The_Chief said:

I'm sorry but... a Note 9? That's a really old device now

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Five years is really old?

The_Chief said:

donating the Note 9

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I wouldn't recommend that! If your phone breaks, and you've donated your old phone, then you don't have any phone. It's best to keep your old phone.

treb1797 said:

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I recognise Meghan but Prince Harry is looking a bit rough these days! 🤣

The_Chief said:

It sounds like you want a drink coaster to act like a Wi-Fi hotspot AND a keyboard, because many people use a keyboard to text and write notes with their phone apps. But how likely will someone be to leave their phone at home but go out with a smart keyboard coaster? If they go out drinking, they probably don't want to take an expensive smart coaster they may forget to take home with them when they leave... and as people drink more, they are less able to talk correctly. Their typing is even worse. I just don't understand the market for your coaster, unless it's a niche market of writers who will wake up the next morning, look at their email or online word processing account, and think "okay, what was I trying to say after the last three drinks because sober me has no idea..."

But to even log into their account to begin with, they will need a screen, yes? So a person may as well put their drink on their phone or tablet, as @ocnbrze said, as long as it is water (and beer) resistant and has a scratch-proof screen protector on it. Or, as most people already do, put their drink on a napkin. It's a clever idea: I just don't see a market for it.

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Yeah you are right, I know the marker was not inlight of that though, it was a fun idea on paper, still yeah, most people put their drinks on napkins, or at home, I use a microfiber cloth for my coffee cup though, what if the restraunts had a funny idea like that though and decided to put it for the main idea though, without having the kids having it on the hand though.

Even if you get answers to your access questions, may I strongly suggest you tell her that you just don't know? Friendships are far more important than taking such risks.

I upgraded the kernel to 6.5.0-15 on my main computer with -0- issues.

Graphics are good, but the levels do look a bit empty. You could add some trees or parks to fill op the empty areas. You could gain much more downloads by optimizing the keywords on your page.

I agree with ocnbrze, you could gain way more people with some marketing. What is the game about? Could you provide any screenshots? The App store looks nice as well, but isn't optimized for keywords. This could be a huge gain for you as well.

Intro
Hi fellow game developers, we’ve worked hard on our skills and completely rebuild our tank game for Android. To be honest, it was a rough ride. There are so many aspects to think about: storyline, consistancy, controls, difficulty ladder, graphics, sounds… Luckily, the Godot Engine has a lot to offer and the results are better than expected.

Feedback would be very welcome! We need your input to improve it. 🤔


Tanky the Game
A commander has the urge to go to the beach. She has packed a lot of stuff, until evil bunnies decide to invade the beach. They destroyed your whole base! You’ve got the noble task to save the beach day… Are you up for this crazy adventure?


We’ve made two versions:

1. A free version with 5 levels:
   Tank game 2D - Tanky - Apps on Google Play
2. A paid version with 9 levels and a complete storyline:
   Tank 2D - Tanky Pro - Apps on Google Play

Website
Android apps made by Six dots software

Screenshots

For geotagging, Picsure may be a good one:

ocnbrze said:

i do not get it.....so what was your fix?

i hate OneUI. i use the Nova Launcher which controls not only the home screen but also the app drawer as well.

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I did nothing. Based on looking at the Android Tablet I had, which has not been turned on for a month till after I posted this, finding that it operated with no swipe up and remove feature, I concluded that my memory of function on my Z Fold 4 was wrong. However, just for shits and giggles, soon I will test a new and current folder at Best Buy.

Danny

Cool, thanks a ton. I couldn't remember the name of the site and the link in post 8 isn't working.

ocnbrze said:

so anything root related, always start over at https://xdaforums.com/ and then come here if you have any questions.

here is the guide you want:

https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-root-galaxy-a14-complete-noob-friendly-guide.4634683/

please read everything first, and ask questions here before you attempt to root the phone.....good luck.

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That guide is for the F variant. Those are very easy to bootloader unlock. The north american models have mtk chips and the usual unlocking methods do not work.

I actually figured it out. *#9900# to enable crash dump mode then while the phone is on hold vol - and power once the screen shuts off release the buttons then immediately press and hold power and it causes the kernel panic to boot into rdx.

IbrahimXXX said:

I myself really wanted to buy myself some Surface, but time flies and I still do not dare. Maybe you can push me to this decision. I read a lot about them but I don't really want to buy one just for fun. I mainly use MacBook Pro M1, but I have to take it to repair or where I don't know. I constantly lose connection to the Internet after turning on, the problem may be in the time settings as my friend told me. I'm just not good at it. Or something much worse. I hope not.

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Oh? It sounds like you have mixed feelings. What are you hoping to get from a Surface, which you don't get from your MacBook Pro M1?

Unforgiven said:

I think at this point any AI I'm aware of is learning from the words of people, or our stories, true or not, with all of the biases of the person writing. The AI is further filling out their worldview from reactions to the responses to the content the AI creates. AI isn't living the experience, learning what makes it happy or sad, failing and feeling failure, or what many would consider reality. I think that may be where The_Chief was coming from.

