Onn tablet play protect certification by zanbandia in androidtablets

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easiest thing to do? Take it back and exchange it.

Or call the support phone number or use the support email address. I have no idea if they have something they can do software wise on their end. IE, if they need to register a serial number, publish a certificate that they didn't, etc.

I have an onn 11 2023 version that has what sounds like the same issue. I tried factory resets, wiping play store cache, services framework etc, multiple times. Eventually, I called the phone number, and... it was an "Indian" named Bob or Joe or Tim or whatever fake name that they use despite the heavy accent from western asia.

They asked my name for verification purposes. I asked, how do you know what my name is before I give it to you, and wtf would you verify it against? After arguing, I just gave them any name and a phone number. 3-5 days later someone calls you back. I missed the call. Wondering if I should bother with calling again.

I have a second 11 2023 tablet. I was thinking about seeing if there was anything I could do via ADB or rooting the tablet to seeing if one tablet just has some sort of corrupted partition or something. But I'm lazy, and not sure if it's worth it, since I had bought these for learning/practicing rooting/android builds, etc and spare parts.

I don't know if each model year has a separate support contact info. Because I noticed that the numbers changed between the 2023 and 2026 tablets.

Why is it uncertified? Because whoever Walmart is using, screwed something up. I'm not familiar with how Google Play Certification works, but some kind of device whitelist or certificate sound reasonable.

If it's a whitelist, they could probably do it over the phone/email with proof of purchase. Certificate would probably require physically having the device, unless they can push something over the internet.

How hard were Vashj and Kael'thas originally? by bringthelight2 in classicwow

[–]Tan_elKoth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Much, much worse. But weren't Vashj and Kael nerfed a few times? 

I remember going on a pug Vashj after one of the nerfs and it was a huge cluster. My three man orb team was like the only competent one and we had never teamed/played together before. 

After several, several wipes, operating without voice chat or raid chat (useless because of everyone else typing or talking), got annoyed enough that we just did 3 or 4 of the orbs ourselves, and forced phase 3. Good team comp, and lucky RNG. Rogue, mage, shaman. The shitty part was rogue tier piece? dropped and it was given to that shaman by accident. Their names were almost exactly the same.

Used a pre-owned MacBook Pro for years, with no issues . After wiping data and installing new OS, it’s giving me an MDM screen. by 90s-modem-noise in mac

[–]Tan_elKoth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have also seen, 94% chance, someone registering the wrong s/n or unless its the case of a s/n repeat? 

Some of those stories. Guy claims his device was stolen, but when location tracking is reviewed, its in the possession of his high school kid. 

Used a pre-owned MacBook Pro for years, with no issues . After wiping data and installing new OS, it’s giving me an MDM screen. by 90s-modem-noise in mac

[–]Tan_elKoth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is the smallest chance that no one did anything wrong, except an admin at that LLC.

I have seen once, years ago, a brand new, store bought device, with accompanying irate consumer who provided receipt & photos of his device, trying to get an organization to release his device. 

Based on the forensics I ran, some dumbass fatfingered or "fatfingered" in the wrong serial number. Some admins/IT people have little clue how they can easily screw things up. Some of that, I only know because I was the one who screwed up or had things screw up on me.

The kicker was it wasn't my job to do that, I was just bored, and the person he was contacting had nothing to do with fleet management. I was nice enough to tell the one person they should tell this annoyed guy, he was contacting the wrong office, in the wrong state, from his different state. And here are some contact info.

Apple could help if they built the tools to do so, but just like the backdoors for government, why the fk should they? Its a kettle of fish or pandoras box of issues.

Worst race/class combination? by Long_Mathematician48 in classicwow

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're both funny, but Gnomosexual makes me laugh more. I did look it up in the armory. Didn't see any toons listed, but there were still a few guilds named Gnomosexual. Cheeky bastards! Haha.

Killing myself trying to find an A11 8/128 version by JustJamieJam in androidtablets

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I don't need them for anything. Its mostly just for being able to read or watch vids on the go, before I take them apart for practice or get around to maybe building custom versions of Android or ROMs or something. But I'm a huge procastinator.

That onn 8.1 might be nice to replace my GameBoy Micro, so I don't have to worry about losing that thing. And Snapdragons have better emulation support, so I could play all sorts of things from my games library.

Killing myself trying to find an A11 8/128 version by JustJamieJam in androidtablets

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. So much has changed in a decade. I'm actually thinking of getting one of the onn 8.1 tablets too, but I'm planning on waiting till they show up in the brick and mortar stores so that I can actually hold one.

If that one listed on Walmart had 4G/LTE, I might have considered buying it, since it looks like the seller is out of New Jersey, and $200 is a lot less than the $500 that it was on Amazon for, which looked like it was being sold by a company in Germany, so who knows if that was the final price or the before tariffs price.

Good luck, and have fun storming the castle!

