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Yeah, inductive charging is basically a must.
Especially because it eliminates the guesswork if the watch is correctly seated to charge
Yeah, inductive charging is basically a must.
Especially because it eliminates the guesswork if the watch is correctly seated to charge
No actual technical solution here, but it smells slightly of XY-Problems.
From what you described it seems the main issues are
Maybe you could look into solutions like setting a custom ringtone for important callers or having the phone announce caller names so your mother can decide if she wants to make the effort to get her phone.
I’m speculating a bit here but I can imagine that getting up and answering the phone is exhausting for your mother. Also if her mindset is " a ringing phone means it’s important" that could make it even more stressful.
Maybe you could find a way to let her silence all calls except caregivers and ICE contacts. (On Android DND exceptions could work for that)
That way she doesn’t feel pressured to answer the phone every time it rings and stays reachable.
If it’s actually just the physical issue of reaching the phone in time, does she have a convenient way to carry the phone indoors like a lanyard?
Hope some of this helps you
That feature is right on the border between real neat tech and deeply unsettling.
“Hey, my phone uses its last few electrons to turn into a bluetooth beacon to stay findable” sounds like sci-fi “reserve power emergency mode”
“I can’t turn off the locator chip in a device that holds half my life and memories” is just dystopian.
I’m wondering if there would be a way to keep it useful while minimizing impact for people who stay off the grid. A hardware switch would probably be a good start but they won’t fly with current all-touch designs.
It doesn’t. It carries you by having a module for absolutely everything even shooting yourself in the foot.
To a certain degree, yes. If someone at Google decides to wage all-out war against ad blockers they have a good chance. But if that costs more money than it generates, odds are that someone will stop it. Google / Alphabet is publicly traded after all and that means profit above all else.
Embedding ads into the stream would be hard to counter, but it’s far away. That would invalidate caches along the way and need extra performance to reencode the stream with the ads inserted.
That’s extra costs that are hopefully orders of magnitude above the lost ad revenue from ad blockers
Ironically Sync does, too, and zooms to full width on tap, hiding the Rick roll.
No, No, they don’t understand everything and nothing!
I built a custom app to do it since I couldn’t manage to fire the relevant intents from an adb shell without root.
I lifted the code from AAAD
Specifically the InstallAPK method in MainActivity.java
Intent intent;
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE);
intent.setData(getUri(file));
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
} else {
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndTypeAndNormalize(Uri.fromFile(file), "application/vnd.android.package-archive");
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
}
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_NOT_UNKNOWN_SOURCE, true);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INSTALLER_PACKAGE_NAME, "com.android.vending");
getApplicationContext().startActivity(intent);
}
Basically you construct an Intent ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE
with data pointing to the APK file and the extras EXTRA_NOT_UNKNOWN_SOURCE=true
and EXTRA_INSTALLER_PACKAGE_NAME="com.android.vending"
which tells the installer that this APK is not sideloaded and it’s the play store asking to install it.
You might still need to enable unknown sources in Android Auto developer settings (separate from phone developer settings).
If I remember, I’ll try to pull the code for my app from my PC and post it.
The problem is that android auto is restricted to apps installed from the play store.
The F-Droid Version supports Android Auto, but it’s blocked by Google.
I managed to enable it by spoofing the installer-package during installation.
For me, the navigation is near unusable. Location tends to lag behind by a few seconds when running on Android Auto. On my phone it’s fine.
I run a 2 node k3s cluster. There are a few small advantages over docker swarm, built-in network policies to lock down my VPN/Torrent pod being the main one.
Other than that writing kubernetes yaml files is a lot more verbose than docker-compose. Helm does make it bearable, though.
Due to real-life my migration to the cluster is real slow, but the goal is to move all my services over.
It’s not “better” than compose but I like it and it’s nice to have worked with it.
Very neat idea, but I’d explicitly add strong encryption to that method, cars do get broken into.
I’d encrypt every off-site backup, but a car is a bit more exposed than a rented safe box.
IF you already have an email domain you control.
Calling “acquiring and setting up an email domain and configuring the mail server for wildcards” “basically no extra effort” is a bit disingenuous compared to “solve a captcha for a Gmail account”