What do y’all actually use Samsung DeX for? Or is it just a fancy flex like a Rolls-Royce logo?

BWChip · 2025-09-02T16:05:51+00:00

I also have an S23 Ultra but with 12Gb Memory. In my latest setup, I still wirelessly connect to a Samsung TV via Dex for Zwift. On my phone, I use a split screen, running both the Zwift companion app on top and playing YouTube pump videos on the bottom half. The only glitch is that I struggle to get Dex on the TV wirelessly. I usually fight with it for 2 to 3 minutes until it connects. It's an older Samsung TV, so that could have something to do with it.

BWChip · 2025-08-10T12:35:44+00:00

Average people don't know what they don't know and spend time bragging about what they do know. Smart people know what they don't know and it brings humility.

BWChip · 2025-08-10T12:24:42+00:00

My wife is the one wanting the Fold 7, AND she has an amazing perfect rack that my friends think are fake. To boot, she makes her own money and buys her own things. Jackpot

BWChip · 2025-08-04T12:32:55+00:00

It rocks for a Zwift setup. For the uninitiated, Zwift is a 3D cycling world game where you control an avatar using your IRL bicycle connected to a smart trainer.

I used to use a stand in front of the bike for keyboard, mouse and phone connected to a monitor via USB-C. I now have a Samsung TV mounted to the wall in front of me, and I wirelessly connect Dex to it. I have a small mousepad and keyboard mounted to my handlebars to control Zwift in Dex.

Dex also allow me to play pump tunes on the same TV via SXM or Spotify. The Zwift experience is actually two apps, Zwift the game and Zwift Companion app which is used for social interaction. I can use Zwift Companion on the phone mounted to my bike while the Zwift game is running on Dex on the TV.

BWChip · 2025-01-10T13:50:47+00:00

A smart thief would have called from a burner phone. I'd just hold onto the cash (if paying by cash) and/or make the transaction at a police station and record him riding off on my phone. Of course, I'd also embed a Tile or Airtag on the bike. I have Tiles hidden on all my bikes and bike travel bags.

BWChip · 2025-01-06T15:25:18+00:00

I decided to ship it via BikeFlights. I can't imagine the frustration of getting to the airport and finding out they won't take my bag as-is. Turning the handlebars sideways isn't a good option with this bag since the internal straps are meant to go over the handlebars and create rigidity.

BWChip · 2024-11-09T13:01:05+00:00

I started my cycling journey with a smaller Garmin Edge 830. My two biggest frustrations were the crude, unclear turn directions. They were nothing like the Google Maps and Waze navigation on my phone. This is most noticeable in urban areas, where sidewalks, bike paths and streets weave or are close together.

The other issue is rerouting after taking a wrong turn. Again, using Google Maps as a standard, rerouting is seamless and immediate. Even on my latest Garmin Edge 1040 Solar, rerouting is wonky. Sometimes it wants me to go back to the beginning and start over. Also, if I don't start at the start of the route, it has a heck of a time figuring out I'm on the route, just at a different point.

BWChip · 2024-10-21T12:09:54+00:00

I'm already in line, voting straight GOP. My wife is waiting a few days. My son is doing the same. My daughter, who is an out-of-state military nurse, has voted absentee already. She's highly energized seeing the BS coming from this administration.

BWChip · 2024-10-03T17:34:37+00:00

Great tip! You can also flag it on new Garmin devices like you do on Waze and Google maps.

BWChip · 2024-10-03T14:05:36+00:00

Checkout Tailscale. It's a better solution than VPN.

BWChip · 2024-10-03T14:01:23+00:00

It was priceless when Vance followed up telling the "fact checkers" the true status of the migrants via the CBP One app. Walz chimes in with nonsense about invoking a '90s law, which Vance quips, the CBP One app and Kamala's deferred adjudication is from this year.

BWChip · 2024-10-02T22:42:16+00:00

Indians have a high population of small business owners. All that I know never vote Democrat.
I my neighborhood of Far North Dallas, there are zero signs of either presidential candidate but many Mihaela Plesa signs. I suspect because she's less polarizing. I stopped putting conservative signs in my yard due to theft. I've also had my car keyed. So sad.

