The Official Status Thread
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Status: officially decided that my next phone will be a Windows Phone. Fuck you Android, you disappointing, laggy, unstable piece of shit.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: officially decided that my next phone will be a Windows Phone. Fuck you Android, you disappointing, laggy, unstable piece of shit.
You really yanked defeat out of the jaws of victory there.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: officially decided that my next phone will be a Windows Phone. Fuck you Android, you disappointing, laggy, unstable piece of shit.
O.o
What phone?
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@r10pez10 Did you pay 7/~nett. for that?
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@anonymous234 Hope you never post from mobile. Because WPIE (and W10 IE on desktop, but that's a different issue) have a hate-hate relationship with the Reply button here on :nod:
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@r10pez10 from what movie was that? I wanna see it
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@sloosecannon I have a Moto G from 2014 and a Nexus 10 from 2013. Both chosen because they were the closest thing to "Google hardware" I could find (Motorola belonged to Google at the time). The tablet has been getting slower and crappier, and sometimes Chrome crashes the whole system hard when a page has a video.
The phone works well most of the time, but occasionally gets giant lag spikes. Sometimes I tap the home button (the central one) and it takes a full 10 seconds to actually do anything.
Maybe I'm the crazy one for keeping phones for more than 2 years...
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@anonymous234 FWIW I see similar with my Nexus 6. A reboot fixes it.
It's also fond of rebooting itself while sitting there otherwise unmolested.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe I'm the crazy one for keeping phones for more than 2 years...
I have a 4 year old Galaxy SIII. I only had to change the batteries once, the covers, and the Sim card holder. It is now running LiquidSmooth, but CM was Ok before that, only they stopped supporting S3 too! If you want to keep the phone in a working condition you have to change the OS. The main problem now is that voice does not work in the apps (like WhatsApp I can hear but not speak) even though phone functionality is fine. I plan to fix this, but I also plan to get a Windows Phone and hack it to run Andorid apps with JVM or something, so it remains to be seen if I get enough time for this sort of hobby.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 Hope you never post from mobile. Because WPIE (and W10 IE on desktop, but that's a different issue) have a hate-hate relationship with the Reply button here on :nod:
That's why I'm using Edge
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
The main problem now is that voice does not work in the apps (like WhatsApp I can hear but not speak)
I remember that being some weird kernel issue on my S4A, but for sound out: When headphones (physically) plugged in, audio would come out of the internal earpiece speaker, when plugged out (OMG, chingrish showing here!) it would attempt to send audio to the headphones!
Status: Speaking of, taking the plunge and upgrading to Android 6.0 (hopefully!). Let's see if I can avoid screwing the modem's NVRAM partition this time...
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@Rhywden Yeah, I use Chrome on my home PC, and I tried Edge on the work PC but it just didn't work with a few of the older pages I have to use, so I switched to IE there. Working in IT, I try to keep up with a variety of different browsers, because you never know which one you're gonna hafta "fix" :/
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon I have a Moto G from 2014 and a Nexus 10 from 2013. Both chosen because they were the closest thing to "Google hardware" I could find (Motorola belonged to Google at the time). The tablet has been getting slower and crappier, and sometimes Chrome crashes the whole system hard when a page has a video.
The phone works well most of the time, but occasionally gets giant lag spikes. Sometimes I tap the home button (the central one) and it takes a full 10 seconds to actually do anything.
Maybe I'm the crazy one for keeping phones for more than 2 years...
Ah, yeah, especially since the Moto G is kinda lower end, that's probably your issue. Have you done a factory reset on them recently? Cause that almost always helps that kind of thing. The Nexus 10 is definitely old enough to need replacing though... I've found flash chips on devices tend to get bad as they age (hence the huge lag spikes)...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
screwing the modem's NVRAM partition
Yeah, don't do that. That's tough to recover from...
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
I also plan to get a Windows Phone and hack it to run Andorid apps with JVM or something
LOL that's not gonna happen. You do realize Windows phone isn't Windows right? It's totally locked-down and walled-garden. The only thing that makes it resemble "Windows" is the Microsoft services and the fact that it looks like 8's start screen
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I don't really have an issue with the platform, and if you'd rather go there than Android, feel free.... but it's certainly not the same as Windows - if anything, it's like Windows RT, but it's even more dumbed down than that from what I can tell, since it doesn't have the "Desktop" that RT had.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I don't really have an issue with the platform, and if you'd rather go there than Android, feel free.... but it's certainly not the same as Windows - if anything, it's like Windows RT, but it's even more dumbed down than that from what I can tell, since it doesn't have the "Desktop" that RT had.
Win10 Mobile actually has a desktop environment when you have a phone capable of Continuum. For using that you then either need a dockingstation or a Miracast adapter.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I don't really have an issue with the platform, and if you'd rather go there than Android, feel free.... but it's certainly not the same as Windows - if anything, it's like Windows RT, but it's even more dumbed down than that from what I can tell, since it doesn't have the "Desktop" that RT had.
Win10 Mobile actually has a desktop environment when you have a phone capable of Continuum. For using that you then either need a dockingstation or a Miracast adapter.
