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The USB-C PD definitely allows you to do exactly what you suggest. I know this is supported in this google dual-port PD charger: https://store.google.com/gb/product/usb_c_dual_port…

If you have Android Oreo/8.x, most (all?) google apps (including Maps) allow you quite fine grained control over notification categories (so you can choose to have traffic updates …

Well, to be explicit, they set the minimum timeframe. For example, the Nexus Player is still on the latest version of Android and will/should receive 'O' (Not letting google off th…

Here's [1] an open source app that lets you share a link from youtube which then uses a hosted version of youtube-dl to get the direct link to the mp4 url and pass it back to the A…

Windows 10 can _definitely_ do that (I do the exact same thing with bluetooth/wired headsets frequently; I'm "fairly" sure I used to do that on Windows 7 too -- I remember being qu…

The "Fortune" app? As you mention knox, I assume this is an app that Samsung force installs on your phone; so I don't really see what Google can do (without locking Android down ev…

As I mentioned in the other [1] thread, you can use this android app [2] (which uses youtube-dl) to download directly onto your phone. If you're on iOS, sorry :( [1] https://news.y…

There is also this app [1] (shameless plug, I wrote it) which uses youtube-dl to download videos off any supported sites. No real UI as it just parses the media URL (when a link is…

Netguard [1] is a loopback firewall (installs as a local VPN) that doubles as an adblocker if you install the version from github [2]. I installed from the play store and used the …

If you append &tbs=li to the end of the query URL, google does a literal search. If you want it as a default, add it to your browser as a search engine plugin: http://mycroftprojec…

I'm on windows 10 with a shitty "optimus" enabled laptop. The NVidia drivers routinely crash (typically when viewing a heavy webGL enabled page) and windows 10 just flashes at me a…

>Are you saying Bluetooth 4 would actually solve my problem Make sure your headset and device (phone?) both support HFP1.6 or above (which supports wideband speech/HD voice) which …

>Neither Android nor iOS support [pairing ... via the Out-of-Band method]. I'm not sure this is actually true (unless you're talking about bugs with individual manufacturers implem…

>all Skype calls automatically revert to HFP (extremely bad quality) While it's true that audio quality over HFP is a lot worse than A2DP, note that A2DP is designed for cases wher…

> blame the OS. iOS can block apps [...] Well, to be fair, you can disable notifications from apps since android 4.0 (which is a long time back) And Android 6.0 and up should autom…

> 3.5mm jacks are analogue, and they're everywhere >As soon as headphones are digital, manufacturers can start locking down headphones. The article is unclear, but the USB3.1 spec …

> the article says that Intel is working on a standard to let those pins be used for analog audio In that case, the article is wrong because the USB 3.1 spec already supports analo…

x86 builds: http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/ You can boot from USB and give it a whirl. There are some closed source bits missing, so I'm unsure if, for eg, netflix, will work. …

>On Android 5, most Nexus devices dropped all SMS apps for Hangouts. Just install Messenger (supports Android 4.1+): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...…

The AOSP built in sms client does not use G+ Google's "Messenger" client does not use G+ You can also use Google's Hangout client purely for SMS (you can sign out of hangouts) If y…

Perhaps you're thinking of Vostok? I thought much the same when I saw it in the Science Museum in London (just last weekend). Some kind of heat resistant cork or something? http://…

May not be quite what you're looking for, but perhaps mapumental may help (depending on why you want the data) https://mapumental.com/ It gives you time (not distance) between plac…

>It could even be family who misguidedly install spyware. That's an application installed by the user; But this won't protect you against the core OS (the Dell's with a camera shut…

> a bit of black tape over the front-facing camera for a while since Google's Byzantine privacy practices had made me genuinely not trust the device. I genuinely don't get this. Yo…

>the BeagleBone Black is [..] less prone to "power abuse", because it has a traditional power jack (people are less likely to use a random USB charger with it) Not quite true. The …