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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:12:14 -0700
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On 2024-07-28 19:34, The Real Bev wrote:
> 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 
>>>>> about half the time) I'd be willing to do that.  NOT if I have to 
>>>>> do it every time the screen goes blank, which I have it set to do 
>>>>> after 2 minutes.
>>>>
>>>> If it unlocks before you can even do anything?
>>>
>>> It's annoying enough to have to push the button, but I don't see any 
>>> way around that.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I want to understand:
>>
>> Pushing a button...
>>
>> ...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 
> switch.  I can only assume wear.  I don't want to replace my phone 
> 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.
>>>
>>> After my experience with the thumb-reader at the gym I'm not about to 
>>> trust the phone's.  I suddenly want to take a picture and have to 
>>> fumble with the switch AND the thumb-reader?  No.
>>
>> 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..
> [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 
> good musicians.  Also causes problems with object manipulation.
> 

So your argument is that unlocking a phone with a home button is bad...

....because yours happens to be broken?