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27 minutes ago, PcBeExpensive said:

Nah, our school runs everything chrome. We use docs, sheets etc.

1 hour ago, PcBeExpensive said:

Also I wan't windows. Chrome OS is baddd.

If you're looking for a cheap laptop to do things in Chrome, you should consider whether you really do want Windows. I'd suggest you probably don't: this is exactly the use Chromebooks are designed for, and they are not at all "bad" at it. In fact, I'd argue they are the best product on the market for that use.

Windows can make cheap hardware feel very slow (far slower than it needs to with a lighter-weight OS). and the Chrome browser is the same regardless of which OS you run it on anyway.

I don't see myself ever wanting a smartwatch.

I already carry around a glass slab which is constantly communicating over the internet, ready to alert me the instant a company I bought one thing from several months ago announces they have a sale on, or anyone decides to send me some random meme, or whatever. How much more connected do I really need to be than that?

Honestly I dislike push notifications on smartphones for a similar reason. If someone has information for me which is so urgent that it can't wait until the next time I decide to look at my phone, a text message probably isn't the best medium for that anyway - they should probably actually be phoning me.

26 minutes ago, 8tg said:

That’s why I bought that cannondale, because it’s a bit more nondescript and I can lock it up outside a gas station without worrying about it.

That’s an extension of a first world problem, my first bike is too fancy so I bought a whole ass other bike for errands.

Ah sorry, wasn't sure which of the two bikes in the photo you were referring to

9 hours ago, 8tg said:

This bmx cost me several thousand dollars

I cannot reasonably lock it up outside of a gas station or whatever to get water, so whatever rides I do with it have to be short and relatively local so I can come back home and get water

It quite clearly has a water bottle holder (and the mounting points for a second one, if you wanted) - why not use that?

On 7/7/2023 at 12:38 AM, AnonymousGuy said:

Android is just so garbage that you're used to having to have a 3rd party app for everything.

Different people have different priorities and preferences. You should use the software and hardware that best fits your own.

One of your priorities may be that the operating system on your device has most functions you need built-in so you don't need much third party software. For this reason, you may prefer to use iOS. However, this won't necessarily be a priority for everyone - some of us are happy to use third-party apps - so that doesn't make Android fundamentally inferior to iOS.

One of my priorities is that I can run my own software on the hardware that I own at no or minimal cost. I don't believe the iOS platform can offer me that, so I don't use it. Again, that doesn't make iOS inferior to Android, it just means I personally like it less.

People who like iOS should buy iPhones; people who like Android should buy Android phones. I don't see how tribalism, and comments like "[platform] is garbage", are in any way helpful.

On 7/7/2023 at 1:17 AM, AnonymousGuy said:

Like the airdrop thing seems no-brainer but then the android story is: "yeah we had something like that in 2012 that never worked properly, discontinued it, then made some new version in 2020 that probably no one you know has a modern enough android phone to support it anyways."  So then you end up having to make a Google Photo album that glitches out halfway through uploading more than 20 photos (true story...) and now Google has their finger up your arse mining your photos because their entire business model is selling ads and user data.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this? Nearby Share appears prominently in the sharing menu and in the settings, and has done since 2015! Google Photos isn't really equivalent to AirDrop, it's equivalent to iCloud sync, though iCloud does seem to work much better.

For the record, if I want to transfer photos from my phone to my computer I use an extremely complex and bleeding-edge technology called A USB Cable^TM and it works flawlessly. Or if I want to share a photo with someone else I just send a WhatsApp message.

I don't even know what manufacturer of phone some of my friends have, and why should I? It's completely irrelevant information - again, they should choose their phone based on what they prefer.

First thing that comes to mind is just to create a Google spreadsheet using the tickboxes feature? (See https://support.google.com/docs/answer/7684717)

I suspect Ubuntu Software has installed Plex Media Server as a Snap, in which case I believe it will be installed under /snap/bin.

More information about Snaps: https://snapcraft.io/docs/getting-started

The lesson here is one we have seen many times in many different forms.

Social media companies have absolutely no duty to provide anything the vast majority of their users. You don't pay anything to use the platform, so it's not even like there's a minimum standard of service you can expect for your money. They are accountable to their shareholders, who expect a return on their investment, and by extension to those who pay to place advertising on their platform.

What is happening at the moment is rather unfortunate for those who've put in a lot of effort to build a community on Reddit's platform. But Reddit's platform is just that - Reddit's platform - and they are entirely within their rights to change it in any way that they see fit. So it was always on the cards that this sort of thing would happen.

Social media might be convenient, so by all means use it, but this debacle is yet another reminder that you should think very carefully before building something you really care about to be reliant on someone else's platform.

If you want to be able to put effort into a community endeavour and be certain that it will exist in the long term, then it has to be structured so that same community somehow owns and controls the platform it is built on.

That is where Chrome would ordinarily display the padlock icon (to indicate you are using HTTPS) or the "not secure" warning (if you aren't using HTTPS).

It looks like you have a custom theme installed, so my first thought is that there might be a bug in the theme which is interfering with displaying this icon. Try switching back to the default theme and see if that fixes it.

7 hours ago, Vishera said:

True, But the new font sucks anyway.

That's very much subjective. You could always use a browser extension such as Stylus to apply a custom font, or indeed to apply the font-feature-settings rule mentioned above.

(For anyone who finds the auto-replacement thing particularly bothersome, that's the workaround).

