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Usually, when I apply a screen protector on a phone, it typically last the duration of my phone, this appears to be true for my son as well.

However, for both my wife and daughter, I seemed to have to apply a new screen protector several times a year. First the sides starts separating often a week after they are applied. Often cracks starts to develop. My wife is particularly careful with her phone, and drop it a lot less than me so it's not because they dropped it too much.

My current hypothesis is that this is due to some sort of skincare product that they use that may causing the adhesive to fail. The other possibility is that they stored their phone in their purse instead of their pocket like I typically do. I would expect being stored in my pocket would be more stressful?

Anyone in the fixit community have a clue?

I attachec a USB game controller to my chromebook using USB. I was able to test that it works on the browser by going to https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad. However, when I attempted to run goat simulator 3 in Luna, I notice that the game cannot detect it. It does appear to detect it within UltraKill. Is this consistency typical in Luna? What is a workaround?

I like to run goat simulator on a laptop with a 13th gen intel i3 with a igpu. I am willing to run it in the lowest setting (640?)

I am trying to get a stylus for the Asus Proart p16 H7606 that supports tilt and pressure sensitivity. The default stylus Asus Sa203h is too expensive at over $150. The computer support mpp 2.0 so I should be able to use other mpp 2.0 pens.

I looked RENAISSER which was highly rated but I heard the original company got taken over by some other group and is no longer the same.

What about metapen. They seemed to have m2 and m3 pens. How well built are they and if they have good customer service in terms of defective merchandise? Can you find replacements tips? Are there software to remap button.

Any other suggestion.

I am playing around with a Cryptnox FIDO card. The card works fine on IOS over NFC but I running into issues on Android 14 and 16.

On IOS I can log into Google using the passkey on the FIDO card. On Android, I get the something went wrong. I tried the Fidobridge app but it errors out with a limit reached error. I am using brave on both platform but other chromium browser fails, too.

On Android, I also can’t save the passkey properly. It saves the non discoverable key into Google instead.

Anyone have an idea what’s going on?

Update
The issue seems to be related to lack of support for ctap2 for Android. Android 16 is supposed to fix the issue but ctap2 still doesn’t work on the most recent Samsung android 16. The issue is that no prompt for the pin appears.

Installing fidobridge but the issue with Google remain

- I can login into ms, google and bitwarden using the Cryptnox card passkey on iOS
- I cannot login to sites using passkey on android without the Fidobridge.
- I can log into webauthn.io, ms and bitwarden using the Cryptnox card with the Fidobridge on android but not Google.
- I can log into webauthn.io, ms, bitwarden, and google using a yubikey with passkey and fidobridge.
- The error return is LIMIT_EXCEEDED. I don’t know what this error is. It’s does not seemed to be a rate exceeded

I have the Asus Proart p16 H7606WI-PB99T which is a 64 gb version with touch screen. I like to get the stylus for it but is not sure which one to get. Stylus should have easily purchased replacement nibs.

I believe the pen asus sells is ASUS Pen SA203H but I heard it’s not great and is hard to find. Best alternatives?

I upgraded to an induction stove because my wife wanted to get rid of gas. One issue I have notice is that carbon steel works pretty well on the induction stove, but the problem is only the small flat part of the wok heats up. I could still cook in smaller batches.

Am I better off getting a large carbon steel pan with high side?

I am not talking about the the best password manager but the most commonly use password manager. My thought is that dedicated password manager are going to be less popular than the build in password managers.

UPDATE

I found an article on security.org which seems to be legit, and contain year by year stats. It is a bit old at 2024.

https://www.security.org/digital-safety/password-manager-annual-report/

Essentially,, it list the most popular password manager is Google, followed by Apple, followed by Last Pass. This makes sense since people usually just use what comes with their device. Market share for both has rapidly rise since 2021. On the flip side, Last Pass has been declining since 2021 dropping from 21% to just 11% in 2024 barely beating out Bitwarden.

My Lenovo Flex 5 chromebook recently started developing a keyboard fault issue. When I press the c key, I get multiple key press like zxcvbnm<>? like the entire bottom row is being press. Some of the other keys turn off the chromebook. No liquid has spilled on the keyboard, but I can't rule out dust and some sort of debris . I tried blowing underneath the keyboard with some compress air, but it did not resolve the issue.

The laptop is of course out of warranty. I thought of replacing the keyboard, but it appears that one has to take the whole thing apart to replace the keyboard and I might break something else instead.

Do this keyboard fault show up a lot on Lenovo? What is the cause if not liquid. I have had tons of laptop in the past but none have this type of keyboard fault.

So I want to install Rustdesk on an android phone. This is mostly so I can remote to my parent's phone when they call for tech support. However Rust Desk is not available on the Google Play. I don't want to allow third party sources since I don't want my parents to accidently install malware. Can I enable third party install the Rustdesk APK and then turn it off after thhe install? will the rustdesk get update with that setting off?

