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What it feels like to lose weight?

Reading on the subject, it is recommended to eat small snack like meals often during the day vs a number of big meals. Who has the time for that? I'm pretty certain our early ancestors didn't sit around and eat little meals when they felt like it. Instead, they consumed what they could when they had something to eat. They survived on the diet or we wouldn't be here. I don't think they were over weight. I don't think they suffered from high blood sugars. In fact, I don't think they suffered from the majority of problems that plague modern man. They were on a strict exercise and protein diet that served them well.

Prevent forced system update

It's important for me to understand what "bloatware" you're talking about. Did you get your phone from a cell provider? If so, they are notorious for pre-installing and re-installing bloatware... er, "featured content" - Verizon being one of the worst offenders. Most of it (games and their own VZ garbage) can generally be uninstalled or disabled. It's one of the main reasons I always buy my phone unlocked, straight from Samsung.

Here's the downside to disabling updates:

Android is a complex operating system and there are some pretty naughty people out there in Internet Land, looking for vulnerabilities in the Android code they can exploit. There are also good guys trying to do the same thing, so they can alert Google. It's a race: when the good guys find a problem, a security patch is then sent out to manufacturers and carriers to close that vulnerability. Unless you never get online with your smartphone, either on Wi-Fi or cellular data, those are really important security patches that are included in the regular updates that go out. If you deliberately disable updates because you don't want to deal with bloatware or OS features you don't need, it's only a matter of time before your phone is so out of date that it becomes a target for the naughty guys. Anything from keyloggers to a complete takeover of the device is possible. There may be better ways to solve your problem.

Battery life expectancy

Yes because having the hotspot turned on means the wifi radio in the phone is on and that will draw more power even with no devices connected. How much more is hard to say but anytime you have the individual radios enabled (cell, wifi, Bluetooth, NFC) it will increase battery drain to some degree. Data being passed will increase the drain more.
To find out the actual impact on the battery you would have to try it but as I already stated it would be best to have the phone on a charger while using the hotspot.
Ah, thanks for that, Fox Mulder. In future, I shall not switch the Hotspot on until I am ready to use it (even though sometimes, I forget to take my phone upstairs to the study, and must go back down for it). When the tethered computer is in use, the phone is always put on the charger.
With appreciation for your help,
S.

Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

I was always ready to get going. Maybe my bed wasn't comfortable enough. :)
It was my habit to show up to the work site ten minutes before we started working. That gave me a slow traffic buffer and I used the time to carry in the small tools and unlock the big tools on the jobsite. My business partner and I, though self employed, were very disciplined at being prompt and worked hard while there and never quit work early.
That ritual carried over to my leisure days. I was awake at the normal time and got up and started my day.

Serious Power Help Needed: Does Bluetooth or WiFi Internet use more battery power?

Think you misunderstood my comment. All good, sorry for your issues. If you need immediate help you might need to ask in a more active forum site.
Thanks!

I know this isn't the biggest forum on the Internet but I believe it has the most Android experts. 😢 😢

As of right now, the best way for me to backup my data is to copy it to a microSD card that's inside the Huawei G510?

Canta can't

That might be. I think, though, that the real reason was that some silly idiot didn't make sure that Shizuku was actually running before attempting to use Canta. Whether it really cans those nasty, needless apps shoved at us mainly by carriers or just removes them from active duty is another question...

Tesla Phone coming soon.

And if it fails a week after you get it the staff will invent excuses to deny you warranty cover (what Tesla have been doing this year with a lot of new cars, widespread enough that it's clearly a company policy).

And if it's anything like what he's done with his social media company, everything you type will be used to train his Large Language Model and you won't be able to opt out of that from the phone itself.

Find lost Android

I was checking out the phone and found that it had sonehow downloaded a bunch of garbage. It said 100 apps (not counting system and such). I deleted more than 20 and dropped % storage used from 33 to 25. Most of them claimed to come from mobile services. How do we prevent this? Also, the phone is supposed to restart at 7 pm to receive an "important" update, just more bloatware. How do we prevent that?

Restore Backup after Reset

yeah only certain things get backed up using google to back up your data. you should have used Samsungs Smart Switch.

how exactly did she back up her data? was it thru google? you mentioned samsung. how did she do that? thru smart switch as i suggested? where did she save the backup to?

People will believe anything...

I live in middle Tennessee and 4 hours from the nearest Navy base (and it's the Navy personnel command). I was at a veterans function in tiny Cowan, Tennessee and told a couple of old ladies that I'm retired Navy. You'd think they would pick up on the word "retired" but alas....

They told me they didn't know there was a Navy base in the area. I couldn't resist it. I told them that we had a very small submarine base on the Duck River (pictured below). They believed me! I put my finger to my lips and told them it was a very small sub base, very secret. (I didn't clarify that the sub base was very small - I sort of implied that the base was for very small subs. Disguised as crawfish.


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