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  1. Hadron

    Proposed law would make it illegal for companies to microchip their employees

    So much for "the land of the free". Still, I supposed we should thank them for leaving no doubt about how they view their staff... Seriously, how was this ever allowed in the first place? And why is it only a state law that's proposed to cover this?
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    Who are you voting for this year?

    Hmm, over in the UK our current government regularly claim that the opposition want "open borders", despite it bearing no resemblance to the opposition's policies, despite having themselves presided over record immigration (legal and illegal), and despite their own policies being essentially...
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    Oscars 2024 - Best Picture

    "Popular" is rarely the deciding factor in the best picture award. In fact Oppenheimer is unusual in that respect because it was one of the biggest films of the year.
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    Samsung s23 contacts problem

    The cloud backup of your contacts should sync, i.e. when you change it on your phone that change should propagate to the backup. And no, there should not be some separate secret contact store on your phone that is used in preference to your contacts list. Have you tried adding the prefix to all...
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    Nox Security

    You can root a phone with Knox (US Samsungs with their encrypted bootloaders and no unlock option are harder, but that's not Knox). And yes, it will leave a permanent indication that the phone software has been fiddled with, which the carrier or manufacturer may use to withhold warranty support...
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    Google Gemini

    Is this the thing where they've just had to restrict its image generation because it was committing such faux pas as depicting ethnically diverse Nazi stormtroopers?
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    S23 FE 3X telephoto lens output quality?

    What do you do with the videos? If you only play them on the phone, then the phone screen has approximately 2k resolution and hence 4k will be downscaled in order to play it. And if you upload to social media for others to watch on their phones the same will be true (and probably the social...
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    Post Your Last Purchase

    A 512GB Delkin CompactFlash Express Type-B card: with the offer one of my camera dealers had it only cost £9 more than a 128GB card, so it seemed rude not to. Though since I don't shoot video I think this might be overkill... ;)
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    Play going haywire

    Magisk is a root solution, just a different one. How difficult rooting is depends on the phone. Some are straightforward (if they have an unlockable bootloader and a good level of developer support), some are impossible, some may require specific methods (the actual software, such as custom...
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    I'm in my least favorite place

    Moody is logging on, but not posting. Like everyone else, I hope she's OK: I'm sure she'd have let us know if she had got home, so I assume she's still stuck in hospital.
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    "Mobile network not available" on Pixel 7

    Yes. That's what SIMs are designed for, so that you can change handset without changing service or contract. Swapping them is the whole point. eSIMs are different: they aren't removable, just a bit of data that is loaded into a storage location in the phone that does the same job of associating...
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    Heart Trauma Recovery

    I'm lucky enough that I've not had any actual incidents (by my current age my father had had multiple operations, a heart attack and a stroke, whereas I've never spent more than an hour in a hospital in my life). I have been on statins for best part of 2 decades: a suspected TIA (which I believe...
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    "Mobile network not available" on Pixel 7

    Does the SIM work in another handset? This could be a SIM fault rather than a phone fault.
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    Opinions on White Lies?

    I wish I had the wisdom and foresight to know which lies would turn out to be white ones.
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    Is "generative AI" incompatible with AF rules?

    Yes, my concern with "blurring the lines between truth and fiction" is the ability of these tools to auto-generate deceptive content, combined with the damaging effects of social media algorithms which already drive division and undermine truth in their quest for "engagement". As I say, "AI"...
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    Galaxy S24 Series

    "AI" is a term which used to have a clear meaning but has now been taken over my marketing people, and hence loses all meaning because they use it to mean whatever they want it to. What little I've read about "Samsung AI" so far (from Samsung) has been so vague that I've no idea whether they are...
  17. Hadron

    Song Association Game

    Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
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    Song Titles A-Z

    Every Day I Love You Less And Less - Kaiser Chiefs
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    Song Association Game

    Station to Station - David Bowie
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    Is "generative AI" incompatible with AF rules?

    It's amusing to watch companies jump on the bandwagon with no knowledge of what they are doing. In the UK the delivery company DPD recently added generative AI to the chatbot it uses in place of human beings to answer queries. The other days someone who was fed up with the fact that it couldn't...
  21. Hadron

    1944 Brogan Doodlebug

    " 1944 Doodlebug" conjures up a completely different image over here: The V1 flying bomb, which was used to bombard Britain in 1944, was known colloquially as the "doodlebug"...
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    Online Police/Fire Radio Scanner

    As a kid I remember that one of the ordinary analogue radio sets we had could pick up police broadcasts if you hunted around the edges of the frequency range. But all of the services here have used encrypted digital communications for about 20 years now (i.e. about a dozen years after civilian...
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    Swiping gestures explanation

    Basically the phone can tell the difference between swiping with the tip of your finger and the edge of your hand (much bigger area). And it can tell the difference between swiping from an icon and swiping from the edge of the phone. So between these differences it should be extremely easy for...
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    Happy New Year 2023 2024

    These switches take years to plan, and they all have the same regulatory constraints and financial incentives (running different technologies in parallel adds significant cost, while limiting the use of a finite resource, their spectrum allocations, so older, slower technologies will put them at...
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    Is there any way to find the source of these alert sounds?

    Is there any way to find out unfortunately depends on why it's happening. If it is generating notifications and then removing them you might find them in the notification history, which Samsung hide away very deeply in the Notifications settings (Settings > Notifications > Advanced Settings >...