Read the room says the person who clearly cannot read the room.

This works just as well as gboard!

Open source or not, my question is, is my typing data consumed by Google in this context? I’m not an expert in the realm of android libraries and their connectivity or lack thereof, but I’m fine with using a closed source library knowing the data stays on my device.

There may be using a card/drive manufacturers utility but I’m not sure beyond that. I’ll usually abandon a drive or card if this doesn’t work. With that said, someone smarter than me may have some other suggestions (linux-based?) using gparted or another tool.

Okay, when you’re having issues with an SD card not formatting, I always try the following steps first. Open powershell or cmd prompt in admin mode then try:

diskpart

list disk

select disk <YOUR SD CARD NUMBER>

clean

create partition primary

format quick

Then give it another go. This will often resurrect dead drives/cards/USB sticks or reset them back to their old capacity when it displays wrong.

Awesome. I will give these two a go. Appreciate it!

I think advertisers have made some impacts to the bottom line, too. I don’t have any direct evidence for this, but I used to get ads for things like Pepsi. Now it’s mostly things like Larry’s Pillow Case Repair or pelvic floor steaming kits.

If you look at sysadmin forums and groups it seems like most recommend disabling recall. Just about every enterprise will have confidentiality, security, or legislative requirements that recall is simply inconsistent with. It’s understandably been a hot topic.

Check out startpage in search options. It indexes Google results anonymously. It’s in the settings under search engine…

Hey, man. Hell yeah. I’m not here to yuck anyone’s yum. It’s cool it’s an option!

Too weird for me. I like it here now. That gave me the willies.