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Skarsnik posted:I'd suggest Authy as a nicer alternative to Google Authenticator Given that requires you to let Authy handle two-factor stuff in the If you're going to cede control of your security to a third party without any vetting by a regulatory agency (like an accountant or lawyer would be vetted) or actual contingency measures available to you, just use SMS codes for two-factor. someone will inevitably have posted:But I lost my device / am out of Wi-Fi AND mobile coverage but still have Internet somehow / gremlins! Remember those panic codes you were supposed to put somewhere safe? dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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I am not happy with Steam at the moment, because I know from changing my e-mail account with them that they can perfectly well deliver two-factor codes by SMS but normally refuse to.Skarsnik posted:And yes I use lastpass. Please enlighten me as to why I shouldn't Long story short LastPass's people are bad at their jobs. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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My concern with security management by third parties is not so much that they're hackable, but that what recourse do you have when you do end up compromised. Who licenses/bonds/audits password management firms? (Arguably the same framework as banks or attorneys would work, but what government is going to take up the fight to make evidence collection harder.) Do you even have any option other than lopsided arbitration and having to do the same security cleanup as you would with a local/bulk-storage database?Geektox posted:As far as LastPass vs. KeePass vs. 1Password goes, as long as my passwords aren't compromised I personally really don't care much if they get attacked. Dropbox has been subject to breaches before so if that's the concern then why even have your password vault in the cloud at all? The password vault isn't plaintext (not even its metadata is, beyond filesystem minima) and can be given any extension without affecting its readability. Also at least for KeePass you can use an additional file (labeled 'private key' but it can be anything, and shared directly/locally rather than through the cloud or it defeats the purpose) in the encryption process. Cloud storage is just a bag-man. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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Is there a calculator for Android devices that are not on Marshmallow that doesn't suck? The default calculator for Marshmallow Nexuses actually sort of qualifies, because they finally added back the degree-mode and it can deal with calculations with many significant figures (for example, actually returning 720 instead of 0 when fed with (1015+7.2-1015)*100). I'm sure it falls down in other places, but even that puts it ahead of most default calculators. It can be sideloaded onto other Marshmallow phones, which is goodish (put it on the Play Store already Google), but Lollipop stuff not so much. EDIT: On that note, if any of you know of a good place to find formulas that shouldn't break calculators but frequently do it'd be much appreciated. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Three Olives posted:I'm I the only one that vastly prefers the Google Now launcher over Nova and Launcher Pro? It felt like both offered way, way too much customization options that I would have to endlessly dick with to get it to my liking where Google Now is basically featureless but clean and easy to use. I don't know if I'd call it a vast preference, but at some point yeah messing with folders and margins and animations and stuff gets real old (I used Nova for two years), and you realize that Google's actually kinda sorta got a hang of this.
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LastInLine posted:Am I the only person on the planet who has never seen an ad on YouTube ever? I'm ... pretty sure uncontacted peoples haven't seen YouTube ads? Still, those sound like some interesting YouTube habits.
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NOVA LAUNCHER (Prime): Out of curiosity, is there a way to make groups appear in-line in the app drawer, rather than in folders or tabs? Yes, I know you can rename things to fake it, but A) if I didn't care about how things looked I would have stuck with Google's launcher, B) it cuts into the one line caption for your drawer icons, and C) it only lasts until the app is updated. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Mar 13, 2016 |
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LastInLine posted:What is battery saver mode? If it didn't break things, why have it toggle at all and if it does, why are you surprised? That thing that happens automatically when the phone is at 15% so maybe your phone will live as a phone until it reaches a charger. Only it reads like Mogomra is turning it on at like 90% because he thinks Google didn't think about power management at all.
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When Redstone does, so sometime in July?
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Uthor posted:http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/9/11895172/google-android-play-store-nearby-app-recommendation You could just, you know, turn it off in Google Settings.
