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Electrons: particles or charge? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
 

Good evening! I am reading up on electricity just for the fun of it. I am still a complete beginner.

With that out of the way, I wonder: are electrons negatively charged inanimate objects, perhaps particles, or are they merely negative charge with no physical form? But perhaps without there being an object to exert charge there is no charge?

An other way of asking this question would to my beginner mind be: could we tag and track an individual electron as it flows - perhaps in a piece of copper without significant voltage so that the electron doesn't rush away in the speed of light?

I guess I want to know this in order to understand whether electrons actually loop around in a closed DC circuit in the speed of light or are they just pushing the electron in front of them, creating a domino effect, not actually traveling very far?

Please excuse my incoherent formulation. It's late at night where I am and of course these questions come to mind when I'm trying to sleep.

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Just installed and tried out Echoes of the End. After having played extremely story driven titles - like the two Horizon games - I just couldn't learn to love this one. Which is weird, since I LOVED Nier:Automata, for instance.

On another note, this week, I also installed and beat three times, MiSide. I'm absolutely in love. What is wrong with me. ๐Ÿคฃ

On yet another note, anybody going to this: https://www.musicofsquareenix.com/tour

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What hosts can be blocked on a Samsung phone with a hosts file (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I'm on a rooted Samsung smartphone, running One UI 7.0 and Android 15. Not quite ready to switch to Graphene OS yet. Also, my threat model doesn't require it. Yet. ๐Ÿคฃ

In addition to having debloated with UAD-NG and using HaGeZi's Ultimate DNS Blocklist in AdAway, I have also blocked:

android.clients.google.com  
deviceintegritytokens-pa.googleapis.com  
es11.samsungsm-ds.com  
mtalk.google.com  
pinning-02.secb2b.com  
play-lh.googleusercontent.com  
playstoregatewayadapter-pa.googleapis.com  
prod-lt-playstoregatewayadapter-pa.googleapis.com  
shop.line-scdn.net

I haven't noticed any unexpected behaviors yet. I also tried blocking:

i.ytimg.com  
play.googleapis.com  
digitalassetlinks.googleapis.com  
android.googleapis.com

But the first one is needed to load thumbnails on NewPipe and the latter three are needed to login to the Play Store whenever you want to update whatever you have installed through the Play Store - two apps in my case. I have logged out of my Google account and blocked the Play Store with a firewall and only unblock it once a month or so to update Play services and such.

Just wanted to share what can be blocked with a hosts file on a Samsung smartphone. ๐Ÿ˜Š