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@Tsaukpaetra That's gonna be a “soon” then…
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@heterodox said in UI Bites:
Friend told me it was a bad time to pick up a new phone because 5G will roll out soon
What’s that?
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What’s that?
shrug As I told him, I don't have a need for high bandwidth so I don't really care. Same reason I haven't called my ISP even though my upgrade to 100 Mb/s a year ago never took and I'm still getting 30 Mb/s.
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Something tells me CVS is broken at the moment...
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@heterodox said in UI Bites:
Introductory : I found at least 2 different buttons to erase data, with slightly different wordings and slightly different descriptions. There is no logic as to how I ended up finding them, I just followed various links in various parts of my account. Do they do different things? Do I need to do one and the other, one or the other, in a specific order, is there a 3rd option that I missed? Who knows...
I also lost my phone recently, as it happens. Sadly I got to the "Find My Device" page literally five minutes after the battery presumably ran out...
I didn't see much ambiguity. One option removes the Google account from the phone and by extension removes Google synced data like e-mail. The other is the more drastic option and wipes the whole phone. There may be regional differences though.
I don't know. Maybe it was that I was a bit stressed out just after having my phone stolen (and some cash, my credit card and driving license... those are actually easier to sort out, but that adds to the stress!), and also that I looked at the account setting from, successively, one phone (someone's else, who lent it to me immediately afterwards) and one desktop computer (my own, when I got back home a bit later). Still, to me the difference wasn't obvious.
But now that you've explained the difference, I'm glad that I did look around a bit more and stumbled upon the second option! I'm pretty sure that the first time I only saw the first one (remove Google account), and I am certain that the screen that showed it did not show the other one. So if I had left it at that, I would never have found the "wipe all the phone" option, which in this case is the one I want.
Not that all of that really matters: from the Google "locate my phone" function, it seems my phone has been turned off about 5 min after it was stolen, and never turned back on yet (about 1 week later now). It was fairly low-end, 2 years old, and the screen heavily cracked. I'm starting to assume that the thief, being just opportunistic, turned it off and threw it away when he saw getting some value out of it would be more hassle than its worth.
Still, I'm a bit annoyed that Google didn't make handling that stressful situation smoother. By contrast, calling my bank to block my credit card literally took less than a minute and was one of the smoothest and most efficient conversation I ever had with a bank, which was somewhat reassuring (I know it's an easy operation, just toggle a flag in their files, but there was none of the bullshit of most call-centre calls).
Hoping the same (though my devices are fully encrypted, so I'm not worried about other people having my data, I'm just bemoaning the loss of years of text message history, which is frequently useful to search for stuff...).
Same here. I don't really care about what they might have stolen (although if they accessed my email account I would be annoyed, but I very much doubt they will), I'm sadder about losing what was on the phone. Of course I had backups for the most important bits, but there are always tiny bits that slip through. I guess I will see which ones exactly when I get my new phone and restore the last backup from it, but I'm not too hopeful.
Oh well, that's life I guess.
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Filed under: Don't show internal errors to the users...
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@Cursorkeys
SMA Male to SMA Female? Ugh ... these new genders are getting weirder every day
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@Luhmann: if you think Tumblr genders are bullshit, you're not familiar with RF connectors.
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@Cursorkeys
SMA Male to SMA Female? Ugh ... these new genders are getting weirder every dayThey're starting earlier and earlier too...
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@Luhmann: if you think Tumblr genders are bullshit, you're not familiar with RF connectors.
Hermaphrodism, so there were no "male" or "female" connectors; any GR connector could mate with any other GR connector.
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@HardwareGeek: yeah. And when you get the gender correct, you realize that despite looking similar, you got the wrong type. And of course, you don't have the right adapter. And said adapter is out-of-stock and/or stupidly expensive for what it is.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
you realize that despite looking similar, you got the wrong type. And of course, you don't have the right adapter. And said adapter is out-of-stock and/or stupidly expensive for what it is.
Case in point: Reverse-polarity SMA, looks male but it's actually female and vice-versa. That got me recently. I would swear it only exists so they can sell adaptors.
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Android's status bar icons when the phone has a notch
In the second one, there's some wifi activity that causes arrows to appear next to the icon, which inexplicably replaces both the alarm and vibration icons with a dot, when there is more than enough room to do something like this:
Warning: may be physically impossible
Filed under: is the notch
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It's not just flat design, the dismiss button is actually disabled and can't be clicked. Why do you exist
dismiss
button?
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@Cursorkeys Don't you know there's no such things as close buttons anymore? To close a dialog, you just click somewhere outside and then it disappears (let's hope you intended that). Intuitive, isn't it?
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To close a dialog, you just click somewhere outside and then it disappears (let's hope you intended that).
Except when you don't. I don't mind the whole "click somewhere outside the modal" thing, I just wish it was either every site or none rather than some.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
I just wish it was either every site or none
Consistency! And when did you acquire this taste for luxuries?
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- Open the Calculator app on Windows 10 1803
- Input any number
- Triple click on the number to select it
- Right click on the numeber
- Observe as both the built-in right click support from calculator and the right-click support from the selection both try to help me achieve my goals
Bonus points: pressing the Windows key as part of screenshotting with +Shift+S causes one of them to disappear while the other remains. Can you guess which one?
