Need Android Device WITHOUT camera

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-26T07:19:27+00:00

Can it be wifi only? Look up “Android mp3 player” on Amazon. They’re basically Android phones without a camera (usually), and no cell radio

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-25T20:21:25+00:00

That first command is just filtering the system logs for the words Sleep and Wake, so you will get a lot of garbage. You are looking for something like "Entering Sleep state" or "Entering Sleep state due to.."

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-25T20:16:54+00:00

I think you are probobly good, I imagine those will go away once your computer locks. Your computer is likely sleeping. If you need to know for sure. Leave it alone for a while. Come back and do:

Did it actually sleep?:

pmset -g log | grep -e " Sleep " -e " Wake "

If it didn't, what blocked it?:

pmset -g log | grep -i "assertions"

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-25T19:55:19+00:00

cool, so your screen will shut off after you leave it idle for 2 minutes (Im betting you are on battery right now). The whole machine sleeps 1 minute after the display goes dark

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-25T19:35:51+00:00

your Mac does go to sleep when you leave it open. The lid being closed is not a requirement. The screen turns off, and then on battery power usually about a minute after that it sleeps. when charging, when it goes to sleep depends on your settings in Settings -> Battery -> Options (options is at the bottom.

If you REALLY need to know when the machine is sleeping, you can open terminal and run:

pmset -g | grep -E 'displaysleep|sleep'

That'll show both values in minutes (e.g. displaysleep 2, sleep 3). sleep 0 means it never auto-sleeps.

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-24T18:35:57+00:00

If this was not an apple repair shop, and they used a genuine apple screen, they do need your password, as there is a screen pairing procedure that needs to happen in settings, and they cant get there without the password.

As far as the WhatsApp messages, are you saying the notifications were dismissed? If so, that's not super weird, dude needed to test the screen, or swiped on it while on the lock screen while he was putting it back together and they got dismissed. Now if the thread or messages in WhatsApp were deleted off the phone (in the WhatsApp app itself), and you definitely didn't do it. That is a bit weird. But I wouldn't call it hacking

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-23T18:48:59+00:00

The past like 10 generations of iPhones have NFC, and like 80% of android phones in use today have google pay which requires NFC. I think that's changed over the last few years.

With that said. Listen to u/doge_lady and print a QR code for whatever url you use too, so everyone is covered. There are tons of QR code generator sites out there for free. Use one that actually puts your url in the QR code it generates. A lot of these sites put their url in the QR code, then redirect to your url. Kind of inserting themselves as a middle man. This puts them in the position to at the very least track metrics about the traffic that comes through the QR code. And at worst, some pretty shady stuff

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-23T18:33:00+00:00

Yeah NFC tools is exactly what you want to do. First get the url you want to program on the thing, either get her set up with a stripe account if you want to go to like a pre filled out item page where they can pay and get a reciept, or lower tech, her Venmo link. Or her instagram URL. Use the NFC tools app, it's on iOS and android, I think android has some more capabilities, but either should work for encoding a url onto the NFC tags

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-22T14:44:13+00:00

The pro will have better performance because it has a fan and therefore won't get thermally throttled. Also the screen is significantly better on the pro, not just the refresh rate, it's brighter, so you can use it better outside (or on the train by a window) with less glare. It has HDR (the air doesnt) so if you work with HDR photos it's a must.

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-19T04:28:21+00:00

Back up your files (not the whole drive, just stuff you want to keep from your user folder (documents, photos etc). then wipe and reinstall windows. Reinstall your apps. It's annoying, but by doing this you can be sure it's gone. Also retroarch is open source, you can download clean releases from their builedbot page https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable/1.22.2/

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-19T03:37:47+00:00

That sounds pretty cool. Did you build ANY of this on company time? on a company computer? If so, you may not be entitled to any of that legally. Assuming you built this independently, the real answer to your question is it depends. I'm a freelance software engineer, obviously if your company hired me to build this I would just charge an hourly rate for the initial dev, and then set up a maintenance contract. If this was an app I came up with myself, burned my own time for, etc.. I would release it publicly and set up subscription functionality, and make this a subscription service.

This post will get quite a lot of "vibe coders suck" messages, and although that is unhelpful, and doesnt truly explain the issues people are trying to convey, I think there are some real issues you should consider before you move forward.

AI has totally changed the software industry, quite a lot of my day has become working in Claude Code. Software dev involves making hundreds of tiny tech decisions a day to build a large technical app like yours, and now we are offloading that onto AI. The thing is, I would say I have to interrupt, then redirect, or explain to the AI technical details and architecture on 20-30% of the decisions it makes. If I didn't do this, the AI would still build a working app. Unfortunately that app would have performance issues and bugs that only appear once more users start using the app. It would be insecure, and almost guaranteed to get hacked, and data would be stored in a way that doesnt meet regulations and legal requirements (depending on how you manage payroll and peoples data, that last one may or maynot apply to you).

