with a small bit of disposable income at the end of the day).

300 grams of rice, 6 eggs, 4 thick‐cut (something like 3mm?) slices of pork belly, extra virgin coconut oil, salt, soy sauce, and white peppercorns for food. Offered as part of the package & daily.
Free 30 minutes worth of bathing water (not that any of us either managed to exceed 30 minutes for total bath time daily or knew how this "30 minutes of bating water" was really counted, but whatever I suppose...) & 5 liters of drinking water (any more than that & it's either a per‐liter purchase or a run into the nearest available market). Offered as part of the package & daily.
The rights to stay at Bob's house, and the associated rights of using his appliances ‐ kitchen included (with every cook cleaning up for themselves).

Nowadays I work as the accountant's assistant for Bob's office (though half of my workday is free time as the accounting department runs a tight ship), sometimes assisting with Lukas' side business (of phone battery things) as the wannabe phone technnician (at least for slapping in those batteries & re‐assembling those devices as cleanly as I can, but only for the coworkers); all within the 9:00AM to 16:30PM timeframe. This is where most of my Windows exposure was (aside from the ROG Strix, as it is now shared between the 3 of us), and fortunately (at least for now) I am not required to provide my own "secure" shitbar.
Daily exercises ( mostly some jogging around the neighborhood in the mornings (6:00AM to 7:00AM); followed with a bit of strength training every Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday in Bob's home gym after work (17:00PM ‐ 17:30 PM).

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, at least on their tech news) 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 by A13).
Learn some HTML? oh wait...
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 GTK3(xfce) / 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, mostly because I literally know nothing else.

As for the css, I just simply edited the original Neocities-provided style.css into the abomination it became right now. 8/7/2024 Update : I copied some of DigDeeper's ghost css into my style.css.

Here's an article from unixdigest 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 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, or somehow consolidate them into your ranks). Or manufacture the perfect Android device with none of today Android's shittiness (even better if the aforementioned ideal ROM is the default).

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 or why, but I can just claim cycrim attack) & 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?

Lukas has set up my formerly dead A50S (with one of his spare Goolag account tied to Aurora Store) for our latest FGO APKs (and YouTube downloads as well). 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).

8/7/2024 Update : apkpure.com/fate-grand-order-english/com.aniplex.fategrandorder.en/download also provides FGO APKs. You don't need any JS & XHR if the APK is your only purpose - just follow the big green Download APK button & be sure it links to /downloading. 13/3/2025 Update: Now in the .xapk format, which Android does not natively open without SAI.

Any upcoming plans / roadmaps / etc.?

Meh. Let the site development be as chaotic as it is, because I update whenever I want, whenever I can, and if I even could (yunno, making ends meet & keeping some dudes off the blacklist or something like that). In fact, I couldn't look at my Codeberg's issue thread until I decided to upload stuff there.

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, something I do really often). 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 : I personally confirmed neocities.org sites are blocked in Indonesia (at least in Bali). I don't go there that much (aside from a certain event), but if I'm there & need to submit my files I'll probably use a virtual proxy network.

As for the similarities :

Both Codeberg & Neocities 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. Both eventually moved off Neocities.
Codeberg used weasel wording to take down dCF (archive.org) while it was hosted there. They also claimed dCF contained "illegal" contents (some of which are public, but dCF content otherwise is compliant with GDPR), which they immediately deleted (both the "illegal" content & the investigation logs) without giving any chances at dealing with the problem. On a related note (and the same time as dCF getting nuked off Codeberg - April 2021), Baobab's cloudflare-tor mirror were taken down as well & Baobab was not allowed to fix the issue, eventually leading to Spyware Watchdog being abandoned as SW seemed to not get a different hoster (and the repository is archived as of 26/9/2024).
Codeberg took down Orenom's wikiless repository (archive.is mirror) 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 (allegedly, since only metastem.su got seized or something) taken down by the western spies.

Both Codeberg & Neocities 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 1st-party captcha; at least back when I signed up for it.

What about self-hosting? Since you claimed both Codeberg & Neocities sucks...

