u/DPAmes1

Google Photos on Pixel stopped showing grouped by date

Google Photos on my Pixel phone has always shown me the default list view with photos grouped by date and listed under a date header for each day, newest to oldest.

Today the date headers disappeared, and all the photos are shown in one big grid, still ordered from newest to oldest. I didn't change anything to my knowledge, and I can't figure out how to get the old date headers back.

Any help?

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u/DPAmes1 — 5 days ago

Firestick Max frequently fails to load home menu on startup

Lately our Firestick 4k Max will frequently fail to load the home menu properly on startup - maybe 50% of the time? Normally it would start up, load the content ads and immediately shows the home menu apps below the content ads while cycling through the ads. But now about half the time it loads the content ads and starts cycling through them - but no app menu. Pressing the Home button on the remote does nothing. I have to press the Menu button on the remote and step down to Appstore to display the app menu. Amazon broke something, but what?

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u/DPAmes1 — 6 days ago

Problems with 1st-time crypto payment. Any help?

First time experiment paying for anything with crypto. Painstakingly worked my way through setting up an account with Coinbase, verifying account, transferring money, buying bitcoin, setting up Torbox one-time payment, and then...

Torbox gives me a QR code and an option to select wallet (why? what does that mean in this context?). Coinbase isn't one of the options. Coinbase can scan the QR code, but that produces - a blank transaction entry screen.

Selected manual payment on Coinbase, copied the "address" Torbox gave for their default wallet (hope it's right, who knows?) and the exact BTC amount from the Torbox screen. Timed out once, had to start again. Then Send!

Result: Transaction delayed, Coinbase wants me to take an anti-scam survery first. Aaargh. Fine, done.

Next: Coinbase tells me my transaction is on auto-hold until next week to make sure I am not being scammed or money-laundering my measly $12!

I have no idea what Torbox will do when the delayed transaction arrives. Does anyone know? Should I just try to cancel the transaction at Coinbase and eat the fees and try again sometime?

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u/DPAmes1 — 6 days ago
▲ 2 r/tasker

This one has me stumped:

The Wyze Android app for the Wyze cams posts notifications like this "Motion Detected Wyze1 at 5:43 PM". That's exact;y what I see in the Tasker run log when I use Action Edit %evtprm3 to see what the notification text looks like.

But if I attempt to use %evtprm3 in a subsequent action like HTTP Request, or if I attempt to set another variable to %evtprm3, I only get the first 18 characters.

For example Variable Set %naction = %evtprm3 produces %naction="Motion Detected Wy".

An HTTP Request sending %evtprm3 by GET or POST produces the same 18 characters.

Apparently there are no unusual characters in the string - a Search/Replace [^a-zA-Z0-9] on %evtprm3 replacing any non-text character with "x" produces "MotionxDetectedxWy".

Strangely I can use Variable Section to get the cam number at character position 21 of %evtprm3.

What's going on here? Why can I only see the first 18 characters of this notification string when the whole string is initially present in %evtprm3?

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u/DPAmes1 — 25 days ago