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Air Fryer Cooking

Well, I've been using my air fryer for a few weeks, and tonight I did my first "winging it" recipe. I was hoping to make wings, but they were sold out at the store. Instead I grabbed a bunch of drumsticks. I cut the tendons by the knuckle, spritzed them with olive oil, and dusted them with salt and pepper. I probably overstuffed my frying tray, but I cooked all 6+ pounds at once. I turned them every 10 minutes and after 35 minutes of cooking the largest ones were at 195, yes 195. I pulled them out, tossed them in Jamaican Jerk, Franks Red Hot, and a homemade mustard sauce. They were perfect, juicy, crispy skin, whatever. Even though I would never cook chicken to near 200 degrees, these were perfect. I love grilling and smoking, but this may be a new cooking passion for me.

"OK Google" no longer beeps

Help!
I don't know what I did, but about a month ago, when I say "Ok Google", my Google Assistant turns on and vibrates but no beep. I miss the beep. Every time I search for a fix, I get instructions that don't match our LG V40. They all have one step that I cannot find. I've used
1. Settings - Accessibility - dead end
2. Google Home app - dead end
3. I've even asked Google Assistant and get these instructions:
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After selecting the Cog wheel icon, there isn't an Accessibility setting.
I am out of ideas. I have restarted my phone, re-enabled all disabled apps and soft reset.
Any new ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

Is it possible to get a newer version of android on a old netbook, spesifically the airis kria n7000

Hi, I own a fairly old netbook (the airis kria n7000) which has a very old android version which is extremely outdated and lacking alot of functions such as the play store ect, this netbook doesn't have access to bios so I was wondering is it as simple as just flashing a newer version or is it more complicated than that.

Help Android 9.1

Hi all,

I've installed in my car multimedia with Android 9.1.

this is like act like regular phone!

In 1 line - I need workaround to control only the Media volume in every application in android 9.1.

the issue is when I've phone call its enter to the call app and I want to volume up or down - the android change the volume changer to the call volume and rising the numbers in call volume but nothing changed.

When I am changed from the settings the media volume during the call the volume indeed change.

So I need to disable the call volume from my android and control only the Media volume.

I've tried alot of apps - control only the Media volume, Rocker Locker, and more 3 apps that I've found in google but nothing works, the volume changing the call volume.

Thank you very much! hope that you are better than google and you could help me

Just as a phone

I was given a redundant (to a relative) Samsung which is, sadly, "powered by Android." I don't use it for the internet, for any apps or for soso-media (never having had a brain-ectomy). Although I have the internet turned off in settings, it still asks from time time if I want to allow s-planner or some other abomination. You might say, I can just say no. I do. However, if you go to a restaurant and order the filet mignon and they ask if you want a turd with that, you can just say no there too, but you have a right to consider if there are any other restaurants where they don't ask that. From time to time I see people ask about the possibiltiy of deleting either Android or some other OS. My impression there is that the unstated assumption is: with a view to installing an alternative OS. Can I just not have an OS? I only want to use this phone to make and receive calls and sms; no apps, no internet. If it isn't possible on an ex-Android phone, are there any known alternatives. My previous, a Nokia, did have the option of the internet - not availed of by me - but didn't, as far as I know, require an Apple or Android OS. I only had to discard it because they turned off 3G. Is there anything of at least 4G, but without requiring any predatory OS?

New phone what dat

I've been trying to help my friend set up a TCL A508DL bought from Target. Mostly it's going ok but with a few hitches. One of the biggest is no Nook. I'm not suggesting that it should come installed but it would be a timesaver. The apk has been installed (or at least downloaded) time after time but for some reason it will not install. There is at least one from APKPure, which I thought was trustworthy. It said to download it in order to install an apk or xapk file. Pretty soon even googoo was warning about its harmfulness and I noticed numerous games that had not been there before and I uninstalled them. Pandora is staying for the moment, though. Yes, we tried the official route and went with googoo, which claimed it was already there. I think it might have phones confused. How the @#$ do we get Nook on this device? Since it has 32 gb, space shouldn't be a problem. The (potential) sd card can go up to 512 gb. Apparently this is a dratted sealed phone because I see an otherwise anomalous teeny hole on the left side. What is the point of sealing them? It doesn't make them waterproof, just more difficult. Overall I guess it's not such a bad phone for under a hundred bucks.

video with internal sound?

I was wondering if there's an option to keep the internal sound on while shooting a video on this phone?
On my earlier phone (Huawei) I could do that, it was fun to have an own 'soundtrack' for the videos with editing afterwards, but with this Samsung, the sound is closed immediately when I push the record on Camera-video.

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MrBeast's new "Finger on the app" app made me a little bit mad... here's how you can avoid that!

