If you can afford it, I personally highly recommend just buying two USB-C hardware Yubikeys and storing it on there. Built in back up and if you put it on your keyring, it’s always nearby. You can still use your phone to access the code as well.

Not exactly super helpful for solving this problem but since you’re already going to have to reset or get new accounts, it’s a good time to switch over if you’re interested.

Is this a Marvel Snap reference?!

I only use it for web stuff but W3Schools is usually pretty solid so I wouldn’t be mad having that as a first result.

I can’t speak for Canada but at least here in the US, I’ve used every Pixel on any carrier I wanted. And most of them were small ones. Straight Talk, Ting, T-Mobile, and one more I can’t even remember the name of.

IIRC, the “allowlist” stuff was just “known carriers that use towers that are compatible with this phone.” As in, different carriers use different “bands”, or frequency ranges, for their transmissions. Your phone has to have hardware support for those bands. So the “allowlist” is really just “we know these work.” I’m pretty sure neither Samsung nor Google will stop you from using an unlocked phone bought from them with any carrier that’ll accept it. These days, I just stick a SIM (or eSIM) into my phone and just go.

I know every place in America looks like this but where is this exactly?

Hmmm…I smell a massacre. Seems to be the only way to back these bastards up.

The people who want a world where iPhones are like Linux by default don’t use iPhones; they use Linux phones.

The vast majority of us just want to have the ability to use our devices to run what we want when we want to. The App Store is a good, fine thing. I like that it exists and I don’t want it to go away.

But I don’t think it’s fair that Apple gets to tell me I can’t run emulators on my phone. It’d be like Ford telling me I can’t drive my car on an interstate or something. The whole concept is weird.

Let me own my device, please. I paid for this hardware; why am I not allowed to choose the software that runs on it?

Android handles this in what I think is a great way. By default, you can’t install 3rd party apps. You have to dig into your settings to enable that and then your phone is unlocked. I do think that’s bad for alternative app stores (but that’s a whole ‘nother problem) but the vast majority of people who seek apps that aren’t available in the phone’s App Store do so because they’re more technically minded and so don’t mind a more technical solution. If you go take a random Android user off the street, 9 times out of 10, they won’t even know you can install apps from outside of the App Store and that’s a good thing.

Apple loves to tout “security” and “efficiency” for why they don’t allow 3rd party apps and that’s so silly to me. If I want a less secure and less efficient phone so that I can use features Apple doesn’t like, that should be purely my decision to make. It doesn’t affect anyone else but me.

Make sure you’re on 1.19.0 of F-Droid, which needs to be installed manually for now.

https://f-droid.org/de/2024/02/01/twif.html

Those last two are terrifyingly close in age!

Should’ve been a shuriken!

Yeah. They were a minor deal in Destiny 1, and existed for a short while when Destiny 2 launched but now mean nothing.

Back in D1, you could pledge to a faction and get faction specific rewards (armor and weapons) styled in the colors of that faction. Dead Orbit was black, white, and gray. Future War Cult (FWC) was blue, red, and yellow. And New Monarchy was red and white.

You’d rank up for a faction by wearing their class item while doing missions, strikes, or crucible. Or by doing that faction’s bounties.

Ultimately, not an important source of progression (they’d never gear you up to raid level) but it was a fun way to show community.

Obligatory link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XkKufyIiAY

To Rule A Butterfly

I had to read the title three times before it clicked that it said 64 TERABYTES and not gigabytes.

Holy smokes.

This happened to me at my old apartment randomly. After giving the correct directions for month, one day Google decided “no, you have to go to this OTHER road and walk through the alley!”

But of course, there was no alley.

That being said, I put in the request with Google Maps to fix it and it was fixed in about 3 weeks. Took 2 weeks to even figure out why all my deliveries were being delivered a street over, though.

Yeah, yeah, I’m up next on the sticks.

Yeah, yeah, I’ll be your player two!

Yeah, yeah, I can play with your Dad!

Yeah, yeah, got the DDR mat!

Yeah, yeah, got cheat codes like yuh.

Copied, not stole like yuh.

Computer froze like yuh….

You’re not wrong but it feels disingenuous to say this. The entire repo with all of its dependencies checked out for a large website can easily clock at half a gig but there’s no popular website now that’s asking any users to download half a gig worth of stuff before they can use it.

There ARE websites where, if you keep them open long enough, they’ll constantly pull more and more data (usually for ads) but even that is measured more so in tens of megabytes.

And none of this is to say that websites haven’t gotten too big, just that comparing a downloaded app’s size to the size of a website’s unbuilt unbundled source with all of its dependencies is an unfair comparison.

Even if you turned it back at this point, it still wouldn’t work.

This is pretty infuriating though; Google works just fine with any device that doesn’t run Android so why would they care that you’re running a custom ROM?

My guess is something less evil and more mundane: something about your number changed in their system and now they can’t send codes to it, which is why it’s grayed out. Maybe it was previously classified as a mobile number but now is classified as a landline.

Your only option, if you don’t have any backup codes, is to use that “Get Help” option they have that takes a few days and then either start carrying around backup codes, a Yubikey, or De-Google.

Hey, maybe all 3!

You were a good boy. RIP.

A Travel Roku is the real pro tip.