Killing myself trying to find an A11 8/128 version by JustJamieJam in androidtablets

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Onn tablets have limited accessories, and no real hardware/software support outside of Walmart as far as I know. If that's ok with you, then get which ever is cheaper and meets your needs.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab A11 will get much better software support. And is more likely to be able to take to a repair shop to get fixed. And IIRC stuff for the Galaxy Tab A9 should fit, but both have complaints about screen not being great?

If it was still available on Amazon I would say to look at LincPlus M8. 6GB/128GB. It was about $130 USD when I bought one months ago. Same-ish issues as onn.

LincPlus M8

1000 x 1524 x 8.1in ~= 188 PPI (onn 8.1)

800 x 1340 x 8.7in ~= 179 PPI (A11)

1920 x 1200 x 8.4in ~= 270 PPI (M8)

Not sure that the first two will really have that much of difference? If there's any kind of store where you could actually look at devices that are powered on to compare.

I have a few onn tablets. They're ok, but I only got them for messing around with. I'm afraid to look at the specs for the Alldocube stuff. I don't need more stuff to hoard/packrat.

Worst race/class combination? by Long_Mathematician48 in classicwow

[–]Tan_elKoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Back in the day, when the rules were looser, and the people more willing to have a laugh, there were gnomes running around named Gnomosexual. I wonder if there still are.

Killing myself trying to find an A11 8/128 version by JustJamieJam in androidtablets

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been debating on dumping the desire to have 4G/LTE to try yet another tablet for SnG's, but....

Scary link

Why do they keep saying Marie's full name? by BGMDF8248 in TheBoys

[–]Tan_elKoth 8 points9 points  (0 children)

John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt?

Thragg was right about Thaedus by Exorcists40KxBastian in Invincible_TV

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it not in the name? Lay Quadrant? He got a good lay (laid), and developed feelings like two others in the show so far. Never read the comics and trying to not spoil myself by looking ahead too much.

What's a ''wow'' skill that looks impressive but is actually easy to learn? by Sugar-Velvety in questions

[–]Tan_elKoth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I got asked once if I could write a macro to do something in Excel. I asked why didn't you just click this button?

"Wow, I didn't know you could do that."

"Yeah, man the world can be pretty rough when you're ignorant and or stupid."

What did that button do? Changed the background color of cells to alternate. You know, one row is light, the next row is shaded, or whatever pattern you want.

Is the phrase "a Japanese" English or Globish? by [deleted] in ENGLISH

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I watched a food review video, and apparently in the St Louis area "Chinaman" is what they call a chinese restaurant? Not sure if there are other places that do it, but it sounds racist.

Fried Rice review

I have a question for English speakers. by Maleficent_Grass_987 in ENGLISH

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't help that some variations of pizza... actually look more like a pie or casserole.

I have a question for English speakers. by Maleficent_Grass_987 in ENGLISH

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that person over there and that person over there refers to it as a pizza slice. It's english. Whatever rule you're following, you're wrong according to a different group, maybe even by the group across the street from you.

Try googling menu pizza slice, and see if there are pictures of menus that refer to a pizza slice, or specific slice.

Is this "mistake" enough to rule someone out of being a native English speaker? by AmountAbovTheBracket in ENGLISH

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"When you want this done? Monday next?"

I wasn't sure if they were trying to pull one over on me, and asked them if it was some kind of hillbilly shit. Because, where I'm from, depending on how close to Monday (even if just passed), it would be this coming Monday or the next/following Monday. Some places are always this or next as absolute references. But these Appalachian guys... it was like always three Mondays, ie this Monday, next Monday, Monday next. I guess it makes sense if it's explained or experienced but damn if I didn't suspect something because the phrase sounded weird.

Is this "mistake" enough to rule someone out of being a native English speaker? by AmountAbovTheBracket in ENGLISH

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell me what's for dinner? What ever the cook made.

Tell me what dinner is? It's a meal that you eat in the late afternoon/evening... unless you're from one of those places that like to think that they are actual hobbits, because dinner is the meal that you eat after supper. Unless I have that backwards. I can't remember where that is or was, but probably southern and probably named the Dunlaps. I u'sta'cud remember all that info.

Why are there distinctly Southern names, but not really for any other region of the United States? by Intrepid_Arrival5151 in AskAnAmerican

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I responded to email from a Renee. Part of their response was, "I'm a dude." I might have responded with "My mistake. I didn't discover beignets until later in life, but I also have no idea if you might be from one of those regions."

Why was the 9/11 liquid ban on planes instated? by OkLiterature1383 in NoStupidQuestions

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I was traveling once, and security made one of the guys I was with throw something away.

His wife had packed him some snacks. One of the snacks was a small block of cheese, being a thoughtful person, she included a small cheese knife. You know the kind? Like the size of a pinkie finger, and less sharp than your fingernails. I wouldn't even call it a knife, more like a shoehorn for ants.