Last time I couldn't participate in MrBeast's finger on the app challenge because I don't have an iPhone. But thankfully this time they released the app for android aswell, but there is still a major flaw with the app and I will explain how to fix it.
So basically when you first install the app and you have to make an account, it FORCES you to use a US phone number. This is a problem for me because I live in eastern europe (very sad o_O). I tried to use my real phone number and it would give me a "parameter error". It's pretty obvious you have to use a US phone number cuz it uses that (###) - ### - #### format.
So if you also don't live in the US and you want to participate, all you have to do is look up "free online sms receiver" and select a US phone number and register with that. You may also have to install a VPN when you register, however after you registered you can turn off your vpn and it still lets you access the app.
The only real issue is that if you win, they might disqualify you for not being from the US (which would actually be outrageous) or for using a fake phone number which is apparently against the rules (but u literally HAVE to use a fake phone number if you're not from the US so it's not fair). I also don't understand why they couldn't make it international, is it because too many people would join and crash the app or something? Or is it because he assumes that 99.9999999999% of people live in the US? (Which is kinda true on the internet so big oof for me). Anyway lemme know your thoughts in the comments.

Mi 9 Lite - Broken Display

My Mi 9 Lite fell off display down. Just from 3 feet, but the impact sound was nasty.
There was a tempered glass and a silicon back cover which had a bit high edges. But the cement floor was not perfectly flat. The tempered glass already had cracks from a previous fall months ago. No new cracks observed.
I picked up the phone and pressed the power button. Unlock screen appeared as usual. Did not unlock as it was very dark. Did not try to unlock it and I thought it is fine.
I came back after an hour later, then the screen was gone. Not completely black, though. Top corners show some light. Battery life is displayed with purple / unusual color. Photo attached.
Mi-9-Lite-_-Dropped-Display.jpg
Incoming calls received. Touch screen probably not working.
The displayed area is becoming smaller with time. Couple of minutes ago I saw the whole wi-fi icon, but now it is hardly visible.

What happened?
How can it be fixed?
How can I back-up data into my PC?

Thank you very much!

Help My OnePlus 7T won't go to sleep.

My OnePlus 7T is set to sleep after 30 seconds. For some reason it's not doing it. The storage is less than half full. It's on the latest Android version. Not sure if this happened after I did the latest Oxygen update.

Anyone may give me a hint or suggest some troubleshooter?
(I'd welcome any advice for an Android Troubleshooting book/website/resource too, I'm a learning technician).

Product Manager of Telegram Speaks Out About Apple

7 Reasons Every iPhone User Should Be Worried About the App Store’s 30% Tax

In the last few months, many prominent app developers voiced their disapproval of the App Store policies Apple imposes on all apps. Why should that concern you if you own an iPhone? Here are 7 reasons.

HIGHER PRICES. Apple’s 30% commission makes all apps and digital goods more expensive for you. It goes on top of the price you pay to developers for any services and games you buy on your phone. You pay more for every app, even though Apple already charged you a few hundred dollars more for your iPhone than it cost to make. In short, you keep paying even after you have paid.

CENSORSHIP. Some content in apps like Telegram is unavailable to you because Apple censors what is allowed on the App Store, which it fully controls to enforce the 30% tax. Apple even restricts us – app developers – from telling our users that certain content was hidden for iPhone users specifically at their request. Apple should realize how ridiculous their attempt to globally censor content looks: imagine a web browser deciding which websites you are allowed to view.

LACK OF PRIVACY. In order to install an app from the App Store, you must first create an Apple account and log in using it. After that, every single app you download and every push notification you receive is tied to your account, making you an easier target to track. Since the main reason you have to use an Apple account to download an iPhone app is Apple’s desire to enforce their 30% commission, the cost of their greed also includes your private data.

DELAYS IN APP UPDATES. You get new versions of your apps several days or weeks after they are actually ready, because Apple’s review team is notoriously inefficient and often delays approval for no apparent reason. You would think Apple could use the billions of dollars it receives from third-party apps to hire additional moderators. Somehow they are unable to do even that, and us – big apps like Telegram – typically have to wait several days to publish updates.

FEWER APPS. Apple’s 30% commission on apps goes on top of all the other expenses developers must pay for: government taxes such as VAT (~20%), wages, research, servers, marketing. Many apps would have been net profitable in a world without Apple’s 30% commission, but being forced to surrender 30% of their revenue to Apple makes them unsustainable. As a result, many of them go bankrupt and lots of great apps you could have enjoyed just don’t exist.

MORE ADS IN APPS. Because Apple makes selling premium services and accepting donations one-third less meaningful for developers, many of them have to show ads in their apps in order for their companies to survive. Apple’s policies skew the entire industry towards selling user data instead of letting them adopt more privacy-friendly business models like selling additional services to their users.

WORSE APPS. Billions of dollars are taken from developers who could have otherwise spent those funds on improving the quality of the apps you use every day. Instead, this money rests idly in Apple’s offshore bank accounts and does nothing for the world, while app developers struggle to find resources for the research and development the world needs.

The situation is so bad that one would expect Apple’s 30% cut to be unsustainable. Yet it’s been around for more than 10 years and is still there. In my Telegraph post below, I'm explaining how Apple has been able to trick consumers and regulators into inaction for so long.

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