If you are at all into musical theater, you know the song he's singing...

It was way too windy to ride today, just as predicted. The chances or riding tomorrow aren't any good either. I'll have to wait and see but it is supposed to be considerably cooler, high fifties, and windy.

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Rgarner said:

Is it safe to get rid of the data from the nasty goo file app if I'm using a different file app? It's not huge but would definitely save space. I'm trying to trim these things.

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try Sd Maid or the build in google flies.

Dash Crofts, of 1970s music duo Seals & Crofts, dead at 85​

Sadly, I report that Crofts of Seals and Crofts has passed away. The two made some great music that wasn't rock but fit right in to the music scene of the early seventies. Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl, Hummingbird, and so many more tunes are burned into my soul. Thanks you so very much for touching me with your music.

PitCarver said:

I'm just glad that we don't get your snow.

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The snow's of today are nothing compared to my youth. We rarely received show stopping amounts but it was common to get a number of 4-8 inch snows across the winter. We don't get diddly squat anymore. It makes for some super dry winters.

This will be our first cruise, Chief. I'm pretty sure that I'd probably be more comfortable pon a smaller ship, but, the Boss Lady's uncle paid for our fares, so...

I got to thinking a few nights back about the size of the darned thing; it's like 3 football fields long 190 feet tall but only has a draft of 30 feet.

I didn't sleep well that night.

A Sign Of The Times - Petula Clark

March From The River Kwai - Mitch Miller

The plan was to fix a stir fry on the Blackstone for dinner tonight. High winds are predicted so we might have to do something different.

Stir fry will wait for a better day. We went out to my favorite Mexican restaurant and I had a deluxe burrito and a side order of rice.

A huge top of the 2nd saw the Yanks put up five runs. Score is five zip with the Giants batting in the bottom of the 3rd. It would be nice to actually watch this game... grrrrrr

Yankees shut out the Giants 7-0

i do like motorola, and that is what i use.

but my Moto G Power 2022 is the last of the duds in that line.

the battery life is fine, good even, but the camera is lacking and the CPU is rather slow.

at any rate, the newer devices have much better specs than mine does.

you can also edit your quick settings to add the dark mode icon

then you can toggle it on and off with the quick settings like you did with the color inversion

Hadron said:

Have you had any system updates in the last year? Do you expect any in future?

If the answers to both of those is "no" then just ignore this: it's intended to prompt people whose phones are still receiving updates to install them, but if your phone is no longer supported then it's irrelevant.

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nope. i think it is still stuck in android 14.

Hadron said:

But this is Samsung: there is no deselect toggle for their keyboard (it would have been deselected on day 1 if that had been an option).

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show me a screenshot of what you get

I found this to be typical with updates of Google apps.

An app like Google Play Services, which is connected to most everything in one way or another, is a constant drain on resources and a privacy nightmare.

That particular app started me on the de-Google quest for my devices.

It is excellent that you know how to get rid of the updates, because most people never even get that far.

Personally, I get rid of it before I ever use the device.

If this is not on your path, then I would suggest doing what you have already done and use it that way until the next update hopefully fixes the issue.

Depending upon what apps you use, some won't care but others may nag you to update the crAPP.

Another solution is to go to an alternative appstore, such as Uptodown (my recommendation for this) and find the newest update for Google Play Services that works correctly on your device.

Whelp, I think this thread has run its course.

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The first week of the NCAA men's tournament is in the books. Round one saw a number of upsets and round two had it's share as well. There are sixteen teams left and after this week's play there will be four teams left. Out of the 26.6 million brackets filled out at ESPN, nobody has picked all the games correctly again this year. That's how difficult they are to predict. I have picked 38 of the first 48 games right which puts me one game up in my family group and I'm in 1,506,910th place at ESPN 🤣 It's all fun stuff.

PitCarver said:

OB, I was forced to retire in 99. Well, didn't actually retire until 2000 because I had a butt load of sick leave. I came home to raising my 2 girls. What I had trouble getting used to was the absence of adults to talk to.
Now, the girls are gone with kids of their own and it's just me and the Boss Lady.

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Through the years, I made close friends in the construction business. We had a lot of laughs together, shared a few meals together, labored hard together to bring a project in under a deadline and to make the builder we were working for look good to his clients. Within a short span of time, we all retired and communication lines were severed. I miss the interactions with those guys. A couple of the group have passed away... maybe more. Unless you happen upon their obit, there isn't any knowing. It's a shame for they were a great bunch of guys. I worked around some of them for forty to fifty years.

I well understand the void left without that communication you speak of. Though they aren't necessarily friends, the people that I mow for and I have more than a tradesman / customer relationship. I will visit with them thirty or so times a year and I've mowed for most of them decades. I will miss those porch visits when I can no longer physically mow.

Random thought of the day: In my spare time I have mowed an average of thirty lawns a week, for an average of thirty weeks a year, for over thirty years. I've done a lot of grass through the years. 🤣

Bruce_205 said:

Instead of a factory reset, what if I put all my apps into Deep Sleep and reintroduce them one at a time or a small group by taking them out of sleep? My understanding is that deep sleep will cause them to not use any battery? I did go thru all my apps and made sure that only the system apps that need it have unlimited battery and all the rest are optimized. I found a couple that were set to unlimited but those were set that way before.

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Any means to discover what might be draining your battery will work.
The idea is to make certain it's not a user installed problem before filing a warranty claim.

olbriar said:

The back story has to be epic

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High rise parking ...