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ce4
10y ago
Well, not quite. Both chargers and devices need not support all charging standards/profiles and thus may disagree on working together. A working (all USB PD profiles up to 100W supporting) charger looks inherently the same as a profile
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10y ago
I have that car adapter as well as a USB power bank. Both don't charge the Dell XPS 13, because it wants 20V/3A. The docs of both chargers and the Dell are light on the USB-PD details. The chargers are great for phones so i didn&#
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10y ago
USB-C charging looks great on paper but disappoints when devices don't charge. Your device may support a subset of the different USB charging protocols: * USB 1.1 lo power: 5V/100mA * USB 2.0 hi power: 5V/500mA
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10y ago
Go to settings=>security and enable "unknown sources" (allow installation of apps from unknown sources). After that you are allowed to install .apk files (e.g. clicking the "download of xy.apk finished" notification o
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10y ago
The first goo.gl link is dead for me... Care to give the real link instead of a shortened URL? Edit as noted elsewhere, should be https://github.com/timwr/CVE-2016-5195
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10y ago
It's possible, but rare. As an example, some Samsungs had faulty eMMC chips (used in the Galaxy Nexus, SGS2 and Note 1) and certain operations when installing custom ROMs (eMMC secure erase/wipe) would trigger the infamous BrickBu
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10y ago
The process is called sideloading. Android offers it for free, whereas on iOS you need a developer license to do it. https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/how-install-from-f-droid/
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10y ago
Why not just use cat? cat $image.file > /dev/$BLOCK_DEV
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10y ago
That's the case already with USB Power Delivery Standard: The dream of "One Wall adapter and one car adapter" to charge all your devices (phones, laptops, battery driven accessories). Actual situation: not really. Examples: A
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10y ago
Little known? You must be kidding. It has more than 1 Billion installations [0]. It's pre-installed on every Android Handset and is the designated successor to Google Talk, a once great XMPP chat service which had offered real xmpp fed
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11y ago
Why don't you just use the -I flag?
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11y ago
Wikipedia: Aard2 dictionary (Android) http://aarddict.org
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11y ago
"Best software" - Are you joking? Scene releases use winrar mostly for packing and splitting. Usually null-compression is used.
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11y ago
Wouldn't Chrome be able to auto login on the play store website and click the install button there? There have been XSS attacks on the play store website allowing this before. Edit: I had this in mind https://jon.oberheide.o
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11y ago
That's what happens to all my Anker cables one after another. I've opened one failed cable's connectors and it looked like a design problem: The micro USB connector's metal jacket is really short and not properly anchore
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11y ago
> Sure there are a few sites that insist on using flash for video or some old games, but I'm ok with that sacrifice. I use this generic downloader (despite its name) for the few flash video sites that i use. Works great for many sit
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11y ago
The UI got a major overhaul recently (switched to material design) which made some things nicer. I also saw/see the UI as a problematic part of OsmAnd however I recognize it's not easy to pack all the features OsmAnd offers into a
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11y ago
I'm also a huge fan of OsmAnd, it has many outstanding/unique features that other map solutions neglect to offer (albeit some features are a bit hidden). In no particular order, things that I like: - Wikipedia (offline).
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11y ago
Flight history of blocked aircraft is inaccessible as well. E.g. executives may not want to reveal insightful flights. E.g. American Airlines AA1 recent flight history: http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/aa1
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List of blocked aircraft on Flightradar24 (2013)
(forum.flightradar24.com)
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11y ago
German food prices (especially; and to some extent alcoholic beverages) are amongst the cheapest in the whole EU. Germans visiting Italy for vacation are of course sourcing good wine and Grappa there.
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11y ago
I can understand the rant. But: those persons already have to deal with the charges filed against them in two countries. Let's hope those cases won't be dropped. Charges on a personal level may lead to less such contracts in the f
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11y ago
Articles about the charges filed so far: Austria: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A... Luxembourg: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt.
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11y ago
Here's the translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev... Edit (switched src/dst lang). Sorry there's seemingly no english press coverage so far
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11y ago
Article is in german, alas. tldr: Austrian MP Peter Pilz has revealed a secret 2004 contract between german tier-1 ISP Deutsche Telekom and german intelligence service BND to divert all foreign traffic going over DT's various cables co
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Deutsche Telekom “transit” agreement with BND
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12y ago
Maybe for your personal use case this is true. However note these important things: - Longterm support (former models still being sold) - 100% backwards compatibility (RPi1/2) - fully open source stack including GPU driver Broadcom
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12y ago
A serious flaw in AMDs System Management Unit Firmware was very recently discovered: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6103_-_en_-_...
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12y ago
This one is missing on the list: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=web.whatsapp.... Are they serious??? - Vulnerable to POODLE - too short HSTS value - RC4 - SSL3 "maybe they need to supp
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12y ago
I'm a bit skeptical that your comparison of to the ipad1 is a good one. After all you just compared (one of?) the first viable tablets from the very start of the tablet market where innovation/iteration was much higher to a smartp
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