Notes about the world around us and a personal knowledge base — Antonio Nemcd’s blog
I had a hunch that a medal was on offer when I noticed double AP and lots of “dinosaurs” coming out to take down portals.
I don’t follow the news and didn’t want to bother. I googled a bit on my phone, found nothing much in articles — I should have checked social media.
Afterwards I saw the medals people got and felt a bit sorry — I should have gone for it.
A blue field had been hanging over Kharkiv, and it was starting to get annoying.
So I checked where the anchor portal was and how far it was.
It was in Velykyi Burluk, a town famous for its cheeses.
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I put a new SIM card into my Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X, and after every restart the phone asked for the SIM PIN first. The PIN was the default 0000 — nothing secret, but typing it every time is pointless. Here is how to turn the SIM PIN request off.
Fastest way on any Xiaomi, Redmi or POCO: open Settings, tap the search bar at the top and type SIM card lock. Open the result, pick your SIM, switch Lock SIM card off and enter the current PIN. Done.
You need the SIM card inserted and you need to know its current PIN — this is the PIN of the SIM card, not the phone’s screen lock.
Below is the step-by-step path with screenshots (MIUI 9.5; my phone’s menu is in Russian, but the layout is the same in English).
I’ve finally reached the maximum level in Ingress!
It wasn’t easy, but I made it.
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I’ve written about OpenWRT before: how to open the web interface from the internet.
Recently I flashed an inexpensive TP-Link Wi-Fi router with OpenWRT and decided to show, with screenshots, how to set up port forwarding.
