My family finally decided to to upgrade from the old 1080p to a new 4K. However, the issue is that every brand we’ve used so far does at least one of the things mentioned. LG had an ad, which wasn’t so bad, but no one liked the picture quality. The Sony was ok, but no one liked the interface much. The Samsung one with the edge to edge display thing is our favorite screen out of the bunch, but I just can’t stand the interface. I was having a problem with Disney plus, so I figured I’d delete it and redownload it, but apparently there are built in apps that you absolutely can’t delete.

At this rate I might just bite the bullet and buy a 4K Apple TV and connect it to the Samsung, unless anyone has any recommendations for great smart TVs. Sorry is this seems like a rant, I’m just really annoyed after mounting and unmounting 3 different TVs.

I continually see one-for-one project structures that mirror every concrete with an interface. I'm not saying that proper usage for polymorphism and inheritance should be abandoned. Also, mocking concretes via virtual signatures for unit testing does not destabilize your system or violate O/C Principle. If one is prognosticating the future in every single interface and assuming there will become more implementations that's a waste of your time & your client's money.

"If everything's abstracted, then nothing is." -Syndrome

-update: deltas to all who mention intent and called out virtuals do break O/C principle. However, I still feel intent is misconstrued by interfaces used solely for testing/mocking. An accessible interface implemented in a differing concrete than the intended seems like another circumvention of O/C. IOW, I could write a new class implementing the interface and pass it off as the intended object just because the interface contract was fulfilled.

I am going through Sedgewick's algos curse and he says that this is a bad idea because " you can not know/assume much about the performance, you can immediately arrive at bad performance for simple clients"

I do not get this at all, how does a bad interface == can not assume about performance

Hi guys. I currently own a Huawei P20 pro. I like the phone alot, really attached to the little notification light at the top of the screen and it's really solid in my opinion. Since they've stopped android support for it, or limited support for it, it's been causing some Google problems that I can easily resolve if I had a pure android device.

I don't need a case to be made for apple, too expensive and I don't like their ecosystem.

What I'm really looking for is performance, good screen size and battery life. Nothing below 6gb of ram and 128gb of memory. If possible, let it have a notification light at the top of the screen :). I'm really looking for reliability here. Curved screens are not for me either. I don't have a budget, but the cheaper the better obviously.

Thank you for reading!

It's pretty much unusable for me now. Sounds are broken or changed, the massive apps bar has screwed up my muscle memory, the extensions no longer work right, the keyboard keeps sinking into the navbar, and it's just an ugly, bloated experience. I miss the old, simple version. I'm downgrading as soon as I can figure out which version to use. I'm no longer fleksy's target demographic, I guess.

Edit: Seems to be 8.3.2? Will try and report back.

Edit: GOT IT WORKING and even restored my themes with Titanium. Nice. God, Thingthing really jacked this app up...

Is the goddamn audio issue. You would think they would have a simple switch like Retropie does on the main menu, but nooo, you gotta make it even harder and use SSH to try to even force the OS to make it work on HDMI or AUX out. How the hell has it gone this long without fixing that?

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

After completing Tic Tac Toe recently I decided to code Battleship after my girlfriend said it would be too hard.

I will first explore what I learned, then use that knowledge to explain why I believe Battleship would be an excellent choice after programming Tic Tac Toe.

What I learned.

1. I rely too much on lists and dictionaries which bloats my code. This causes hundreds upon hundreds of lines of code that is coded differently, which would make my code more efficient and readable.
2. I stayed in my comfort zone too much (especially as a beginner) which, after some contemplation, lead me to believe that this caused the issue identified in (1).
3. General increase of proficiency and familiarity with python and how to think through problems.

Why you should code Battleship after Tic Tac Toe.

Expansion of previous knowledge:

1. The interface/screen. Like Tic Tac Toe, Battleship requires a screen that users can look at to be able to make decisions and play. Unlike Tic Tac Toe, however, Battleship has two screens that you need to juggle and change according to computer moves and player moves. Furthermore, since you are somewhat familiar with printed screens and interacting with the screen due to Tic Tac Toe, this allows you to take on the challenge of a battleship screen and its elements more effectively whilst providing an added challenge.

