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When I want to find an app I haven’t pinned to the home screen I swipe up from the bottom of the home screen to bring up a search bar where I can search for an app by name or scroll through list of all apps on the phone....

It’s strange but listening again to music from about 20 years ago, during a time when I was mostly sad and depressed, and where the musical choices reflected that, gives me a weird sense of nostalgia and longing for that time....

I guess it shouldn’t bother me, after all I try my best to avoid watching anything on youtube that I didn’t go there to watch in the first place but nevertheless, it’s hard not to see the clickbaity thumbnails for suggested videos to the right of the one I’m watching, and also, when I’m researching something it’s...

Back in 2007-ish I told my Mum all about how you could jailbreak iphones and unlock them to make the phone with other carriers. I helped alleviate any concerns by convincing her and myself that if there are any problems after the procedure, nothing physically has been changed on the phone and as long as I made a backup first, we...

I haven’t really used any kind of messenger service since probably MSN Messenger and IRC back in the day so I’m a bit behind on a lot of the basics. Part of what’s quite different now than the experience then is what modern messenger protocols seem to be used for, as in they have public channels dedicated to topics that...

You’d think this would be easier than it seems to be in reality. I am interested in getting a Sony Xperia 5V or Xperia 1V. Where I live, phones can’t make calls unless they support VoLTE. The phones in question support basically all the bands I need them to support and I’ve found several encouraging Reddit posts from...

I’m trying to make sure that if I import a phone to my country, it will likely work pretty much wherever I may go here. Most phones I’m looking at support every 4G band operated here, but I’ve noticed that on the GSM arena website, they will often give a list of supported bands for a given phone followed by a dash and a...

I have already been offered and officially accepted a gig which represents a continuation of a move towards work in a new sub-field for me that I really want to move in to, but it’s just a short term contract like the many I’ve been doing over the years and afterwards I’ll have to return to scrounging for the next gig...

This is something I’ve been trying to do reliably for years. I can stream anything I want easily with VLC or even just Chrome itself but I can’t get subs to work. I was able to make it work for a long time using a Chrome app called “videostream” but it now no longer works correctly on my system. It’s a bit confusing to...

This used to just be how it worked, I don’t know what changed. I have for a long time used VLC to navigate to files on my computer in the other room so I can stream video to my phone that are stored on the computer....

I’m trying not to just resist everything new in mac OS right away, but this whole focus concept and do not disturb mode turning on without me asking it to and not having any option to disable it is just too much. I can imagine maybe using this in some exceptional circumstances where it actually occurred to me to do so, but I...

So I’ve seen passing ironic references to DARE in American media representing it as a bit of a joke. That media was intended for American audiences so didn’t really elaborate on what the program entailed but I somehow already knew without any need of such context that it was an anti-drugs public outreach campaign and was...

I can’t seem to find any rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes the casting button just doesn’t appear as an option. I first noticed when I tried to watch something that was a youtube video that’s in 4:3 so my best guess was maybe that somehow had something to do with it but I tried various videos at different aspect ratios,...

The game is here. . Tremendous fun and despite it’s lack of depth, I’ve had fun trying to beat my records but ultimately, it gets tired fast given there’s only one “level” so to speak albeit a randomly generated one....

The weird thing is that I’m sure it didn’t always do this. I thought it might be because I’m trying to cast with FX_Cast but even with Chrome this also happens. In the past this sometimes happened when you’d expect, if the internet was particularly slow that day for some reason, or if I try to play something with a high...

On my MBP, if I’m streaming something to the chromecast for any appreciable length of time the display sleeps. That’s not a bad thing, it’s supposed to do that, but the trouble is, if I want to pause playback, it’s not a matter of simply hitting the pause key to immediately pause. This is because pressing any key wakes...

Something I’ve always noticed and am going through now. Sometimes I’ll drink too much the night before and be concerned about a hangover the next morning. Morning comes, and almost always my first thought is “gee I feel like shit but actually this is way less bad then I was expecting” this misplaced optimism gets washed...

I’m trying to recall some of my earliest memories of world events. The further back I go, the more vague things get as you’d expect....

It doesn’t actually really work because if you later view your comment it doesn’t reflect your extra vote. But it is possible to make the app give you the impression that you just earned an unearned imaginary internet point lol....

Hope text posts are okay. Weird request I know but, I was just thinking of the song “Blow up the Pokies” and it kind of reminded me of a certain mood of depressing Australian music that I kind of like to wallow in sometimes, I feel like I heard this kind of thing a lot in the 90s but can’t think of many examples. The...

I only wonder because, while I know no one could advise per se that people deliberately make bad security decisions, I don’t feel as a layman that the nature of the risk is adequately explained....

I have an iPad 1. I barely used it when it was given to me and then it more or less sat unused apart from the occasional booting to see if it still works every few years....

I was sent an email to someone as part of an ongoing thread of emails in a conversation....

After years of using MacOS I somehow only just now became aware you even could copy the filepath at all (outside of dragging in to terminal which is just stupid) so I’m very happy to discover that, but the thing is, for the most part the reason I want to do this is for easy navigation of a file browser by copying paths from...