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My new phone won't connect to my car's bluetooth. I mean, it does connect, but it doesn't play audio through it. Except one time, where it did play audio through it, but that's not reproducible.
My old laptop does this. It switches for a split second to the Bluetooth audio and then switches back, but the laptop itself still says it's broadcasting audio through the Bluetooth. Haven't the faintest on how to fix it. Does your car let you pick the "speaker" used?
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No, it only outputs through the car speakers, as it should. Another bizarre entry in this story is that the radio display keeps on telling me my phone is connected when I turn bluetooth OFF on my phone. Previously, if I turned my phone's bluetooth OFF, it would disconnect and tell me NO DEVICE CONNECTED or similar language.
Well, as Birdjaguar said later on, there must be some setting somewhere, in the default programmes section.
The internet browser is built into the OS, as it should be (if it's sandboxed) so you can't uninstall google chrome and then become stuck with no internet browser and no way to install one.
it occurs to me now that you could simply install it like pre-internet software, and put it on a disk or USB drive. But you can't download from library public use computers, I don't think, and nobody is selling a USB drive with an internet browser attached onto it. Dependency on friends could work, but both people would have to be tech literate, and if people were tech literate, we wouldn't have this problem.
You could also download it from a terminal, classic linux style, except nobody knows how to do that except linux people.
A default programmes section would be one that selects the default browser, in this case, from among existing ones.
btw if you want to interpret my original ‘uninstall it’ post as meaning ‘uninstall windows’ I'd definitely agree, but only if you know what you're doing.
btw if you want to interpret my original ‘uninstall it’ post as meaning ‘uninstall windows’ I'd definitely agree, but only if you know what you're doing.
So if it's not enough that I have multiple fans going to dry out the carpet, one window won't open, my computer turned off mysteriously this afternoon (I desperately hope it's because the cat walked across the keyboard and hit the on/off button by accident), now I get a notification that the internet is being upgraded.
That's actually not a bad thing in itself. What the rant part of this is, is when it's happening. I have a doctor's appointment on Friday, I told the manager a week ago that whenever they came to do this (they have to enter the suite), it would be preferable that it be when I'm home.
So of course I got an email - well after office hours so there's nobody there to complain to - and it's scheduled "between 9 am-5 pm Friday".
I've got 5 fans running, parts of the living room (where they have to work) are inaccessible because I had to rescue 4 bookshelves and their contents in one hell of a hurry and had to put them all somewhere, and I don't want strangers coming in here when I'm not here because Maddy is 1. At risk of sneaking out the door; and 2. Afraid of most strangers. There are no rooms I can shut her into because of how the fans are set up.
So hopefully tomorrow I can negotiate a specific time on Friday morning, since I'll be gone in the afternoon.
That's actually not a bad thing in itself. What the rant part of this is, is when it's happening. I have a doctor's appointment on Friday, I told the manager a week ago that whenever they came to do this (they have to enter the suite), it would be preferable that it be when I'm home.
So of course I got an email - well after office hours so there's nobody there to complain to - and it's scheduled "between 9 am-5 pm Friday".
I've got 5 fans running, parts of the living room (where they have to work) are inaccessible because I had to rescue 4 bookshelves and their contents in one hell of a hurry and had to put them all somewhere, and I don't want strangers coming in here when I'm not here because Maddy is 1. At risk of sneaking out the door; and 2. Afraid of most strangers. There are no rooms I can shut her into because of how the fans are set up.
So hopefully tomorrow I can negotiate a specific time on Friday morning, since I'll be gone in the afternoon.
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Are you driving a Ford?My new phone won't connect to my car's bluetooth. I mean, it does connect, but it doesn't play audio through it. Except one time, where it did play audio through it, but that's not reproducible.
It's an aftermarket bluetooth radio.
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It's 8:00 PM here? Where did my day go? 
Ahh, this thread speaks to me.
My contributions today are split evenly between "API documentation doesn't match API functionality, argh" (which, to be fair, is incredibly common, but it's annoying me today hence the rargh) and "are the power sockets in the house I just moved into rubbish, or are my extension cables failing".
Thankfully the latter seems to be the old cable (guarded, etc) itself rather than the house. Would've rather found that out without hearing crackling and watching my monitor power cycle though.
My contributions today are split evenly between "API documentation doesn't match API functionality, argh" (which, to be fair, is incredibly common, but it's annoying me today hence the rargh) and "are the power sockets in the house I just moved into rubbish, or are my extension cables failing".
Thankfully the latter seems to be the old cable (guarded, etc) itself rather than the house. Would've rather found that out without hearing crackling and watching my monitor power cycle though.
So I messed up in kind of a hilarious way. I wanted to do something nice for my wife, so I decided to hire a maid to come in and clean the house for her to give her a break. Well I hired a maid, but didn't pay attention to what kind of maid I was hiring. Turns out I hired one of those nude cleaning services where the maid cleans your house naked.
Imagine my wife's surprise when this maid shows up and the first thing she does is start taking her clothes off. Now I'm not one to usually apologize, but I profusely apologized for that mix up. The maid was also pretty cool about it and still cleaned the house, just with her clothes on.
Imagine my wife's surprise when this maid shows up and the first thing she does is start taking her clothes off. Now I'm not one to usually apologize, but I profusely apologized for that mix up. The maid was also pretty cool about it and still cleaned the house, just with her clothes on.
amadeus
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@Commodore, that sounds like something out of a 1980’s sitcom.
And I don’t mean one of the good ones.
And I don’t mean one of the good ones.
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