android mobile tips & tricks

[PatColo]

Anothr busted laptop comp, and i'm back to hunting/pecking on a (new) mobile. Not sure if I'll replace the laptop, if I can make the mobile work for me, maybe it can do it all?

Dismayed at the replacement cost of the laptop, I instead splurged on this samsung galaxy s6 edge plus, a couple days ago. Everything is still pretty much factory settings; I've mainly just added skype & firefox. I haven't even bought a sim card, as I'm in Laos atm & only expect to be here another couple weeks, so will (maybe?) get sim when I'm in a country I expect to stay in a while. For now just connecting w/wifi & skype-out if i need to make a call. Line-ID, sort of "the skype of asia", was pre-installed.

What I'd really love is an external usb keyboard/mouse. Is there such? It'd need to work in caboots with an app, such that plugging it in would activate a mouse pointer on screen, & also supress the android touch keyboard from popping up when you're in a writeable field.

With only the one usb port on the phone for all I/O & charging, this would mean running down the battery in order to use this external keyboard setup. But this phone has wireless recharging function-- so the killer hardware/app would combine a wireless recharge base (itself needing A/C of course) which allowed the phone's single usb port to be used for the keyboard setup. OR, I suppose they make usb hubs too, to expand available usb ports? This setup should also hold & physically angle the phone (display) optimally, similar to a laptop's display.

Anywho, also mostly looking for tips on changing factory settings for max privacy, security etc. Must have apps (pref the 'free' variety :) ) ??

[Glass]

I have used bluetooth mouse and keyboard with android.

Can you get video out via the micro USB connector? I'll take a look. Maybe can plug into a TV screen.

I have a couple what are called Android TV boxes I use when travelling. ok. So these android tv boxes are just android devices, not a phone that you plug into a TV via a HDMI cable.

People in asia with no room but a tv use these instead of a PC. I leave my computer gear at home base, hooked up and I remote in from where ever, if I need anything.

I've used some of these: http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/ not bad. You can score these from places like gearbest. There are quite a few companies make these so look around and see who things what is good.

then I have a BT keyboard and mouse. The keyboard has a small battery and recharges or runs of USB power. the mouse uses regular battery. AAA I think. I cant find it at the moment.

I will try and remember what sites I went to research them. Worked really good. I travel with a tablet also. I plug the TV box into the hotel room tv. the range on the BT is not much, just a couple feet but works ok.

[Glass]

to really get phone security you need to root the phone and start putting on "other" kinds of apps or phone images. that will render warranty void. And it also usually kills android updates.

If you keep phone stock and shut off all the tracking and google stealing your contact settings, you will need to revisit those setting each time an update appears, because google flicks your settings back to what they want and start stealing your stuff again.

If you want to get down and dirty in the phone os guts places like xda-developers is the place to go. Warning though, there is so much chatter there it takes ages to get a handle on what you need doing. Caveat here though, I dont buy mainstream phones and the ones I buy have only just started doing it right in the past 18 months. before that it was a struggle to get software to work for rooting and backups, loading new roms. Even the fake chinese phones were fake. They would say they had this or that processor - mtk xxxx but in reality even that was being faked for something else.

now you can get some good chinese phones and what they say is in them is in them so it's easier to hack em.

Samsung is well supported and easy to do now. Assuming it really has samsung guts.

[Glass]

actually I might have bought my tv box from Amazon. Sorry I'll need to dig around a bit. Anyway. all I did was look at what ones were for sale, most RAM and best micro sd size support. then searched for reviews and YT videos from people who had them.

[Glass]

connect S6 to a TV

http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-connect-samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-to-tv/

[PatColo]

Hey glass, thx for the fyi, just seeing it now.

After some reading I see a variety of bluetooth foldable keyboards; so no usb port nec but need to keep the keyboard charged. I may get one of those, but which one; I'm limited to what local retailers have... no amazon etc for me while I'm abroad & not settled.

So u figure with that mobile to tv setup, it would emulate your android tv box device?

External keyboard is straightforward I see; does it automatically supress the android touch kb? And as to ext mouse, how does that work? Does a working mouse pointer appear? Off hand it seems a mouse input would be a bigger task for android to accomodate than kb, as android's navigation was all designed for touch screen input, not mouse. Is there ext mouse right click context menu function? Scroll wheel? Does mouse come w special app/software to make it work right?

