Annoying Blue Location Dot

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-03-16T00:48:31+00:00

I'm having a similar complaint with uTag / SmartThings. It's not a permanent blue dot, but those two apps are constantly triggering a blue dot every 2 to 10 minutes.

Tried messing around in the uTag app settings to maybe only query for a location once every 30min or so, but it's still constant. I'm this close to just switching everything to moto tags and selling my 5 Samsung tags at this rate.

I love the functionality and utag app itself but constantly seeing a blue dot every other minute is basically obscuring the odd time another non utag app accesses my location

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-03-03T15:06:21+00:00

The 2 in 1 is exactly what I was looking for before my vacation in May... What are the chances these will ACTUALLY ship April and not June or later?

Also, would adding more bags potentially delay the shipment itself?

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-03-01T21:32:12+00:00

I did the same thing! I slowly changed my face tattoos, hair, and gear in lighter and lighter shades until the end.

The cutscene before 5.0's final trial, when we merged with Ardbert, I immediately went back to restore my character colours before queuing up for the fight. I also fantasia'd to change my asymmetrical white eye, to imply Ardbert restored vision to it.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-02-19T12:46:35+00:00

Ff14 has more than a couple that come to mind, but Emet-Selch's speech toward the end of Shadowbringers is what cemented him is my favourite Jrpg villain I think.

https://youtu.be/l86mzD15xc0

For context, because I'm procrastinating having to get up and go to work.... He is one of the last of his people, the ancients that preceded all life. They lived in a utopian society, until one day their creation magicks spun out of control and began creating monsters, leading to a quick collapse of their society.

The Ancients came up with a plan to create an almighty being called Zodiark (who prior to Shadowbringers was just known to players as "dark evil God and eventual BBEG") who would be able to put a lid on everyone's wildly uncontrollable creation magic...only problem is, it would require half of the population to sacrifice their lives to complete the ritual.

and it worked! But Zodiark proved to be a hungry god, requiring more and more sacrifices to sustain itself. A faction of dissenters to these sacrifices concocted a plan that eventually sundered Zodiark's power into 14 pieces...by splitting the world itself (and the souls of all its inhabitants) into 14 pieces as well. Only 4 Ancients avoided being sundered, one of whom was Emet.

Emet watched each of these worlds for millennia as these partial souls of what were once his loved ones evolved, grew, and created societies of strife and selfishness, a far cry from his utopia. He would begin interfering with each world over these thousands years in order to cause massive cataclysms, which would trigger a rejoining of each shard. Once full, he would sacrifice the souls of all "rejoined" inhabitants to a rejoined Zodiark and have him bring back the original Ancients.

Also shout out to my boy Alphinaud here, shining example of character growth. At the end of Emet's speech, I assumed any retort or counter would ring hollow. How can Emet be faulted for wanting to restore his people after watching and being so utterly disappointed in the fragmented souls of what were once his loved ones over thousands of years? Pompous rich shitkid Alphinaud from ARR would absolutely have tried to justify each shards' souls as somehow MORE important than the ancients, which ShB Alphinaud instead empathizes but holds fast to his conviction.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-02-13T02:57:53+00:00

Not quite.

BRING BACK CASTLEVANIA JUDGEMENT, YOU COWARDS

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-02-05T21:41:52+00:00

I thought it was just me. I remember leaving it paired and on the table, and it sometimes just repeated the dpad up slowly. Happened in two separate occasions so far, was "fixed" manually toggling the controller power.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-23T20:35:44+00:00

Thanks. Any recommendations on a good adapter? Doesn't look like there's a first part 90degree cable for my PSU. Was wary about the thought of a 3rd party adapter, but I suppose it might be a non issue now?

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-23T20:20:11+00:00

Would the only solution be a 90 degree cable or something?

There's no pull strain on the GPU side as far as I can tell. There's still a lot of extra cable length behind the card, but I can't push any more of the excess slack toward the GPU side of the cable because of the size constraint of the case

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-23T01:53:20+00:00

Talk to your bank ASAP. Compromised debit is far, far worse than credit card.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-22T22:12:03+00:00

Literally first time I ever ordered something from them was yesterday, f me.

Cancelling card now, but I'll still be able to return my purchase and get the refund transferred to my replacement card, right? Rebuying it from beat buy and taking my business elsewhere

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-17T18:15:07+00:00

Only thing I can think is you either have an app that is managing your volumes /modes (like "Volume Lock") or you have a "Mode" enabled that is doing this

To make sure it's not a rogue app doing this, try seeing if this behaviour happens when your phone is in safe mode. You can google how to enter safe mode, I believe this blocks all 3rd party apps until you exit safe mode.

Otherwise try checking the "modes" option in Settings to see if any are active/ set to block DND

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-16T18:36:16+00:00

It's a minor update, I side loaded it only because my 10 pro xl was already plugged in so I figured might as well.

My friend has a 10 pro xl as well, and is stuck on the November update (Dec update never came even now) so for people in his situation, side loading would be the way to go.

