Andi

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[–] Andi 2 points 1 year ago

Until the directory structure and filename, including your SharePoint hostname, exceeds 400 characters and then it just breaks. Because, Microsoft.

Surprisingly easy to do with some quite nested folders with spaces in the names (as that takes 3 characters per space) and a long filename.

[–] Andi 0 points 1 year ago

Because the paid-for "bloat" is per region. If you don't define the region..... taps side of forehead

[–] Andi 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Remember some 'core' apps, such as Paint and Calculator are delivered via the Store now too - so they'll also be missing.

[–] Andi 58 points 1 year ago (14 children)

When choosing the region/language, choose "English (World)". Boom, bloatware be gone.

You can safely change it to your correct region once you've logged in (Note: the Windows Store won't work until you do).

[–] Andi 2 points 1 year ago

You can't run Android Auto directly on your phone anymore, it was disabled last year. It only runs as a service to be used by a suitable head unit.

[–] Andi 1 points 2 years ago

DietPi (based on Debian). Incredibly lightweight. Easy menu system for installing apps easily which it then maintains and updates for you, or you can easily install Docker if you prefer that (or both). Contains a backup system if you want to use that too.

[–] Andi 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It's too old to help with transcoding, I'm afraid, so probably won't aid your server in any way.

[–] Andi 2 points 2 years ago

Wireguard needs kernel access so needs to run privileged.

[–] Andi 36 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Colourblind isn't the complete absense of colour, e.g. everything looks black and white. With deuteranomaly, you are the actual textbook definition of colourblindness... There are different levels of it, but all can still perceive colour - it's just whether the difference in colour of the spectrum is detected correctly.

Deuteranomaly (/ie) is the reduction in reactivity of the red-colour receptors. That means your perception of orange/red/brown is less than those with normal vision.

For those with normal vision, this is a great chart. But, if you're colourblind, it'll be more confusing for you, sorry!

[–] Andi 1 points 2 years ago

You misunderstood. The US is <10% of Samsung phone sales globally (I found retail sales online for their handset sales per country) . And they will know the stats of which of those phones ever used the magstripe feature. An educated guess of <1% of global users activating the mag stripe feature is a feature they can afford to cut, especially if it saves on cost.

[–] Andi 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Re. the Mag-Stripe. Bare in mind the US is <10% of the market for the Samsung phones. And then you'd need to break down of the Samsung phones sold in North America - how many of those were S-series vs. the others which don't support the mag-stripe. Even if 50-50, that's now <5% of phones which have mag-stripe support in a country that uses it. Then rough guess of 20% of users actually pay by phone? You're now <1%. A small pale blue dot in the vast cosmic arena...

SD cards - there's also the point of user data security. Data stored on an SD card can't be easily guarenteed safe by Knox. Yes, you can encrypt it, but remove that SD card and the card itself can't protect the data from brute forcing encyption keys.

[–] Andi 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The other issues with SD card is security. Your data isn't safely tucked away, controlled by Knox if it's on a SD card which can be removed. And 'letting the user choose' just means that there needs to be configuration and extra options in firmware, which leads to backdoors and workarounds and a higher chance of comprimsed user data. (When they're not just stealing it off your device and selling it anyway...).

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