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2021 Taxes in 2023

My wife just got a letter from a major retailer she was working for in 2021. They sent her revised 2021 W2 Tax forms, noted they made a mistake and told her to take this to a Tax consultant?

Oh really? Who pays for this?

Wife has a 2pm appointment with H&R Block where we normally get our taxes done.

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That's pretty much a blow below the belt! I'm sorry. Being self employed all of my life it was always a major financial burden to keep current with the IRS. There were even a couple of years that I so grossly under estimated my income that I owed more than I could pay. I found the IRS easy to work with. All they want is all of your money. :) I paid penalty and interest one year until I was even steven with them. They don't care... as long as they can gouge you until you bleed. :) An incorrect W2 from an employer seems a crime. Unless it is glaringly wrong when you receive it, why would you question its validity? By no fault of your own, you now have a tax obligation that is two years in your past. That is BS! I guess there is always a chance they owe you vs you owing them.... FAT CHANCE! Sorry... truly sorry.

WiFi Aware in Android Studio

Hello, I'm doing a simple app that uses WiFi Aware and its publish/subscribe mechanisms. However, while I was trying to test it on Android Studio, I would always get the boolean false with this line of code:
boolean hasWiFiAware = getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_WIFI_AWARE);


This would mean that the device (the emulator in my case) doesn't support the feature of WiFi Aware. I tried a lot of different APIs in the Emulator and couldn't seem to get it to work (return true and allow me to use the feature).

Did anyone already work with WiFi Aware? And specially developed an app in Android Studio? If so, have you used Android Studio Emulator to test the App or a physical device? Does it even exist the possibility to use such feature in the emulator?

Audio via USB headset is not working Android 12 AOSP code (Android S) -- 2nd Whatsup audio call

Use case :
Pre-cond : Connect USB headset to Android 12 based device
1.) Initiate what's up audio call **Result **: 2way audio is fine
2.) Initiate/Receive audio call **Result **: 1way audio is present (Output : Audio via USB MIC , Input : NONE )
Log snippets (after disconnecting 1st whats up audio call) :
04-11 06:01:25.761 307 2667 E modules.usbaudio.audio_hal: start_output_stream failed to open device(card: 0 device: 0)
04-11 06:01:25.769 307 2667 E modules.usbaudio.audio_hal: start_output_stream failed to open device(card: 0 device: 0)
04-11 06:01:25.776 307 2667 E modules.usbaudio.audio_hal: start_output_stream failed to open device(card: 0 device: 0)
2way audio should be established in USB headset during audio call.

Finding someone to root Droid Maxx 2 for a fee

1. If I see "Fastboot (Secure), Device is LOCKED, Status Code: 0", does that mean that even the carrier cannot unlock the phone?
2. If the carrier can do it, can I just waltz into the carrier's local store and ask them to unlock it?
3. Will unlocking the phone delete all the data? (An online remote rooting service is telling me it's not possible without a factory reset.)
4. Instead of rooting, is there a way to backup a phone including all system and hidden files without rooting? Then examine the files from their backed up location?
5. Should I have started a new post with this comment?
1. carrier unlock and bootloader unlock are two different things. the "device is locked, Status 0" means that you have a locked bootloader. it will need to be unlocked first in order to root. so yes this is why kingoroot will not work.
2.a carrier will not unlock a bootloader for you. they may allow it, if they so choose. like moto can provide you with unlock codes to unlock the bootloader save for verizon's moto's
3. yes unlocking the bootloader will delete data. not sure if kingo Root will though.
4.nope
5.no you are good. this is your thread so that's up to you.

edit: sorry i did not respond sooner. had a super busy week.

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