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My parents used to have some early 2000s Pioneer Plasma set and used it until around 2015 when they needed HDMI and 'smart apps'. the Pioneer wasn't full HD yet had a beautiful picture and lasted a long time in an era where many people were led to believe plasma would only last a couple of years before 'burning out'. I wonder why plasma doesn't exist today?

they tried to give me the TV, but the thing weighed upwards of 50 lbs, was quite large for the time and I still lived in camper that wouldn't accept anything larger than 19"

I only remember rear projection big screens being terrible even in the 80s. I knew a few rich neighbors who had those TVs in woodgrain and even C-band satellite behemoths in their backyards, and waiting 20 seconds of hearing relays clacking and other noises as it re-oriented the dish out back to change the channel. Those TVs were only milky if you sat directly in front of 'em, and unviewable at any angle. Great speakers though, could rattle the windows. Those behemoths were reliability nightmares and many were out on the curb by 1990. The one with C-band had the TV fail by suddenly making one bright white flash from the back of the set followed by a loud, window-shattering bassy BOOM from the speakers, followed by smoke. i think one of the three CRTs had imploded.

Avatar 2.....who is excited??????

I liked the 1st part much better. Although the 2nd part is pretty good too. But I'm not going to rewatch it.
i think Avatar 2 is better in every aspect. the visuals alone is soooooo much better. the world that James Cameron created is amazing, especially the underwater world. the plot is ok, i agree that the 1st is slightly better. and just like the 1st, i will gladly watch the 2nd many times. can't wait to see what Avatar 3 will be like.

Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria

Now I just wiped Windows on one of my HDDs on the gaming rig to install this same version, but thankfully it came without as flat of icons out of the gate. My terminal icon has far more gloss than that screenshot for example. Perhaps it's detecting my GPU? My icons also have frames around them.

But the irony of having Chrome from Google on a Linux distro. I went full-on Linux to ditch both Google and Microsoft's influence. Open Source Chromium sure, but Google Chrome? no. That's like having the Linux version of MS Edge. At that point just use Windows.

Diamond Mine: Dig Deep

Diamond Mine: Dig Deep updated with 5 new levels.

Get it for free on Android:

Diamond Mine: Dig Deep is a retro inspired arcade game. Similar to old action puzzle games like Boulder Dash, Supaplex, Emerald Mine and Dig Dug.
These games ran on computers such as Commodore 64, Amiga 500, Atari ST and MS DOS based PCs.
Diamond Mine: Dig Deep brings you the same feeling on Android and Chromebook.

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How Samsung Smartphones are Made

I thought all makes and models of smartphones came out of that infamous Foxconn plant that had to install suicide nets so the mistreated workers couldn't even off themselves.

All the more reason to buy used or secondhand over new. I can't promote such atrocities today and I got everything I need for life anyhow.

Only companies that doen't operate their own factories, and depend on an OEM such as Foxconn, e.g. Apple and Microsoft.

AFAIK Samsung phones have always been made in Samsung's own factories, mainly in Vietnam these days. And as Samsung phones are evidently being assembled by robots now, I don't think suicides or atrocities really comes into them.

Fold4 vs Fold5 benchmarks

I think that next year could prove very interesting for Fold phones. By then, Google and OnePlus wll have a year of beta testing on the public and I would expect some major improvements from both. Samsung have, IMHO, coasted with the Fold5 and whilst it does offer some improvements, I could not actually make a case for Fold4 users to upgrade this time around.

Backup Xiaomi and recovery files

Dziękuję za Twój czas. Zaloguję się później z mojego komputera i też dam ci kciuk w górę. Więc nic nie da się zrobić? Z rootem i diskdiggerem też nie?
this is an english only site.

here is google translastion:
Thank you for your time. I'll log in later from my computer and give you a thumbs up too. So nothing can be done? With root and diskdigger also not?

there is a nandroid backup which is a complete backup of your phone. however, you need root and a custom recovery. most root methods will erase data so that is not an option. you might be s.o.l.(sh!t....out....of luck)

Android version usage ratings

I personally hated my beautiful lockscreen wallpapers replaced with pixelated music album art back in the kitkat days and certainly don't miss it today

I can, however, get back the water effect lockscreen like the Galaxy SIII had with a third party option like X locker though. But I am happy with the dynamic lock screen option in One UI where it shows a different animal or nature landscape with each screen wake. Satisfies that classic Nature UX itch.