True, but that's
mobiledifferent
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Status: Just had a look around to see how to best import custom SVG icons into XAML for my UWP app. A tutorial explaining on how to do so also linked to SyncFusion's offering of 7000 free icons.
I poked around a bit more and saw that they also offer quite a number of controls. Among them a scheduler control which I myself had implemented somewhat half-assedly in my app. Looked good, too.
Then I looked at the prices for purchasing - $995. Damn. A bit too steep for my budget. Scrolled down the page... what's this? "Free Community License"?
Well, I'll be damned. They're giving their whole suite away for free to individual developers and small businesses.
Happy now :)
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just had a look around to see how to best import custom SVG icons into XAML for my UWP app. A tutorial explaining on how to do so also linked to SyncFusion's offering of 7000 free icons.
I poked around a bit more and saw that they also offer quite a number of controls. Among them a scheduler control which I myself had implemented somewhat half-assedly in my app. Looked good, too.
Then I looked at the prices for purchasing - $995. Damn. A bit too steep for my budget. Scrolled down the page... what's this? "Free Community License"?
Well, I'll be damned. They're giving their whole suite away for free to individual developers and small businesses.
Happy now :)
The Quick Links thread is
Although actually, making a "The Developer Tools Thread" isn't a bad idea.....
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Cursing out our Wi-Fi router (NetGear Nighthawk R7000) that takes dirt naps when ever, and drops the NAS, also whenever.
Are there any good Wi-Fi routers? I know Belkin and LinkSys are shitty...
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
Cursing out our Wi-Fi router (NetGear Nighthawk R7000) that takes dirt naps when ever, and drops the NAS, also whenever.
Are there any good Wi-Fi routers? I know Belkin and LinkSys are shitty...
Until this post I would've said I've heard the Nighthawk is good.
So... uh...
no?
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@M_Adams My ASUS RT-N66U always served me well. But I may just be in blissful ignorance of the trouble around the corner.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
locked-down and walled-garden.
That would be Ok, if rooting it is all that is needed.
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
if you'd rather go there than Android, feel free
I dislike Samsung, but am no fan of Android either. The amount of crapware they bundle outweighs its semi-open nature, and I hate Java. Windows phone can be an open alternative to iOS (the real locked-down and walled-garden anti-freedom technology) only if it becomes as open as PCs are.
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
but it's certainly not the same as Windows - if anything, it's like Windows RT, but it's even more dumbed down than that from what I can tell
That would be a shame if the kernel is watered down so much it could not run a native application with no GUI. I do not care about the shell.
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http://routerboard.com/RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN for longer range 2.4GHz (think 4-5 bedroom house), or http://routerboard.com/RB951Ui-2HnD for standard range (starter 3 bedroom house). Personally, I'm using the 6.33.x firmware line right now, but since they've switched to Bug Fixes / Stable / Beta firmware branches, running anything in the Bug Fixes line should be a good experience for unshitty routers.
They do have a web interface, but you'll get better access to the settings via the WinBox utility you can download from their site or from the router, assuming you're a Windows user. I also would recommend reading the Wiki documentation enough to be able to make moderate settings changes "manually" rather than relying on Quick Set - the quick set methods are still pretty dodgy in terms of final result.
NB: the Wiki documentation and manual settings implicitly assume that their users have intermediate level expertise in general networking. If you really need it to be fire and forget, then I think I'd be back to recommending the NetGear, and just getting something that's in the -1 generation $100-150 range, rather than the bleeding edge $300 stuff.
Also, to clarify my comment, I'm using the RB962, and it works fairly well, most of the time. I've had a few cases where the wireless card shits itself after the router's been up for a couple weeks, but the reboot time is like 30 seconds, so I don't consider it a big enough deal to go playing firmware roulette, and i'm staying on 6.33.5 rather than trying to fish for a version that fixes the wireless soft locks without breaking something else.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Until this post I would've said I've heard the Nighthawk is good.
Yeah, that's why we went w/ it
How about this one? Anyone have an opinion?
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-ac5300-tri-band-wireless-ac-gigabit-router-black/5008900.p?id=bb5008900&skuId=5008900
Also house has lathe plaster over the inevitable chicken wire to hold it up...
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
That would be a shame if the kernel is watered down so much it could not run a native application with no GUI. I do not care about the shell.
I very much doubt it can. It's more locked down than Android is....
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I don't have a specific opinion on that router, but in my general observations, the very high end routers are very experimental, just tossing in All The Things from the draft standards and such, and usually not as stable. So I would recommend staying in the mid-level routers (from any of the major manufacturers) to get their most stable hardware versions. Preferably something that's at rev 2 or rev 3 and has a review history online for the new rev.
That said, all residential routers are either shit now, or will be within ~2 years due to parts wear and technology advances. So there is that :P
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
That said, all residential routers are either shit now, or will be within ~2 years due to parts wear and technology advances. So there is that
Yah, QFT.
Will spend some time perusing them... Thanks!
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Status: YouTube finally added video previews when you hover your mouse over the thumbnail.
Expect many awkward moments as people inadvertently say "look, it's just like in..."
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Status: Submitted a ticket about avatars:
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Status: making @XanderTheGamer happy.
