Humans

Sorry, resistance is futile.

When adblox inevitably fixes this, you can block comments, and a bunch of other crap, on purpose with Unhooked

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recommended-videos/

One of them had a crush on the goth girl.

That ain’t metric

https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/anythingbutmetric

Me too, my biggest sink is Lemmy lol

I’d argue games are significantly better for development than video. Solving problems, learning game rules, reading game dialogue, separating fiction from reality, etc.

Yes, cartoon and videos have their place, but get off the meaningless shorts and gambling games.

Pretty sure MS made this a “standard keyboard” button, which could mean it needs to be included for the OEM to be able to put windows on the machine.

I know this is not helpful to your immediate issues, but here are a few suggestion to prevent it from happening again

• Don’t store important data in any default folder. Make your own folders, name them something so you know its yours and not a system folder. I like to start my folder names with “AA”, so they show up first in the list.

• • I’m honestly surprised SD maid cleared out the backups folder. I’m speculating here, but I think that backup folder is intended for apps to leave their backup files. All of your data, which isn’t associated with an app, got flagged as “leftovers” from a deleted app.

• Backup off device. If SD maid didn’t delete everything, a drop in a pool could have. The general rule is to have 3 copys. 2 in your possession (phone, computer, home server, USB stick, etc) and 1 off site somewhere (cloud, at friend’s house, etc).

• • The easiest way is to use a cloud provider like drive. Download the sync app to at least 2 devices and enable “keep offline” for the folders. However that is not necessarily the most secure. I like synching to sync all my folder to a computer. It has conflict protection, so if I happen change a file on different devices, it won’t save them over each other. The final method that requires the least setup, but the most discipline is a USB drive to copy your data periodically.

• For the data you described, it sounds like you would benefit from storing it all in password manager like KeepassXC. It encrypts all of that, and makes cloud storage a safer option.

Good luck with recovery.

I honestly use google messenger still. I know. It sucks. But it’s the only thing I found that supports RCS, group texts, and things like compressing photos over SMS instead of just telling there’s a size limit, ect ect.

Next month they’ll quietly add these “features” as background services under a generic name.

Rename the shortcut to notepad++2?

For regular wear, I like https://arcadebelts.com/products/hardware-alu-work-belt?variant=51798558671212 They have a bunch of other clasp styles that I havnt personally tired.

And for work; I like this one better than arcade, but it is larger vertically that normal belt. https://holstery.com/products/modbelt

“Let’s see, here is a fine of 7 million dollars, please pay to this account that tax payers will never see a dime from.”

Its a great skill to have, if you fix something a bit janky, no one is going to notice.

Getting a basic sewing machine, while absolutely not required, opens the door to more efficient repairs or modifications. Like shortening sleeves or pants that are too long. (You also don’t have to learn to do different stitches, you select one on the machine and let it do the hard part)

You need run your hand across the felt so it points the other way, revealing the text underneath.

this device is designed to be your secondary smartphone

In this economy?

Meanwhile the Play Store is full of scams. This isn’t about safety, it making sure they get a cut from the scam apps.

Until he has early dementia and forgets the lessons learned, but of course he’ll forget he invested anything tomorrow and do it again!

I’m all for holding people personally responsible, but sometimes we gotta help each other out. Also blaming the victim for being scammed is not helpful. Scammers do so many underhand tactics its impossible for any us to keep track of it all alone.

I’m okay with more tools to help us protect people. Maybe instead of needing ADB, you have to boot into save mode, and can enable 3rd party sources from there? This way you can still enable it on the phone while preventing a script or app can’t automate enabling it. Oh and because there’s more scam shit on google play than Fdroid, we’ll need google play to be enabled via the same method too.