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by nfriedly 4y ago
I just signed up for his mailing list and put this down for my comments: I really want a microSD slot. Shared with the second SIM is OK, but please don't exclude it entirely. And/or more internal storage. I'm on a Pixel 2 a
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I'd like a small premium Android phone too. I was thinking about my previous phones the other day, and I really miss some of the more innovative ones from HTC. I think the Startrek was my favorite - a Windows Mobile flip phone with a &
903.
by nfriedly 4y ago
I just have mine forwarding all email to my regular @gmail.com account. That account is set up to send and receive email for several different addresses, and it's the one I log into to use google services.
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Shucks. I was hoping they'd finally release a new one. I have an old 6th gen iPod touch that I recently replaced the battery in, and my son uses it a lot. I had thought about getting another one for my daughter, but I was waiting in ho
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I didn't, I just shut the site down.
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by nfriedly 4y ago
~10 years ago I had a web proxy on heroku to bypass internet filters. It was used by people in countries like China, as well as by kids (and teachers) in schools. (At one point my highschool blocked google!) Heroku's free tier was alwa
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by nfriedly 5y ago
I always thought that part of the reason that Apple measured energy impact in arbitrary units was because they're trying to take into account the energy used by the rest of the system. So, for example, if a task takes half the energy w
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by nfriedly 5y ago
FullStory | Atlanta, GA or REMOTE (USA & Canada) | https://www.fullstory.com/ Senior iOS Engineer Looking for deep systems programing experience. This role is about taking things apart and seeing what makes them tick, n
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by nfriedly 5y ago
Yeah, it's very handy for making a graphic showing how to wire up an Arduino or similar.
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by nfriedly 5y ago
Yes, you're right, and there are some reasonable arguments for it. But I'm not convinced that it's the optimal solution for all situations. I my mom's case, she was mostly doing paperwork, so many of the arguments weren&
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by nfriedly 5y ago
My mom was a RN (Registered Nurse) for 30+ years. She quit doing what most people think of as "being a nurse" about 10-15 years ago and switched to related work (home checkups, teaching, medical billing, etc.) because of how stres
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by nfriedly 5y ago
We put cork flooring in all of our bedrooms, it's pretty great.
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by nfriedly 5y ago
Yeah, someone else suggested a class action, but as you said, retaliation is likely, and I've heard of Google banning entire businesses because an ex-employee's account got flagged, and I just don't want to risk that. Also,
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by nfriedly 5y ago
Thanks to both of you!
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by nfriedly 5y ago
That's a really cool site! Any chance you could add an additional filter for microSD support?
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by nfriedly 5y ago
Congrats, and thank you to everyone involved in LineageOS! I can't use it right now, but I have many fond memories of LineageOS (and CyanogenMod before that), and I look forward to using it again in the future!
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by nfriedly 5y ago
You're not wrong, although I'd be a little hesitant to start that because my job is somewhat dependent on being in google's good graces (and I've definitely heard of entire companies being banned when a single employee -
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by nfriedly 5y ago
I should probably have clarified that I expected an unlockable phone, not an unlocked one. Unlockable meaning that it is still locked, and still passes SafteyNet, but I can flip the switch in developer options and run the fastboot command a
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by nfriedly 5y ago
I am in the US. It was a free repair (covered by the warranty), and I didn't realize the bootloader lock issue until a couple of years later. (I was running stock firmware at the time - it's only been since google dropped support
920.
by nfriedly 5y ago
In general, I'm pretty aggressive about reselling or giving away old hardware when I no longer use it. But I do appreciate innovative uses like that, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that some previous phone of mine is serving
921.
by nfriedly 5y ago
It was not branded as a Verizon model, but it seems to have the Verizon behavior of carrier unlocked, bootloader locked (and not unlockable). Based on anecdotes like yours, I believe Google stopped doing it after the Pixel 2, but that doesn
922.
by nfriedly 5y ago
Yes. Was yours a Pixel 2? I'm not the only one to experience this issue, see https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/14920605/google... and https://issuetracker.google.com/issues&#x2
923.
by nfriedly 5y ago
It was never a publicly stated policy and, anecdotally, they seem to have stopped doing it on newer phones. But one person escalated to a manager (because the first-level support staff didn't understand the difference between carrier
924.
by nfriedly 5y ago
I'm still pissed at Google for locking the bootloader on my Pixel 2. I bought the phone unlocked directly from Google, specifically so that I could install a custom ROM once Google stopped supporting it. But I sent the phone in to repa
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by nfriedly 5y ago
I know some people are jumping on the idea that these "forever chemicals" just get passed onto the blood recipient, but that misses the "Regular" part. Sure, the first few donations have the higher concentrations of thos
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by nfriedly 5y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by nfriedly 5y ago
The FBI absolutely deserves all of the flak they're getting, but I think it's somewhat misdirected. It seems that a lot of folks believe the FBI should have knocked down the door. I'd argue the opposite - I'd prefer they
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by nfriedly 5y ago
I'm using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.niedermann.... on my phone. It's not super fancy, but it works well. I might try out Joplin sometime, but I'm pretty happy with what I&#x27
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by nfriedly 5y ago
And easier returns. And a marginally better interface (which isn't saying much.) But yeah, the majority of the products are the same thing with a higher price tag.
930.
by nfriedly 5y ago
Personally, I'm using the next cloud notes app. It's somewhat limited - essentially just plain text with a bit of markdown support, but the upside is that my data is stored in plain text files that are easy to backup and/or e

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