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NCAA Men's Basketball 2024

College basketball is upon us. I'll be rooting for my local U Wichita State University that competes in the American Atlantic Conference and Kansas University that plays in the Big 12. Both conferences have added and lost teams with the now popular conference hopping that's prevalent. New blood and lost rivals makes it difficult to guess how teams will do. Not that I was every any good at predicting the sport. :)
Do you have a favorite team that you root for?

Win 11

I recently upgraded to Windows 11 Home and have a notice from security that 2 old drivers are interfering with implementing full memory virtual security.

In the past (windows 7) I had a Brother psc machine. When I moved up to Win 10 it was not compatible so I got a Cannon.

I have removed the software from the Brother but these are still hiding somewhere :

BrUsbSib.sys
Brother

BrUsbSib.sys
Brother Industries Ltd.

A search of the machine does not turn them up.


Any suggestions ?

Veterans Day

Tomorrow, the 11th day of the 11th month, is Veterans Day. Originally celebrated for the day WWI officially ended and evolved into a yearly celebration to honor those that served or are serving to insure the freedoms of this great nation. Please take the time to extend a thank you to all that you know that have served. I thank all here that have or are serving.

Lost (2004-2010) the series

so i was talking to my friend about torrents and he mentioned that back in the day he had a bunch of torrents on the tv series Lost. i almost forgot about that show. i remember when it came out, it was all the buzz right up to the shows finale(which i actually liked, but most people did not). it ruled TV in those days. i forgot just how insanely popular it was.

....then i just saw that there is a documentary that was made from an independent film maker with no release date. its called Getting Lost.

it looks really good. i hope it becomes available to watch.

....and then i saw that Netflix has it.....so....now i am watching all over again. i really think that it still holds up 20 years later.

anybody want to talk about Lost? have you seen it? do you remember the hype? did you like it or hate it? we can also talk about the finale if you like.

Nova Launcher adding shortcuts to folders

Galaxy s23

Sorry to see Nova Launcher was having these problems Bummer news for Nova Launcher fans

Perhaps that explains some behavioral issues. It's next to impossible adding an item to an existing home page folder. I temporarily disabled the app to see if I could add to the folder, and then re-enable it, but when I did, the Item I added was not there.

I was wondering if there might be an app setting that, if altered, would render the folders more easily accessible, and also make home page buttons less sensitive/jumpy when trying to reposition them.

If not, what launcher would serve as a replacement?

Wifi Issues Again

My wife has a Samsung A53. There were issues with backups and resets that I had mentioned in another thread I think that issue has been fixed. I also made a thread about wifi issues that I though were fixed but turns out weren't. Her phone is baffling to me. The wifi issue is back and I have no idea why this is happening. Here goes.

This is now happening frequently. The wifi can be working normal. Then she can be online doing something and all of a sudden wifi goes out, out of the blue. Then in the wifi setting it shows the wifi still turned on but the network is gone and it shows that it's scanning for wifi connections and the home wifi isn't list as available. Then like the next day it shows back up again. My son is using his computer and tablet and I can be using my phone and him and I have no disruptions. Wifi works fine.

Is this a Samsung issue. Is there a problem with an app that's doing this, maybe a Samsung utility that's installed? Or maybe an Android issue. I tried to reset the wifi settings and that did nothing.

She was paying her phone off through a loan with smartpay offered through total by verizon. She didn't start having this issue until the phone was paid off last week or so.

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Battery life expectancy

Hello, techies. Just over two years ago, I bought a brand-new Motorola Moto g22 smartphone, and it has been (and still is) very satisfactory for my simple needs. (It was not an up-to-date model, but at least, it was new.) Today, however, it did not charge up as I expected. It was necessary for me to push the cable in again and switch the charger on again. This worried me, and I started thinking of how long I might reasonably expect the battery to last. The phone is switched on all day (only daytime) and in the afternoons, I use the phone as a router, tethering my desktop Mac to it. The access to Internet is just about passable, but I don't use the Web much, so I am reasonably satisfied with it.

However, I am given to understand that to use my phone in this way (as a router) is very demanding on the battery, and I fear being caught out, one day, by a failed battery. Can anyone tell me how long a battery can be expected to provide reliable power for internet use?

With thanks in anticipation of an informed reply,
S.

G Mail Log In Problem: Is it OK to ask here?

Hi All!
I have a problem logging into a g-mail account. I can't find an answer how to fix this. Is it OK if I ask here, even though this isn't a Google user group?

The Problem:
The g-mail accounts on my Mac Mail stopped working. When entering the password, the message "Unable to verify" pops up. So, I check e-mail on a browser. When logging into one of my mail addresses, Google used to send a pop-up to my Android phone (Android 11). I'd click "Yes, it's me" and the browser on the computer would log me into the g-mail account.

Now, it won't send the pop-up. At the top of the choices page for verification, the message says "unanble to connect" even before I try to use the verification. The phone is on, with signal and with WiFi internet.
They give me another choice- codes. I can enter either of the codes they send to the phone, but the code is always rejected.

My only option is to have them send a SMS code. It works, but I pay per text so I'd like to avoid that.

Do you all know how to fix this? Preferably the "Yes it's me". Ideally, the "Yes it's me" would work for all g-mail accounts, but I think we are only allowed to link one address per phone.

Thanks For Helping>
Paul

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Finding older content

It's weird that I can't locate some of the stuff I posted in maybe the last year or two. Some older things than that are available, thank goodness. I wanted in particular to get to the discussion(s) about that plasma tv. It suddenly stopped working and I don't know why. I have unplugged and replugged, changed the remote's batteries (4 AAA), EVEN PRESSED THE ON/OFF BUTTON ON THE SET. Is there a television expert among us?

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Canta can't

I found out about a potentially great app called Canta. It's a little similar to having a rooted device but without all the hassle. It works with something called Shizuku, which I have. Recently I tried to "uninstall" some apps. Everything seemed to be working but when I tapped the trash can icon it said "uninstall canceled". I certainly didn't do that. What went wrong?

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Hello to ALL Members Of This Prestige Club!

I just wanted to give out one of my own strange suggestions/practices..bare with me:

The better our Androids have became the powerful they get that means they've have bigger power/data source..so now we are in the 5G era..whether we want or not that has an impact on us because of the radiations(even seems like noone has the last word)..and this is where I'm aiming with my suggestion/advise to yall..

I've been appling a couple of aluminum foil tape layers in the back of my phone..and that works wonders and it does shield the radiations & waves..I've tested it..then again it's at each one of yall discretion whether yall want to put it in practice or not but it has worked out for me..we all love our Androids but i love my health & sanity first..

For those interested to know how i tested the efficacy of the foil aluminum tape:
I did the same with a pair of Beats headphones i have..then I've noticed right off at first after i cover the areas with the tape and tried to listen to some music & watch a movie they were having a hard time to communicate with my phone and it took about a whole day for that wireless connection to become stable..

So there it is..thats my finding.

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