Opportunities to learn new things:

1. Complexity. The different parts of Battleship (broken down below) provide opportunities for different types of problems to solve. Problems such as ship generation, ship placement, overlapping ships, computer hunting/targeting, player hits, and misses, all require solutions that vary and provide challenges to possible underdeveloped
2. Identification of areas of knowledge that need work. As specified above I realized that I relied on lists and dictionaries to cover inadequacies in knowledge. This led me to sources that can shore up those inadequacies.

Fun!

1. Self-explanatory. If you had fun with Tic Tac Toe, you would probably have fun with this too.

Questions to ask yourself.

1. How do I create a screen that can display user ships?
2. How can I program a computer to generate a RANDOM layout for the 5 ships and their correct lengths within the screen parameters without overlapping?
3. How can I store that layout for future use?
4. How can I code a way for the user to layout their ships on the board within the screen parameters without overlapping?
5. How can the user choose wh

Edit(1/1/2022): * MIUI has no biometric Lockdown, solution. * FFUpdater and UntrackMe apps recommended. * Added back Vinyl Music Player.

NOTE (June) 15/06/2020: r_privacy moderator trai_dep revengefully deleted my highly gilded 1.0 guide post before.

NOTE: I will NOT respond to prejudiced and political trolls.

Hello! It took a while before I could gather enough upgrades to create this fourth iteration of the smartphone guide so many people love. It seems to have benefitted many people, and it was only a matter of time before things got spicier.

It is time to, once again, shake up the expectations of how much privacy, security and anonymity you can achieve on a non rooted smartphone, even compared to all those funky "security" custom ROMs. It is time to get top grade levels of privacy in the hands (pun intended) of all you smartphone users.

Steps are as always easy to apply if you follow the guide, which is a pivotal foundation of this guide I started 2 years ago. After all, what is a guide if you feel unease in even being able to follow its lead?

Unlike last year, I want to try and fully rewrite the guide wherever possible, but some parts will seem similar obviously, as this, while technically being an incremental improvement, is also a massive jump for darknet users. This version of the guide took a while compared to the previous versions.

A kind request to share this guide to any privacy seeker.

User and device requirement

• ANY Android 9+ device (Android 10+ recommended for better security)
• knowledge of how to copy-paste commands in Linux or Mac Terminal/MS-DOS Command Prompt (for ADB, it is very simple, trust me)
• For intermediate tech users: typing some URLs and saving them in a text file

What brings this fourth iteration? Was the previous version not good enough?

No, it was not, just like last time. There is always room for improvement, but I may have started to encounter law of diminishing returns, just like Moore's Law has started to fail with desktop CPU transistor count advancements. This does not mean I am stopping, but upgrades might get marginal from here on. The upgrades we now have are less in number, higher in quality. So, we have a lot explanation to read and understand this time around.

A summary of new additions to the 3.0 guide:

Do your worst!

My thoughts are that Apple needs to break apart the behemoth that is iTunes.app. Look at how far it has come, and how much crap has been tacked onto it over the years...

• Music
• Music + iPod
• Music + iPod + Store
• Music + iPod + Store + Videos
• Music + iPod + Store + Videos + Apps
• And so on and so forth...

They have been adding additional components to it based on the "digital hub" philosophy that Steve Jobs introduced some 15 years ago, and it's become overgrown and convoluted. iTunes has become a beast that needs to be picked apart and separated, much like Apple recently did with iPhoto.

In my opinion, Apple should take a page from iOS and have totally separate OS X applications for each component. "Music," "Videos," "iTunes Store."

For instance, "Music" should serve one purpose: the management of your music library (incl. Apple Music). Any movies or movie rentals should be stored in the "Videos" app, just like iOS. Downloads and purchases are completed through the "iTunes Store," just like on iOS. I think that the ability to download iOS apps via the iTunes Store needs to be implemented into the Mac App Store; although they wouldn't be playable, it would be consistent on where they come from.

This way we can get back to basics and tear apart all the junk that's been added on to make the iTunes experience just totally awful. All that being said, using the implementation I described above would work fine on the Mac, but on the PC it might be more difficult.

Anyway that's my take on it. Break up the iTunes monopoly and give each component its own application.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

I met it… him… the husband, two years ago. I don't want to get sidetracked by the story of how I became (as the English call it) a mail-order bride. That story is harrowing and depressing enough in itself. The War left a lot of orphans on both sides of the new border. Many have similar stories to mine. I don't want to waste however long I've got by sharing experiences that differ little from any other girl whose childhood died in The War.