As to privacy, I'm afraid if we're dealing with android aka joogle aka NSA; I figure there's no privacy; android will clandestinely report everythig possible to your friendly spook agencies for your dossier. I turned off aĺl the privacy compromising options i could find but still figure android & IoS were built with unavoidable survellence in mind. Ditto windoze& mac OS.

Just last night some nerd was telling me about ubuntu for (former android) mobiles... interesting but can't imagine it would keep up wth the slickness & apps & user base of android & Ios; and even with an ubuntu phone, I'd bet the spy shit is built into the hard/firmware.

I think I just finally bent over for the mobil phone spooks; there's just too much "bait" there to pass up indefinitely. I am also in the market for an EMF/radiation-blocking carrying case/bag; Sofia S. hawks a variety, http://www.avatarproducts.com/

[PatColo]

banging this out on this new logitech k480 bluetuooth keyboard: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00MUTWLW4/


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Off hand, it's bigger & heavier (1.8 lbs :o) than I'd like... but beggars can't be choosers. When I first found it, I rejected it coz it runs on 2 AAA batteries, not a built in rechargeable. I thought I'd be looking at needing new batteries once or more a week! But that concern was assuaged when I looked over the amazon reviews later and saw people reporting several months with no battery change, 4/whatever hours usage daily. I guess I took a leap of faith in logitech's good rep, and 4.3 stars on 900-something reviews. Still in my first hour with it here, haven't gotten into anything fancy like mapping keys to do certain functions. There's keys already to zoom in/out, left right up down... but as to "tapping" a given button, link etc; pretty sure that'll need finger to mobile display.

With my Galaxy's fancy "Edge" display, that design is actually a drawback with this logitech keyboard coz it's designed to drop your phone/tablet into its little trough above the keys as the image above shows; and with "landscape" being my prefered viewing perspective, that means the phone display's bottom edge in the logitech keyboard trough is blocked from view. Small deal though; I can either do portrait since I don't need the display's keypad anyway; or I can prop up the phone somewhere outside the logitech keyboard, using the phone's carrying case flipped backwards propping it up on the table like a pup tent. I do this often already, for watching youtubes and such. If I've just got my lap like on a bus ride, waiting area etc; the loss of that little ~1/4" strip of screen/display is nothing anyways.

Mostly just happy at the moment to type at my normal clip, esp with something meaty to write; and I can navigate around the text with the left-right-up-down keys; plus both a backspace & delete key for deleting text on either side of the cursor. :) Letcha know more after I've gotten deeper into the unique features.

[PatColo]

On a galaxy S7 now; and getting annoyed in recent months over samsung/google-android's recent "updates." :( Like one a couple months ago, they jerked around where everything is in, at least the SETTINGS screens if not elsewhere-- actually also in the drop down menu which appears when you swipe down starting at the top of the display; but I guess that's really just the SETTINGS menu again in a diff form.

They've also been clamping down on trying to force you to use the YouTube app, rather than watching via the web browser... very recently when I try to open a YT in the samsung web browser, it throws me the same "...will open in YT app" message with Okay & Cancel buttons, IE same dialog box which it's responded with since the start a ~year ago; but it used to be I could hit Cancel, and it would open the YT in the web browser. But now, hitting Cancel yields a "...could not connect to YT" message in the browser-- meanwhile any other webpage opens fine meaning it's not a connectivity problem; it's a dirty joogle trick to force me to watch via their YT spy app. And I've never liked their YT app; can't find the "More Info" page; can't find viewer comments! It's sparse menus are insufficient!

Then I've always been annoyed by... I guess it's samsung's default music/audio player, coz if you launch an mp3 in it, it doesn't have anything about title, duration, where you are (mins/secs) in the timeline; and perhaps worst of all, it can't walk & chew gum, meaning if it's playing something you can't do anything else on the phone at all! And if you accidentally even touch the screen (outside of the player app), it totally kills the player app, requiring relaunch & fishing around for where the mp3 was in the timeline when I killed it.