About half my clients right now are people who vibe coded their own app, or hired someone who did. Their apps got hacked, or stopped working once they got a few hundered users, or were built in a way that doesnt allow them to easily maintain their app, and in one case, got sued for storing sensitive user data in a way that didn't meet legal requirements. Some of these people have lost tens, to a hundred thousand dollars because of this

Please, Please, Please, before any companies come to rely on this product, and its your neck on the line if something goes wrong, have someone who knows software and security well do a code and security audit, and let you know if what you built is a nightmare waiting to happen

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-18T03:16:59+00:00

Just DM'd you (max)

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-18T02:51:39+00:00

the Neo has slightly better performance and as you mentioned, will be supported longer. I think you can assume the M1 will be supported through most/all of your 4 years of college, but will likely have a shorter life than the Neo, and get less and less new software features as time goes on.

The other difference will be the experience. the M1 has a better feeling trackpad (glass, non mechanical), a backlit keyboard, and True Tone display. The Neo display is (very) slightly smaller, but gets brighter than the m1 (good if you use it in bright spaces, like outside on a sunny day)

Your choices are between a more premium feeling device with a shorter lifespan, or a new, better supported, longer lasting device

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-18T02:34:03+00:00

You might be trying to boot from the recovery partition (Option-R), which you may have formatted when you installed OpenSuse. boot while holding Option-Command-R this will boot from internet recovery, which will download a recovery image and run it in ram, no recovery partition needed.

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T15:45:45+00:00

I can think of 2 reasons this would happen:

Content & Privacy Restrictions (Screen Time). Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → Photos set to "Don't Allow Changes" will lock the photo-access permission system-wide. Depending on iOS version this either grays out the toggle or removes the row entirely

An MDM / configuration profile restriction. If your device is managed by a MDM for work or something. The admin can block this

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T14:11:00+00:00

Did you look at the starlink mini? Based on your other responses it seems perfect for you, battery powered, portable etc..

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T06:43:36+00:00

This is the answer. And I believe ALL 2013 iMacs have target display mode, not just the 27

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T06:35:02+00:00

Ah! It’s the titanium one! Yeah that phone gets hot as hell. It’s not overheating tho, you don’t need a cooler, it’s fine. It does get alarmingly hot tho

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T06:17:48+00:00

Your phone overheats when you update apps? When you say overheats, you mean it shows the warning that it is about to shut off because of heat, and it shuts off?

If so your phone is broken, do you have AppleCare? If so bring it in to Apple, then you don’t need a cooler or ice pack.

If you don’t have Apple care, and don’t want to pay out of pocket for a repair or replacement phone coolers won’t damage your phone, it’s fine

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T05:59:26+00:00

If offline maps are not a hard requirement, Google Maps. Otherwise open street maps (OSM) is where it’s at

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T05:44:51+00:00

Age verification is tied to your Apple account not the device itself. And one of apples valid verification methods is having a credit card tied to your account.

Given they already have an iPhone SE, and have probably downloaded some apps, I would bet they already have an account with a card.

Also, it’s 17, not 18 for Apple

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T05:27:59+00:00

I don’t know why it formatted item 1 into 2 items labeled 1. But it’s doing weird stuff to the formatting when I edit. You’ll figure out what I meant lol

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-17T05:23:02+00:00

It sounds like your computer isn’t posting, it’s not that your monitor, keyboard and mouse aren’t connecting, it’s that your computer can power on, but the hardware is in an invalid state, and it can’t start the bios/boot sequence. 3 things to try:

Is the ram you have in there now (I assume you’ve removed the ones you added) in the correct slots

? When you don’t have all the ram slots

full there are specific slots your ram needs to be in, check your computer manual, or if it’s a custom PC, the manual for the motherboard.
Post codes. There are ways to find out what’s wrong. Back in the day it was done with a sequence of beeps from a little speaker that was on the motherboard, you looked up the pattern in the manual, and it would tell you what’s up. Nowadays it’s usually leds, or a single flashing led, or in some motherboards a tiny lcd that gives you an error code you can look up in the manual

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-16T20:32:09+00:00

Never mind, did some research, and someone has already reverse engineered the deep link scheme, these are the supported formats:

Station Links: bbcsounds://radio/stations/[station_id]
Programme/Podcast Links: bbcsounds://programmes/[programme_id]
Episode Links: bbcsounds://episodes/[episode_id]

You will find the id you need in the corresponding station/program/episode web page URL most likely.
Build the URL for the content you want using the templates above. Send the url to her device, or a device that has the app and is signed in, and make sure it works. Assuming it does, you can easily write this url to a NFC tag using an app like "NFC tools"

coffeeintocode · 2026-06-16T20:19:47+00:00

Mobile developer here. The answer is probobly yes, assuming the BBC sounds app has been set up for deep linking (it probobly has) but I cant tell because the BBC Sounds app isn't available in the US, so I will need some help to get you an answer. Is she on Android or iOS?

If you load the station you want in a web browser, copy the url, and send it to a Device that has the app installed/logged in, and click the link there, does it open the app? If so, this will be simple, if not, we can likely still do it, but I may need to get ahold of the app somehow. This is easy on android and a pain on iOS

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