Shouldn't the option for a pattern swipe unlock be available for users to decide to use or not? Fingerprint unlock is junk for Pixel 7, it would be nice to have the pattern unlock option, leave that choice to a user not the developers of Graphene.
It would cost me maybe $60 a year for a VPN. Is it something I should have? What are the main reasons for having a VPN? I don't travel often. I don't do anything illegal on the internet. I am trying to degoogle as much as I can on my PC and phone (no gmail, no sheets/docs), using Linux 95% of the time now. What are the main reasons I should use a VPN?
Can someone confirm whether Surfshark vpn has standalone app dark mode for Linux? for Windows 11? for Android?
I purchased a Tracfone BLU View 5 smartphone but i need some sort of card to activate it and have minutes for calling, texting, data. I have never owned a burner/Tracfone before. Can someone help me know specifically what card I need to buy, so I do not end up buying a card that is just minute and does not include activation?
Would this Tracfone card work? I need about 2 months of service, and 500 minutes would be enough. The purpose of the phone is just for communicating with car dealerships as I do not want to give them my regular phone number as I shop for a car:
Tracfone 60-day Smartphone plan — 500 minutes, 1,000 texts, 500 MB data — about $25
On the Mazda cx30 there looks to be chrome trim on the bottom and rear of the side windows. Is that something that could be painted over with some sort of matte exterior paint that would last a few years before needing redoing?
How would a Mazda CX30 be for someone 6'4" as regards leg room and headroom? Anybody at that height who can comment? I am looking to possibly buy a cx30 so just asking. I have been driving a Honda Fit for 12 years.
I created a google Voice number, and then was hit with a wall wanting me to verify my ID with a passport, driver license, etc. I won't do that. Now I can not delete the google Voice number that was created. How do I delete the voice number?!?
On the Voice account settings, I see the number, but there no button or menu choice to delete the number.
If I buy a pixel so I can install Graphene and somehow I muck up the installation, will the phone be permanently bricked? Or would there be a way to someone reformat the 'bricked' phone to try installing Graphene again? I am a little concerned about paying $500 for a pixel phone only to have it ruined; I currently already have a nice OnePlus 10 Pro phone that works great, and I might sell if if I get a working Graphene phone.
Has anybody figured out how to make the menu on Reaper for Linux go dark to match various dark themes on Reaper? I was able to do this in Windows 11 with some add on script that was specific to Windows. but how to do this with Reaper in Linux? Reaper version 7.80, Ubuntu/Mint Linux.
Has anybody figured out how to make the menu on reaper go dark to match various dark modes on Reaper? I was able to do this in Windows 11 with some add on script that was specific to Windows. but how to do this with Reaper in Linux? (It is an aesthetic thing I know, but I am back tweaking Linux again for composing in light of all the ID verification happening in the world, I want to work at getting Linux viable for most of my composing.)
Is the upcoming Octoberfest this weekend down at Bayfront worth attending? I would be a designated driver, no beer, so wondering if the events at the fest are worth seeing?
I am curious how you set your fee for film scoring -- x% of the film budget? flat fee based on minutes of music? other? I have scored a few free short films but I am not interested in scoring for free anymore. So how does one decide on what to charge? At some point a composer needs to recoup even a small percentage of their costs for all the vst libs.
I am thinking of just buying an extra duplicate motherboard and CPU to have around for when such hardware embeds tracking anti-privacy chips. I know, such components already sort of give a signature for one's hardware (as used by DRM software). But I mean full on chipset tracking. Thoughts?
I have probably 1-15+ years left to live. I have created a Will, set up beneficiaries. But what do we do about preparing for erasing our digital footprint when we die? I have deducted it comes down to trusting someone with an encrypted password protected file with all my internet accounts, financial accounts (scary to share), so that when I die they can shut down any necessary accounts. What are you all doing about this? What is the best thing to do? I find it hard to trust someone with all my accounts and passwords, but what other choice is there? I could get a safe deposit box, but they would have a key or access to it of course so that makes no difference plus I have heard horror stories of loss of contents from safe deposit boxes. Actually when I think about it, I would not need to hand over my passwords to my bank and IRA/brokerage accounts, because I have already set up beneficiaries to those, so maybe not so scary to hand over passwords to the other accounts, except that one's email account is really the most valuable account given how all other accounts require to recover lost passwords or for verification.
I have been using reddit for years but I still do not know how to reply to a post with indented citing of the original post i am replying to. I see this all the time on reddit and I do not know how to do it. Example below where i just used the spacebar and a vertical mark to manual show what I want to do, must be a way reddit does this fast and simple? How do I do this?
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Outside of the bible story in the gospels, how do we know that Mary was a virgin, or that she even existed, or that she gave birth to Jesus?
If I read about a I 6/4 chord (inversion), help me understand what the 6/4 means, and please give me example of the stacked notes in a 4-voice chord that makes for a 6/4 chord.
Apart from religious books and their stories (bible/OT, Torah), what good evidence is there for the existence of the OT character called Moses, mass enslavement of Hebrews by the Egyptian, or the exodus of such people en masse and led by Moses (followed by 40 years of wandering in the desert)?
Any recommendations of books or other resources for learning to compose long form music? (symphonic poem, etc)
How many inches of water fell per hour during the alleged global or even local flood ascribed to the story of Noah? The record rainfall historically has been 4 inches an hour, but typical heavy rainfall is more like 1+ inch an hour. If it was 4 inches an hour, that only dumps 320 ft of rain in 40 days and nights, hardly enough to cover the tallest mountain (Mt Everest), or even Mt Ararat. For rainfall to cover Mt Ararat in 40 days and nights would have required rainfall at a rate of 211 inches per hour. 211 inches/hour of rainfall is a bit more than double the highest rate of rainfall (90 inches an hour over just a 1 minute period) recorded, but I am sure a God could do it it the story is true. Do Christians think 211 inches of rainfall over 40 days and nights is possible, as would have been required just to cover Mt Ararat (not even considering a global flood that would have needed to cover Mt Everest)?
