gman99

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by gman99 8y ago
The USB-C PD definitely allows you to do exactly what you suggest. I know this is supported in this google dual-port PD charger: https://store.google.com/gb/product/usb_c_dual_port_charger There is an explanation
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by gman99 9y ago
If you have Android Oreo/8.x, most (all?) google apps (including Maps) allow you quite fine grained control over notification categories (so you can choose to have traffic updates and nothing else, if you wish) Notification categories
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by gman99 9y ago
Well, to be explicit, they set the minimum timeframe. For example, the Nexus Player is still on the latest version of Android and will/should receive 'O' (Not letting google off the hook here. What they're doing isn&#x
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by gman99 10y ago
Here's [1] an open source app that lets you share a link from youtube which then uses a hosted version of youtube-dl to get the direct link to the mp4 url and pass it back to the Android Download app [1] https://github.com&#
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by gman99 10y ago
Windows 10 can _definitely_ do that (I do the exact same thing with bluetooth/wired headsets frequently; I'm "fairly" sure I used to do that on Windows 7 too -- I remember being quite amazed when my Ubuntu machine "
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by gman99 10y ago
The "Fortune" app? As you mention knox, I assume this is an app that Samsung force installs on your phone; so I don't really see what Google can do (without locking Android down even more, and I'd rather they didn't
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by gman99 10y ago
As I mentioned in the other [1] thread, you can use this android app [2] (which uses youtube-dl) to download directly onto your phone. If you're on iOS, sorry :( [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12595973 [2]
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by gman99 10y ago
There is also this app [1] (shameless plug, I wrote it) which uses youtube-dl to download videos off any supported sites. No real UI as it just parses the media URL (when a link is shared to it) and passes it off to the android download man
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by gman99 10y ago
Netguard [1] is a loopback firewall (installs as a local VPN) that doubles as an adblocker if you install the version from github [2]. I installed from the play store and used the IAP to contribute to development before swapping to the gith
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by gman99 10y ago
If you append &tbs=li to the end of the query URL, google does a literal search. If you want it as a default, add it to your browser as a search engine plugin: http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google+ve
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by gman99 10y ago
I'm on windows 10 with a shitty "optimus" enabled laptop. The NVidia drivers routinely crash (typically when viewing a heavy webGL enabled page) and windows 10 just flashes at me and throws up a notification saying my graphic
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by gman99 10y ago
>Are you saying Bluetooth 4 would actually solve my problem Make sure your headset and device (phone?) both support HFP1.6 or above (which supports wideband speech/HD voice) which makes the sound quality semi-decent
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by gman99 10y ago
>Neither Android nor iOS support [pairing ... via the Out-of-Band method]. I'm not sure this is actually true (unless you're talking about bugs with individual manufacturers implementation on Android?). Both iOS and Android sup
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by gman99 10y ago
>all Skype calls automatically revert to HFP (extremely bad quality) While it's true that audio quality over HFP is a lot worse than A2DP, note that A2DP is designed for cases where latency is not an issue, you want stereo audio, an
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by gman99 10y ago
> blame the OS. iOS can block apps [...] Well, to be fair, you can disable notifications from apps since android 4.0 (which is a long time back) And Android 6.0 and up should automatically disable background running apps ( https:/&#
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by gman99 10y ago
> 3.5mm jacks are analogue, and they're everywhere >As soon as headphones are digital, manufacturers can start locking down headphones. The article is unclear, but the USB3.1 spec does specifically support analog audio over USB-C
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by gman99 10y ago
> the article says that Intel is working on a standard to let those pins be used for analog audio In that case, the article is wrong because the USB 3.1 spec already supports analog audio via the Audio Adapter Accessory Mode. Whether thi
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by gman99 10y ago
x86 builds: http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/ You can boot from USB and give it a whirl. There are some closed source bits missing, so I'm unsure if, for eg, netflix, will work. But it'll give you a feel for the
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by gman99 10y ago
>On Android 5, most Nexus devices dropped all SMS apps for Hangouts. Just install Messenger (supports Android 4.1+): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... It's actually much nicer
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by gman99 10y ago
The AOSP built in sms client does not use G+ Google's "Messenger" client does not use G+ You can also use Google's Hangout client purely for SMS (you can sign out of hangouts) If you don't like any of them, there ar
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by gman99 11y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of Vostok? I thought much the same when I saw it in the Science Museum in London (just last weekend). Some kind of heat resistant cork or something? http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ImageHandler.a
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by gman99 11y ago
May not be quite what you're looking for, but perhaps mapumental may help (depending on why you want the data) https://mapumental.com/ It gives you time (not distance) between places, and it includes trains as well as
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by gman99 12y ago
>It could even be family who misguidedly install spyware. That's an application installed by the user; But this won't protect you against the core OS (the Dell's with a camera shutter is not meant to protect you against Mi
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by gman99 12y ago
> a bit of black tape over the front-facing camera for a while since Google's Byzantine privacy practices had made me genuinely not trust the device. I genuinely don't get this. You don't trust the OS not to spy on you, so
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by gman99 12y ago
>the BeagleBone Black is [..] less prone to "power abuse", because it has a traditional power jack (people are less likely to use a random USB charger with it) Not quite true. The BBBlack can also power itself from the mini-u
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by gman99 12y ago
Just go to the site: http://www.google.com/ncr (I assume it stands for "No Country Recognition" but I'm unsure of that). Visit it once and I believe it stores a permanent cookie on your computer telling googl
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by gman99 12y ago
>a "delete all stored data on me and opt out" button You mean like: http://www.google.com/settings/ads/ That's all the information the advertising network (Doubliclick) has on you (atleast, based
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by gman99 13y ago
It's because Youtube uses DASH[1] by default now. It's also the reason why it never buffers more than a few seconds of video anymore. I installed YoutubeCenter[2] and disabled DASH from the options and it seems to work well every
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by gman99 13y ago
>>it doesn't acknowledge anything not bought through Amazon as "books" I have a Kindle and this is patently not true. I have multiple DRM-free .mobi "books" that I have sideloaded. You don't even need a c
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by gman99 13y ago
>>our country has NEVER gone and attacked anyone in the past 3000 years. Well, our country didn't exist pre-1947, but we're arguing semantics now. Still, it's kindof bonkers to define the border of a fairly young "

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