alphapuggle

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alphapuggle,

I’ve got a P7 pro but with only one line, if you have multiple esims can you have two lines without a physical SIM or are one of them required to be physical?

alphapuggle,

They’ll get a slap on the wrist fine that nowhere near accounts for the amount of money they made doing this.

alphapuggle,

yep

alphapuggle,

Man I miss me that 5-for-5

alphapuggle,

I got in trouble for getting into the schools network I’m 6th grade. They kept asking who in the group was involved in remotely shutting down computers and that they had logs and would find out anyway. I called their bluff and didn’t get in as much trouble as the rest of us.

alphapuggle,

I yawned as this was scrolling into view wtf

alphapuggle,

I did this to a PNY drive once and they RMAd it for me! I was up front and said it was 100% my fault and I had already had it for a few years. If you’ve got a laptop that has a mounted slot you can probably slide it in to get any data you need off of it

alphapuggle,

Apple absolutely can do some great things, but I cannot overlook their anti-consumer practices towards the right to repair. The fact that aftermarket parts have to reuse a chip for the sole reason of marking the serial number the same as the original is ridiculous and should be illegal.

Also Apple devices are only more “private” in the sense that the prevent third parties from collecting your data (don’t get me wrong, this is great), but then proceed to go and collect the same data for their own uses instead.

Another baffling thing I found is that you can’t transfer files from the device if iCloud is enabled? That’s fucking crazy to me. I get that it’s not a common thing to do but I had multiple customers ask how they’d get something off, and the answer was to slowly download it from the cloud, if it was something that happened to be backed up.

alphapuggle,

I agree, it’s convenient to have a lot of that stuff work right out of the box, but then some obvious stuff, like making a slideshow from pictures on a usb device, or printing to PDF, or using network printers on mobile is either needlessly complicated or impossible (Odd examples but I’m not a daily Mac or iPhone user, these are just things I’ve encountered working on other’s devices)

alphapuggle,

Oh google is for sure worse, they are an ad company primarily afterall

alphapuggle,

Both are me

alphapuggle,

Not exactly an advanced Linux user but what’s the hate with systems?

alphapuggle,

Saw a TikTok where a guy got Waldo tatted on his taint

alphapuggle,

Absolutely massive babies! Right behind my mom

alphapuggle,

Used to sell printers. It’s the old people 100%

alphapuggle,

I’m not too worried about them wiping it, as it’s a completely different drive with a fresh install. 3 weeks isn’t too terrible for turnaround time, college starts towards the end of the month so hopefully I can get it back before then. I’ve heard of them upgrading parts during warranty before but I’ve also heard of them using lower parts, it’s already an i7 model so fingers crossed it stays that way

alphapuggle,

Fingers crossed it goes well, this has given me some more hope!

alphapuggle,

Just got it back from the warranty center! Instead of replacing just the TrackPoint module, they replaced the whole top cover & TrackPad (I did mention that it was having similar issues to them). Came with the factory plastic on it. They didn’t try to short-change me in any way, didn’t try to argue that it was normal or that it was wear and tear or anything like that. It works better they day it was new, and all of the scuffs that I had on the corners are now gone (so is my intel sticker but I can live with that).

All in all, 10/10, still strongly support Lenovo’s laptops.

alphapuggle,

I didn’t think they were humans until they said they weren’t 🤔

About the popularity of 2 button navigation

Ever since its appearance in Android Pie, I always consider 2 button navigation is a bad attempt by Google trying to play catch-up with the fad generated by the iPhone X. However, due to a bug with A13 QPR2 it had to be temporarily removed and many were not happy about this. So, 2 button navigation users, may I ask why do you...

alphapuggle,

I still have a half working version modded into my Pixel 7 Pro. I like the gesture to go home, but I prefer having a back button because with gesture navigation I can’t use the pullout menus.

For recents (what’s broken, I have to go to the home screen first before I can pull it up) I use it much less frequently and would rather a half swipe to activate.

