From start to finish, the memories will last forever — insisting his inauguration crowd was bigger than Obama’s; siding with Putin in Helsinki; suggesting people inject themselves with disinfectant; all the lies about election fraud; and, oh yeah, being impeached… twice.
I called him a freak businessman 30 years ago, and he was equally freakish as president. Melania isn’t the only one who’s happy it’s over.
I’m putting this here for later listening. It’s for me, and not for you, unless you want it to be.
To anyone with the same SMS texting problem I had with my new Verizon phone, who finds my post in the Verizon community forum, you’re welcome.
THE PROBLEM: Verizon delivered a Pixel 4a. When the phone is powered off, the default Android messaging app (with blue icon) fails to retrieve stored SMS messages. When the phone is powered on, back-and-forth texting works fine. SMS store-and-forward is broken only when the phone is off.
THE FIX: The Verizon Message+ application (with red icon) does not have the problem. Stored messages are retrieved when the phone is powered up and the app is opened.
RECOMMENDATION: Verizon should make its own MSG+ app the default for SMS texting.
NOTE: My son’s Moto G Stylus was purchased unlocked and configured with a SIM at an authorized Verizon store. [Rather than a Verizon contractor store.] His default Android messaging app does not have the problem with lost messages when the phone is off
Follow-up: The answer is that the LTE (4G) network needs to be enabled at all times. Wifi alone is not enough for all of the apps. Without LTE, some things work and some things don’t with the default Google Android phone and texting apps. In addition to the problem described above, voice message notifications come in, but you can’t access the messages without resorting to the old method of dialing *86.
For a long time, I thought Phil Spector was brought into the Beatles sphere only after the band had split up, to produce ‘Let it Be.’ Not so. He was with them on the flight from England when they arrived in America.
I took this picture of the woods behind the house using my new phone’s night mode. Those glowing green and red lights in the trees are luminescent moss… I hope.
Another computer resuscitation project with Q4OS Linux is my 11-year-old Acer Aspire One netbook. I carried this little thing with me everywhere, until Windows XP went end-of-life. I’m sufficiently pleased with the results running Linux that I’ve ordered a new battery for $15, giving my long-idle netbook a new lease on useful life.
That picture of the Acer was taken with another piece of old tech, my LG flip phone. But soon there will be a significant improvement in the quality of my photos, because I’m about to leap into the technological present.
My first cellphone was 25 years ago, on the Cingular analog network, but until now I’ve never had a smartphone. That changed today when I added data to my Verizon plan and ordered a Google Pixel 4a.
