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Screenshot being added to voice search from long press home button

I just noticed today that when I long press the home button, the screen flashes, I then tap the search box, then at the top of the screen, a see a search box, with a screen shot it just grabbed. Then if i say something it adds to it ,but only searches the image. I have the Samsung Galaxy s22 Ultra with Android v15, and my wife has the Galaxy s22 plus and her search works as expected. What I expect is I long press the home button, I see a search box and I talk to do a google search. ... thoughts

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Android Shortcuts issue ... way to fix that so they don't need updateding all the time?

One of the beefs I've always had with Android (which is also present in Linux) is how dumb the shortcuts are.

In Windows, a shortcut take you to a file or folder. If the default app changes, the shortcut doesn't care. It goes to the file or folder within the shortcut with the new default. It doesn't require one to do up yet another shortcut for the gazillionth time when the app goes through an update. They remain forever static, which is absolutely great!

Is there a way, _please_, to work around this deficiency in Android? Can we create a shortcut to a file or folder that will live on through updates or even changes in the default app that opens any given shortcut?

Thank you for any help to this regard!

Friendly Reminder

Don't forget that this coming Sunday, the 11th, is Mother's day. We only get one mother and I suspect that everyone has a special loving person for a mother. It's been nearly 45 years ago that I lost my mother and I still miss the woman. I try to do something special for my wife for she was that special person to our four children. The mothers deserve more than a day of recognition in my opinion. I'll not let the day pass without special thoughts of my mother and and to show my wife how I appreciate the loving effort she invested in our children.

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Dumber than goo

My friend's phone was stolen from her office. She got another one, but she can't set it up properly because googoo insists on sending a message to her old, missing phone despite being told that it is not available. Why are they that stupid? What can she do to get around this problem?

the Last of Us

this show is awesome, so i thought that it deserves its own thread.

season 2 is out now. just finished watching the 4th episode of season 2. have you watched it yet? it is on max. it is an incredible show. it is very close to the games from what i have read. i am currently half way done playing the 1st game and season 1 pretty much matches what you go thru in the game. it is really incredible how true they are to the game. it is pretty much the best game to movie adaptation that i have seen. i need to finish the 1st game so that i can play the 2nd one.

has any one play the game?
are you guys watching the show?

Hey..

On my pc, I have this:

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Should I keep them both or have one functioning one though, I am scratching my head to make sure it is nothing that I previously thought I would of heated with the glitches, anyone can give me a light to the puzzle.. I know I have three, intel, ASUS and NVIDIA build in.

Unexpected finding after activating my new Pixel 9

I have had a gmail account for a very long time, since before smartphones. And my first several smartphones were Androids, until a few years back when I started using an iPhone work had given me. I recently returned to the Android world with a new Pixel 9, and after activating it I was checking the photos folder and found some old pictures I had taken on former Android devices. Unbeknownst to me, they had ended up stored in my Google account and it downloaded them to my new Pixel (which also explains why I lost a lot of device storage!).
A little digging helped me find them in Google Photos and while I'm 90+% certain I have them already on a laptop (as well as a backup device), I'm currently exporting them through Google Takeout, after which I'll delete them from the Google repository and my new Pixel. I'm still a bit baffled as to how they ended up in Google Photos to begin with, though; it was quite unexpected, though it was also good to see some of the pictures again, especially since some were of my mom who I lost almost 11 years ago.
Anyway, most of you probably already know about Google Photos and you're like "DUH!," but just in case someone isn't, log into your google account and check your photos.

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