So many of us ended up press-ganged by hungry communities into going in the Russian men's vans. So many ended up here, or America, or Saudi Arabia, to share beds with disgusting men so families back home could keep coal in the furnace one more winter. A tale retold a thousand times over by every woman that's lived it.

Their stories have nothing mine does not. Where my story differs is the ending. None of those other daughters of The War ended up with someone like the husband. This I guarantee.

It called itself Mr. Danforth. The first thing it said to me when I arrived at Heathrow was "you are called Mrs. Danforth." It wasn't a question. It was a command. Despite what you're thinking, this didn't raise suspicion. I'd had very few conversations with men that didn't start with them barking orders. My first thoughts of the husband were that he would be a man like all those except Father. All I was thinking as he walked me to his SUV was "and so I go from the hands of one pig into the hands of another."

How wrong I was.

I didn't properly inspect the husband until I was in the back seat. I hadn't looked at him much in the airport. I'd kept my head down, staring at the floor, because that's what the Russian men told me to do. It took a few hours to reach the house. Plenty of time for me to stare at the husband in the rear-view mirror, to get a proper look at the man whose bed I'd been sold into. That was when alarm bells started ringing.

As the SUV trundled down increasingly less maintained roads, my mind was running through possible explanations for my new husband's face. It was rigid, stiff. None of the muscles of his wide brow or angular jaw twitched, clenched, or moved. At all. For three whole hours. His skin was off, too. Not literally, but something about it troubled me for reasons I couldn't place. I think it was the tone. The hues of his face were too uniform, too smooth. Almost the exact same shade of grey almost-peach all over. There was no ruddiness to his cheeks, no darkness under his eyes. For

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Edit- I wrote this at 2am and I forgot to mention a couple of things- I wanted to share my "out of the box" impressions of each, without EQ or mods, and also avoid a super in-depth review with song choices and graphs and everything (for now). I also mention the order I purchased each one, and the price I paid for each, because that definitely matters in my final assessments :) Honestly, I think they are all good products, just different, and it's always worth trying them all out for yourself. These are just my personal opinions of course :)

So I got my HD6xx’s and I am finally able to A/B the three legendary 600 series cans… HD600, HD6xx (aka HD650), and the newer, more divisive HD660s.I mostly listen to orchestral music (film and video game scores), and various rock genres (Queen, Mastodon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, pretty eclectic range overall).Using my portable setup- iPhone/iPad (always lossless when available) and the Dragonfly Red, or my desktop audio interface, which is a Black Lion Audio Revolution 2x2, which has an excellent headphone amp and DAC. Not tube of course but it’s no slouch and has the best DAC and headphone amp out of all the interfaces I’ve owned and tried so far.

More importantly: in addition to critical listening for fun and relaxation, I use these every day for work as a composer/sound designer. I need a fairly neutral, accurate sound with very high attention to detail and precise imaging.

Here are some initial impressions:

The HD660s were the first ones I had. They’re also the most expensive- I paid $525 for these, brand new.Now, I do enjoy them when EQd and they are not a bad pair of cans, but I’m also shocked that I liked them the least out of all three, by far. To my ears, they sound the most different out of all of them, meaning I can tell the 600 and 6xx are from the same series, with the 660s being the odd man out. They seem to have a totally different tuning and sound signature which doesn’t fit with the others. They’re very dark and warm, as are the 6xx, but the biggest difference is the complete lack of treble extension.I remember it took me a LONG time to really get used to them and get comfortable with them, but even so, they always sounded a bit too muffled and congested in the midrange. I heard detail, yes, but the overall tone and timbre always left a lot to be desired. They sound like the mids are boosted a bit too much, which can make them sometimes sound almo

In responding to another "Hey I'm new" post it occurred to me that when I was learning StarCraft, someone pointed me at this post.

Basically, at lower skill levels (and very loosely, tiers in WoWS--T4 doesn't have to worry about radar) there are very foundational gameplay mechanics that a new player should learn.

In StarCraft, literally all a Bronze player should worry about is economy, for example.

In WoWS, at T4 it's probably more important to emphasize "look at the minimap" and "don't show broadside" whereas at T10 it's "use this very specific island on this specific map with this specific ship to fire over it" or "remember the 32mm overmatch rule."

I started with this but obviously it could be expanded and some item placements are certainly debateable.

EDIT: I realize the Levels should probably be tiers, sigh.