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Can you guess which one?
The white one of course!
This appears fixed in 1809 FWIW.
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Filed under: is the notch
No, is Pie assuming you have a notch and wasting the middle space even when you fucking don't
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No, is Pie assuming you have a notch and wasting the middle space even when you fucking don't
Usually, Samsung's meddlings don't always improve things, but they have an option in their Pie builds (at least on my Note 9) to disable that nonsense.
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@Douglasac my Nokia 7 plus is Android one, so no customisations. Seriously stupid design decision, as it gives me the disadvantages of a notch without the minisule additional screen space that's apparently all important
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Filed under: is the notch
No, is Pie assuming you have a notch and wasting the middle space even when you fucking don't
I would say that I can't believe they'd do something that stupid, but I know better.
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is Pie assuming you have a notch
That was the first unread post in this topic for me. For a moment I wondered how it could be 's fault.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
is Pie assuming you have a notch
That was the first unread post in this topic for me. For a moment I wondered how it could be 's fault.
I just accepted it without giving it much thought.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
is Pie assuming you have a notch
That was the first unread post in this topic for me. For a moment I wondered how it could be 's fault.
I always refer to@pie_flavour properly
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@Douglasac said in UI Bites:
disable that nonsense.
Strangely enough, my phone doesn't have the option either:
I suppose it's also not "notch-aware" either. Makes it real fun when notification icons overlap the clock...
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@Douglasac Talking of UI Bites, that's one agressive screenshot you've got there:
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@Jaloopa What's going on? I didn't do nothin'.
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@pie_flavor Just in case it's still not clear:
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@Jaloopa What's going on? I didn't do nothin'.
Just give me back my status bar space and we'll say no more about it
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Updated Fitbit App on my phone. Now I have a persistent notification that says it was last synced on null.
Touching it gives me a nonsense screen:
Okay? Well touching okay does nothing but dismiss the screen.
L. O. L.
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Did you learn nothing from Windows 10?
If it's not broken, dont update it.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Did you learn nothing from Windows 10?
If it's not broken, dont update it.But it was broken, it wasn't sending notifications from my phone, and it was having a lot of problems syncing.
Traded one set of problems for another.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I see you're cooking some vegetarian food.
Nah, needs to be slightly higher for that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I see you're cooking some vegetarian food.
Nah, needs to be slightly higher for that.
Higher temperature for the cooking, or being on drugs?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I see you're cooking some vegetarian food.
Nah, needs to be slightly higher for that.
Higher temperature for the cooking, or being on drugs?
No, he means that it's not hard enough
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I see you're cooking some vegetarian food.
Nah, needs to be slightly higher for that.
Higher temperature for the cooking, or being on drugs?
Yes. Need more for baking anyways.
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Things I did not expect to read today:
The topical spray, Fortacin™ (PSD 502 TEMPE) has yet to receive regulatory approval by the FDA for the treatment of premature ejaculation. In clinical studies, Fortacin deploys an absorption technology using a eutectic formula by adding prilocaine to lidocaine. This technology has been available for decades (search EMLA in Wikipedia). Doctors in the U.S. have been prescribing (off-label) EMLA for PE for many years.
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@Zecc
Yeah googling your medical problems can lead to strange results
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@Zecc
Yeah googling your medical problems can lead to strange resultsAren't you suffering from Premature Conclusions?
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Pressing 'back' and then clicking the button again worked just fine
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Another Android (or maybe Huawei's version of it?) .
I noticed that on my new phone, it seemed that text messages only arrived when I wake up my phone. That is, the phone is on the desk next to me, nothing happens. The second I pick it up and wake up the screen, I get the alarm for new text messages, including messages sent a couple of hours earlier. Text messages don't always arrive the second they're sent, of course, but still. A couple of tests with someone sitting next to me sending me a text confirmed this was indeed the issue.
I thought initially it might be something like my text app being killed by Android or somehow restricted, but no, it's due to a system setting indicating that "notifications turn on screen" (which was off).
The infuriating bit is that absolutely nothing at all in that setting nor its description (or context etc.) says that "turn on screen" also means "play sound and/or vibrate".
I can imagine very well that the code goes through a single
processNotification()
function that doesdisplayOnScreen(); playSound(); vibrate(); ...
and that the setting that I changed toggles off all of that at once, and it might not be the worst possible API. But the really is how badly written the toggle description is.
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@remi yeah that's not normal.
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@remi I would say Huawei. My Sony phone gives me notifications for text messages just fine (which was fun yesterday when members of an SMS group I'm in decided to have a "fun" conversation that ended up at 44 messages of mostly pointless bullshit making my phone beep a lot over 15 minutes or so (and no, I can't disable it because I can get urgent messages through that group too)).
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@remi I would say Huawei. My Sony phone gives me notifications for text messages just fine (which was fun yesterday when members of an SMS group I'm in decided to have a "fun" conversation that ended up at 44 messages of mostly pointless bullshit making my phone beep a lot over 15 minutes or so (and no, I can't disable it because I can get urgent messages through that group too)).
Android newer than 6.0 I think let you snooze notifications on a per-App basis, like so:
If you partially drag the notification. Not sure if it's conversation specific in the case of SMS. Just poof them for an hour and it will automatically revert after expiring.