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Will android ever get a volume slider? by [deleted] in AndroidQuestions

[–]ThrowAway237s [score hidden]  (0 children)

Welcome to the land of Google, they have a million other things they could be doing better.

Indeed. The idea that Android is customizable is not true, at least not without an unlocked bootloader and root access. Sure, more customizable than iOS (the only reference we have to compare it with), but still not that much.

For example, in 2014, how come Google forcibly disabled normal MicroSD write access on Android 4.4? It would have made more sense to give the device owner the choice. A simple menu option is all it would have taken.

If I can think of this, so can a gigacorporation. This means they, for whichever reason, chose not to do it.

Whichever problem that solved, it created a far bigger problem: disabling one of Android smartphones' major selling points compared to iPhones.

The same happened with mandatory pull-to-refresh since Chrome version 75. They took away the ability to turn it off, following by refusing to reinstate it after many, many complaints about accidental refreshes. They have not brought it back to this day.


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Will android ever get a volume slider? by [deleted] in AndroidQuestions

[–]ThrowAway237s [score hidden]  (0 children)

Another reason for a touch slider is that some applications reserve the volume buttons. One example is Android Terminal by Jack Palevich.

Also, when you are playing music while the phone is on the table horizontally, having to lift it to reach the volume keys is annoying.

Why does Android force me to use the pin instead of fingerprint by classicliberal1 in AndroidQuestions

[–]ThrowAway237s [score hidden]  (0 children)

Absolutely. I am also annoyed by Google constantly patronizing its users. They have been doing so often, for example when they disabled normal MicroSD write access in Android 4.4 with no menu option to let the device owner decide, leaving rooting as the only option to regain this ability.

Google sometimes creates bigger problems than they solve. I would rather have some junk files on the MicroSD card that can be deleted anyway than not being able to use this major selling point of Android smartphones properly.

How to convert a file with many blank sectors into a sparse file? by ThrowAway237s in linuxquestions

[–]ThrowAway237s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I have no personal experience with it. I have just read in articles and discussion forums repeatedly that Btrfs is unfinished. Perhaps it is by now (unlike the similarly-named Bcachefs).

I certainly will give it a try at some point. But ext4 works just fine for me, so I see no urgent need to switch.

How to convert a file with many blank sectors into a sparse file? by ThrowAway237s in linuxquestions

[–]ThrowAway237s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you considered a file system with compression and reduplication?

I know, Btrfs has these things, but I prefer stability over modernity. ext4 is the stable workhorse.

How to convert a file with many blank sectors into a sparse file? by ThrowAway237s in linuxquestions

[–]ThrowAway237s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I knew about dd (obviously), but I was unaware of this option until now. Perhaps I read the manual long ago and forgot about it. If /r/TodayILearned didn't have its seventh rule ("No submissions about software/websites"), I would have posted it there. :D

But if anyone knows a way to accoplish this in-place (without creating a new file), if that is possible, that would be great.

Is this a new YouTube feature? by [deleted] in TimeworksSubmissions

[–]ThrowAway237s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dear DhravyaShah, have you saved the 2005 video referenced in the earlier comment by RYDANIOV? YouTube has taken it down since, so it is lost media now, after having been on YouTube for over 15 years.

i found a video in 2005 with under 1000 views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQ-uQeyCmE

More information in this comment.

CC other active users: /u/TheScientifreakPlays, /u/RoseBud_XD, /u/TheScientifreakPlays.

What was the URL to this June 2005 video? by ThrowAway237s in TimeworksSubmissions

[–]ThrowAway237s[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dear Nickolas (/u/TimeworksStudios),

do you still have the screen recording from this screenshot above? If so, could you please look for the URL of this video that Google omitted from the search result?

Thank you.

Dailymotion TV Streaming back? by SlightlyNotFunny in Dailymotion

[–]ThrowAway237s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a smart TV app over 10 years ago, but I rarely ever used it, so I don't know when they got rid of it.

Maybe they thought "smart TVs can use their Internet browser anyway".