I have setup the Google account with the various way Google can login using Bitwarden.

1. Login using passkey from Bitwarden.
2. Login using password from Bitwarden and then the 2FA from Bitwarden.
3. Login using Bitwarden from the phone using the QR code.
4. Login using password from Bitwarden and then the 2FA from the phone using bitwarden.

Are tehre some additional way to login using passkey? I guess one could also log into Bitwarden using a passkey from Yubikey on desktop but that's not logging in using Bitwarden.

Note

One snafu you may encountered with QR Code is the software support for it. The QR code is not supported natively on every platform. If you select the other passkey option on Windows in firefox, you would be presented with an hardware key or a QR code. If you did the same thing in Linux, you will find the QR Code option missing. This is because Firefox uses the OS to handle the QR code and that isn't available in Linux. In contrast, if you use Chromium that will work on every OS because the QR code is supported natively in the browser.

The other thing to watch out for the QR code is that you must have bluetooth. One issue with google prompt is that you can get accidental approval. Suppose someone remotely hack your google account, it will send a google prompt to your phone for 2FA.. You may accidentally approve the hacker's access when you take it out of your pocket. In the case, of passkey, you have to be within bluetooth range of the device you are approving or the prompt won't even be displayed.

One reoccuring issue is app misinterpret fields and then saving a new entry or worse saving over an existing entry. with the value from the wrong field. What's a good way to prevent this in the setings.

My thoughts are:

Mobile

Autofill -> Ask to add item.

Extension

Notification -> Ask to add Login

Notification -> Ask to update existing login

I don't see an update existing item. Perhaps there isn't one for mobile? This does mean making updates manually, but that is ok.

I have never encounter account lock and bans. I think these were mostly due to sending out large amount of message, etc. If one is just taking with relatives through whatsapp, it's not going trigger a ban or lock?

So Whatsapp is currently installed on a Samsung A14 5G and is upgrading to a Samsung S25 Edge. I believe SmartSwitch is not going copy over the Whatsapp data. There is a feature that allow you to transfer from an old phone if it's on the same network and setup using a QR code. Is this the best way to transfer to a new phone. Are there any pitfall to keep an eye for.

What happens to back up to Google drive on the old phone. Do I need to delete the old backup on google drive so I don't have duplicates?

If there are pairing to other devices, I would need to pair again?

I notice that an option to send verification code to Whatsapp has started appearing in both Vanguard and Yahoo. My hypothesis is that Whatsapp Business API was being adopted as the messenging platform and so now the option is becoming available even though the vendor has not announce the feature. Neither companies are showing up as partner on the Whatsapp for Business website though it did say the list isn't exhaustive.

I am curious if this platform is slowly being adopted by a lot of business? Does Meta make money from this?

Also technically, how does it know when to show the Whatsapp option. I do not have a Whatsapp account or a facebook account but is getting the option, so may be it's shown to everyone.

I often have to help my relatives with Whatsapp settings. To do this, I often use a product like Teamviewer. However, some of the screens are blanked out which makes helping them out difficult. A lot of apps have a setting call "Allow Screen Capture" to be toggle. However, I don't see this setting in Whatsapp. Is there one? Thanks

Update
There is no setting to do this

Many online services like google or Microsoft account allow you go generate recovery code to reset your account in case you lose access. Is there a danger of it being exposed in a breach and then use to gain access to your account?

I am curious to know if this type of hack has ever occurred?

NOTE

It appears that if you enable Advance Protection, you may not be able to generate Backup Code, so google seems to think it's an additional security risk to add an additional method to login.

However, the risk is probably low. The code isn't available until you login into the account and there is no way to generate new ones or look at existing one without logging in. Microsoft accounts are probalby similar.

Is there a reason why mobile app do not support passkey login or is this on th roadmap in the future?

Clarification

When you first install the bitwarden app, you cannot use Passkey to login and must use the master password. Sometimes an update will force the user to login again. I was wondering if there are plans to allow a passwordless login in the future. I am aware that most of the time after you login, you usually use biometric login to unlock the app. This is for logging back in after you log off.

Update

Just think the following may be useful,.

• You can log into Bitwarden from your Browser extension using passkey if you are using the Chrome extension.
• You cannot log into Bitwarden from your browser extension using passkey if you are using firefox extension.
• You cannot log into Bitwarden from your Bitwarden Mobile app on IOS or Andorid using passkeys.

On the login prompt, I notice that there is an option "Save time by accessing whatsapp using your facebook account" and then the facebook account is listed. What is the difference of logging in using this method vs using the phone number? Can you register the app using just the facebook login?

What are the suggested setting to securing Whatsapp? Setup a PIN or setup a passkey?

Are there any gothas to setup multiple clients to the same account. This would be a single whatsapp account that would primary be on a cellphone and then have a tablet and may be a web secondary client pair to the phone.