A techie type told me, androids (& iPhones?) can't do multiple apps at once, coz they're "single stack"; but I've found one way I can say, listen to an mp3 and simultaneously surf other web pages in other browser tabs, is if the mp3 is in the form of an embedded player console, ala the audios at http://grizzom.blogspot.com & other sites. The phone wouldn't allow listening to a YT for example, unless you stayed on that YT browser tab; and that was WHEN the phone allowed me to even play YTs in the browser. I do recall last year sometime, it did allow me to surf other tabs whilst playing a YT in a tab; but then that ability magically ceased, and I was promptly thrown a sales pitch of a "free trial" of an app which would allow me to play YTs whilst surfing elsewhere... BS! IOW, joogle pulled the former native android ability to do that, and tried to monetize the capability with their fancy little spy app! :(

[crimethink]

their fancy little spy app!

Android itself, just as with Windows and iOS, is spyware. Everything you say, write, or do is readily available to Ft. Meade and the Utah Data Center in real time. Doesn't matter which applications you install.

[PatColo]

^ yes that's always been my assumption. Best I figure I can manage it is, lock down all the privacy/access settings (which I basically still don't trust the integrity of esp wrt joogle.android.gov's access to anyway! I trust I'd find I gave "them" this blanket access permission regardless of settings, if I actually read their mile long legalese End User Agreement!); keep it in "Airplane Mode" at all times except when I'm actually using the connectivity somehow, and then only that variety of connection IE WiFi or mobile data or bluetooth or phone, but turn specific connection types OFF any I'm not using; and carry the phone inside an EMF-blocking pouch when out & about, coz I figure it's also got an RFID chip which functions anywhere near an RFID reader, even with phone's power OFF and/or battery removed. Not much more annoying than the thought of being physically tracked by our malevolent parasite 'rulers'. :(

I mostly use it as an MP3 player when out & about, running the headset cord out through the lid of the pouch. Any real contacts know the deal; 99% chance their calls to me will go to message, and they'll get a call back whenever. :cool:

[Glass]

do you mind sharing what kind of EMF pouch you've been using?

I've been looking for a 4G dumb phone but no luck so far.

[crimethink]

do you mind sharing what kind of EMF pouch you've been using?

I've been looking for a 4G dumb phone but no luck so far.

You can go cheap, or you can go quality:

Cheap: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Anti-Spy-Signal-Block-Anti-Radiation-GPS-RFID-Tracking-Buggin-Cell-Phone-Pouch-/272442650642?var=&hash=item3f6ed8f012:m:meJwbW9tTLuj0A9d_dvZKKA (it works, but how well, I don't have the equipment to test)

Quality: https://www.edecdf.com/product-category/faraday-bags/ ("Digital Evidence" bag - intended to prevent remote deletion of mobile devices by criminals)

[PatColo]

do you mind sharing what kind of EMF pouch you've been using?

I've been looking for a 4G dumb phone but no luck so far.


I went spendy, $50 for https://nosnoopingallowed.org/product/iphone-4-5-6-android-rfid-blocking-cell-phone-privacy-case/ which uses https://www.blockitpocket.com/index_osc.php material lining the faraday compartment. He has an amazon store, and I posted a simple question, and he promptly responded. Within the day we'd exchanged private emails going all over the map re (((the grand conspiracy))). So he accompanied the phone pouch with a free card pouch, which accomodates ~10 cards.

I went with the larger sized pouch, coz I needed the extra ~inch of height to accommodate the headset jack being plugged in, & still close the lid. Pouches like that are also good in providing 2 compartments; one faraday and the other not, coz then you can keep the phone in the non-faraday side if you're streaming, or expecting an important call etc; and the phone will be on the grid-- but apparently the "directional EMF blocking" is helpful in protecting your body/cells from the EMF. It then goes into your pocket with the faraday side between your body & the phone.

But prices can be quite low, many choices on amzn for < $10.

also to mention, you've read about "fake cell phone towers", which are actually spook operated & they somehow "spoof" your phone into thinking it has a mobile connection; but these towers actually vacuum up all your sensitive personal data? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fake+cell+towers&t=ffab&ia=web
Another reason to stay in Airplane Mode, & carry phone in an EMF pouch.

Didn't mention in my reply 3 up from here, but I got a "factory unlocked" phone... no contracts; just pay cash at the carrier's outlet each month... and they only have a simple male's first name as the acct holder. Also, when I was forced to open a gmail acct in order to do much with the android phone; and they insist on both a phone # (your mobile's #) to which they'll send a text code, and a "backup email" (for YOUR protection...:rolleyes:); I opened a Startmail.com free 30 day trial acct, and used that for gmail's required backup email, to which they send a verification email.

