Mull, which is based on Firefox, but removes all the telemetry and stuff. I forget why I chose it over other versions of Firefox. Someone here on Lemmy recommended it.

Thanks! I just got Rethink setup last night. I was able to import my actual VPN into it, and it works great!

It’s working! Thanks! I got Mullvad configured inside Rethink, and blocked Gboard from the internet. I was enjoying HeliBoard, but it doesn’t have emoji search. ☹️ Also, autocorrect on HeliBoard was pretty bad. A combination of too aggressive and not aggressive enough at times. Plus the “swipe spacebar to select text” feature of HeliBoard never felt as good as Gboard.

Of course, now I can’t use the GIF feature of GBoard, which was another occasionally useful feature.

Man, does Rethink have a lot of options and settings. Definitely not for the faint of heart!

I also blocked “Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google” which I think is used when you do voice typing. Voice typing is still working, so that’s good. It does most of it locally. Except I noticed months ago that if I have a very spotty cell connection, Voice Typing takes forever to initialize. I thought it was fully on-device at all times, but it turns out it’s not.

Anyone else know some other things I should block? I blocked Chrome because I never use it and I pretty much immediately saw it was using the Internet in the background when I enabled Rethink.

Nice! I’ll have to try it out.

Are there any system apps that are worth blocking that won’t make my phone less useful? Kind of an ambiguous question, I know. I just blocked GBoard, for one.

Oh, never mind. It uses a pseudo VPN to filter traffic, and I’m using an actual VPN, so its not compatible. I only learned this after setting up some rules and finally trying to enable it.

It’d be cool if they integrated a VPN client into the app.

I use KeePassDX’s “Magikeyboard” to type everything. I have an entry with every character in it as a custom field. My phone doesn’t have any other keyboard installed, so in order to use the keyboard you first have to unlock my database with a fingerprint.

Firewalled how? Custom ROM? Custom apk? Normal Android non-root firewall app? I’d like to know more.

It’s possible that time causes gravity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxQTvqcpSg

I once came across information that said natural forces never pull

That’s absolute nonsense. Discard that thought and never repeat it again.

I’m not sure I would trust human oil hunger with a 10ft pole on that one.

I’ll fix it for you:

I’m not sure I would trust human oil hunger as far as I could throw a 10 ft pole.

can still see it floating in the air if I blink or look away.

I have the same problem. I don’t like pure black themes.

The “Darkly” theme on the website looks fine to me and has good paragraph spacing.

In my previous screenshot I wasn’t logged in, so it was the default theme.

Nice. Glad you got it sorted out. Seems like a bug in Lemmy to me. It doesn’t make any sense for an inbox button to reply to the post itself.

What app are you using? Or the website? The default theme? A different theme? Might be a CSS issue. I don’t recall there being any problems with paragraph spacing on the website myself.

Here’s what I see in Thunder.

The website looks fine to me in a Chrome based browser on Android:

Looks the same in Firefox.

Turns out it’s not all of your comments. When I replied, I was only looking at the bottom where there are a few replies to no one.

You keep replying to your own post instead of to individual comments. You gotta figure that shit out.

No!

We need more.

Space!

(Sorry)

You and me, mostly.

I’m sorry, but I can’t let this stand. It’s “look-see”, not “looksy”. Get it? Look? See? First you look, then you see.

I threw it at my feet. Normally, throwing any drinkable potion at your feet immediately puts the fire on you out. Aqua Brew should do the same, and it did in my second test (which I mentioned in another comment days ago). So I don’t know what happened the first time.

Neat!

The content isn’t long enough to scroll, and the superscript doesn’t look like a link. Tapping it just collapses replies now that I’ve replied.

Tapping the little arrow doesn’t collapse replies, so it’s doing something. It might scroll up if your comment were long enough.