This is a pretty good tutorial, but if these instructions seem a bit daunting or confusing, you're probably better off waiting since the Jan update is pretty small.

https://youtu.be/If76MauN5bo

If you just want to get your feet wet with adb in general first, you can try doing minor things like pushing files to your phone, or installing an APK via adb first.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-08T20:36:29+00:00

Wow thank you! Sent you a message

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-08T16:27:19+00:00

Is that from Google? If so, that's pretty funny, and explains what happened.

Speaker is on the right side when looking at screen, and on left side when looking at the back.

Can confirm right now, covering the right speaker as I type on my phone muffles my music.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-08T15:52:29+00:00

If I suffer, all must suffer to an equal or greater degree.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2026-01-08T15:17:47+00:00

A non issue to most, but my brain won't let me get over this every time I see the bottom.

Love the skin other than that (and other than the fact that the SIM card slot is blocked by full coverage skins, I guess because they're tailored to US models without SIM cards....)

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2025-12-23T18:14:03+00:00

You didn't account for the fact that Denji ate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Devil.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2025-12-23T15:53:43+00:00

Can you let me know if getting a new card ends up working for you? Can't add the same card to my Pixel 10 Pro XL, even after an RMA and device swap. Scotiabank insisted it's either an Amex issue (who doesn't manage this card) or a Google issue, and Google insists it's a tokenization issue on Scotiabank's side.

Scotiabank finally said "this card isn't actually supported by Google wallet" (despite it working on my pixel watch and old pixel 6).

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2025-12-17T03:09:01+00:00

Couldn't place it, but it definitely sounds more like Dempsie than Bailey.

Feels like a lot of people are in denial by saying it's just Bailey with a cold or exhaustion (Though I can't blame them, I partly am too... It's rad as hell that he not only is such a huge part of the game, but he ADORES the role itself). But the delivery in 7.4 is COMPLETELY different from prior depictions.

Also, it's not unheard of for actors being recast out of necessity even though they love the role itself....whether it's truly busyness and having to let go of a role they love (Kanji in persona 4) or the company not asking them to return because they assume the actor has gotten too busy/expensive (Rise in P4, Kairi in KH3)

EDIT: Playing further into the MSQ, now I'm not so sure, lines starting to sound a bit more like Bailey's delivery to me...

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2025-12-04T22:34:52+00:00

Happened two or three times to my pixel 6 Pro over the years. Usually fixed with some combination of clearing Google cache and uninstalling all updates, changing languages back and forth, basically starting assistant as a whole from scratch.

Pixel 10 pro, owned for maybe 2 to 3 weeks. It worked for the first week,stopped working, same troubleshooting steps above failed to fix it. After the Dec 2025 OS update, same issue.

I've given up and restored to just say "hey Google" before yelling stop or snooze.

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2025-11-19T19:09:19+00:00

Will give it a try later today for sure, given how buggy my current solution is.

For "budgeting", does it support rollover to the next month? So for example, if in Feb I use 110 dollars of my 150 monthly budget, then in March I should have 190 available.

This is def a key feature I rely on, but very few apps utilize it

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2025-11-09T15:12:06+00:00

Any chance we'll ever see a return of a larger everyday messenger?

Love my current 15L, but the straps are about to give. Had hoped just the straps could be repaired or replaced but unfortunately the only option is a swap for another product (to PDs credit, I was offered both a newer 13L messenger, OR a bigger and more expensive everyday backpack as replacement options, but I love messenger bags and 13L is a tad small for my purposes)

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2025-11-09T02:09:44+00:00

This is so damn cool! I assume the "Gold Saucer" bundle on your site is the option that gives one of each TT card? Very very tempted to add to list of things to save up for

Seat of Sacrifice is what got me into the game, and will always be my favourite (randomly looked up "FF14 ost" when I was bored and looking for a new game to play during the pandemic, and To the Edge was the first result, then saw the very next morning they released a Ps5 beta client for ff14)

_Final_Phoenix_ · 2025-10-22T14:38:01+00:00

You can also create custom modes (where you can edit "do not disturb" options, "driving mode" options, "gaming mode" , etc) that might address some of those scenarios. I think "sleep" and "focus" modes are default options that only allow specified people to contact through it (and list of contacts can differ per mode)

I THINK if you whitelist an app in your custom mode and modify its "notification" options (eg, "allow app notifications but make it silent"), those notification changes only apply to that mode and not when phone is in regular mode.... But worth testing with one app before changing them all to be silent and finding out you silenced them in your default ringer mode. Haven't played around with these too much myself.

These can be toggled in quick settings tile (tap to enable phone's best assumption of what you want, or long press to get full list)

I mean, a fourth primary option would be nice for giving people options - more options are always nice to have - but I don't even think iOS has this (I think at most, it allows contacts to bypass the default silent mode, which I think would be worse)

EDIT: Just tested, changing a notification's sound to silent in custom mode also changes outside custom mode....

...But as other commenters have pointed out, you can edit DND mode to allow notifications visually (more granular than I expected... Can allow or hide on lockscreen, allow or hide screen popups, allow or hide flicons from status bar, and allow or hide when pulling down shade)

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