(((joogleCo))) are just relentless in seeking to identify you, track you, dossier-build on you! >:(

[crimethink]

also to mention, you've read about "fake cell phone towers", which are actually spook operated & they somehow "spoof" your phone into thinking it has a mobile connection; but these towers actually vacuum up all your sensitive personal data?


I'm mystified why such claims exist. Why set up phony towers? Ever since ECHELON was set up decades ago, ALL telecommunications transmissions are monitorable in real-time. Remotely. ALL of the mobile phone networks, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and some little ones (plus all the MVNOs - "Mobile Virtual Network Operators," all dependent upon the former for signal), "cooperate" with the NSA, FBI, and other Federal regime agencies. EVERY tower is a spy tower.

I suspect the tale has been released to the wild to make people think that constant monitoring isn't a fact.




Another reason to stay in Airplane Mode, & carry phone in an EMF pouch.


Airplane Mode is useless for privacy purposes. Only two methods are certain: take the battery out, or, if not possible, put it in the Faraday bag. Phones can be programmed remotely to report they are "off" when they're not.




Didn't mention in my reply 3 up from here, but I got a "factory unlocked" phone... no contracts; just pay cash at the carrier's outlet each month... and they only have a simple male's first name as the acct holder. Also, when I was forced to open a gmail acct in order to do much with the android phone; and they insist on both a "backup email" (for YOUR protection...:rolleyes:); I opened a Startmail.com free 30 day trial acct, and used that for gmail's required backup email, to which they send a verification email.

(((joogleCo))) are just relentless in seeking to identify you, track you, dossier-build on you!

Don't lull yourself into a false sense of security. These methods of privacy only work for NON-STATE level actors, like low and mid-level corporations.

When setting up the GMail account, did you use a trustworthy foreign VPN on a computer never before used by you? If not, Joogle knows.

Even if you buy the phone with cash at Wal-Mart (or better, some stop and rob convenience store), and then pay in cash at the carrier's store, it takes only one mistake to compromise your security. Call a number that can connect you to you, for example. And worse, when I still had US Cellular, they would not accept payment without ID. Even cash. "For the customer's account protection," of course. Other carriers may not enforce such shit. Or buy TracFone or similar cards with cash.

Against NON-STATE level actors and major corporations (in particular, the phone or OS manufacturer), your advice of getting an unlocked phone is wise, and even wiser is getting one designed, made, and marketed solely by China, such as ZTE, a corporation which has been nailed by the Federal regime for doing things "not favorable" to the US StasiNet apparatus. ZTE phones are very good, particularly, their Axon series. Best warranty on Earth, too, two-years, no questions asked unless damage is obviously self-inflicted, and then it's only $80 to replace. Cheaper than insurance. You won't be able to root the ZTEs, though, since they don't release the bootloader unlock; you'd find the Chinese State Security spyware then.

https://www.zteusa.com/passport/

https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/8/3472316/huawei-zte-china-spying-house-intelligence-committee

[PatColo]

^ been on T-Mobile; who've never hassled me re showing ID, or paying with CC, etc. Last year, I got a temp carrier in Malaysia, and they needed to see my PP! (they heard white 'murkans have big PPs, you understand...:D)

this article 'suggests' that AT&T (which also owns Cricket) & Verizon may be 'dirty'.
Even Powering Down A Cell Phone Can't Keep The NSA From Tracking Its Location (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130723/12395923907/)
coz they "notably did not sign (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130718/11524723851/telcos-refused-to-sign-to-let-us-be-transparent-about-surveillance-letter.shtml) the collective letter asking the government to allow affected companies to release information on government requests for data."

Re where I set up the gmail, that was at some no-tell-motel's wifi. Come to think of it, shoulda used the phone's mobile data, which leads to my anon T-mobile account, which the joogle/android already knew-- twas the phone # I openly provided them!

Re Airplane Mode, you're suggesting phones send EMF anyways? Wouldn't that possibly "interfere with planes' comm systems?" A phone can be bathed in EMF, but I always imagined Airplane mode worked as suggested (IE doesn't SEND any EMF), but I was still concerned about RFID tracking... thus the EMF pouch. And now I notice, (some) airlines offer on board WiFi, which I've never used but guessing stewardess checks that you're in Airplane, except for the WiFi frequency functiion which I guessed is safely different from planes' comm systems as not to interfere.

