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Smart environment monitoring using an old smartphone

I received a very special device as a company phone back in 2013: the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. The team in Korea had a brilliant idea, distinguishing their new flagship phones from the competition by adding additional sensors and marketing them as super-smart "surroundings-aware" devices. Mainstream consumers didn't really care, and therefore only the 2013 models Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 have these additional temperature, air humidity, and atmospheric pressure sensors. But you should care 12 years later, because these two devices are hidden gems.
2025-05-05 | 5 minutes reading | tags: Android, Minimalism, Self-host, DYI

Howto degoogle your Android phone

There are many reasons to degoogle your phone and there are 2 main ways how to do it. The hardcore way and the second one, for the sake of this article, can be called the "gracefull degradation way". Both of them end with your stock android OS replaced by a custom ROM that will lack all of the the Google apps and background services.
2021-01-18 | 8 minutes reading | tags: Android, Degoogle, MicroG