Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned
- Thread starter Blue Hills
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If it is you could set up a sting to catch them.
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Possibly, didn’t think this would cause much of a buzz!
View: https://youtu.be/XWLvm11MAaM
A suitable tune to go with it
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Profpointy
Legendary Member
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I found that I can take a screenshot on my Google Pixel 5 phone by triple-tapping the back of it. [Triple taps phone...]
Q.E.D...
Q.E.D...
winjim
Smash the cistern
I can usually take a screenshot on my phone by simply trying to turn it off.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Having had power buttons fail on previous phones, I have stopped using the power button on the Pixel 5, except when I want to take photos. (I have set a shortcut to go to the camera app by double-clicking the power button.)
I wake the phone up by putting my finger on the fingerprint sensor on the back. I turn the screen off using a very simple app.
The other problem I have had on previous phones was wearing out the USB socket so I charge this phone wirelessly. I only connect a USB cable when I want to directly upload apps that I am developing, which would only be a few times a month.
There is no headphone socket to wear out on this phone...
If I don't drop the phone, then it should last me several years unlike some of my previous ones!
winjim
Smash the cistern
I use the fingerprint scanner to turn the screen off, and I've also got the double click power button for camera access without unlocking the phone. Screenshot issue is because the power and volume buttons are opposite each other.
I should get a wireless charger really, I keep meaning to. I'll have to see if there's one which does my Samsung and my wife's Apple. I'm not sure if her phone does wireless charging though, it's a lower spec iphone.
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Yes, bumble bees as apparently they pollinate the plants better, and the government have made it compulsory to use native UK species only
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Mine won't let me use the fingerprint sensor all the time. At least once every 48 hours it requires you to swipe and enter your pin code "for your security". Much less secure, of course, since somebody watching closely may be able t see the PIN you enter, but nobody can steal your fingerprint without cutting off your finger.
USB-C (which the Pixel 5 uses) is very much more robust than usb micro was.
I had several phones with USB micro, and all of them the first point of failure was the charging port (except when I broke the screen by dropping it). I haven't had a USB-C port fail yet, including on phones 2-3 years old, plugged in and out several times a day (I'm very heavily into one particular game which eats charge).
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Actually, my phone does that too. I can't really see the security side of it, unless it is to guard against somebody using a hacked-off finger to unlock the phone! (In which case, the villain only has to demand the password or else the finger will be cut off...
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I have just discovered (thanks to Series 3, episode 1 of Jack Ryan) that if you and your raiding party flee from Sevastopol in Crimea in a motorboat in the middle of the night, you can reach the Greek coast by early morning... Not bad going considering it is well over 1,000 km away!
Jameshow
Veteran
Three fingertips on the screen on Moto G