[crimethink]

^ been on T-Mobile; who've never hassled me re showing ID, or paying with CC, etc.


Awesome!




Re Airplane Mode, you're suggesting phones send EMF anyways? Wouldn't that possibly "interfere with planes' comm systems?" A phone can be bathed in EMF, but I always imagined Airplane mode worked as suggested (IE doesn't SEND any EMF), but I was still concerned about RFID tracking... thus the EMF pouch. And now I notice, (some) airlines offer on board WiFi, which I've never used but guessing stewardess checks that you're in Airplane, except for the WiFi frequency functiion which I guessed is safely different from planes' comm systems as not to interfere.

The "you must turn off your phone so as not to interfere with the avionics" has always been bullshit. Any phone design that is FCC-approved has been tested to NOT interfere with other devices. Of course, in the rare instance a phone is out of specs, it COULD generate a signal that competed with EMF from avionics, but that would be extremely rare.

Airplane Mode generally means the device is radio-silent, but, if you are marked for surveillance, sure, the OS can be set to report the signal is off, but it broadcasts intermittently, and on selected frequency, to phone home.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/the-real-reason-phones-have-to-be-turned-off-on-planes/

The general assumption is that we must disable our mobile phones – some more begrudgingly than others – as their signal interferes with navigation instruments, and could even cause a crash. But is that really true?

Technically yes, says pilot and author of Cockpit Confidential, Patrick Smith. But it’s more an exercise of caution.

"It depends on the gadget and how and when that gadget is used," he said.

Taking the example of laptops, Smith says, though an old computer can emit harmful energy, the greater risk they pose is becoming "high-speed projectiles during a sudden deceleration or impact".

But for phones, which is at the crux of a businessman or keen tweeter's journey, Smith says: "Can cellular communications really disrupt cockpit equipment? The answer is potentially yes, but in all likelihood no, and airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are merely erring on the better-safe-than-sorry side."

He continues: "Aircraft electronics are designed and shielded with interference in mind. This should mitigate any ill effects, and to date there are no proven cases of a phone adversely affecting the outcome of a flight. But you never know."

(...)

So, in a technical sense, phones do have the potential to interfere with the plane’s instruments, but only to a small degree.

[now, the real reason]

However, as Smith points out, there are also social implications.

"The minute it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt that phones are safe, a percentage of flyers will demand the right to use them, pitting one angry group of travellers against another, with carriers stuck in the middle,” he said.

"The airplane cabin is a last refuge of relative silence. Let’s keep it that way." We're inclined to agree.

[PatColo]

[now, the real reason]

However, as Smith points out, there are also social implications.

"The minute it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt that phones are safe, a percentage of flyers will demand the right to use them, pitting one angry group of travellers against another, with carriers stuck in the middle,” he said.

"The airplane cabin is a last refuge of relative silence. Let’s keep it that way." We're inclined to agree.


that sounds like a rare/implausible scenario, IE a 'fight' breaking out between passengers over one/more passengers yapping away on their phone incessantly... a phone should only require a normal speaking voice, the way you'd speak with your seating neighbor. Plus, with WiFi now available on planes, presumably piped up/down from satellite the way the older seat-back phones are; that would enable skype/etc VoIP phone usage, and I haven't heard of any fights breaking out over that yet! :(??

[Glass]

that sounds like a rare/implausible scenario, IE a 'fight' breaking out between passengers over one/more passengers yapping away on their phone incessantly... a phone should only require a normal speaking voice, the way you'd speak with your seating neighbor. Plus, with WiFi now available on planes, presumably piped up/down from satellite the way the older seat-back phones are; that would enable skype/etc VoIP phone usage, and I haven't heard of any fights breaking out over that yet! :(??

You've never been to Miami? Italy? England? Surely you know some people only talk on their phones via speaker phone no mater where they are. I cannot understand that. People walking around with their caller blasting out their phone while they hold it in front of them talking back loudly. Hol it to your ear. I don't want to hear it. Others have to yell and argue across the whole damn concourse, gallery, mall, boarding lounge. And nearly the worst of all.... talking in the elevator.

I think on a plane it would be pandemonium. I think it's a good thing. For the couple hours of flying. If it could be restricted to txt or email only I wouldn't mind.

[monty]

I've never been on a plane with cellular signal once it was at cruising altitude.