I do miss TouchWiz though. I can't get back my droplet touch sound, or the full skeuomorphic UI just with themes, old apps and widgets. It will never be complete. But I do get more options for look than I would get with stock android. But I want my notification ticker text back, my green battery icon and wifi bars back, and my button shapes in pop-ups over coloured text on a rounded corner white box...Oh, and I want my phone dialer to have glossy buttons again instead of borderless numbers on white. There are third party dialer apps that offer it, but all of them instantly end the call soon as you try to dial. Only the flat UI crap apps work

getting photos from the phone

ok i do not know for sure yet but i went into developer options and i found a new setting. before i had 4 choices and now i have i the default usb configuration 5 choices. transferring files/android auto usb tethering midi transferring images charging phone only. i have transferring images selected before as the others did not work. i did not have the option for transferring files/android auto before.

so i selected that and opened the file explorer and selected the a51 and navigated to the phots and they opened in large icons but reverse rder so i selected descending and they swapped around as normal so then i closed file explorer and re connected it and this time it opened large icons and reverse order. so i will give that a try a few time's and get back and let you know how it goes. i take tons of photos when i do repairs to document what i did for any issues later on. but i have disconnected the phone now 4 times and s far it looks good. i must have got an update to the developer options and that fixed it maybe?

Fold4 vs Fold5 camera

Do behave @ocnbrze! You've seen the quality of my photographs on other threads. :D

From those who know more about photography than I, (there's lots of those), the general consensus of opinion is that although the camera hardware is the same as the Fold4, it is the processing that makes the difference. In which case, could it not be brought to the Fold4?
I guess that depends on 3 things:
1) whether it relies on any specific features of the newer SoC?
2) if not, whether there is capacity in the device for the newer algorithms, and whether they would run fast enough to be acceptable?
3) and if the answers above are "no" and "yes", whether Samsung prefer to not implement them in the Fold 4 in order to sell more Fold 5s?

POI-2-NAV: Waypoints Helper

POI-2-NAV has received several important and powerful updates over the last months:
* a MapViewer (Openstreetmap) has been added.
* a powerful POI-Tagging system is now available, which allows efficient filtering of POIs
* responsiveness and stability have been significantly improved
* Day and Night Color schemes have been added

Download it (POI-2-NAV: Waypoints Helper - Apps on Google Play) and try it!
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Galaxy Note 10 - can't get VOLTE to work

From my screenshot, you can see that it shows 4G LTE. I assume that's how I'm getting data service.
But it also has no signal bars and an explicit "no signal" symbol (that crossed-out circle). That's what's confusing: those signal bars aren't for a voice service, they are the cellular connection strength, and it seems to be zero. Is it always like that, or was that screenshot just taken at a time when the signal was zero?
I have used the internet on the phone with Wifi turned off, and in public areas with no Wifi. As to how it can be possible to have 4G LTE data service yet not be able to make or receive calls or texts - well, that's what I'm here to find out!! It's got something to do with the fact the this US Mobile sim card is using what they call "Warp 5G" and makes calls using VoLTE rather than using "normal" cellular networks. At least that's what I've read. If someone can explain how tht all works, I'm all ears!
LTE = 4G data connection. It doesn't have a dedicated voice functionality, so originally 4G phones had to switch to 2G or 3G to make voice calls (they did this automatically, so you wouldn't notice unless you were watching the status bar). VoLTE = Voice over LTE, which is like Voice over IP (Voice over Internet Protocol, i.e. internet calling), a way of using a data connection to make a voice call. "WiFi calling" is another example of this idea. That's the way telecoms is going: all networks are just data networks.

So the addition of VoLTE allows 4G phones to make voice calls without switching to one of the older protocols, which in turn is what makes it possible for the networks to turn those off and re-use the spectrum for newer, higher-capacity systems (4G and 5G). So if for any reason you don't have VoLTE available, and can't use the older protocols, you could still have a data connection with no voice capability. You have turned on VoLTE calling, but it seems not to be working. The question is whether that's because your phone's implementation isn't compatible with your current network's (the worst case), because there's a configuration problem (in either your phone or for your account in their systems), or because there's a hardware fault (e.g. the bad SIM hypothsis), that's the tricky bit to work out: because if all anyone knows is that it's not working that doesn't rule anything out. All I can think of is to try the ones that can be tested (clearing your network settings, asking them to check your account is correctly configured, try asking for a new SIM) in whatever order is least inconvenient and hope one of them fixes it.

(I'm going to assume that greying-out of the "network operators" on an unlocked handset is a consequence of using that network's SIM, because I've no other explanation for it. So I'm afraid I'm still going to call your carrier a control freak ;)).

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