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teethgrinder posted:"the old people phone" (an iPhone) Do you know anyone under the age of 20? Most of my kids friends are carrying iPhones and have been since they got their first phones. The only difference is they don't have the facebook app on thie home screen.
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Bloodplay it again posted:Hold down on an empty space on a home screen and select Home Settings. Disable "Show Google App." Oh man, I never thought of this and I want mine disabled too. I just tried this and in that menu I get a "Swipe Access" that I can set from "Google Feed" to "Show Nothing". It's now on show nothing. Typical android shenanigans that it's gonna be slightly different on different things.
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Jul 18, 2024 00:22
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bull3964 posted:You can't escape that ANYWHERE though. I see the same stuff happen in Apple News on my iPad and if you have any sort of social media at all, you are going to end up seeing something. No, you really don't need to "completely unplug". You just need to stop partaking in the societal cancer that is social media and turn off/do not use these clickbait attention stealers.....like this google "news" feed we're discussing. Works for me.
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Jul 18, 2024 15:42
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bull3964 posted:You do realize you are on a social media website currently right? Please, you know exactly what I and others mean when we say social media.
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Jul 18, 2024 16:20
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Dripp Pisso posted:People like it for convenience but it kinda defeats the purpose of 2fa to have both your app codes and passwords all together. It's no longer a second factor at all. I keep seeing people post this "logic" but that's only true in one circumstance only, and that's if your password management system gets hacked. It's absolutely still 2 factors where two factor counts: on the open internet, where attackers have access to the things you're logging into. You know, the entire point of 2fa.
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Aug 23, 2024 20:03
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Dripp Pisso posted:Surely these password companies that hold onto countless customers' passwords and 2fa codes aren't big targets. They are, and that's also fortunately not the only way to store passwords if that doesn't meet your comfort level. Mine are self hosted using Enpass and a local NextCloud instance, for example. But for many that's really not necessary at all. It's trivilally easy to make a case that convenient 2fa that people use, even when cloud hosted, is relatively safer than inconvenient 2fa that people won't use. And certainly superior to OTP via SMS.
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teethgrinder posted:where the motherfucking cats had absolutely shot the stylus under the door. lol congrats. Good detective work.
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Aug 25, 2024 20:09
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Dirt posted:I had the same issue switching to the Pixel. I bought simple gallery pro. Does basically what the Samsung gallery app does. Worth the couple bucks imo This is something that has been bothering me since I stopped using google for photo storage, etc. Thank you - that's a nice app that just does what it supposed to.
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Rinkles posted:Do any of these apps have live reading transcripts? The same way a music player can display synced lyrics. It was a very handy feature on the iOS podcast app. Isn't that an android base feature? Or maybe it's pixel only? I know I've accidentally turned it on before while using Pocketcasts and couldn't figure out how to turn it back off again for a while because it wasn't in the app.
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Desk Lamp posted:It's a good app. Nobody but you cares about any of that poo poo. If even half of that screed it true you have some weird stockholm syndrome thing going on because that sounds positively awful.
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Oct 5, 2024 18:34
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CLAM DOWN posted:is this actually a use case americans think about, because holy gently caress lol I don't like in the part(s?) of america where this is a problem, thanks.
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Oct 15, 2024 23:52
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The razr plus has it on the side (one of the buttons) and it works great, unlike every through the glass one I've used. No need to take it off it's stand/mount in the car to unlock it, which was about the only time I appreciated through the glass compared to the rear reader.
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Nov 24, 2024 19:27
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BabyFur Denny posted:What are those icons at the bottom and why are you still using the navigation bar in 2024 Not everyone uses their phone the same way you do. For may of us it is a tool, not something to play games on. Many of us wear gloves, need to access things with one hand when working, etc. Gestures often don't work as well as a statically placed buttons in these situations.
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Powered Descent posted:I remember several years back that Tesla pushed an update for cars in the path of an oncoming hurricane to allow them to charge all the way up to actual chemical 100%, to give their owners that much more range for evacuation. Which is kind of cool but also really dystopian -- your own car's energy capacity shouldn't be subject to a billionaire's whim. There should be a way to enable this mode yourself, after clicking through sufficient warnings about eroding the battery's life. There is a lot more to this than what you seem to know. Those same "warnings" also need to be able to void your federally mandated emissions warranty, a thing that may or may not even be possible/legal to do in that way. The reason things are set the way they are is in part because warranties are not free (you pay for them as part of the purchase price) and there are real actuarial calculations behind them. Calculations that in this case would be signficantly impacted by what you're suggesting. So as much as elong is a tool, the people who work for this tesla company that he bought - at least some of them - are actual professionals that know what they are doing. And it's the same thing GM, Toyota, Porsche/Audi/VW, Ford, Honda etc are doing. They just don't have a toxic narcissist aparteid era emerald mine generational wealth tool of a ceo generating noise about it. Motronic fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jan 2, 2025 |
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Because that meant Google only had to give them $20 to make it look like they are offering you $50.
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The business model of places like this (and old school "calling cards") is fee-ing people to death on transactions, months, deposits, etc as well as "breakage" (money left over and not spent). The breakdown probably isn't google give them $20 for each $50, but it's going to be something like that. It's simply a scumbag move to wash your restitution through a scumbag industry like these kind of payment card/account providers so you don't actually have to pay for all of it.
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lol "my haptic feedback feels plebean on my feature phone" what's their username?
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CLAM DOWN posted:what does the "I" in "IoT" stand for It's a generalized term at this point. There are several of us here that use all kinds of devices that are considerd, badged and marketed as IoT on systems that never touch the internet. Cruft knows that the "I" stands for. You don't know that it's irrelevant in common usage.
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bull3964 posted:That's precisely what they did for the 9a and everyone is panning it for losing its identity. "Everyone" is doing some heavy lifting there. Most people do not care if their phone is identifiable as a specific brand/model.
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Apr 4, 2025 14:57
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Quixzlizx posted:Thanks for the replies. To be clear, I have already bought a replacement and checked the old modem with the new adapter, and it was the modem that was dead. I just wanted one for similar future situations. I don't know what other situations you may find yourself in or how much you play around with electronics, but my benchtop power supply has bnailed me out many times, not just powering things with dead adapters but charging batteries. They are real cheap these days (like $50). https://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-Switching-Regulated-Adjustments-Jesverty/dp/B09YSJQWRG?sr=8-2
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isndl posted:I saw one in the store the other day so I played around with it, but after the novelty wore off I'm like... what does this actually do better for me? The screen is barely longer than my old rear end P6 and has a fat crease in the middle for the privilege. The small front screen doesn't seem useful for much besides glorified notification swiping. What it does is "not be a gigantic rear end phone". That's the entire point of it. It is not intended for people who use their phone as their primary input device/gaming rig or whatever you all do with those tablet sized things.
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It also obfucates a pretty critical and often used piece of information for all but insider/power user familiiarity: is this one newer or older than that one? By how much?
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Thanks for proving my point.
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