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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:34:45 -0700
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On 7/27/24 10:24 PM, Alan wrote:
> On 2024-07-27 20:33, The Real Bev wrote:
>> On 7/27/24 6:51 PM, Alan wrote:
>>> On 2024-07-27 18:46, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>> On 7/27/24 12:51 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Who cares how many times a day I unlock my phone...
>>>>>
>>>>> ...if it doesn't inconvenience me at all to do so?
>>>>
>>>> If I only needed to unlock it when I turned it on (in the morning=20
>>>> about half the time) I'd be willing to do that.=C2=A0 NOT if I have =
to do=20
>>>> it every time the screen goes blank, which I have it set to do after=
=20
>>>> 2 minutes.
>>>
>>> If it unlocks before you can even do anything?
>>=20
>> It's annoying enough to have to push the button, but I don't see any w=
ay=20
>> around that.
>=20
> I'm sorry, but I want to understand:
>=20
> Pushing a button...
>=20
> ...is "annoying"?

My Lenovo tablet, otherwise in fine shape, is useless because the little =

plastic actuaor that actually pushes the switch no longer reaches the=20
switch.  I can only assume wear.  I don't want to replace my phone=20
because of something stupid like that.  I can take the tablet apart, but =

the phone needs to be glued.  No.

>>> My phone unlocks with my thumbprint by the time I can see the screen.=

>>=20
>> After my experience with the thumb-reader at the gym I'm not about to =

>> trust the phone's.=C2=A0 I suddenly want to take a picture and have to=
 fumble=20
>> with the switch AND the thumb-reader?=C2=A0 No.
>=20
> You don't have to "fumble" with anything to take a picture, so...

Rotate phone.
Half-push the power button with thumb because of the oddness of the case.=
=2E
[tap/touch finger-sensor]
Re-position the camera.
Tap the circle.
Butterfly gone.

Small-muscle clumsiness is the reason that some of us would never be=20
good musicians.  Also causes problems with object manipulation.

--=20
Cheers, Bev
    "I love to go down to the schoolyard  and watch all the
     little children jump up and down and run around yelling and
     screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks."   --Emo