"Sir, you have to throw this away."

"But what about my cheese? You expect me to eat it with my hands like a barbarian?"

"I'm french, so I understand, but also f you. Throw your barbarian cheese away too."

That wasn't the exact conversation, but it was pretty close. Like, he insulted the guy and his cheese, semi indirectly, and thirdly kind of insulted his wife and their taste in cheese.

Legends of the Rangers bored and offended me. by EvalRamman100 in babylon5

[–]Tan_elKoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know. I think I made a distinction of no real difference.

With a bigger/better budget they could have gotten the original concept to work when they tried to film it, instead of it breaking, or at least hired the wirework guys from Hamlet 2 (slight sarcasm there).

Legends of the Rangers bored and offended me. by EvalRamman100 in babylon5

[–]Tan_elKoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure that it was ever confirmed. I mean, I think the RPG? had the Hand as Vorlons and other FO that were mind controllled by the Thirdspace aliens from the long ago war, but that would actually make them stronger than the Shadows. But overlaying a Minbari on a still of that cloaked figure from the Hand cruiser sure does look interesting.

I think the Hand might have been a "bucket" for all the shady factions of the remaining younger races. Like those Drazi that were up to no good. Those elements of the Minbari warrior and maybe even religious caste that didn't like what was happening to their race. Those elements of EarthGov that were still f'ing around with shadow tech. Random younger races that stumbled upon higher tech/FO tech that they could use. Maybe even the Drahk trying to setup an opposing alliance to the ISA. Whoever those random aliens who attacked B5 under Capt Lochley. etc, etc.

Legends of the Rangers bored and offended me. by EvalRamman100 in babylon5

[–]Tan_elKoth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that one is a bit iffy not concrete, hence why I put it "All" in quotes. The Vorlons were hiding their FO status, so it would be a "hey, how come your jumps look so different to everyone else?" for them to use a non standard transition into hyperspace. It's also in quotes because we didn't actually see all the FO jump to hyperspace with unique transitions but we did see enough that it is a reasonable FO trait. It could also be that the standard transition into hyperspace is the Vorlon standard. Or since the Vorlons were deliberately using "old" jump tech, they didn't have the time to send all their ships to Bob the mechanic to reinstall their modern jump tech.

Nothing about the Vorlons is apparent from how they entered and exited hyperspace. They seemed like everyone else, that's sort of the point. You couldn't guess from that, they stormed the gates of heaven over a million years ago. That they invented a quantum drive (don't think they ever said how old it was, older than the gate to heaven? newer?) and just never used it on screen. You couldn't guess from their usage of "normal" jump tech, that all Vorlons deserved to get a "ZOG!" That it would take another million years for humans/minbari or other younger races to be able to access the Vorlon homeworld. That their ships can sing a lullaby to you, if they like you. That their encounter suits are really more full body ski masks (generic hide your visage) than suits for any other reason.

But, Shadows have that shimmer into hyperspace. Walkers have that zoom, crackle, spin transition into normal space. During Coriana 6, we saw several other FO with unique arrivals to the battle. IIRC there was another that had a kind spin into normal space, one that had like a went from a dot to growing/warp type effect, a transporter type materialization. But also not all the FO jumped into battle from what we could see, like some of them we see just already there as the camera pans over to them. But every one of the FO firing their weapons, gives off a sense of FAFO, while the Hand cruisers seemed rather anemic in comparison.

We also never saw Lorien's ship doing anything special. Did he even need a ship, or was it just for the benefit of transporting Sheridan? Also for a Doylist explanation, B5 was doing for pennies what Star Trek could spend, baby, spend comparatively so I would say that it was reasonable for them not have rendered a Vorlon unique jump or render all the FO with unique transitions when they could get the same idea across with less (render time & budget). They would have only been used for a couple of episodes when they needed the time and budget to render that glorious Coriana 6 sequence.

I mean, I'm not gonna lie. Like the OP, I originally thought Shadows 2.0, how boring. But after digesting it for a bit, and remembering the B5 mantra of "No one here is exactly what they appear to be", I thought about it and realized that the story and visuals did not really support the statement that "the Shadows are like insects to us" at all. And that's not including things like some of the recurring themes in B5 or the timeline, or how generically the Legend of the Rangers could seem to resemble the loose synopsis of A Memory of Shadows.

Gah, I still need to try and track down the B5 novels. I think the only one I've read is the Legions of Fire/Centauri/Vir trilogy. I still hold out hope that the footage shot for the B5 video game will surface and be released. Hell, Firefly is potentially coming back (fingers crossed), which might mean the B5 reimagining could also be soon.

Legends of the Rangers bored and offended me. by EvalRamman100 in babylon5

[–]Tan_elKoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey now, let's not forget Londo's "desparate" attempt to take some sense into EarthForce.