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Yes, my concern with "blurring the lines between truth and fiction" is the ability of these tools to auto-generate deceptive content, combined with the damaging effects of social media algorithms which already drive division and undermine truth in their quest for "engagement".

Windroid said:

That's an advantage of AIs when it comes to discerning truth from falsehood! Humans learn what makes them happy, and what makes them happy is often a lie. AI's don't have happiness.

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As I say, "AI" means many things. The AI that automates protein folding simulations and so massively accelerates drug design is not the same AI that writes a set of fake legal precedents for a court case or will generate a pastiche of Macbeth in the style of Donald Trump if you ask it to. But what all of these have in common is that they are applications of syntax rather than semantics, i.e. the machine learning algorithm applies rules without any knowledge of the meaning of what it is doing. It's indifferent to the concepts of "truth" or "falsehood" because it doesn't have any concepts whatsoever: you give it some input and it follows its set of rules until it reaches its stopping condition and then returns its output.

So an "AI" can be good at recognising "truth" if properly trained, and if the data it is assessing lies within the scope of its training. But when faced with something outside of that it can respond inappropriately, e.g. the Uber self-driving car which drove over a woman pushing a bicycle because it hadn't been trained not to. That is a mistake no human driver would make because a human understands that they are driving a car, there's something in front of them and there will be consequences if they just keep driving. The machine understands none of that: it has a stream of data, a set of responses, and a set of rules, and that's it: it does not know what either the data or the responses mean.

But the sort of "AI" that the Chief was referring to, the "generative AI", is utterly useless for discerning truth from falsehood, because that is not its function. It generates text (or images, but in this case text) in response to prompts, based on probability tables derived from large samples of human-generated text and a complex set of rules. So it will tell you that the Earth is flat as easily as it will tell you that the Earth is round, depending on the prompt it is given, because it doesn't understand that its output has any meaning. That is why they so easily "invent" or "hallucinate" falsehoods even when asked to give factual answers. John Searle's analogy of a "Chinese room" is a good description of what it does The only real difference is that the man in Searle's room, following a set of instructions to select the right set of (to him) meaningless symbols to return in response to the symbols passed to him, would surely speculate about what they were doing, whereas the machine cannot.

But if the assertion is that a ML algorithm doesn't have biases, that's clearly not true. There are biases from the training process: the data used and the training criteria applied. And has been shown time and time again, where the machine can "learn" from interaction it can acquire biases (Microsoft's infamous "Tay" chatbot for example: repeating racist tropes didn't make it happy, but a few hours interaction with racists or pranksters were enough to change "its truth"). And yes, when a big enough problem is uncovered the company behind the "AI" will introduce protections, i.e. changing the rules to reduce the probability of unwanted outputs, but that also shows how easily these things can be skewed to produce the "truth" that their creator wants you to hear.

Have a look at Super Backup and Restore in the playStore.

You can save messages in xml format and send it to your PC.

That would make for a fun game I don't have a feel for who rises to the top. It's never easy to predict these games and this has been the season of crazy games.

But remember Google knows what's best for you, and Microsoft, and.......

Correct, I was thinking the file would be of Apple /Mac origin, and that is why it cannot be opened without the proper software. Glad to hear you at least got the file.

i would like to build a laptop version. and maybe one that can run an outdoor projector. my porch is perfect for a projector screen. and if i can run it via a rasberry pi pc that would be awesome.

i found that there is a way to use rasberry and steam so that you can play steam games.

Bornloser said:

It's not really that important. Probably something that I would hardly use anyway. Just curious about it. Had it on my iphone. Thought it would be something simple. I hate any kind of customer service.

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you can try 3rd party apps.
this is the one i use:

it also helps block spam and robo calls.....not completely, a few still squeak thru, but it is no near what i used to get.

Dannydet said:

Well at least you're on the road to recovery

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*Its no fun trying to figure out windows seven*

If Prime bails out diamond and bally sports, you can bet the motive is to turn the merger into additional Prime revenue.
Bally sports has the rights to the Royals games and has been my avenue to see my sorry team play for a number of years now. It has been part of my local cable company package and was available on directv when I switched providers. Whoever carries the Bally sports package will likely be my only viewing option being as I'm in the blackout area of KC Missouri here in mid Kansas.
I copied this paragraph from Danny's link:
Customers will be able to access their local team’s content on Prime Video channels where Diamond has rights. Pricing and availability will be announced at a later date, but it is unlikely that this content would be available as benefit included for current Prime subscribers. Regional sports content will also remain available on cable and satellite providers.

ocnbrze said:

Attack on Titan
Sword Art Online
Ghost in the Shell movies
Death Note
Most of Miyazaki movies..... Mainly Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke

And of course the classic Akira

But I have seen most of theses more than once.

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Have you seen the Boy and Heron, omg what an amazing treat!

I will never ever call it "X", I always associate twitter as twitter.