EDIT2: I tried to think of these in terms of tiers, and gave up deciding that the more flexible terms I used originally were better. That said, I do want to try to keep items that are important-but-don't-matter at lower tiers (like radar) out of the very basic sections because players aren't going to run into those right away.

EDIT3: Finished filling out explanations of what each of these means. The table/"pyramid" is relatively compact (as intended) but the explanations are, unsurprisingly, a giant wall of text.

Crosshair a

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

bad:

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After completing Tic Tac Toe recently I decided to code Battleship after my girlfriend said it would be too hard.

I will first explore what I learned, then use that knowledge to explain why I believe Battleship would be an excellent choice after programming Tic Tac Toe.

What I learned.

1. I rely too much on lists and dictionaries which bloats my code. This causes hundreds upon hundreds of lines of code that is coded differently, which would make my code more efficient and readable.
2. I stayed in my comfort zone too much (especially as a beginner) which, after some contemplation, lead me to believe that this caused the issue identified in (1).
3. General increase of proficiency and familiarity with python and how to think through problems.

Why you should code Battleship after Tic Tac Toe.

Expansion of previous knowledge:

1. The interface/screen. Like Tic Tac Toe, Battleship requires a screen that users can look at to be able to make decisions and play. Unlike Tic Tac Toe, however, Battleship has two screens that you need to juggle and change according to computer moves and player moves. Furthermore, since you are somewhat familiar with printed screens and interacting with the screen due to Tic Tac Toe, this allows you to take on the challenge of a battleship screen and its elements more effectively whilst providing an added challenge.

Opportunities to learn new things:

1. Complexity. The different parts of Battleship (broken down below) provide opportunities for different types of problems to solve. Problems such as ship generation, ship placement, overlapping ships, computer hunting/targeting, player hits, and misses, all require solutions that vary and provide challenges to possible underdeveloped
2. Identification of areas of knowledge that need work. As specified above I realized that I relied on lists and dictionaries to cover inadequacies in knowledge. This led me to sources that can shore up those inadequacies.

Fun!

1. Self-explanatory. If you had fun with Tic Tac Toe, you would probably have fun with this too.

Questions to ask yourself.

1. How do I create a screen that can display user ships?
2. How can I program a computer to generate a RANDOM layout for the 5 ships and their correct lengths within the screen parameters without overlapping?
3. How can I store that layout for future use?
4. How can I code a way for the user to layout their ships on the board within the screen parameters without overlapping?
5. How can the user choose wh

Edit(1/1/2022): * MIUI has no biometric Lockdown, solution. * FFUpdater and UntrackMe apps recommended. * Added back Vinyl Music Player.

NOTE (June) 15/06/2020: r_privacy moderator trai_dep revengefully deleted my highly gilded 1.0 guide post before.

NOTE: I will NOT respond to prejudiced and political trolls.

Hello! It took a while before I could gather enough upgrades to create this fourth iteration of the smartphone guide so many people love. It seems to have benefitted many people, and it was only a matter of time before things got spicier.

It is time to, once again, shake up the expectations of how much privacy, security and anonymity you can achieve on a non rooted smartphone, even compared to all those funky "security" custom ROMs. It is time to get top grade levels of privacy in the hands (pun intended) of all you smartphone users.

Steps are as always easy to apply if you follow the guide, which is a pivotal foundation of this guide I started 2 years ago. After all, what is a guide if you feel unease in even being able to follow its lead?

Unlike last year, I want to try and fully rewrite the guide wherever possible, but some parts will seem similar obviously, as this, while technically being an incremental improvement, is also a massive jump for darknet users. This version of the guide took a while compared to the previous versions.

A kind request to share this guide to any privacy seeker.

User and device requirement

• ANY Android 9+ device (Android 10+ recommended for better security)
• knowledge of how to copy-paste commands in Linux or Mac Terminal/MS-DOS Command Prompt (for ADB, it is very simple, trust me)
• For intermediate tech users: typing some URLs and saving them in a text file

What brings this fourth iteration? Was the previous version not good enough?

No, it was not, just like last time. There is always room for improvement, but I may have started to encounter law of diminishing returns, just like Moore's Law has started to fail with desktop CPU transistor count advancements. This does not mean I am stopping, but upgrades might get marginal from here on. The upgrades we now have are less in number, higher in quality. So, we have a lot explanation to read and understand this time around.

A summary of new additions to the 3.0 guide: