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Ummmm

Nope


Broken again

You need to develop an implant that generates electricity out of the body of the ā€œwearerā€, many people would but it.

Just think about it, ā€œyou can keep your phone charged as long as youā€™re aliveā€ is really good marketing!

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Merry Christmas to you all.

Unless youā€™re a Kiwi, then Merry Christmas ya cunts!

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that does sound interesting!!

Yeah, making cocktails is interesting, but also takes itā€™s tollā€¦ so itā€™s an ā€œoccasion onlyā€ kinda deal :sweat_smile:

That was a top notch collection of memes!!
10/10

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Oh those were really great! :rofl:
I love the one from Dinklage, didnā€™t get it at first because I didnā€™t look who posted it.

Wish you all some nice and relaxing holidays, if possible :slight_smile:

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Merry Christmas to you too but only Australians can call our coussie bros cunts!!! Oh and fellow Kiwis can too (but that usually requires them to break out the dictionary).

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Bwah ha ha :smiling_imp:

But Iā€™ve been having major issue with my Verizon phone. It wants to default to 5G, and rarely uses 4G. And the 5G sucks! Near my house, going home from work, Iā€™ll lose 5G service at a certain spot, then drive 9.5 milesā€¦then get it back.
Idk if its the SIMs Card that is shot, or the phone itselfā€¦ but I had enough.

Through my fire dept, I was able to get a test device through FirstNet (uses AT&T towers, plus their own private band). So far the test device is working great. That 9.5 miles range of no service, has been reduced to 2.7 miles of ā€œSpottyā€ Service (my phone call doesnā€™t drop, but I lose voice for a few seconds every now and then).

I think Iā€™m gunna make the switch. I pay Verizon $90/month for unlimited talk/text/data and hotspotā€¦FirstNet can offer me that for $45/month.

1/2 cost, plus way better serviceā€¦sounds good to me.

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No, but could I interest you in a few of my uncleā€™s college books that my grandpa kept and refuses to throw out?

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Iā€™ve had to go the into the settings on previous phones to disable 5G or enabling aggressive switching between 5G/4G/WiFi.
Glad you found a solution that also cuts the cost down!
Saw an article a little while ago that Verizon was dropping down the ranks for performance while TMo and ATT blew past them. I guess Verizon is using different 5G tech and the performance canā€™t keep up. Iā€™ve only worked on TMo tech so far.

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omg it should have ended with people getting on and saying eleven and it immediately going to floor 11 haha

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in My experience, for My area (Northern England), itā€™s mostly the shody and sparcely distributed 5G towers which become overcrowded and overarching.

I meanā€¦ in the middle of nowhere, Norway, I get better internet as a Roaming guest (lowest of prioprities) in a 3G antenna than I have at home while I can look at the damn 5G antenna from my provider!

Thatā€™s why I ā€œupgradedā€ into a sorry ass excuse of a phone from a brand no one ever heard of, which doesnā€™t even support 5G now! :rofl:

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Whatā€™s the brand? Iā€™m curiousā€¦

Oakitel.
do NOT reccomend.

Itā€™s one of those Ā£100 phones which comes with the case built in, 10KmAh battery and allegedly waterproof.
Butā€¦

  • Battery capacity is an outright lie (barely lasts me 1 day)
  • Touch screen is SO bad I canā€™t even send a voice message because it cuts it every 0.2 seconds (because stops detecting the hold). Not to mention any touch near the edges or bottom of the screen is a nightmare
  • It lags SO bad ā€¦

it uses raw Android 12, which has a SHIT UI. but I just tossed Lynxs into it so it overrides all the new apple-like features android is trying to shove down our throats.

I used to go for Blackview. best brand in the market.
they had a 6KmAh battery that lasted me a whole week. Was a weak processor but I wouldnā€™t even notice it. Sturdyā€¦ and cost under Ā£100 a phone.

But then they decided to try and go flagship, charging Ā£400 for a phone with only 3KmAh battery and no NFC, so I was forced to find another brand.

Ended up with Xiaomi, which was ok untill they made an update that introduced fucking ads on the UI!!
ā€œWant to open an app? just watch this add first!ā€
ā€œWant to read an SMS? how about half the screen being an ad banner?ā€

:triumph: :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: :imp:
(I miss not having my furious unicorn emoji here)

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Horrible idea. But apparently there are ways to get rid of the apps

There are. they are tied to the launcher and some wrapper apps I could remove by rooting or Shizukuingā€¦

But the whole concept of that reeks, therefore I refuse to give money to any company that acts like that.

Replacing UI because the new UI was made for brain-dead monkeys to use (new Android)? OK!

Replacing UI because the company went bonkers on greed? (Xiaomi) Nope!
Thatā€™s a line they should not have crossed!

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Thatā€™s a line that should never be crossed. Hell I even believe it should be downright illegal to have ads like that. Could you imagine a world where all companies started employing that model? Shivers

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Random semi advanced windows question to the people smarter than me

Been having a lot of issues keeping my laptop staying asleep

Iā€™ve already fixed 3 or 4 things that kept waking it up

But now Iā€™m down to my usb wireless mouse
Iā€™ve already turned off ā€œallow this device to wake from sleepā€ on almost everything except my LAPTOP keyboard every other keyboard (because sometimes mouse appears keyboard :roll_eyes:) is disabled

If I turn the mouse off physically it stays asleep, if I leave the mouse on it wakes up a couple hours later

So Iā€™m wondering if the mouse is powering off or something