Love the accent colour on the launcher too! Mind revealing what launcher that is? Rofi?Ulauncher?

Didn't know about that obsession of mine, thanks doc :P

Seriously though, let me rephrase: What I meant with my comment is that I have as much trust in a Twitter user as I have in Twitter and Elon Musk, which is zero.

So, when talking about Twitter, I trust what I can look up everywhere: I can look up that Twitter fired more than half of its workforce, and in addition I now know that Elon Musk likes to obsess about Twitter's code when he knows nothing about it and that he made changes to its code over and over again.

As you can see, I am not giving Elon or Twitter the benefit of the doubt, I'm doing the exact opposite: If it's posted on Twitter, it's most likely false until proven otherwise. Wouldn't make sense to distrust the same person when they tell me something that I know is false, and trust them when they tell me something that I like, would it?😂

If you're talking about "arguments", there's enough shit that happens around Twitter, using the dubious screenshots of a Twitter user as arguments just weakens everything else. This is just a "sad if true" and a great conversation starter for us. I wanted to take a jab at the possible truthfulness of those screenshots, learned about the fact that Elon did in fact, in its infinite wisdom, change considerable part of Twitter's backend and could have fucked up the algorithm, and thus am quite convinced that not even new Twitter users are safe now. At this point I even pity the Twitter bots.

Anyways, carry on :)

Didn't know that first thing, sounds insane but can't say that I'm surprised🤣

I might also add the repeated, and I do mean repeated, layoffs of Twitter employees that cut its work force to almost 1/4th of its original number.

While I do believe that Twitter is slowly becoming a right-wing paradise due to its owner's say....... "tendencies".....AND has an interest to push its users towards that direction, I doubt the veracity of these pictures since it would mean that Twitter's algorithm would have gone completely bananas.

While "trust me bro" sources often confirm what we all think, they often don't tell the whole story and have the sole purpose of going viral, especially on Twitter.

Anyways, what's Twitter? Is that a knock-off Mastodon?

Sorry if I've overexplained some stuff, I wanted to cover as many failure points as possible since my dumbass needs everything explained step by step :P

Anyways, I've figured out a simple and open-source way to move files in seconds, with and without internet:

• I tried every open-source file manager on fdroid that isn't older than 2 years and doesn't look like it was made in 1997, but none worked. So I made the only sensible choice and reversed the roles, transforming my PS Vita into a client and my Android phone into a server! I even tested it with a mobile hotspot and it worked like a charm. Here's how:

  1. Download Material Files (on f-droid or github) or really any ftp server app on f-droid. Material Files is open-source, looks awesome and I'd switch to it if it were able to connect to more remote storages. Hopefully in the future.
  2. Download vita-ezremote-client on your PS Vita. It's on github, but you can find it on the VitaDB Downloader app or the EasyVPK app on your PS Vita as well. It can do FTP and even WebDAV is supported.
  3. Start the ftp server on your phone. With Material Files Amaze, just open the sidebar, press on FTP Server and start it. If you activate "Anonymous login" it won't find the server so leave it off. Remember that this way Material Files forces you to have a username (the default being "admin"), and to remember this username when setting up the client on your PSV. Deactivate "Secure Connection", and under Login, deactivate "Anonymous" and input a username of your choice (e.g. admin).
  4. On your PSV, open ezRemote, input the entire URL (minus the "admin@" part if you use Material Files). So for example: ftp://178.149.5.649:2121/
  5. Input your username you picked in step 3, connect, and you'll see both your PSV and Android phone files on one screen. Square to select, triangle to open the options for your selected file(s), "Download" or "Upload" simply means moving the files to the other device.
  6. Next time you do this, it's just one click on the PS Vita and your phone respectively :)

Happy moving and have fun with your PC next week!

Edit: Did I already mention that I'm a dumbass? Just keep using Amaze, it has a FTP server built-in! + grammar.

Have no fear, Lemmy is here!.....gotta work on that. Anyways, hope I'm not too late, but I had your exact same issues and got 'em fixed in 2 minutes. Here it goes:  

1. The VPN thing has something to do with some weird shenanigans on Android. At least for me, whenever I connect to a VPN and turn the Android setting "Block connections without VPN" to on, any local connection won't work, even though you're not really connecting to the internet per se but just to your local hotspot or network, it just won't accept anything that isn't reporting back to your VPN provider first. And this includes any FTP connections, since as far as my understanding goes it has to be some sort of a local connection as it only works when you're connected to the same network or hotspot. So, if you want to use FTP or really connect locally to anything while not having to turn off your VPN, just switch the above setting in your Android to off and it should work.

2. Setting up an FTP connection: I downloaded Amaze and tried connecting my Android with my PS Vita, but it doesn't matter what I tried it just wouldn't connect or show any files and folders. I'd recommend simply switching file manager. I used MiXplorer, then tried the same thing that I did on Amaze and it worked. Simply click on the "+" symbol on the taskbar below, then "Storage", then "FTP(S,ES)". Under URI address, input the IP of your VitaShell FTP server without the colon and the port. Under display name, put FTP PS Vita or whatever name you like. Lastly, under "port=", simply add the port number (e.g. 1337). Leave everything else as is, then press save, and it should work. MiXplorer isn't open-source like Amaze, but it's completely free, developed by trusted developers in the XDA-community, and is insanely powerful.

3. Setting up an FTP connection with a hotspot (and without an internet connection): Same thing as above, the IP will probably be different than when you're connecting to your WiFi router at home since VitaShell will give you a different IP for every network. So don't use the same FTP MiXplorer profile for your home WiFi and your hotspot, or you won't be able to see any files on your PS Vita. Just press on the "+" in MiXplorer, name it "PS Vita FTP Hotspot" or whatever you like, change the IP to the one that VitaShell gives you and you're good to go :)  

Hope this helps!

Edit: typo.

Holy sh** this to me looks practically identical to Windows 10 (at least to a noob like me), had to double check it was in fact Linux🤣 Good job!