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Fight Chromebook and win

Windroid
nickdalzell said:
If you're talking about the chromebook SSD that Garner has, well, I doubt anything important is even on it. I think the only user data that would be stored on it would be the OS (obviously), any music, photos and other documents.
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I meant salvage the hard disk for the disk itself, not necessarily for the data.

nickdalzell said:
Chrome OS doesn't really store much else to the SSD, as it's so cloud dependent.
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Depends on how you use it. I use Chrome OS (or rather, Chromium OS), and I have it saving files to the SD card. Of course, I'm using Chrome OS as Android rather than as the cloud-service-browser-in-a-box Chrome OS was originally meant to be.
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Can't see the phone screen in sunlight

Hadron
Turn so that your head is between the screen and the sun.

Many phones these days can get brighter on auto brightness than when setting brightness manually - a short-term boost for these circumstances - so if you aren't using automatic brightness maybe try that and see. But as boosting brightness generates more heat they can only do it for a few minutes at a time, and may go quite dim after that as they need to cool down to avoid damage (actually if the phone is too hot it won't boost brightness in the first place, regardless of why it is hot). But if your phone can't get bright enough the only thing you can do is shade the screen to make it more readable.
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I show up here every five years or so to ask y'all what I should do next... I'm baaaack

B
Plot twist...

After two weeks of camera no worky, today it was spontaneously healed? changed its mind? overheard that I was contemplating putting it to pasture?

This makes zero sense but will allow me to kick the can down the road for now.

Thanks to your input, I'm leaning toward another motorola device when the time comes, although I wouldn't rule out a Pixel if the price was decent.

Thanks all. Be well and see you again later. Or sooner. Who knows.
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Do you still use Facebook? Why?!

nickdalzell
I want no part in 2FA. I believe in secure passwords and not being stupid. I hate safety culture. It's my business. If i mess up, it's on me. Ain't nobody's business to force 'extra' security on me, or to protect me from myself. I am not some 4 year old kid, I'm an adult. I actually know how to think for myself and have common sense. If I'm happy doing the same thing for 20 or so years, let me continue doing things that way until I DECIDE MYSELF that things should change.

Besides, when I was using it, I lost a few accounts when the phones died (and couldn't get the codes) or the phone number changed. It was just more annoying either way. Took ten times longer to login as a result. Back then, Smart TVs would log out of things such as Netflix or YouTube often, and having to deal with 2FA made the situation worse. Today, I just enter password and go.

I also don't trust password managers. If it's in the 'cloud' (Clouds are for rain!) it's able to be hacked or the data leaked. Just ask the T-Mobile customers.

I want life to be easy and comfortable, not endlessly frustrating. That's why I stay as far away from the 'future' as possible. Today's upgrades are massive downgrades. Just look at UI design today. Everything is made like it's the 80s again. Flat UI is not 'modern'. Modern = new, and flat UI is as dated today as DeskMate and Windows 1.x. The era when updates are actual progress and offered more features and improvements has been dead since 2015, or 2013 if you're an Apple fan. Nowadays feature removals, subscription software, and forced changes are the way. Every phone looks the same with few game changers out there (Z Flip is the only unique phone I could get) and there's even less competition than there should be. There was room for Meego, WebOS, Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone. There's no reason there should only be two OSs and two OEMS left. Heck, even Tizen is gone now. I don't want to revisit Wear OS. It was bad enough the first time!

Heck, in regards to 'modern' UI design, Meego on the Nokia N9 still holds up! I wish I knew what happened there. That was in 2011 for crying out loud!
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Deleting reminders

C
I was using Google Assistant to create reminders. I also used the Assistant to delete them.

Then I got this suggestion when I opened it up to switch to Google Tasks to manage them.

Now , when I try to delete the reminders, although the Assistant responds that they have been deleted, none are deleted.

Also, on the Google Tasks page, the option to delete all "completed" task does not work.

I am somehow supposed to use some voice command to evoke the Google task manager to do this?