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Uh, OK, nodebb. The last post in the... thread?
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Uh, OK, nodebb. The last post in the... thread?
If you check any first-page post in this thread, you'll probably see a screenshot from me-- of the same issue-- because counting is hard.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
The amount of crapware they bundle
If that's your worry, then you're a
Steps when you get a phone:
- Root it
- Install an App Uninstaller
- Delete all bundlecrapware
- Install a privacy manager to default "no permission" to all apps unless explicitly stated otherwise.
The only reason smartphones exist is to steal all the marketing information they can get from your contacts, emails, SMS, gps data, and internet usage. Developers are incentivised to allow it by collecting & selling that data. Scammers take advantage of it by creating fart apps. And a phone owner is a fucking moron to allow that to happen.
Anyone who complains about bundleware either needs to:
- Not buy the phone
- Be technically advanced enough to remove the bundleware
- Shut the fuck up and take it up the ass like the good little sheepsumer you are.
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@Lorne-Kates 4. Buy a phone from a manufacturer that puts out a serious quality product and doesn't enable all the voyeurism. There's exactly one such in the world, and they're going into receivership RSN herp derp!
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@M_Adams Gigabet router, also capital of the Klingon homeworld.
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates 4. Buy a phone from a manufacturer that doesn't enable all the voyeurism. There's exactly one such in the world, and they're going into receivership RSN herp derp!
Blackberry isn't a phone. It's a lifestyle. Like crack.
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Status: After reading a thread where half the replies were deleted, I'm thinking about creating fbmacbot, which would watch and immediately quote @fbmac whenever they post.
Unfortunately, my ethics prevent me from doing so.
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@Lorne-Kates You forgot, another step:
- Install an aftermarket Android, and GAPPS (addict in me speaking).
Why? because otherwise you are stuck with an old operating system ready for the next Stagefright to fuck you.
You see, Android is not as free as it is marketed. We need a PC on our phones, with regular OS updates. That is main reason I dislike Android, you get to uninstall lots of Spyware first, and in doing so most people lose the OTA updates.
No OTA updates + Stagefright is scary shit, and should be criminal but it is business as usual.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
You forgot, another step:
There's plenty of steps one can take to make their phone "not shit" once you have root. I just listed the first ones.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
If you check any first-page post in this thread, you'll probably see a screenshot from me-- of the same issue-- because counting is hard.
case in point
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@Lorne-Kates My first step is root, then ClockworkMod, and backup, ....
I run LiquidSmooth, before that it was CyanogenMod. I absolutely cannot tolerate the crapware. However, while I do this for myself, and my wife (admittedly more work), I do not have all the time to support my parents and family and ...
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates My first step is root, then ClockworkMod, and backup, ....
I run LiquidSmooth, before that it was CyanogenMod. I absolutely cannot tolerate the crapware. However, while I do this for myself, and my wife (admittedly more work), I do not have all the time to support my parents and family and ...Haven't heard of LiquidSmooth, will look into that.
As for parents / family / friends phones. Yeah, I've given up the tech support role. So they fall under the "shut the fuck up and accept it sheeple" category.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, don't do that. That's tough to recover from...
Next to impossible if you don't have a backup (and I didn't back then). Yeah, somehow the firmware update from Oppo screwed everything up a year or so ago when I got it, and had to do the whole warranty rigamarole to get my phone replaced (literally, upgrading was the first thing I tried, didn't even have the phone out of the box for a few hours yet).
(Fake) Update: Update went well! Except...
- There's a bug in the ROM's code that essentially means the "internal SD" partition can't get mounted unless it's vfat formatted (preferred partition format is ext4). Apparently it's a glitch in AOSP that's probably been patched, but the dev's build system is borked or something and nightly builds have stopped for now. Oh well, it's not like I really need the advanced features offered by a more modern filesystem...
Oh, and since the userdata partition is still only 3 Gb, apps are still limited, but I don't want to let Android dedicate my 32 GB External SD card for apps (Really, if the partition was 4 or 5 Gb, I would be happy, but resizing partitions is dangerous at best to start with...).
Phone's faster though! Clean Installs FTW!
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate Java
INB4 "Android isn't technically Java" pedants...
@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
That would be a shame if the kernel is watered down so much it could not run a native application with no GUI. I do not care about the shell.
Yeah, you're going to have a bad time (based on this thread post), as it doesn't look like there's even a CLI on Windows Phone.
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
people inadvertently say "look, it's just like in..."
... What? As in WHAT?!?!? Don't leave me hanging!
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm thinking about creating fbmacbot, which would watch and immediately quote @fbmac whenever they post.
You are the third person to consider this at least semi-seriously. I was the second, but I don't recall who was the first...
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Status: WTH?! My LCD display on this laptop is apparently experiencing burn-in! I just noticed that as I submitted the last post and the composer disappeared, I could see the composer still all ghost-like in the background (I'm using a dark theme).
Edit: hard to see, because it's fading quite quickly, but proof:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
... What? As in WHAT?!?!? Don't leave me hanging!
Where have you seen before thumbnails that show you a video preview when you hover over them? :P