[Glass]

I've never been on a plane with cellular signal once it was at cruising altitude.

but but..... you could make calls from your cell from at least as far back as September 2001.

[PatColo]

JooDroid pissin' me off again... a few weeks ago sometime, presumably stemming from one of the auto-updates, it coyly switched my default mp3 player to "GooglePlayMusic" (GPM), from my previously selected default, the basic (samsung?) player which doesn't give any brand name on it. I noticed this but didn't immediately go to work figuring out where/how to switch the mp3 player back... I just started "conveniently" using the GPM player.

But I noticed, when I'd launch an mp3, then put the phone in the EMF pouch to go out & about... the mp3 would stop playing within a few secs of enclosing the phone in the pouch, cutting all connectivity. The mp3 is pre-saved in the phone's storage, so no need for a connection?! :(?? I'd take the phone back out, and the GPM player is sitting there paused. WTF.... I hit play, back in the pouch, & after a few secs, mp3 would pause again! :( So I'm suspecting this has something to do with the GPM player which they 'conveniently' switched to be my default, sans my 'okay'.

So sometimes, like in the above cases, I forget to switch the phone into full airplane mode before putting in the EMF pouch... shouldn't matter though, just means the phone will burn a little bit of extra power continually beaconing for the former WiFi/phone/data etc connections when inside the EMF pouch. The former default MP3 player had no problem with this; it'd keep playing the locally stored MP3 when inside the pouch, with phone beaconing for connectivity.

I discovered with the GPM player, if I DID remember to put the phone in full airplane mode before it goes in the pouch, GPM "gets this", and keeps playing the MP3 once placed in the pouch. So there's only one plausible explanation I can think of for this: GPM is continually reporting back to joogle.gov, little "progress reports" as I listen... but their clever NSA engineers forgot the scenario of the phone "mysteriously" losing all connectivity (IE airplane mode not being manually turned on), and it responds by pausing, rather than just keep playing and sending their seekrit little activity reports to joogle.gov at the next 'connectivity opportunity'... :(

[crimethink]

Can you root the phone? If so, install an alternative OS not fully-controlled by Jewgle.

[Cebu_4_2]

JooDroid pissin' me off again... a few weeks ago sometime, presumably stemming from one of the auto-updates, it coyly switched my default mp3 player to "GooglePlayMusic" (GPM), from my previously selected default, the basic (samsung?) player which doesn't give any brand name on it. I noticed this but didn't immediately go to work figuring out where/how to switch the mp3 player back... I just started "conveniently" using the GPM player.

But I noticed, when I'd launch an mp3, then put the phone in the EMF pouch to go out & about... the mp3 would stop playing within a few secs of enclosing the phone in the pouch, cutting all connectivity. The mp3 is pre-saved in the phone's storage, so no need for a connection?! :(?? I'd take the phone back out, and the GPM player is sitting there paused. WTF.... I hit play, back in the pouch, & after a few secs, mp3 would pause again! :( So I'm suspecting this has something to do with the GPM player which they 'conveniently' switched to be my default, sans my 'okay'.

So sometimes, like in the above cases, I forget to switch the phone into full airplane mode before putting in the EMF pouch... shouldn't matter though, just means the phone will burn a little bit of extra power continually beaconing for the former WiFi/phone/data etc connections when inside the EMF pouch. The former default MP3 player had no problem with this; it'd keep playing the locally stored MP3 when inside the pouch, with phone beaconing for connectivity.

I discovered with the GPM player, if I DID remember to put the phone in full airplane mode before it goes in the pouch, GPM "gets this", and keeps playing the MP3 once placed in the pouch. So there's only one plausible explanation I can think of for this: GPM is continually reporting back to joogle.gov, little "progress reports" as I listen... but their clever NSA engineers forgot the scenario of the phone "mysteriously" losing all connectivity (IE airplane mode not being manually turned on), and it responds by pausing, rather than just keep playing and sending their seekrit little activity reports to joogle.gov at the next 'connectivity opportunity'... :(

Same shit is happening on my windoz xp sp3. It's not my adblocker or config, jewtube is just limiting I believe at this time.

[crimethink]

Same shit is happening on my windoz xp sp3. It's not my adblocker or config, jewtube is just limiting I believe at this time.