If not, how can I revert back to the Google Assistant?
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Samsung Eco System

Windroid
I would avoid the Samsung ecosystem if I were you, unless the Samsung ecosystem will work fine on non-Samsung Androids. I'd suggest another Android ecosystem, such as Amazon or Google. As things stand now: You're all Samsung in terms of Android. But locking yourself into one manufacturer is something to be avoided! It's good to have the option to use some other Android, without losing your ecosystem.
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Who's got the otg?

R
Ha ha, guess which kind I can (barely) afford, sometimes. In fact, 3 of those 4 are hand me downs, but not the A02s. That set me back about $53 and thank goodness for that walmart gift card. It has a card (sd) but for a while it wasn't registering and the last I checked it was "corrupted". That's another thing I want to do with a real computer, if I can ever get it: find out its situation and, I hope, copy or transfer the contents. Meanwhile, is there just a single type of powered otg cables, or are they different for every brand/model (please no)? Proprietary may be great for the manufacturers, but it's a nightmare for the rest of us. If I can get such (a) cable(s), how would I copy or transfer data to the hard drive, and how would I be able to use the data after that?
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Portable Washing Machine

ocnbrze
joe71 said:
I would love to have something like that on the truck, getting laundry done can be a logistical nightmare
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Default gallery albums settings for latest build

svim
james111 said:
Can someone please post a screenshot or mention the default gallery albums settings? I messed around with the settings and want to have them back to their defaults.

My OS is the latest version.

Thank you
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Open the Apps menu in your phone's Settings, find and open the Gallery app in the resulting list, and use Clear data to return the app back to its original default settings. Clear data will delete the app's cache and it settings and options menu data, basically returning the app back to its first time usage.
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Help NoRoot Firewall

puppykickr
svim said:
You're assuming the NoRoot Firewall app can actually restrict system-level processes but that's not realistic.
This app can only be used to filter other, also non-root apps (all the apps you install from the Play Store). The NoRoot Firewall app cannot magically make itself able to restrict system-level apps and processes, it's always just an app that's installed as a user-level utility that can only work with other user-level apps and services.
Also note that the NoRoot Firewall app is apparently abandoned, it no longer receives further development and updates, for several years now. There a better alternatives, like the NetGuard none-root Firewall app, that are actively supported. But any Android non-root firewall app is going to be installed as a user-level utility so you can't use it to block system-level apps/services.

Look into other alternatives to block something like pre-installed, system-level services like Google Service Framework. You might be able to block some of them but you'll need to root your device to get the ability to restrict all of them. But a non-root firewall app is not your solution.
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Actually, it seems that these type apps can block internet for system apps so long as certain changes are made in the devices VPN settings- such as "block all connections without VPN" or the like.
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Video editor apps

puppykickr
sipec said:
Hello. I'm new to video editing, I just want to know which ones are the best apps for video editing. Free? I want to upload my videos to Youtube, but nothing too pro, I'll need the option to cut video at the beginning/end... Thanks in advance
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Personally I love YouCut.
The free version has plenty of options, the UI is friendly, and it has no watermark on the finished product.

There is a bit of a learning curve that I would be glad to help with.

In addition, the only ads with the app come just before you give the go ahead to save the finished product.

If this is an issue, simply turn off the internet to the device before you open it, or use a firewall to block internet access for the app (my choice is this).
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Make camera save photos to a project-specific place?

Hadron
Some camera apps let you specify the folder you save to in their settings. If your stock camera doesn't allow that then the Open Camera app certainly has that option (I just checked).

Albums in gallery apps are typically based on tags rather than locations, so for that you'd presumably need both to be able to set a custom tag in the camera app and for the gallery app to use that to select images and make an album. As it happens, Open Camera does have settings for 2 custom tags, "Artist" and "Copyright", so if your gallery app of choice can make albums based on either of those tags you could also do it using one of those tags (neither of my gallery apps seems to take note of either, but I may have missed a setting or there may be others that do).
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