I really hope the bug gets patched, but I’m expecting it to stop working entirely in Android 14

EDIT; Saw another comment mention the slide on the bottom bar to switch apps, which I also use much more frequently than the recents gesture

alphapuggle,

Huh, didn’t know that. Not the most elegant solution though

alphapuggle,

Been using gesture nav for a few days and man this is jank. Many times holding the edge activates a long press action on something on the screen. Worst offender being discord. Only reason I’m still using it is that I’m sure I’m going to lose 2 button nav here in the next update or so.

alphapuggle,

Most likely, I did some more research into it last night and apparently a two finger swipe or a 45 degree swipe will activate the bar more reliably, both of which are a bit obnoxious. I’m sticking with it for now, we’ll see how it goes!

alphapuggle,

You’re already infamous to me. I swear I see your name under every post

alphapuggle,

Never heard of em. They must be good if Sony’s trying so hard to block them

Side note, I leaned about Waze in a news report about cops complaining about it.

alphapuggle,

Looks like it’s specifically the “casting” portion of Chromecast. The patent details having one device, in the example an iphone, request to play a video on a larger device, where it’ll either play it from cache or pull it from the internet to display it. Seems a bit generic to actually patent something like that, but as usual parents serve to do nothing other than stifle innovation.

alphapuggle,

Not secure, unsupported protocolIronic for that webpage

alphapuggle,

I used to work at Staples as a tech supervisor and did a ton of data transfers but hated their software. I also didn’t quite trust these third-party utilities (although I’m sure they’re fine), so I made this guide on using GNU tools (specifically gParted) to clone a drive safely, as well as getting it to boot back into Windows afterwards (you do need a Windows install disk. I always carried around a Ventoy with both Ubuntu and Windows on it). It was designed for my not-very-techy techs to be able to follow (Staples’ tech program is a joke)

This is probably a bit more complicated than the other listed methods, but I personally trust it way more. If you have some linux experience that’s great, otherwise this is a decent way to start building some!

I’ve only ever had one data transfer catastrophically fail, which was a computer that had a 64 eMMC + an unused 512GB SSD. I cloned the data from the 64 eMMC to the SSD, and it booted fine, I called the customer in and showed them that everything was in the same spot, then I wiped the 64 eMMC and hid it to reduce confusion. Apparently, it was still linking to old files on the eMMC, despite booting off of and showing the SSD as the C: drive. Every other clone I had done I had taken out the old drive first, but obviously I couldn’t on the one that was soldered to the board. Left me with a borked windows install, that even though all the data was there, and Windows would boot, opening anything caused an error that was nowhere to be found on Google. (Worst of all, I borked it right in front of them which was quite embarrassing)

alphapuggle,

Can you link the one you use?

alphapuggle,

Yikes that’s steep! Hard to warrant that over carrying a capture card and a keyboard. Thank you for the link though

alphapuggle,

I just use a cheap $15 one I got from Staples. a bit of delay but it gets the job done when you just need in quick. They make way better ones for relatively cheap

alphapuggle,

Gamers: We’ve removed you DRM and gotten better performance, your DRM is obviously causing a hit

Denuvo: Nuh uh

Like seriously we’re not gonna find out? The fact that the DRM has been bypassed means it’s useless anyway. All it does it hurt paying customers

alphapuggle,

Personally a big fan of the pixel series. Running a P7P unlocked right now. Google doesn’t attempt to hamper the bootloader unlocking process in the least. I pre-ordered this phone and had it rooted on day one. I run stock (other than root) but I’ve played around with some others, like graphene and lineage.

One downside is that TWRP doesn’t support tensor yet, so P6 & P7 aren’t supported, but flashing is still easy without it.

Pixels seem to have a very long community support, I gave my sister an old P2XL with pixel experience on it so she had the latest security patches and she seems to really like it.

I’ve seen complaints about the P7 series overheating. I’ve had mine shutdown twice because of thermals, but this was in the sun while I was running nav on Android Auto. Moving it to the shade and letting it reboot seemed to fix that.

All of the pixels released so far don’t have DP Alt mode which is a real bummer, but I’ve seen rumors that the P8 (October 23?) Will include it, so I remain hopeful.

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