I do not have an answer for you, but if I may ask…

Why?

It’s definitely not a top notch phone, so don’t expect it to be a powerhouse of a gaming phone or whatever, but it’s actually a pretty decent phone to be fair.

It doesn’t have many sensors, only the accelerometer, light, proximity, and significant motion sensors, so don’t expect it to work with RFID or NFC devices either. No compass sensor either ☹️

But where it lacks in power and features, it makes up for in an amazing battery life, plus even the stock Android ain’t too damn bad. 👍

I have a Blu B131DL that allows the bootloader to be unlocked without being online. No WiFi, no SIM card, it just simply allows unlocking. No catches.

I haven’t actually done anything with it though, it’s still on its stock Android 11, but it’s nice to know I have that option.

So, aside from numerous other angry words I could say…

How is this going to affect incoming phone calls? Will I be able to at least talk with my friend, without having to hear ads the whole time because I was watching a video?

Just a friendly reminder, https://grayjay.app/ is a thing, screw the YouTube app.

They’d have to find my archives first, absolutely none of them are on the frontend. I don’t use the archive in any normal manner, and the links are effectively randomized so there’s no chance of just guessing any of my links.

I’ve been doing it for years and they haven’t pulled anything down yet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230919001454if_/https://charleston.craigslist.org/avo/d/mount-pleasant-stealth-fighter/7667184419.html

Edit: Yes that’s clearly an archived website and not a file to direct download, but that same if_ banner bypass trick works just the same for individual file downloads.

Wanna watch a trick?

https://tinyurl.com/missingf35

You can follow that link, it’s perfectly safe, and rather funny no less. It links to the archive…

https://web.archive.org/web/20230919001454if_/https://charleston.craigslist.org/avo/d/mount-pleasant-stealth-fighter/7667184419.html

Note the if_ after the date/time code. That bypasses their banner. None of my links are anywhere on the frontend of the archive, you literally have to know every link to find my archives.

And most of my archives aren’t even of websites, most of them are direct file downloads of older operating systems and games and stuff. Not like I’m about to share any of those here though.

I’ve been doing that for years and they haven’t found or removed a single thing I’ve archived. If they ever do, well so be it, but none of it is on the frontend, and the links are so obscure that there’s basically zero chance of anyone just randomly guessing them.

Funny you’d say that. If you manipulate the link and add if_ or fw_ after the date code, you can most certainly download files directly from the wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/

Look towards the bottom of the page, ‘Save Page Now’

Snapshot feature. Apparently you’re not familiar with it.

I don’t even have an account silly. Think I’m stupid enough to do that?

Never heard of the snapshot feature have ya?

I’ve got terabytes of things archived, still there.

Whether factual or not, that’s still the direction Canonical is heading.

Here mofo, go purchase Ubuntu Pro…

https://slrpnk.net/post/13269933

Canonical can suck my balls.

Have you not caught the recent news that Ubuntu is now plastering adverts on the desktop if you haven’t paid for it?

Please kindly fuck off.

Look at this fat cat over here that can afford pepper spray…

Wanna hear a scary command I’ve used before?

sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

Not for the faint of heart, nor meant for a fresh install, but that literally reinstalls every single registered package in Debian based distro.

Edit: If you ever dare use that command, you better make 2 pots of coffee and roll 3 joints, cuz it’ll take a good while…

I sorta had a feeling that wasn’t necessarily the best link after I posted it. Check this for more info (I’m on my phone right now…)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41273/how-to-create-a-list-of-installed-packages-for-easy-automatic-reinstall-after-di

I feel your pain from a distance, I really do. ☹️

The best advice I have in the meantime is to prepare for a full backup of all packages and consider switching to a different Debian based distro…

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=138166

Your problem is that you’re still using Ubuntu, after Canonical started injecting advertising and wants you to pay for it now.

Try a different distro, like anything besides Ubuntu…