Just sit on the bench and regain all your HP, though.

Since there isn’t a no spoilers rule in this community, is this the part where I get to humblebrag about I whooped Groal the Great on my first try? I saw much wailing and gnashing of teeth about him online.

Just don’t ask me how many times his stupid gauntlet got me before I even saw him, nor how many times I threw myself at the First Sinner last night…

Well, grab any file manager app (I use Root Explorer, or the free version thereof) and you could check the count of files in your photos folder (probably DCIM\Camera) and see if that number jives with the number of photos Google reckons you have in your gallery.

Root Explorer can only view local files and can’t hook up to Google’s cloud services at all. So by definition anything it’s showing is physically located somewhere on your phone.

This is the only correct answer in this entire thread.

Is that what was going on? I noticed a blood moon-eqsue effect the other night but I figured it was just due to it rising through wildfire smoke or whatever, as usual.

You can also just use Edge Blocker:

https://www.sordum.org/9312/edge-blocker-v2-0/

…And if you do any of those things that would launch Edge in your face (like ye gods forbid, press F1 in a File Explorer window) it simply won’t work. Depending on the object in question either nothing happens at all, or you get a sad easily dismissable dialog box complaining that Windows couldn’t open Edge. This is also immensely helpful for anyone who has users in their life who kick and scream and tantrum whenever you change their browser for some reason and keep totally “accidentally” pivoting back to Edge in your absence.

You can also block the Edge webview component if e.g. you would like Steam not to work.

…And have them able to run on zero consumer devices if the bootloaders are locked, and the manufacturers refuse to sign their ROMs for them. (Hint: they will refuse to sign their ROMs for them.)

I have not, but two people mentioned it so maybe I will.

I’d much rather see the Corel suite on Linux, or at minimum have it working in Wine. Inkscape is a competent enough replacement for Draw, but for Photopaint, well… Gimp isn’t.

Account sharing. It’s very widespread with these types of gig work apps.

Somebody who is able to get cleared sells or rents access to their account, presumably to people who wouldn’t be able to pass even the bare minimum vetting these companies perform on their contractors/employees. I.e. they’ll share their account with someone who doesn’t have a driver’s license or insurance, or is not able to work legally in the country for whatever reason. There may or may not be some exploitation factor involved as well. It’s the most dinkum, low-rent form of organize crime you can imagine. The account owner takes a cut of the proceeds and the net result is you wind up as some complete rando as your delivery driver.

You evaporate over billions of years via Hawking radiation.

Is it GE? I’ll bet you it’s GE.

Clicks.

Yep, it’s GE.

What I’m much more salty about is that controller manufacturers all seem to go out of their way to actively prevent you from just taking the controller apart and rearranging the face buttons as you see fit, usually by way of keying them with little fins around their sides when otherwise there would be nothing to prevent you from doing so. My Gamesir T4 Mini is this way and it’s infuriating, because even if you have Steam Input set to Switch controller mode, or whatever, half of your games inevitably give you the button prompt for that position on an Xbox controller anyway, and the other half respect the positions of the Nintendo style layout and you never know which is which until it’s too late. For PC gaming I’d much rather just reorganize the thing into the XBox layout which seems to be the most compatible default for games and leave it that way.

Another poster here suggested the High Capacity Color Barcode as well, which ought to already have some implementations available somewhere and sports an even higher data density if you’re willing (or able) to deal with color.

QR codes are limited to being square in aspect ratio (other than the not terribly helpful “micro rectangular QR” format) and have a maximum payload of ~3kB each. This may not be a great fit for plain consumer paper with a rectangular aspect, and you’d need to jigger some manner of batch reader so’s you don’t drive yourself insane recovering the data. Neither is an insurmountable problem; I’m just thinking out loud, here.

I’m going to buck the trend here and suggest a really physical storage medium: Print your data out. Or laser engrave it onto sheets of metal or polymer, or whatever you want to do. If you just print pokey old black and white ones and zeros as square pixels on a sheet of 8.5x11" paper at a humble 72 DPI you can store a shade under 47 kilobytes per page without having to resort to any additional trickery. Maybe a kB or two less if you need to leave margins. How much data are you really trying to store?

In a sealed container in the dark you could easily make paper last hundreds of years (we have perfectly intact books sitting on ordinary shelves from the 1800s already), and if you wanted to print on Tyvek or something it’d probably endure thousands.

Reading this back would not be a plug-and-play solution but would have the added advantage of being a purely optical process rather than having to interface with antique storage device electronics on whatever computer you may be using 30 years from now. All you’d need is sheet feed scanner or in a pinch any sufficiently high resolution camera, and the ability to run some kind of programming environment to run a script to read those pixels back into file data.

Maybe this wouldn’t be great for archiving your collection of 4k ultra-definition porn, but it’d be absolutely sufficient for storing text and executable data for small programs, plans and schematics, other knowledgy sciency data, and even images… with the added benefit of, if any gestapo thug happens to find this early and dig it up he won’t be able to ascertain what that image is just by looking at the piece of paper.

So not only is she an awful human being, but she’s also an awful shot.

This is an arch, btw.

There are EXIF data viewers. You can just look at it. ExifTool and so forth. You can also use it to remove such data if you don’t trust Windows to do it for you.

At least a subset of EXIF data can be viewed in Windows Explorer in your file properties. Technically any device or app can store any custom field within the EXIF data so long as it fits within the data size limitations, so it’s certainly possible there could be gumpf in there that Explorer won’t display.

For PR. They’re trying to shape public perception of themselves in order look less like the bad guys, either for recruiting purposes or in order to hopefully receive less public or regulatory backlash over whatever the next shady stunt they’re planning on pulling is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yADrtfAmLTo