Learned'd VIII: Less Bewbs, Same Nonsense

[Kompresshun]

You said it. Way to go, now this page is PG-13 and the magic Google yard gnomes are going to take away more of our SEO rankings.

[sx moneypit]

You said it. Way to go, now this page is PG-13 and the magic Google yard gnomes are going to take away more of our SEO rankings.

Good morning guys!

[Ace2cool]

Until you have the bathroom attendant come up behind you and massage your shoulders and then kidneys while you're taking a leak...you haven't experienced weird.

Before anyone spouts off with the gay s***, that's what happens in Thailand in many places. Also, it was the best piss I've ever had.

I can verify this. Awkward doesn't even begin to explain it. Even hammered to the point you can't see straight it gets awkward.

[WDRacing]

It's so cool to have someone experience that sort of thing to back up all my crazy stories. You must go to Carlisle this year so we can exchange stories.

[Ace2cool]

I wish dude. Everything always happens when I can't take time off. It's right in the middle of peak John Deere season.

[Dattebayo]

Also, the fact that it always seems to happen around mother's day doesn't help either...

[WDRacing]

I buy my wife flowers and gifts before hand. She's cool with that because Carlisle is important to me. Mothers day is a Hallmark holiday. Real Mothers should be taken care of every day, not just once a year.

[Dattebayo]

Sounds like all the wonderful saved by the bell lessons I learned in the 90's.

I hear you, man, but it's not going to change the mind of many women out there.

[WDRacing]

Mornin...

[Kompresshun]

Mornin B

[WDRacing]

Mornin C

[sx moneypit]

Mornin C+B !!!!

[Kompresshun]

Mornin' Ben!

Ugh... Cowboom is having a tablet flash sale today. I'm highly considering picking up an Asus tablet since they're dirt cheap and giving the wife my Kindle Fire HD. I'd really like to be able to use Torque on my tablet instead of just being able to use it on the phone.

[WDRacing]

Tablets make the gauge layouts way easier to read.

Mornin Ben.

[RobPaulson]

Goooood morning!

how was everyones week?

[Kompresshun]

I use Torque very little though, so I don't know that it's worth another $200 to get the functionality I want. It'll be an older model tablet anyways, so it may not be worth the time right now. I like my Kindle Fire - I just wish Amazon would've been a little less douchy and not have limited the bluetooth options so much on it. I may just hold out though since we need to replace the iPad later this year with something newer.

[WDRacing]

I was in Stapled the other day getting school stuff for the kids so I stopped and played around with the newest tablets. I almost picked one up, but I can't justify that AND a new gun AND Carlisle. Plus the wifeunit2000 has a birthday in June sometime. Maybe I'll get her a tablet

We both read a lot, although I use my phone for the most part.

Hey Chris, what do you gain by rooting your phone. I rooted my old tablet so I could gain access to the google play store, but I don't see the benefit of rooting the phone.

[Kompresshun]

That's where i'm at. My Kindle Fire HD does everything I need it to on a regular basis, so one little think i'd like to do every so often isn't worth the hassle. Plus we just put in new flooring in the living room and did a bunch of other crap to the house, we have two trips coming up, AND we're getting ready to buy a new car. Oh and Mothers Day is coming up too, so I need to get something small for that too.

Rooting is great for tweaking and gaining access to things you don't normally have. Honestly though, if you just use your phone to read, browse, take pics, and make phone calls it's not really worth your time.

If you root it, you get access to free Wifi tethering, you can run a whole variety of ROMs(different tweaked versions of the OS) that may be faster, offer more battery life, or more features, and you can install some features you may have not had access to before. I personally like it because I run CyanogenMod and it allows me to run the processor at a faster speed and get better battery life, on top of some neat features that are on the latest version of Android like Home Screen Widgets and a better notification menu. Blah, Blah, Blah - Basically if you want some extra bells and whistles to tinker with, it's worth the trouble. Just keep in mind, once you do it, it becomes addicting and sometimes frustrating.

[WDRacing]

My phone can already tether so...not really any need to root. That's pretty much what I figured. I already have 3 batteries...so I'm not worried about battery life so much

[Kompresshun]

There are other benefits, but I don't recommend it because they're not really worth it. I just do the basics with my phone anyways - browse the web, Facebook, take pics, and make phone calls.

Woohoo! Date night tonight for once! Looks like we're going to the local Hibachi grill with another couple we know, but most importantly... NO KID. I love my kid to death, but it'll be nice to have a night out without her for once. She was driving us up the wall last night. When bed time rolled around, we did the happy dance

[Dattebayo]

I would recommend rooting because you can delete all the useless factory crapps and get the tablet/phone to boot up waaay faster than usual.

Also, several apps don't work without root superuser permissions, so it gives you a wider range of stuff you can use. It pretty much makes your device a one-size-fits-all thing IMO.

[sx moneypit]

See y'all later!

[WDRacing]

Let me know when you get there...

[Ace2cool]

Bristol! 2 days! I'm so stoked. I got headsets and scanners too!

Sitting in the 2nd row just past the start/finish line! f*** yeah!

[Dattebayo]

I just ate some ramen. mmm.

[Ace2cool]

Was it just like that? Was it everything you ever hoped for?

[MinisterofDOOM]

My phone can already tether so...not really any need to root.

Root is basically the Android equivalent of gaining access to the Windows directory on your PC. It's locked out by default so the average user doesn't accidentally bork stuff, and so that apps can't do risky things with the system. Enabling root and using a superuser management tool (like SuperSU) lets you have access to the OS root directory (hence the term) but still control access by applications.

Most of the good maintenance and utility programs for Android need root permissions to do their job correctly. Not even particularly nerdy stuff. Apps like SDMaid (which I HIGHLY recommend for keeping your SDcard clean of old cache files that apps are bad at cleaning up).

I use root all the time, generally for making fine system tweaks. For instance, I have some of my stock system apps traded out for others. I've also edited the configuration files that drive my bluetooth keyboard's layout so that the keyboard's quick-launch buttons launch apps of my choice rather than the Android defaults. I've swapped out system sounds and graphics, changed out my boot animations, and tons of other stuff. Of course you don't need to dig down to hand-modify files for these things, but whatever app you're using to automate the tweaks still needs root access to perform them.

One of the MOST useful general-purpose tweakability benefits of root access is being able to alter your "build.prop" file. You can tweak all sorts of device and OS characteristics to improve battery life, improve performance, alter memory management, and a lot of other things. You can even trick apps into believing your device is a completely different device for compatibility reasons.

Here's my Utilities page in my app drawer. There are some more bog-standard apps in there. But there are also a handful of completely-indispensable root-only apps.

[sx moneypit]

Mornin' folks!

[WDRacing]

Morning!

[sx moneypit]

Good morning Brian!
What you up to today?