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    Preventing Screenshots From Saving to Cloud?

    I also have a pixel 6, but I don't trust google at all to be anything resembling ethical. First few things I did was disable "photos", install OpenCamera, and install Simple Tools' "Gallery".
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    What's the best file explorer to replace es file explorer

    I've seen xplore mentioned, which is really nice and has tons of uncommon options, including sftp which comes in very handy as my main home desktop runs a Linux os. If you don't need all the weird stuff, Simple Tools has a real nice file manager, I really like his stuff because its all ad free...
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    Help Alarm dismiss won't come on lock screen

    What's your solution? My old "just reminder" app doesn't work any more. I've been wanting to make one, but keep putting it off because I'm lazy and it's not high on my to do list.
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    TCL in Android

    Thanks, I have androwish installed, it will run graphical tcl scripts on my phone, I was looking more along the lines of a package that'll recognize screen area, know about rotating portrait / landscape, stuff like that. I can start in at a low level, but I didn't want to invent a wheel only to...
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    TCL in Android

    I make little TCL scripts for personal use, often with a TK/GUI. Does anyone know if there's a toolbox or other to make these run on a telephone? Thought I'd start here, you guys are geeks after all :)
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    Best password vault apps

    Looks like this is a couple if weeks old, but .. One app that is very good is SSE, an encryption app with lots of nice features that includes an encrypted password vault. What may be a deal breaker with some people, that I consider a big plus, is that keeps nothing in the "cloud", but you can...
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    Phone Snobbery?

    What ever happened to normal? Disapprove of such language? What, people being normal?Normal people saying normal things? Intolerant?
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    Phone Snobbery?

    Went on a ride once with my son and his army buddy, stopped at a joint for lunch .. Not sure why the phone topic came up between them, but the kid mentioned green texts and his disdain for them before quickly (and awkardly} remembering that I was sitting there. I pulled out my phone and told him...
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    Text encryption

    I would like to know from people who make an effort to encrypt text, which cipher and mode would you prefer if you were looking? Something legacy, something new?
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    Keyboard Issue

    I have a strange problem, I use an IRC client by the name of AiCiA, but it doesn't seem to like the keyboard that I use, which is OpenBoard. When I tap on the text box, the keyboard never appears. Both google and microsoft keyboards work fine. I doubt anyone is using that client, it's pretty...
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    Scripting languages

    Has anyone ever used TCL or Ruby or even Python to write apps for Android? I like to make my own personalized stuff, but I just suck at java / kotlin, takes forever, and at my age I'm just not interested in new tricks.
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    Pixel lock screen

    I recently purchased a pixel 6 which I quite like, although there is one thing that I just can't figure out: When I wake up the phone, the lock screen displays the date, time, and current weather conditions .. With the temperature shown in celsius. I simply cannot find where I can change the...
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    Secure Keyboard

    Does anyone know if there's a such thing as a secure keyboard, meaning that it prevents keystroak logging?
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    SD card issue irks me

    I ended up with a phone I never asked for from a company that says I can't use my one plus on their network anymore. AT&T sent me Galaxy s9+ with a wimpy 64g storage, so I put an SD card in, make a couple of directories, move some files to the card, but the effing phone insists on erasing the...
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    AT&T sends me a phone

    So the other day I get a new (I assume refurbished, it's a galaxy 9) phone in the mail from AT&T, with a note advising me that they're turning off 3g service, and here's a new phone that does 5g, and they sent a new 5g sim. Note says that they'll activate the phone in thirty days if I don't do...
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    Music players just stop

    Since my phone (oneplus 7) did a system upgrade to Android 11 a month or two ago, I have noticed that any time I start a music player, it'll run for five or ten minutes, and then just stop, and it doesn't matter which player, this happens on Pi, VLC, and Simple Player, playing locally stored...
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    Google censorship

    Google has banned the Parler social media app from the Play Store.
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    iOS

    Had to share this .. Listening to a well known radio personality / political talking head who's also a big time fan boy. He spent the first several minutes of his third hour talking about how cool the new iOS 14 is, because it has this new and totally cool thing called "widgets". :)
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    Meaning of Icon

    Visiting relatives, the signal from the tower to my phone seems perfectly okay, but the speed sucks, and sometimes, for instance with loading web pages, they'll just time out. I noticed that next to the signal strength indicator, an exclamation mark sometimes appears. (see attached screen cap) I...
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    Encryption

    I ran a Fidonet BBS back in the early 90's, and one of the downloads I encouraged as well as many other sysops was Phil Zimmerman's PGP. Why would you send a letter without an envelope, he would ask. Many people used PGP, but as time marched on, PGP became commercialized, and GPG became the...
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    Help Music Players

    I use Pi music player, but the problem I'm having seems to effect them all.. It seems that every player I've tried will automatically start playing the moment I connect to a Bluetooth speaker, remembering what it was playing before, and that is annoying, for me, anyway. Anyone have advice?
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    Help VPN in OnePlus 7

    For a couple of years, I used Avast Secureline VPN on an Honor 8. Recently purchased a OnePlus 7 and migrated everything to find that many apps (not all) don't know that I have an internet connection while Avast VPN is running. Hate to dump it, still have many months left on current...
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    reply-to in email client

    I thought this would be an easy one, but I have not yet found an Android client that supports reply-to, and there doesn't seem to be any threads on this forum. Here's what I have: Company contracts Google to administer email, and turns off Gmail IMAP. I despise web interfaces, so created a new...
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