Now that Jewgle has millions hooked, they are increasingly implementing their "thought leadership" via subtle means, redirecting to us where they want us to go. Google searches are increasingly becoming more and more worthless, as they are ideologically and economically loaded (marketing drives the results). I've been using Yandex more often, with better results, but I by no means "trust" them, either.

[PatColo]

Any of U nerd types know-- if you're surfing web on ur phone via mobile-data (not wifi), what can the sites you visit know about your hardware, beyond (mobile carrier sim card's) phone #? In fact, do they even know ur phone #, or do they just see the mobile-data (3/4/5G/LTE) equivalent of an IP addy? Can they see your phone's OS (apple/android) for example? Anything more? Phone equv of a MAC address?

Like with windoze/mac, they can see quite a bit more than your IP address, though I forget the details. Definitely your OS (& version?). MAC addy?

I ask coz I use laptop (windoze) & phone (android), which I try to keep "separate islands" as far as which one only, or never, logs into given accounts. "They don't know each other." Phone carrier is pre-paid monthly, cash, "mickey mouse" account name. I like to use it to check if my )))social media posts((( are shadowbanned. BUT, I've had occasion, when wifi's down/unavailable, to tether/hotspot my phone & laptop, IE phone pulling down 4G/LTE signal & relaying to laptop, which I'm surfing on. So, outside platforms see my phone's IP as the "visitor"; meanwhile I'm surfing/logged-in/posting on laptop. So does that "spoil" my "they don't know each other" goal? Can the big social media platforms see that far into your shit? :cool::o

[Jewboo]

BUT, I've had occasion, when wifi's down/unavailable, to tether/hotspot my phone & laptop...So does that "spoil" my "they don't know each other" goal?



You answer your own question PC.

:(??

[PatColo]

You answer your own question PC.

:(??


source?

Like, if you hotspot a phone, & have 10 peeps connected & banging away on soc media, can the soc media platforms see the of all the connected devices' details, in addition to the phone's?

what about one phone USB-tethered to one laptop?

[Jewboo]

source?

Like, if you hotspot a phone, & have 10 peeps connected & banging away on soc media, can the soc media platforms see the of all the connected devices' details, in addition to the phone's?

what about one phone USB-tethered to one laptop?

Your internet provider and thus the FBI can see it. Who cares if Facebook sees it?

:rolleyes:

[Horn]

Yeah, if you're trying to remain anonymous Pat, pick one device and make it the most anonymous it can be. PC or laptop is suitable. The handheld device are too difficult to even attempt, imo. Aint worth tryin for me.

Tethering would likely give a clue to anyone who wants a clue to you.

[PatColo]

Yeah, if you're trying to remain anonymous Pat, pick one device and make it the most anonymous it can be. PC or laptop is suitable. The handheld device are too difficult to even attempt, imo. Aint worth tryin fot me.

Tethering would likely give a clue to anyone who wants a clue to you.

for me that would be the phone- bought outright, "factory unlocked" meaning no carrier/contracts, just wander into a carrier somewhere, pay cash for their sim card & prepay each months' bills at their stores, cash. No correct name/ID needed. Change carriers/sim/phone# anytime.

I've heard of peeps who have debt collectors on their arses, always calling them... so they get a new phone with contract, & use their bank card to pay for everything. So they've got a new phone # thinking no more incessant calls from collection agencies-- then wham, agencies have a way to get their new # coz they used their bank card for everything.

Plus there's the "future employment potential", as long since employers have been looking up applicants' social meda presence for dirt... don't figure my dinjoo-nuffins exposure hobby would fare well.

[Horn]

Understand, the connection there would be made at any email login.

So that if you're using any similar email to logon to the social media that will bypass any chip swapping at your phone's connection.

That hack has already been made.

As far as gainful employment through the internet, you're most likely undercut by some Filipino for price as you would be in the real world.

That is unless you are felonious/patent infringer risk type personality, like me. :)

[Bigjon]

I've been playing in the Linux sandbox lately.

https://www.pine64.org/

Got one of these: https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=61454

and this one: https://www.asus.com/us/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board-S/

Lots of problems, great playground for a retired field engineer.

[Horn]

You may also consider changing any social media profiles photo a black face in order to satisfy hiring quotas.

