Kinda, when I pull down to refresh it seems more responsive rather than doing nothing

I went to an airbnb that had a creepy but visible proximity sensor in the bedroom, and a hidden wifi network that was strong near it.

So, I found a network for an already visible device :-)

I think you can disable the “WiFi scan throttling” option in the Developer Options, which might remove this default limitation

Still no idea why Location is needed for this

Edit: Apparently it’s a safety feature against malicious developers who can pinpoint your location based on scan results. To make the user aware, they force you to enable location permission

I think it’s an OS limitation which throttles the Wifi scanning to slower intervals (and also requires you to enable location(??))

Use it, love it, has a great http webserver fallback option too

WifiAnalyzer, great for finessing your own WiFi channels by providing a scan layout of all 2.4Ghz and 5/6Ghz channels in your area.

You can see bandwidth, signal strength, overlapping networks, everything.

I use it to diagnose deadspots in my home, or to search for hidden wireless cameras in hotel rooms

How do you pull data with this? You have to export all your transactions first, right?

Me like PipePipe

Every now and then I try a new launcher, but I always come back to Trebuchet. It just works, it’s light, and I’m only one or two taps away from anything

I’ve got my fingers crossed

Same, I remember one long wonderful car trip with my parents through scenic europe where I was staring affixedly at my screen as I learned to write a game in python ncurses for the first time

Hear hear. I had real hopes for Lina Khan during Biden’s term, but that seemed to have petered out to nothing. Let’s see if something happens once the monster is out of power

Fairphone seemed like a good longterm purchase. Im tired of collecting phones from family members and ex’s and repurposing them ala lineage or postmarket.

Nokia N900 was the last phone I truly felt anything for. Fairphone seems to have a modular design that might accomodate a similar experience in the future

Yep. I asked, they said “no”, and something along the lines of “if we make an exception for you then blah blah blah”. I need the job, I swallowed it.

I have two of those old phones, I flashed the stock but the Android was too low, I flashed the lineage with Android 13, re-locked the bootloader, and the App still fucking said no. Once you’ve opened the bootloader even once, a flag is set in the gsettings.

At that point I wasn’t even sure if my boss was going to let me keep this job, so I just went out and bought a new phone that I knew would be delivered the very next day

I had to buy a new phone for work. My current jailbroken one was rejecting the auth app I needed to logon suddenly after an update.

I tried using an older phone using a newer (lineage) OS, no root, but the App kept saying no. I was beginning to lose quite a few working hours on this, and my work said “no” when I asked them for a phone.

So I bought a Fairphone6. Unnecessarily. I’m certain it’s a good phone, with great repairability, and I will probably switch to it at some point in the future if my current phone ever stops working.

But it exists to log me in to work. That’s its sole purpose. I dread to think what I’ll have to buy next if the logon app gets too old on this phone.

“Buy the new Google Pixel T1000!”
“okay, why”
(advert shows the camera, and some “Ok google do this” feature)
“so nothing new since the last 5 phones, eh?”

Gimme the name, model, and astrological sign, please

His mother was an influential person on the board of directors of several firms. She met with John Opel, who was the IBM chairman, and secured her son’s Microsoft contract with IBM in the 1980s, where it then became dominant and made her a ton of money.

It’s vested interests, and who you know.