Using Tasker on Android to toggle Blokada+ / private DNS / WiFi
Creating an Android quick setting tile that performs three different tasks automatically so I don’t have to do them all by hand on a regular basis.
Category Archives: Mobile Computing
How to use Tasker to enable locking your screen with Google Assistant
Ever since I started being able to talk to my Android phone, I’ve wanted to be able to tell it to lock my screen. And ever since then, Google Assistant has stubbornly refused to do it. I can’t imagine why Google hasn’t implemented this feature; they obviously know people want it, since when you ask… Read More »
Hack of the day: using the Google Fi “Messages for Web” app on Linux to open “tel:” links from the browser and elsewhere
Over on Github, I just published some code I wrote to implement support for “tel:” links for Google Fi’s Messages for Web app on Linux. In other words, if you have Google Fi and you use Google’s Messages for Web app on Linux, then once you’ve deployed my solution, if you click on a phone-number… Read More »
Chronology of a terrible (as usual) interaction with Google Pixel support
Google’s Pixel support is terrible. Here’s a story demonstrating how terrible it is.
T-Mobile’s “high-speed” mobile hotspot add-on isn’t
T-Mobile is lying about their high-speed mobile hotspot add-on. It doesn’t work. It isn’t high-speed.
Verizon Wireless lies to close the deal, refuses to honor their promise
UPDATE: On September 7, 2018, the people responsible for handling complaints sent to the office of the CEO of Verizon finally agreed to refund the charges for the five lines I only switched to VZW because their sales representative lied to me. I shouldn’t have been lied to in the first place, and their customer… Read More »
Here’s why your Android phone can’t connect to SSL sites through WiFi
If internet access on your phone exhibits weird behavior including being able to browse to non-SSL web sites but not to SSL web sites, try turning off “Data Saver”.
PenguinDome: new, open-source Linux mobile device management (MDM) solution
Where I work, we have employees who use (in decreasing order of popularity) Mac OS, Windows, and Linux as their desktop computers. We’ve deployed a large, complex remote administration / MDM application for managing the Mac OS and Windows desktops. It’s big and complicated and difficult to maintain. It does much more than we will… Read More »
Two-factor auth’s Achilles heel: switching smartphones
Migrating all of your 2fa codes to a new smartphone is a huge pain. Here’s one way you can make it easier.
“Passport Parking” is a rip-off
Passport Parking’s pay-by-phone service charges exorbitant fees, doesn’t inform customers about the fees up-front, makes it hard to obtain a refund, issues refunds slowly, has a broken web app, and has poor security.