I leave a browser open to the site when the computer is idle. Whenever I refresh it shows a little number badge, my instinct (since every other forum I'm on also has notifications) is to see if it's a reply, like, etc. It's ALWAYS a stupid 'you have reache level xx' crap. It irks me to no end as I find the notification system convenient instead of looking for every darned thread one by one to check for replies. It breaks my flow. I'm used to things being as they have been for a long time and no other forum does this crap. It's a recent thing so it was part of whatever changes y'all are doing, and there is ZERO setting to disable those particular alerts. It's not an achievement as I got achievement notifications off already. It's something an admin has to fix. I keep asking but get made fun of with 'old man yells at cloud' memes. I am sick of futurists trying to force their will on people who prefer things the old way. I don't tell you how to live YOUR life.

I don't tolerate change well. Once everything is as I like it, once I've built up habits that work for me, I don't want to adapt to changes. It was not broke before. But all I get is rudeness from some of the admins here.

A lot of times the response is 'just get used to it'. No. I cannot get used to something I hate. Because I hate it. I am sure I could get used to living next to sewage treatment plant if one were built next to my home, but does that make it acceptable? Hell no.

Look, I love tech, I have a Galaxy Watch 6 for crying out loud. I'm not opposed to some modern tech. I just don't blindly accept ALL modern stuff as I prefer old school stuff more. If I want I can swap to a mechanical watch. But I cannot get the notifications the way I like them here. Just because I don't like something that is 'new' doesn't mean I must give up all things and return to the 19th century, although that's always the assumption. Hate smartphones and what they have done to people and society? well you must go back to horses and buggies. Good lord....Because the obvious result of hating one modern thing is giving all technological progress because that ALWAYS makes sense...

I don't even know what purpose those level notifications serve. From my end they serve NO practical or useful purpose. My life isn't so empty that I need bragging rights about how often I post. IS that how bad society has become?

Had to remove the 'Norton Safe Web' extension on MS Edge because it kept blacklisting this site for 'malicious content' Couldn't login.

Still ironic that Internet Explorer 11 can pull the site up when it is down for any modern browser.

I had issues with Motorola phones using Google Messages saying 'failed to send' and not getting them until a restart.

Lately I have issues with Samsung phones saying 'currently unable to send message, it will be sent automatically when service is available' while I'm getting four bars of 5G, can make/receive calls and use data fine. A reboot also fixes it but it will happen again. It's something I've come to have to accept. Either some background service for SMS is crashing or it updates PRL in the background and gets hung up at the cellular end. I never have figured out what causes it.

Sometimes I can receive but not send, or send but not receive. This does NOT happen if using RCS/Chat, or apps such as Facebook Messenger or Whatsapp; it's specifically an SMS issue.

mikedt said:

This is probably more about semantics and maybe I'm been pedantic? But I wouldn't define Russia as a European country...

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Why? Would you also not define Ukraine or Poland as European countries?

mikedt said:

...especially when more than half its area is in Asia. I suspect the population somewhere like Vladivostok wouldn't consider themselves European.

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Until 1962, over half of French territory was in Africa! I doubt the Arabs from the African portion of France (Algeria) would consider themselves European. Yet no one (even in 1962) would say that France is not part of Europe.

"American" relating to or characteristic of the United States of America, One country.
"European" relating to or characteristic of Europe. More than one country.

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Comparisons between the US and Europe, such as mine are hardly unprecedented!

the hardest part really is getting the saltwater. i have a ro tank and a saltwater mixing tank ao mixing saltwater is not that bad......but it is still takes work getting it mixed. i then hook up a hose to the pump from the mixing tank and i can then pump the water to my various tanks.

my problem right now is motivation. i clean tanks for a living so that last thing i want to do is clean my own tanks.....lol

right now work is a lot at the moment. once i can relax a bit, i can then focus on my tanks. so the goal is after the holidays are over i can then start working on getting everything back up into shape.

ocnbrze said:

i was thinking at first about the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt....FDR.......LOL!!!!!!

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Sucks getting old doesn't it? There are not only people who don't even know who Franklin Delanor Roosevelt was, but there are even people who don't even know who Lassie was. That show was well before my time and even I grew up with Lassie, and Flipper too.

I still don't fully trust SSDs to last though. I got one PC that my mom gave me that was released in 2017 (has type C USB and all the gimmicks) and its SSD is already on the way out. It literally takes an hour and a half to go from the Dell boot logo to a functional Windows 10 desktop. It takes 10 minutes to launch Outlook. It won't shut down unless you hold the power button. I once killed an SSD that wasn't even a year old by removing all the partitions and attempting to install Linux. Apparently, one of those partitions was intended to NEVER get removed so now it no longer shows up as a drive anymore to ANY OS.