[Jewboo]

I've been playing in the Linux sandbox lately.

https://www.pine64.org/

Got one of these: https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=61454

and this one: https://www.asus.com/us/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board-S/

Lots of problems, great playground for a retired field engineer.

https://www.very-pc.co.uk/subdomains/cms/assets/uploads/verypc/products/nuc/nuc-hand.jpg

I've been having good luck with my NUC7PJYH and free Ubuntu Linux.

:)

[Horn]

Anothr busted laptop comp, and i'm back to hunting/pecking on a (new) mobile. Not sure if I'll replace the laptop, if I can make the mobile work for me, maybe it can do it all?


Most all laptops are starting to resemble handheld devices anymore, minus a cellular tracking chip to operate.

Buddy of mine here had brought with him a top of the line HP $2.5k from Germany. The battery ballooned on him after 11 months.

They're really only made for a couple hours of operation daily. The handhelds are actually better in that respect with lower cpu heat/power requirements. Laptops are still attempting to be desktops at that aspect.

Then they dont work well anyway when on battery cause the cpu throttles back and the chip latencys are all too high nowadays to be throttled back.

Budget basement laptop with slowest equipment is probably a smarter purchase. But then everything on them is cheap.

[Horn]

Mysteriously our free market does not provide anything that any of us wants..

Maybe a 54" 4k HD smart tv, that has sound compareable to a radioshack tuner in 1982 with 2"woofer?

Dont turn your headset up too high or look at your phone in the sunlight, go to the shade or some hole somewhere to hear.

Chinaman.

[Bigjon]

https://www.very-pc.co.uk/subdomains/cms/assets/uploads/verypc/products/nuc/nuc-hand.jpg

I've been having good luck with my NUC7PJYH and free Ubuntu Linux.

:)

I'm trying to avoid giving the Jews any money. Don't know if that is possible?

Intel® NUC Kit NUC7PJYH 126137 (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/nuc/kits/nuc7pjyh.html)

Jim Stone says Intel spy's on everybody.

I have not bought anything Intel after my Vaio with the 18.4 inch screen. Even those have the spy microcode.

I worked on the development of some of the first microcode systems way back in the 70's. Texas Instruments 4004 bit slice machines, 32 bit for sure. Too long ago memory fails me think one was a 48 bit design.

Well it says 4004 is an Intel chip, but I thought the design we were working on used TI chips... Too long ago...CRS.

[Horn]

I've been playing in the Linux sandbox lately.

https://www.pine64.org/

Got one of these: https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=61454

and this one: https://www.asus.com/us/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board-S/

Lots of problems, great playground for a retired field engineer.

Asus has been doing somethings to stay privacy. But really who can trust them?

When they are good at remaining anonymous.

[Jewboo]

Jim Stone says Intel spy's on everybody.



Buried deep inside your computer's Intel chip is the MINIX operating system and a software stack, which includes networking and a web server. (https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/)


Intel chips are designed in Israel.

[Horn]

The best you can hope for is staying on the move and creating sock puppet tracks.

[SockPuppet]

The best you can hope for is staying on the move and creating sock puppet tracks.

what is a sock puppet tracks?

[Cebu_4_2]

Or using other places wifi with burner phones.

[Cebu_4_2]

what is a sock puppet tracks?


Ask Pete?

[Horn]

Or using other places wifi with burner phones.

What exactly is it that you have to post, clinton emails?

Without anti-semites there would be no semites. Its one of the most secure occupations.

[Bigjon]

Buried deep inside your computer's Intel chip is the MINIX operating system and a software stack, which includes networking and a web server. (https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/)


Intel chips are designed in Israel.


Freescale was working on an unhackable chip, but they disappeared

On March 8, 2014, Freescale announced that 20 of its employees were passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370). That plane, carrying the Freescale employees, was lost,[19] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor#cite_note-19) with only small part (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#Marine_debris) of it found over a year later.

In March 2015, a merger agreement was announced through which Freescale Semiconductor would be acquired by NXP Semiconductors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXP_Semiconductors)and that the companies would be merged to form a US$40 (equivalent to $41.30 in 2017) billion company.[20] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor#cite_note-nxp-merger-20)[21] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor#cite_note-21) The acquisition closed on December 7, 2015.

Enter Mr Jew.

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_rothschild46.htm

[Horn]

From my understanding, Intel has since made its newer versions secure.

They are such new models that nobody but freaks spend that much for them though.


ME! ME! ME! – Intel's management tech gets a quartet of security fixes
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/19/intels_management_engine_patches/