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Acid Reflux posted:What do I use to replace Evernote? They're switching to extortion-level monthly pricing for use on more than two devices. All I need is something simple to sync occasional shorts notes and lists between my Windows desktop and some Android gadgets. I'm not in a power user scenario here. I don't mind buying an app if needed, but I'll be damned if I'm giving Evernote 8 bucks every month. Google Keep and Microsoft OneNote are the obvious ones; both have the advantage of being included in free omnibus accounts you probably already have.
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OhFunny posted:I've finally growth annoyed enough at ads popping up on the Chrome app that I've switched to Firefox with uBlock installed. You want uBlock Origin, actually. Long story, but uBlock isn't supported these days while uBlock Origin is.
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Google Play Newsstand has been around for a while and Google went back and brought their old news and weather thingy into this century. I'm not going to say Never Don't Google, but they're pretty good at giving people plenty of reasons to use their stuff and few reasons to stop using their stuff.
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Daztek posted:Firefox lets you do that and you can install extensions like uBlock Origin uBlock was given to some other dude who promptly tried to turn it into a donation center and then abandoned it in favor of selling iOS content blockers. uBlock Origin is the original guy doing humanity's work again.
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But we won't care about RCS when the stars have gone out  GutBomb posted:WebOS (palm pre) had it right in my opinion. It integrated all of the available IM platforms along with SMS and MMS into its messaging application and just treated them all the same. It prioritized the platform where the message recipient was marked as available at the time. A modern implementation of something like that would be awesome and then it wouldn't matter what anyone was using, it would all just appear there. The first two paragraphs are pretty much my thoughts on it too. Blackberry needs to be done, though.
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Today I learned that you can't restore a phone backup in the Android first-run wizard without restoring the corrupt system settings that caused you to have to wipe in the first place, and if you set up as a new device you lose your entire Google Drive backup for the device. Unless I'm blind or something, there needs to be a way to just restore app data, not the phone configuration. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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LastInLine posted:It's cute that you think restoring a device will ever work properly. Eh. I think things should work as advertised, and I'm a hopeless optimist when I'm not shitposting.
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pee out my butt posted:Using a VPN for adblock is dumb, just use AdAway. A relevant comment you made in the Windows thread, and drat the consequences: pee out my butt posted:Just because your dumb use case does exist doesn't mean it should exist.
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There's also a Chrome extension, and ... well, there's no point suggesting a Chrome app because Google's pulling apps off of Chrome for general-purpose computers soon.
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GIFs are one of the few things around these days that isn't hardware-accelerated. The general-purpose CPU in your phone, which is more of a processor of last resort with as many specialist processors a typical phone has in 2016, has to put full power to running the GIF. A full-3D or full-vector or UHD-video live wallpaper might actually be less intensive on your battery.
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docbeard posted:My dreams of a Battlestar Galactica phone with the corners cut off are shattered. Corners are not notches and we sort of have that already with rounded-corner screens. Also a BSG cell phone would be exceedingly 'have you learned nothing', but if you just want clipped corners I don't think there's anything there to stop you? v v v
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Tamba posted:I'm using Total Commander It's probably bad that this is the only thing I can think of when people bring up filesystem commanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn1_9YvGds
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tarbrush posted:So, I'm getting a shitload of annoying ads that redirect my browser. How do I make them stop please? Running a pixel 3 with the normal chrome, not rooted. They don't seem linked to any recently installed apps, and I've deleted all the ones Ive installed since the issues have happened Firefox for Android takes AMO addons, including (importantly) uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere, and also does Firefox Sync.
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Uthor posted:Haven't tried FF on Android in years. How does it compare, speed and smoothness wise, to Chrome? Last I tried it, scrolling was choppy and it loaded pages weird so they jumped around. I use FF on all my PCs and wouldn't mind getting away from Google a bit more on my phone (I know, I know, I'm using Android on a Google Pixel phone). It works well enough for things I still actually use the Web directly for on smartphones, but admittedly that's not much of my phone usage profile. I suppose it's more about its capacity for containment than its direct utility or performance for me.
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