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Help Help me choose a budget rugged phone

Windroid
ElvenNeko said:
My fellow mp3 player
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Fellow? Is that a brand name?

I'll be honest: I'm having a hard time making out what you're saying, because you're using texting-talk instead of standard English. Ture: The rules of this site allow texting-talk. And true: I could make it out if I put extra effort into making out your texting-talk. But even with that effort, it'd be like trying to read Shakespeare or the King James Bible. I might get it, more or less, but I'll likely miss important stuff. If I miss important stuff, I'll be far less able to help you!

In other words, while texting-talk is allowed here: I strongly recommend sticking for standard English for important matters (such as this), so that we can focus more on giving you help with finding a phone, and less on making out your English.
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Is shipt for real?

mikedt
olbriar said:
Milk was the staple beverage when I was growing up. We never drank store bought milk. It was purchased from private farms without any homogenization or pasteurization or fortification. It was a completely different product than that purchased in a store. To this day, I still shake the milk jug before pouring. :)
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I've had raw milk like that, while it was still warm from the cow. Which I'm pretty sure is illegal to sell in the UK these days. I've also drank horse milk as well.
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Completely offline news app?

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Dannydet said:
If you're offline, you're not going to get any news. Wifi, yes but that's being online also.
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Well, download while i'm on wifi so I can read later. I just want when I have data for the app to auto refresh. I don't want to have to think about it all the time refreshing the app.

Press Reader seems to work like the app Pocket. It's like you need to figure out while you have wifi which websites you want to read and then download them. Then you can read them offline. It only saves that one site at that moment in time. But, I can't tell it just to download all news stories all the time from abcnews.com and always keep them up to date so, that one moment when I'm offline, I can read what is the most recent when I went offline. With Pocket and Press Reader, a day after I select the site, it's out of date and I'm reading old news.

We have fiber at our house. (Just got it a few months ago. But, most places around my house I have absolutely no cell signal. I go to my kids school for a school function. I'm just trying to pass time while at a football game. I'm not really into the football game. My kids are just there to run around and play with other kids. I can't get online because there's absolutely no cell signal at the school. So, it would be nice to be able to just read the news while I'm there...

I just switched from at&t to verizon wondering if coverage would be any better around my area and it's not. We live in a very rural area. (We jus moved a year ago where we had great coverage everywhere, but we lived in the city. my wife and I are not city folks. we like country land. so, we have that now. but also, we have no cell signal most places we go.)
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Difference between Youtube and Spotify audio?

nickdalzell
I could never get into any Star Wars since the original trilogy. I can't stand the edited trilogy changes either, and own an original unedited VHS set. I did see The Force Awakens, but there was a few off-putting things about it. Killing off Han Solo sure didn't help.

I see a ton of 'baby Yoda' stickers everywhere and I'm outta the loop on that one, but I assume it has a lot to do with a later series in the same universe. For myself, there is only ONE Yoda and he died in Return of the Jedi
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Chrome OS / Chromebooks

Windroid
cwcheese said:
Mainly I do this because everyone I know calls me for help with their tech. I had not given Chromebook much thought until this opportunity to pick one up, and my brother-in-law says he likes using his, so gotta find out for myself.
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In other words: Using the Chromebook for e-mail and browsing is a means to an end, that end being learning about Chromebooks so you can help folks with thier Chromebook.
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Please help identify an app icon

nickdalzell
Unfortunately, a lot of apps remain from infamous Cheetah Mobile, such as 360 Security, QuickPic Gallery, ES File Explorer, and CCleaner, the latter three having been purchased and ruined by them.

The Go Team, known for infamous Go Launcher EX, Go Locker, and Go SMS Pro, still exist as well, and IIRC had their own dark side as well, but not pulled from Play Store.
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Help to find a old game

nickdalzell
If the game is rather old it might not show because your device is running too modern an Android version and the compatibility filter hides it; this also might happen since 32-bit ARM support is fading, and priority is on 64-bit today. Many modern phones/tablets only have 64-bit hardware and 32-bit games won't be able to be installed.

If the game is no longer on the Play Store because it got pulled or the developer got banned, it also won't show. Around 75% of the apps I love no longer exist on the Play Store because they date back to Android 2.3 and are lost to time but thankfully I saved them by backing up their APK files.
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speech to text

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ocnbrze said:
Ok well. It's not like a phone that has speech to text. But I was able to use it on my keyboard..... which is a Samsung keyboard. I just hit the microphone and I was able to send an email....... so yeah it's different than a phone.
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That was rather cryptic but by searching on keyboard instead of text to speech in the user manual I was able to find references to "Google Voice Typing" and "Voice input" and see that it claims to be possible. How is it "not like a phone that has speech to text", other than needing to use other than the default keyboard?
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How to track text like google translate (google lens) does it?

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I'm trying to get the same quality of text tracking as google translate live camera translation. I want to track text in real time from camera, use ocr to get the string text, process it and then replace it with processed text, making it look seamless.

I know about ML Kit and I tried using it, it works great but I can't get the text to look right. I get the bounding box for the text, and the text itself, I know the position but it's not as accurate as I want it to be and it jumps around.

Ther's also ARCore which is something I think I need for smooth tracking but I'm not sure how to track text with it.

The only thing I could think of is that somehow first I would detect text and then save the image, use it for ARCore and then use that to render processed text on top of it.

I couldn't find much information about this on the internet only the ML Kit text detection and ARCore for tracking specific images. Any references or ideas are highly appreciated!

(I'm making an android app in android studio using java.)
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