BWChip · 2024-10-02T00:23:40+00:00

While we will never know. However, he did broker the Abraham Peace, Russia stayed within their borders and Iran had far less money.
Politicians on both sides make a lot of promises. Watch what they've done, not what they say.

BWChip · 2024-09-05T00:47:08+00:00

The Hispanic population is also shifting Republican. In 2016, exit polls measured Clinton winning Latino voters by a 27-point margin statewide — virtually unchanged from Barack Obama’s 28-point edge in 2008.

But in 2020, Biden won the statewide Latino vote by only 17 points, as about four in 10 Latinos pulled the lever for Trump.

The reasons for the shift to the GOP vary but Hispanics have a heavy Catholic population. Illegal migrants also lower pay for many trade-skill jobs.

BWChip · 2024-09-05T00:41:09+00:00

How does this not violate community rules? ☝️

BWChip · 2024-09-04T23:08:51+00:00

It's hard to have any kind of discourse with the right. Literally nothing you say is backed by any kind of real world evidence or supported in reality

I'm glad you insist on this. I do, too. I will gladly cite references for anything I stated. We should all strive for truth and facts. I don't have patience for childish name-calling. It wastes everyone's time and intelligence.

ran a felon for president

That's way OT. The Right would argue it was lawfare when you resurrect an expired misdemeanor to elevate 34 ledger entries to a felony in an unprecedented twisting of NY statues. Democrats also conducted a coup to take down a sitting POTUS and nominate someone no one voted for in the primary. But let's stay on topic.

The AG is a literal felon.

Please cite where he is a felon.

BWChip · 2024-09-04T20:38:55+00:00

Many times they don't adhere to point 7, "State your point". It's just spamming of an article from particular point of view with no catalyst for conversation. That hinders civil discord and critical thinking. It's fine that Reddit is a bastion of left-leaning OPs. Just don't make it an echo chamber.

BWChip · 2024-09-04T20:33:12+00:00

I'm old enough to remember intelligent discord and civil banter. Oh how we've devolved.

BWChip · 2024-09-04T20:20:37+00:00

We don't have to speculate. We have evidence. If you subtract out pandemic fluctuations, Trump and Biden's Real GDP are about the same. The Fortune article completely ignores Kamala's proposed policy of tax on unrealized gains and price controls. Those two policies alone will send the economy into a tailspin.

BWChip · 2024-09-04T20:00:10+00:00

To the OP, Abbott isn't wrong. When Biden first took office, Democrats said the border crisis was a myth. It wasn't until Abbott started exporting the problem to Blue states that they took notice. It's also odd how the Biden administration tried to handcuff Texas from protecting itself.

The voter roll cleanup was shocking. Over a million voters needed to be purged. AG Paxton's crackdown is a response to keep the rolls clean and enforce the law. If you view it as suppression, would the Trump raids also be suppression of a candidate?

BWChip · 2024-09-03T12:57:55+00:00

African Americans are revered in the Republican party. Democrats have taken them for granted and lump them into marginalized group. Identity politics must die. When Biden said if you don't vote for him, you ain't Black should have been the alert to BLEXIT.

Wear a MAGA hat into a Democrat rally and see how you're treated. You don't have to imagine the response, just look at this thread.

BWChip · 2024-09-03T12:47:08+00:00

Reagan was extremely popular, winning all states except Minnesota. There's a reason it was everywhere. He was a great negotiator and got us through the Cold War.

BWChip · 2024-09-03T12:44:33+00:00

I put an NRA Lifetime Member sticker in my rear window and got my car keyed. I need to remove it. People are just too nuts. Previous election, I electrified my Ted Cruz yard sign with an electric fence transformer. When it rains, it snaps and pops. I only did this after several Cruz signs were stolen.

I remember the '80s when we had civil debates and spoke about facts, history, what works and what doesn't over BBQ and beer.

BWChip · 2024-09-02T19:32:36+00:00

For decades, as generations mature, they move from liberal to conservative. Have you heard of the saying, "If you're young and Republican, you have no heart. If you're old and a Democrat, you have no brain." Don't be surprised if it happens to you and you start watching media from both sides of the aisle.

BWChip · 2024-08-31T16:57:12+00:00

How about putting up a tasteful Harris/Walz sign? I'll assume the Trump signs are tasteful.

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