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  1. mikedt

    Who are you voting for this year?

    is Donald Trump still good friends with Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping?
  2. mikedt

    this happened when the URL changed

    FWIW I'm always using a VPN with Linux to view and post on AndroidForums/EarlyBirdClub/WhateverItsCalledNow don't have any problems.
  3. mikedt

    Oscars 2024 - Best Picture

    Barbie and Oppenheimer are the only two movies on that list I'd heard of.
  4. mikedt

    TV Shows?

    "Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement" Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
  5. mikedt

    TV Shows?

    This is the map that M*A*S*H would be on. Although aren't all American TV shows made in California(Hollywood)?
  6. mikedt

    Nox Security

    Knox is the security on Samsung phones and tablets, it's baked into the firmware and hardware. https://www.samsungknox.com/en Was your Blu phone made by Samsung?
  7. mikedt

    this happened when the URL changed

    FWIW when I search Google this site still comes up first, and a rival one is second.
  8. mikedt

    0x0000009F Error: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

    I had this years ago with XP. Cause was buggy drivers.
  9. mikedt

    Samsung RDX mode

    Have you tried any of the ideas suggested here? https://droidwin.com/samsung-stuck-in-ss-rdx-watchdog-reset-mode/
  10. mikedt

    Galaxy S24 Series

    :ROFLMAO: I was waiting for something like that, now Mickey Mouse is public domain.
  11. mikedt

    Help Gboard - how to disable the handwriting option!

    Should be able to disable handwriting input for Gboard latest version in settings. I've got Gboard handwriting unchecked on my Note20 Ultra. And it doesn't turn on when using the S-Pen,
  12. mikedt

    Tomb Raider Remastered

    Twitter(I'm not calling it X) is requiring account login to view. Which I don't have.
  13. mikedt

    Android Auto on Samsung Tablet "Not Compatible"

    Winners don't use drugs. :thumbsupdroid:
  14. mikedt

    Should I switch to YouTube Premium?

    YT Premium is a fail for me, because I'm not in the US. The VPN I use does a good job of blocking the intrusive and irrelevant ads.
  15. mikedt

    Happy New Year 2023 2024

    That's the Lunar New Year, which in 2024 is 10th February, Year of the Dragon. This is a main public holiday here in China. Chinese New Year - Wikipedia Only some hours in the future compared to the US. CST(Beijing Time) is always plus 8 hours of UTC(Greenwich Mean Time). US is minus of UTC.
  16. mikedt

    Happy New Year 2023 2024

    It's 8 hours into 2024 as I post this. Happy New Year. 新年快乐。
  17. mikedt

    Happy New Year 2023 2024

    2023 is the year I finally got married, and retired from full-time teaching.
  18. mikedt

    What are you listening to?

    Jarema Stępowski - Warszawski taksówkarz(Warsaw Taxi Driver)
  19. mikedt

    Breaking and Entering

    This maybe specific to the UK. But sometimes properties might be tagged with chalk marks on the pavements, gateposts, or walls. Where properties have apparently been scouted in preparation for potential breaking and entering. I've heard it called "Da Pinchi Code". And I have seen some of these...
  20. mikedt

    Breaking and Entering

    Reading this I'm reminded of something that happened at our family house in the 90s. On our back door we found the key difficult to turn and wouldn't lock, upon investigation we found a piece of cardboard had been stuffed into the mortice preventing the lock tenon from fully engaging. Someone...
  21. mikedt

    How do you Celebrate Christmas 2023???

    I'll play Jingle Bells on the wife's Yamaha keyboard, and call dad via WhatsApp or EasyCall on Christmas day. And that's about it for Christmas.
  22. mikedt

    All Things Marvel

    Took the missus to see The Marvels in the cinema last month, and it was cack. And apparently it was a box office bomb. Could the MCU has hit hard times?
  23. mikedt

    Samsung neigbor wants to use my mobile hotspot. Can I limit sharing to her device and 2GB? Can I block my phone from downloading? Can I filter domains?

    With Samsung phones you can limit the number of simultaneous connected devices, and the amount of data the hotspot uses. Check all the auto-update options for apps etc. are turned off. There are things like Net Nanny, as already mentioned. But any net filtering and blocking is very easy to...
  24. mikedt

    top 2023 albums.

    The Beatles 62-66 and 67-70, aka the Red and Blue albums. Remixed editions. No other releases this year really caught my attention.
  25. mikedt

    Best keyboard not gboard

    OT: This is probably more about semantics and maybe I'm been pedantic? But I wouldn't define Russia as a European country, especially when more than half its area is in Asia. I suspect the population somewhere like Vladivostok wouldn't consider themselves European. Would we say "Baidu is an...