You didn’t even need to do that. You could hold down the shift key to bypass some passwords, and just click cancel on others.

Early Windows had awful security.

Don’t trust hacked software to protect you from hacked software.

Voyager is a good Lemmy app that’s worth a look 👍

Some services will take gift cards. You find out the amount you need to pay, and convert it to your currency, buy a gift card in cash for the amount, then send the code from the gift card to the service.

You have to trust that they won’t just run off with the funds, but the whole point is to pick a service that you trust in the first place.

That’s helpful, thanks :)

I’ll give it a try, thanks :)

It was nothing to do with the phone. I tried to find one for my father to use for his computer, as he only used the internet now and then, but the SIM only plans had data restrictions on tethering.

They started off as unlimited pay as you go with prices charged by the megabyte then gigabyte, then once high data plans came in, they started to get restricted.

As I said, it’s been changing, but as far as I know, there are still plans with tethering restrictions.

The Steam Deck works so well because the screen is only 720p, and even then people have complained about low framerates on some games. Scaling it up to 4k for a modern TV would drop the performance even more.

It looks like a great handheld, but I think trying to use it as a console wouldn’t work.

The Steak Link app doesn’t recognise controllers reliably on Android. I’ve got a few controllers that work in other games, are recognised as being connected in Steam Link, but just don’t work. Connecting them with a cable lets them work straight away.

I don’t think it would ever fly in Europe.

It does, or at least did. I’m in the UK, and it used to be fairly common. Over the last few years, maybe the last decade, more and more providers used the lack of tethering restrictions as an advertised feature to show that they were better than the competition.

Now that we’ve left the EU though, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the restrictions come back. We’ve already lost free EU roaming on a lot of tariffs.

The fact that it might stop some immigration is a small bonus to the tories. Their goal for a while now has been to strip our rights so they can grab more power and money.

The sad part is, all the brain dead little bigots will be cheering them on, and not even noticing that they’re losing out.

The fact that it might stop some immigration is a small bonus to the tories. Their goal for a while now has been to strip our rights so they can grab more power and money.

The sad part is, all the brain dead little bigots will be cheering them on, and not even noticing that they’re losing out.

Complete nonsense.

Before Brexit, we were the 5th wealthiest nation in the world. Even now we’re still in the top ten. We can afford to feed and home our citizens and immigrants, but the government chooses not to.

Yeah, that would be my luck. I’m going to dig through the specs and try to find the difference, and go from there.

Unfortunately it doesn’t clear anything up. It’s a m2007j17g, and some sites label it with the 5G, while some label it without. Xiaomi UK doesn’t have any results for the model number, and lists both versions. The specs are pretty vague for both, saying things like one supports lpddr4 vs lpddr5

I’ll look into it, thanks :)

https://m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_10t_lite_5g-10480.php

That’s how it was advertised at the time. It may officially be the Mi 10t Lite, and the 5G was added to show the capabilities, but I don’t know for sure.

I don’t think every update would come with an updated version of every system app that would automatically get installed.

I think we’re on the same page, but looking at it from different angles.

I’ve uninstalled updates and disabled the apps, but a system update restores them. I would imagine that disabling them with ADB would end up with the same result. Removing them with root should, in theory at least, remove them completely.

If I get more than five minutes to myself this weekend, I’ll try the ADB method and see what happens 👍

Thanks for replying :)

This works because applications truly aren’t fully uninstalled from your device. They are just being uninstalled for the current user

This is what I mean by hiding them. It’s essentially just removing the shortcuts. Can’t they still be restored by an update this way?

I thought the fuss was because of the apparent tracking, not the fact that it’s a paid app?