Soon™. ETA unknown. That is, if I bothered to at this point. I'm not even sure if I wanted to keep this up in the long term.

By the way, I didn't exactly claim that they suck. They are still usable for most of us, we just need to be careful when using them.

Why don't you want to keep up for the long term?

TL;DR : I just want to be done with the techspace but it refuses to allow me.

Honestly, this is probably already obvious, but just in case it isn't, I'll say it one more time. Android is getting increasingly shitty, and the custom development scene is slowly disappearing as a result (I'm pretty sure we passed the point of no return since A12?). There can be no fix to this issue unless Android development as a whole is cut off from Goolag, but our developers (a.k.a. those with the power to do so) would rather just follow Goolag & keep on re-doing everything that Goolag kept breaking instead of banding together to force a new development of Android that truly cuts off Goolag's unwritten monopoly over Android while retaining sane defaults Goolag will otherwise fuck up. And this claim came from someone who used to be in the "tech enthusiast" religion. Yunno, the same guys who blindly salivate over the "latest" technology "improvements".

In fact, here's one example of developers following Goolag & still failing miserably despite having a decent foundation & a potential to shake up Goolag's Android monopoly: /e/. All they had to do was simply make a good Android fork that implements the good stuff from future Android versions while avoiding the user-hostile ones, raise proper hell against Google & its user abuse, and maybe sell phones with those things inbuilt. But instead they made a worse Lineage-microG fork with iOS-inspired launcher, immutable default connections, and other questionable decisions; all the while being unrepentingly lagging behind in security patches.

Why use old builds?

First off, that's actually not a bad question. Part of me (particularly the one from ≤2022) would've even saw present me with curiousity, disdain, & surprise. But alas, I had my reasons, which gets listed below.

I'm never a fan of the UI changes A12(L) brought, for the most part. Sure, I liked some of the changes (mostly the option reduction in unexpanded quick settings) but the rest of it didn't click well with me (particularly material you, but I've had enough of making that joke). In fact, I only tolerated A12 because it still allowed proper keyboard vibration even when touch vibration is disabled - something that actually kept me from daily driving ≥A13.
Optimumpro / SecureOS whistleblowing anti-features in A12. While the chances of them mattering to me are too low to actually matter (especially if I actively monitor everything post-setup) combined with the UI fuckery Google did I might as well revert to something that's not as crap to use. It just so happened that my "solution" (at least on X3P) also deleted one more thing I've been forced to tolerate : the arbitrary volume limiter.
In support of withered technology. As mentioned above, the latest software can be more secure, but unfortunately they also introduce stuff the user does not appreciate.
Speaking of security, the way Goolag implements them seem to be contextless - as if they just use the word to justify fucking us users up. Play Integrity, for example, is all about "compliance" with Goolag's Android monopoly rather than about security for the users.
I consider all "tech" stuff to be tools, and I want them to act the way I wanted them to. I just don't want my tools to suck.

What's your political stance?

3 points, 1 sentence : Scratch my back nicely, do me no harm, or fuck off before I teach you a lesson you will never forget.

Scratch my back nicely : Help me with something & I will help you back the way I can. Preferably applied when we're within the same building (or the same area at the very least).
Do me no harm : If you're not helping, at least leave me be.
Or fuck off before I teach you a lesson you will never forget: Particularly applies to advertisers, violators of point 2 above, and smokers. For the last one, I'm especially mentioning those who has the nerves to smoke around those who doesn't want to breathe in their... residue.

As for everything else... no comment for now, since I don't really care. Though if that puts me to something like (oh you think you're neutral? WRONG, NEUTRAL MEANS YOU STAND AGAINST US & DESERVE YOUR DESTRUCTION!) you know where you stand. In some memory wiping machine, where your memories of me will be wiped out. Or Point 3, whichever comes first.

As for the "political" theatre nowadays... apply point 2 before 3. I see none of those politicians & their lackeys personally cooking some decent food for me (let alone comply with my 3 political tenets), so why am I supposed to give them my consent and/or kowtow to their shit?

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