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[–] smitty825 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the response. It’s good to know that I didn’t break the migration. I was able to restore the background/lock screen image and will work on the rest later. 😛

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Phone migration success? (self.android)

submitted 1 week ago by smitty825 to c/android

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My wife has a Pixel 7 Pro that recently broke (flashing screen. It is usable but annoying), but it had an active insurance plan on it. So, she got a replacement pixel 7 pro.

This is the first time in a long time that I got to do an Android migration. (I should mention that my phone is made by a fruit company). I was really excited to see the option to plug in a usb cable and do a transfer!

However, at the end of the transfer, I’m not really sure what the migration does? The message history and photos are moved across and she was logged onto her Google accounts, but really important details never got transferred ( like the image used for the wallpaper/lock screen, locations of the apps on the different home screens)

Is this expected behavior for a migration, or did something go wrong? If this is expected, is there a way to get that info off of the old phone and onto the new phone?

[image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦 in c/fuckcars

[–] smitty825 4 points 1 week ago

Las Vegas has a monorail but it only connects a handful of casinos on the strip. There had been proposals to connect it to Downtown Vegas and the airport, but I don’t think that there is any money set aside to make it happen.

Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60 million per year to run his 3rd-party app in c/technology

[–] smitty825 97 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The internet (ie bandwidth) is cheap, but running servers, providing documentation and tech support all costs a decent amount of money.

However, treating an API as a profit center is a joke. These are literally companies developing software that makes the experience of owning a Tesla better. Making things unaffordable for those companies is putting short term profits over long term success of your product

Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more in c/technology

[–] smitty825 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate a bit more? If I create a passkey on https://passkeys.io on my Mac, then store the passkey in a password manager like Bitwarden, I can log into that site on my phone. I was kinda under the impression that Bitwarden stored the private key on their servers, so if their site gets hacked, then the attacker has access to my passkey.io account?

T-Mobile US Coverage By Band in c/tmobileus

[–] smitty825 1 points 7 months ago

Heh. Can you give us the total cover of EGDE on band 41. 🤪

eeroOS v7.3.0-2816 in c/[email protected]

[–] smitty825 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for posting this. I keep hoping that on one of these releases that we’ll get a separate ssid for iot devices.

Rivian follows Tesla’s footsteps, will open its charging network to other EVs in c/evs

[–] smitty825 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It feels a bit different to me. Tesla hugely invested in their own charging network, while everyone else let EA do it for them. Tesla could have kept their network private to sell more vehicles. As for the exclusive Rivian chargers…I’ve never seen one, but the nearest one to me is about 300 miles away.

Gemini is now out in c/android

[–] smitty825 2 points 10 months ago

Don’t remind them, please. 🤪

When is Google's airtag alternative being released? in c/android

[–] smitty825 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This Chipotle blog entry describes things the best as far as I know: https://chipolo.net/en/blogs/chipolo-point-delay-and-google-find-my-device-app-update

Basically, in December, Google and Apple (and others?) came up with a standard on discovering trackers that are being used to stalk people. Because of the large iOS install base, Google has elected to wait for Apple to roll out that feature on iPhones before enabling the tracking device support on Android.

[Help] Joystick not working in Hot Wheels Unleashed in c/[email protected]

[–] smitty825 2 points 11 months ago

You were right. There is an in-game controller settings menu that got changed. So, that fixed my problem! Thanks for the help!

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[Help] Joystick not working in Hot Wheels Unleashed (self.steamdeck)

submitted 11 months ago by smitty825 to c/[email protected]

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I’m new to the Steam Deck and I haven’t really been in the PC gaming scene since Quake 3/Unreal Tournament more than 2 decades ago. So, I have a lot to learn. (I have a small child and we’ve been exploring the world of games on the Switch)

Said small child is really into hot wheels, so we picked up Hot Wheels Unleashed on the last steam sale. We’ve played it successfully for the last couple of weeks, but all of the sudden (today) the game stopped working right. When driving a car, the joystick won’t let the car turn left. It works going to the right, and it works going left on the in-game menus. (And it works on other games, so it’s not a hardware issue)

Since I’m so new to the steam deck, I really haven’t learned how to debug it yet. I tried changing the Proton version with any success, and I’ve tried some different keyboard layouts without success. I’ve tried the reboot solution and verified that I’m on the latest version of steamOS and the game.

Is there a standard set of steps to debug these type of problems?

US antitrust case against Apple's App Store is 'firing on all cylinders' in c/apple_enthusiast

[–] smitty825 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are so many scam apps in the AppStore today. So many apps have slot machine style mechanics that get people addicted and convince them to pay for more turns. In addition, a bunch of kid-friendly apps have really short subscription periods (a day?) At a high price (say $3.99).

It’s not to say that App Review has no value, but when it comes to scams that separate people from their money, Apple has 30% of a reason to look the other way

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Ohtani is in Blue! (www.espn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by smitty825 to c/dodgers

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I'm not really surprised to see that he signed with LA...he seemed to like the area and he wanted to win...but I was a bit surprised to see that he signed for $700 million over 10 years...that's...a large number.

Let's get a few more pitchers and start planning for a parade!

T-Mobile Achieves New Milestone With mmWave 5G in c/tmobileus

[–] smitty825 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s exciting news. One of the downsides of T-Mobiles mmWave deployments has been it needed an (often saturated) mid-band signal to work. So, this )once rolled out) removes that limitation.

Next, we’ll need them to actually roll out mmWave antennas so that we can all take advantage of that extra capacity!