Permalocked bootloader is a hard pass for me. If I buy a device, that device is mine. If I want to install something on it, I will. If they prevent me from doing that, I will simply not buy the device.

Cool concept. Very, very poorly implemented.

Holy crap that’s awesome

I haven’t figured out how to fix it, yet. But I really don’t want to do a full reset for that. I hope it gets addressed in the next patch.

Oh good. I was hoping it was a “moving on” reason, as opposed to a catastrophic one. Thanks for settling my nerves lol

I didn’t see a reason. Did Tavi give one and I missed it?

Same issue here, since 15 upgrade. 7 Pro.

Oh, it does lol. If it’s images on the screen and audio through the output, OBS can record it. It’s awesome!

Sorry. Open broadcaster software. While not really intended for this use case, it works great for it.

30 days is set by your company. Ours is set to 90 days. Stupid, on my opinion. If I recorded it, I obviously want to keep it. For this reason, I user OBS on my computer and record meetings through that. Bypass teams’s recording framework altogether.

Cool website!

So, the very thing the block claims to block, is completely allowed lol genius

This type of dumbass design is the reason we have passwords like password12345.

The same reason why I almost didn’t buy it. But I changed my mind after missing a very important sms, because I was at work and couldn’t take the phone out of my pocket.

To each their own, for sure, and notifications on the wrist isn’t for everyone.

I use a Pine64 watch, and set it as a notification center. It shows me notifications as they come in, so I don’t have to take my phone out of my pocket while at work. It allows me to see if the notification is urgent or if it can wait until break. When I’m not at work, I put on an analog watch. I don’t use tablets, except for an ereader.

Edit: added link.

CalyxOS, if your posture isn’t strick enough to require GrapheneOS (more strict than the Average Joe, but not as strict as Snowden).

I don’t understand the X chip being visible. Is it just esthetics?

What does the red button-looking circle do?

Moto was semi modular. We all know how that ended. If hmd can get it right, where modules are supported throughout the phone lines (within reason, of course), then great. But I suspect capitalism will get in the way.

I’ve been on calyxos and grapheneos since at least 11, and didn’t realize they were gone from the google variant of android, since I’ve had them this entire time. I wonder, now, if it’s an AOSP thing or a calyxos/grapheneos thing.

“…filled with framed lawsuits and litigations against their fans.”

They can go suck on a tailpipe and die in the sewer.

Impressive, I gotta say

Seems like an easy workaround is to not use your phone as a payment method. Or am I misunderstanding the ars article (which, I must say, is very low quality in comparison to their usual ones)?

I nixed the Play store and its related gpservices. Google doesn’t own my phone, and they can stay the hell away from from my sideloaded manually installed apps.

Depends on your security and privacy postures.

From least private to most: stock, CalyxOS, GrapheneOS.

Security from updates on all three should be mostly comparable, as long as they keep receiving security updates, and you install them. However, CalyxOS has custom code, and tends to be slower to implement the updates.

I skimmed this comparison, and it seems pretty on point.

Some features are proprietary and, therefore, only available on stock. Personally, I went CalyxOS. I don’t miss any of the stock features, but built-in ai is useless for me. My security and privacy postures are evolving, and I may go GrapheneOS next phone. Not sure yet.

Think of the shareholders!

To do:

• embrace
• extend
• extinguish

Oh, no, I agree with you. But google doesn’t care.

No, you cannot, because you’re the one who chose to disable the adblockers that NIST and/or CISA (can’t remember if it’s both entities) highly encourage everyone to use.

E: I reread it, and it sounds I’m being mean. I was, in fact, being facetious. I’m on the same mindset as you, and I will sooner not use YouTube than disable antiadware protection.

cd c:\oregontr

start .com

Good times. Good times…

(Edit. Added space in command, so it’s not a website)

I remember the day when you had to buy Windows separate, and pay full retail. Later, you got a massive discount if you bought the disks with your computer. Then, it came preinstalled. Then, it started to get crappy and more buggy.

Here’s a tool to permanently fix your windows installation from all this BS.

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It did say “subjective negative reviews”. I would take that to mean that strictly objective negative reviews are perfectly acceptable.

Hahaha!! Like a random red door on the back wall of the basement. “That’s just ‘the door’. Nothing to worry about, as long as you keep your distance” and quickly walk them off with no further explanation. Hahahahaha

That makes sense. I used to get the adapters from a local shop where I used to live, and they were cheap cheap. Converted to USD, they were probably around $0.10 a piece. He gave them out free when you purchased headphone. After a while I got tired of the static and low sound quality, so I just got a cable (3.5-6.35) on ebay, and it’s been fine since.

I was going off the few pages I read, including the one I linked. I’m far from an expert in this realm, so, really, I don’t have any substantial argument for or against what either of us are saying. However, filmography, and the related foley artistry, has always intrigued, and I have learned from experience the differences between using a standard jack and an XLR, and I can say that the sound is vastly cleaner with XLR (at least on a set). The secondary jack on this phone seems to be to XLR what USB-microB is to USB-A (again, going off what I’ve read). You do make a lot of sense, though, in your posts, so I may be flat wrong here haha

Hahaha!! And I thought I was being excessive haha!

shelf of cursed items

I love this idea, and am going to start doing this hahahha!

Ah. Yes. I see your original meaning. I misunderstood what you had meant.

Balanced will reduce noise (in terms of RF noise, of course) significantly better than unbalanced, but the source of noise does need to be far enough away from the capturing device to not affect it directly and, therefore, be able to be negated by the balanced cable. However, the end user (listening to balanced vs unbalanced signal on a mobile phone) won’t be experiencing a difference between the two (IE placebo affect).

Thanks for clarifying!

Yeah. Maybe I just bought the super cheap ones? Not sure. I ended up getting a 3.5 to 6.35 cable, and haven’t had a problem since.

CalyxOS or GrapheneOS if on Pixel or Divest if your device is supported on LineageOS, and you won’t have to deal with Google’s BS.

Hahaha!! I wish! Actually, I have old equipment that only takes the 6.35mm TS (and a couple TRS) connectors, and I don’t like adaptors, as they almost always noticeably reduce audio quality.

I wouldn’t say placebo. It’s definitely doing something. I would say it’s unnecessary in most environments, and probably definitely on a mobile phone. But to lift right out of the article:

You may be wondering if balanced audio is “higher quality” than unbalanced — the answer is no. Balanced cabling doesn’t provide a better quality of sound than unbalanced cables. Audio source and the quality of materials in the actual cable’s construction determine sound quality more than anything. However, balanced audio does a better job of eliminating noise, should it exist in your signal. In a case where extraneous noise is present, balanced audio will be clearer than unbalanced audio.