2 hours ago, Vishera said:

So i am doing an experiment injecting fonts into the LTT web page in attempt to find a better font.

This is a screenshot of the current default font:

 

 

Arial:

Protestant:

Mytupi:

 

I personally prefer Arial

The font doesn't need to be changed - just turning off the "contextual alternatives" feature would solve the problem.

It could probably be done with one line in the stylesheet somewhere:

font-feature-settings: "calt" off;

On 4/29/2023 at 3:17 PM, HanZie82 said:

What the heck, a font should not have the ability to do that.
I change the font, the font doesn't change itself!!!
But im oldskool, computers work for me, and not the other way around.

I have to agree with this. I like the aesthetic of Inter, but this sort of feature honestly seems like someone simply trying to be too clever and not thinking properly about the possible side-effects.

10 hours ago, vertigo220 said:

Don't really have any suggestions for what to use for this, just a warning about doing it at all. You want to keep it inexpensive, but that only works until the first time your mounting solution fails or you crash and your probably not inexpensive phone is broken. A GoPro may be worth the investment, and I'd bet you can get a good deal on a used one.

Fair point! Looking for a used GoPro hadn't really occurred to be for some reason - I thought it was a bit niche for there to be a significant used market, but looking online that seems not to be the case.

(And now I think about it, if I did happen to crash, I really don't like the idea of potentially not having my phone available to call for assistance...)

I cycle a lot and would like to mount my phone to the handlebars so that I can record from the front of the bike. I've looked at handlebar mounts for phones but they all seem to be designed to make the phone screen visible to the rider, rather than to make the camera face forwards. I'm not bothered about being able to see the screen (I don't use navigation apps or anything like that, so it would be more a pointless distraction than anything else) - I was envisaging I'd just hit record, put it in the mount and then take it out when I'd finished and stop recording.

I don't anticipate recording all that much. This means that firstly it needs to be inexpensive - I don't feel it's really worth investing in a GoPro or anything like that as I wouldn't have a use for it most of the time - and secondly it's important that I can easily attach and detach the phone and preferably the whole mount from the bike!

Any suggestions for something that would allow me to do this?

3 minutes ago, JoHeJo06 said:

is there any way to pick a new password, since i dont know it?

If it's the only account on the system, then no, you'll have to reinstall and start again.

19 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

The editor toolbar is already pretty outrageous on mobile, so the least used stuff was dropped to save space. Centering text is pretty rare, let alone on mobile.

Another forum software puts less-used features under a "more options" button that goes at the end of the toolbar and opens a longer list. Is that not possible?

It's not recommended to install Win7 as it's no longer receiving security patches. If it's only for light use and too slow for modern Windows, try a lightweight Linux distribution.

15 minutes ago, Ankh Tech said:

As in not swiping all the way down? It Nah they're not separate, to view the time, you have to view the notification center as well.

I see. On Android, you can make just the status bar (i.e. the section at the top which shows the time and network/battery icons) temporarily appear in full screen mode which allows you to check the time quickly:

(you can do it while the video is playing as well, but pausing makes the screenshot easier)

I thought iOS had that as well... I must have been mistaken.

1 minute ago, Ankh Tech said:

Yeah in IOS, whether on IPhone 8 or lower / IPhone X +, dragging from the top to the bottom to display the time and notification center causes some apps to need to reload

Can you not briefly swipe down to get just the clock and icons (not opening the full list of notifications) without affecting the app you're in? 

4 minutes ago, Ankh Tech said:

it's alot of effort! Especially when whatever app your using reloads when put in the background@

Is that a thing on iOS? On Android, if you drag down from the top in a full screen app, the usual status bar appears and temporarily covers part of the app, but it's still treated as in the foreground. You can still use the app's UI except for the small section which is covered - if you click anything it just automatically hides the status bar again. To actually put the app in the background you have to exit to the home screen or switch to another app.

The thing that gets me with dbrand is that they stop making cases for a particular device long before that device has reached the end of its useful life. Not all of us want to get rid of our phone and buy a new one every couple of years, and frankly, given they are selling something which is meant to prolong the life of phones, that they seem to expect us to doesn't exactly inspire confidence in their product!

Also, their embracing-the-evil-megacorp-vibe marketing was funny for a bit, but honestly the novelty has worn off and it just feels crass and stupid now.

Why do you need two phones? 

You could buy a Macbook Air and a Pixel 6a - both very nice devices - brand new and still have some of your budget left over for a cheap second phone if you really need it.

I'm don't generally have a "great experience" with any Windows version, or with Office 365 (which I'm unfortunately forced to use). I always seem to find myself having to go through some kind of unnecessary hassle to get it to do what I want.

I've given up on Microsoft now tbh. I just use Macs and Linux PCs. I wish I could still run Word 2010, that'd be good... as would Windows Movie Maker...

I'm probably missing something here. Is it not easier just to wear the bag on your back and pull the case normally?

7 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

I agree. People have to understand that they don't have to come up with silly excuses for buying form over function. "I like it" is a perfectly good reason to prefer something over something else, even if the feature set or price/performance is worse.

Analogue watches are a good example of this. Mine is a fairly inexpensive one, but even so, if you view it as a "tech product" the price-to-performance and feature set are appalling. (It only shows me the time and the day of the month, and doesn't even reset automatically for daylight savings or months shorter than 31 days!!) Despite this, I still think it's a better thing to have on my wrist than any smartwatch would be.