Johnny Wishbone

Warranty expired

No I specifically bought a Sony for my parents for ease of use and it is one of the worst purchases I have ever made.

I picked this specific model after looking for 3 months.

No where in any of the documentation or reviews did it say by plugging in a HDD I can only record a channel if I’m watching it and not record one channel while watching another which is a total deal breaker.

Also it has developed a fault where it basically shits its self every couple of weeks and the picture pixelates. It needs to be unplugged for a week and plugged back in. I’ve tried a new power pack but it doesn’t really help. The only other thing I could do is get a new main board but can’t source one with 6 months of searching eBay.

Do yourself a favour and buy a cheap LG panel and stick a streaming stick in it and never connect it to the internet.

I bought an almost new note 9 from Amazon 6 months ago for £150 to use as a dedicated audiobook, music and podcast player. The note 9 is the last one with the Bixby button. This was a requirement to set as a play pause button.

I rooted it, installed lineage OS with android 13 and exposed edge pro, mapped the Bixby button to play pause and rear fingerprint sensor to skip forward on up swipe and skip backwards on down swipe, froze all the unnecessary apps and the cell services.

Battery lasts for 4 or 5 days because it doesn’t search for cell signal. I only use WiFi on it.

I hope to get many years of use out it.

I had done this with an old S10 as a test base.

Great phone worth every penny.

Acer are middle of the pack with hp at the bottom, dell and Lenovo are probably the best. Golden rule, never ever ever buy anything made by hp, problems after problems especially their printers.

I prefer Lenovo to be honest but dell are good as well.

I have been repairing computers for 20 years.

Pixel 6 owner, third party launchers and gestures started screwing up for me about 6 months ago, I’ve never got round to a factory reset but I think that’s my only hope, happens with every launcher I try.

It was explained like this in a thread somewhere.

The recents menu, the one where you swipe up, hold, and get a card view of all your recent apps, used to be in a file called systemUI.apk. The systemUI holds files for lots of things. The bottom 3 buttons, the top bar icons the pull down shade, and tons of other things, as well as the recents list. All of the things in systemUI are accessible from pretty much any app, like 3rd party launchers. It’s a safe place for Android to hold things that any dev can have access too. The launchers would just invoke the function to show the recents with no lag at all, just like the stock launcher did.

Google, being Google, moved the recents list into the stock launcher.apk. Now, when a 3rd party launcher has to call the function to show the recents, it now has to use an api to invoke it from the stock launcher. Call api function. Function asks the stock launcher to show the recents. Stock launcher returns call to 3rd party launcher. Recents are then shown. Now there is a slight lag, because now there is a middle man. This is also why sometimes you get a blank screen for a millisecond and also why you cannot click another app immediately after returning to the home screen when closing an app, or from the recents list using a 3rd party launcher.

Before this, you could actually delete the stock launcher and use any launcher you wanted. Now, the stock launcher HAS to be installed in order to show the recents list. If the launcher has been dormant for a bit, the launcher then has to reload into memory in order to call that api method. It’s a cluster fuck.

The solution would actually be very simple, but has some security implications.

Android has a property for the package name that is responsible for the recents menu. This value is usually hard-coded to the default launcher of the OS.

A Magisk module called QuickSwitch can switch this value to any package name of your choice, including third-party launchers that implement the new recents menu system. When you change it, smooth animations just work with third-party launchers.

If Google would make it so that this recents menu provider value would update as you changed your default launcher, smooth animations would work.

Bronze age axe head, one of my friends who has sadly past away found 4 or 5 and also half a bronze age sword. The more time you put in and more ground you cover the more likely you are to find something good.

Seen hammered coins, Roman coins, gold coins, sword pomells, viking silver, a Hitler youth dagger, Roman sling shots, lots of different stuff.

I use an Xp Deus based in the UK.

I’m sure it’s legacy thing from back in the day, flashing means it’s sending or receiving, solid means it’s idle.

Does anyone know if gestures with 3rd party Launchers is fixed.

Yeah that’s the one, I’ve seen it explained like this, these are not my words but copy pasta from a Reddit thread I seen a while back

The recents menu, the one where you swipe up, hold, and get a card view of all your recent apps, used to be in a file called systemUI.apk. The systemUI holds files for lots of things. The bottom 3 buttons, the top bar icons the pull down shade, and tons of other things, as well as the recents list. All of the things in systemUI are accessible from pretty much any app, like 3rd party launchers. It’s a safe place for Android to hold things that any dev can have access too. The launchers would just invoke the function to show the recents with no lag at all, just like the stock launcher did.

Google, being Google, moved the recents list into the stock launcher.apk. Now, when a 3rd party launcher has to call the function to show the recents, it now has to use an api to invoke it from the stock launcher. Call api function. Function asks the stock launcher to show the recents. Stock launcher returns call to 3rd party launcher. Recents are then shown. Now there is a slight lag, because now there is a middle man. This is also why sometimes you get a blank screen for a millisecond and also why you cannot click another app immediately after returning to the home screen when closing an app, or from the recents list using a 3rd party launcher.

Before this, you could actually delete the stock launcher and use any launcher you wanted. Now, the stock launcher HAS to be installed in order to show the recents list. If the launcher has been dormant for a bit, the launcher then has to reload into memory in order to call that api method.

I hope to god they fix the gestures with 3rd party launchers bug.

Thanks, I’ll check it out. I’ve installed lineage since it was Cyanogenmod on secondary devices for years. I dedicate them for audiobook playback and music playback. I’ll look in to it.

Lineage OS is highly insecure ?

Great idea, you could also use it to see how shit your signal is in certain buildings. In a world of apps with old ideas this is genuinely something interesting and different. Thanks dev.

A lot of companies require branded work wear to be returned or destroyed to stop people impersonating their employees. It may not seem like a big deal but a bad actor could use it in any number of ways.

Imagine some one used a branded work shirt to gain access to your granny’s house when she thought they were from a company or service they trusted etc.

Certainly the police and other emergency services won’t want their uniforms in the wrong hands.

In my view it might seem like wastage but there are good reasons to destroy these clothing items, I guess it depends what business you’re in.

I installed this recently to try and fix control of the gestures that have issues with returning home on Android 14 with a 3rd party launcher

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.edgegestures

This lets you program your own gestures and can discount your original ones if you set it up right, may be what your looking for.

I gave up on wandering inn half way through the titan of baleros, it was a bit of a chore

There are so many I really enjoy, these are all great stories with superb narration.

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher are awesome Narrated by James Masters

The Mitch Rapp Series By Vince Flynn Narrated by George Guidall

The Walt Longmire Series By Craig Johnson also narrated by George Guidall

The Victor the Assassin Series By Tom Wood The Rob Shapiro ones are narrated the best there is another narrator depending on region

The Riyria Series By Michael J Sullivan Narrated by Tim Gerrard Reynolds

The Night lord Series By Garon Whited Narrated by Sean Runnette

The Witcher Series By Andrzej Sapkowski narrated by Peter Kenny

Bobbiverse as previously mentioned

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinimon narrated by Jeff Hayes

I have listened to some of these series 3 or 4 times and would highly recommend them all.

Also

Skunk works by Ben R Rich Narrated by Pete Larkin

And project hail Mary as previously mentioned for stand alone titles.

Remove insoles, place in old pillow case, zip tie the pillow case shut, put on a daily short wash probably about an hour at 30 degrees, small amount of detergent and white vinegar in the fabric softener tray, dry in sun or on radiator. Never fails.