Meanwhile, there are still PCs from the early 1980s with working MFM hard disk drives. There is NO WAY an SSD will last 30 plus years especially with modern OS's always indexing and writing to paging files and such. Maybe if they ran MS-DOS, and did nothing at idle perhaps. They don't make tech to last anymore, see also removable batteries.

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Yes, I think it's understood that 'what you see is what you get'; besides there's a no return policy on electronics.
But it's not a big deal, I only pain $10 for it, so, you win some and lose some. I've been trying to jailbreak it with Palera1n and Checka1n, but so far have not succeeded.
...... john

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Next time be more careful when making the purchase. 10 dollars is a steal probably cause it was already in such a bad condition.

ocnbrze ...... Wow!!! They're beautiful. You must be very proud of them. The zoas are breathtaking.
Thanks for show them to me.
...... john

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AI is going to ruin this World.... i said it and mean it .

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Many a dystopian science fiction novel/movie has warned us, the problem is that many use them as a guide for the future.'

Many of the things on the World Economic Forum's website gets me scared to live past the year 2030, if that's the world they have planned for us.

I suppose I'm a hypocrite though as I've been using S-voice since the Galaxy SIII and Bixby since the Galaxy S8, and Google Assistant in the house.

Didn't the video game Portal 2 protray what happened to a specific character who got put into a computer and essentially became GLaDOS? That was in 2011.

All set!! Cheers.

It's not like the PGA has any bargaining chips. It's sad for old school golf traditionalist but it might be good for golf in the long run. Different product, owned abroad, with the power to change a never changing game. I can't think of another professional sport that has had a single leadership that the Saudi might want but I don't know what stops them.... Pro Bowlers maybe. Crazy times.

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Actually the last 5 minutes of the game was exciting.

NIFTY! I like gadgety-type thingies. TY Rob!

The players should be healed by then 🤣

Just remember that stuff on SD isn't safe: the card may fail (more likely to do so than internal storage, though from your experience so far probably less likely to do so than this phone!), and if you lose the phone the card is gone too. So anything important that's on there you should back up somewhere else as well.

I'm just emphasising these things because of the number of people over the years who have come here asking for help recovering data they didn't have a backup of, which means that the moment I read "at least I've put most of the stuff on SD" I feel obliged to warn you that that doesn't mean it's safe. Also in case you don't know, any apps that are moved to SD won't work on another phone you put the SD card in: if you have not formatted the card as internal storage only part of the app is moved, and if you have formatted the card as internal it will be encrypted so no other device can read it.

Did Rockstar Games put Tyreek Hill in GTA 6? It certainly seems that way based on the "CH33TAH" vanity plates.

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I moved this to the dev area for better exposure. Good luck!!

When's the last time you reinstalled the operating system (that is, reset the device)? It's good practice to do that once every few years anyway. If it's been a few years: When the computer (and smartphones are computers) is having problems, that's a good excuse to get around to it.

Have yoy tried using compressed air on the charging port?

A women’s safety app? I suppose men don't need safety?

Two comments:

Permission changing: I installed Root Explorer, gave it the permissions needed, then tried to change the permissions i /system. I was shown the 'fun' message: Permissions change was not successful. Please note that some file systems( e.g. SD card) do not allow permission changes.

Turning off updates: There is a post on a google forum site by a 'platinum product expert' that says: System updates can't be fully disabled

Beginning to sound like we are all screwed...

One of my favorites :

it's stupid play store compatibility filter. It's always wrong, tends to allow actually incompatible stuff to work and cause issues, or falsely flags specific devices it hates as not possible to work. I haven't depended on an app store since Android Market EOL'd, and i second trying to use the APK file from a site such as apkmirror or apkpure. It's been my go-to for years, and best yet, no surprise forced updates.

You can also choose which version you like. If I actually wanted Instagram, I'd use the last version that sported the old icon as I hate flat ui design anyway, and I hear the old app still works.

If you feel you need an appstore, try an alternative such as Aptoide. That's about as close to Android Market as you're gonna get today. There is also SlideMe if you're into the era of Android 2.x which was back when it was truly open and free of Google, or F-droid for only open-source apps.

My vehicle and most modern vehicles support Android Auto, which uses the GPS on your phone, and does not depend on having one integrated into the vehicle.

Don't even bother with whatever proprietary nav is built into a modern infotainment system. they tend to either route you to a farm, or just freeze randomly. Especially the infamous MyFord touch.