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my new project-Aquarium keeping part 3

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.

How many times can a cell be FDR?

i was thinking at first about the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt....FDR.......LOL!!!!!!
great depression vintage GIF
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.

iPhone SE (ist gen) "iPhone Locked to Owner"

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

Will AI allow our loved ones to “live on” in a sense?

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

PGA announces merger with LIV

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.

Moto G Pure boot loop

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.

Will this stop my phone from updating?

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...

Google Instagram Installation Mystery

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.

Blurry Google Chrome webpage.

could be skeleton loading, as in not fully loading properly. Since my Spectrum Internet upgraded my modem, I often get skeleton loads/not fully loaded blurries because it changes my DNS server to some oddball 206.x.x.x server, forcing me to use static IP and set it to my router's own DNS instead.

without a screenshot, it's hard to tell. you can take a screenshot in Android by holding down power and tapping 'home' or if using gestures, holding power and volume down.

Purple Paint On Trees

I feel for anyone who is out of the loop though. Nobody picks up books of law and tries to find any new law that shows up, just like how nobody bothers to read EULAs. Who would? It is all in legalese. I mean how is anyone going to find this as a ''no tresspassing'' sign and not simple random tagging?

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