Yeah, everywhere that has kind of policy, but privacy isn’t exactly part of the school deal.

For the room, yes they can and will enter to check for illegal things and that your room isn’t a complete mess/heath hazard. They’re not supposed to search through your things, i.e opening drawers, closets etc.
It’s not a invasive search, its a quick check to make sure fire alarms haven’t been blocked, the drugs are put away and your not living in 3 years of trash somehow built up in 2 months.

On the internet side of things, unless you’re torrenting, cheating on tests, accessing dark web or taking photos of people in the bathroom, no one will bother your laptop or phone.

Mobile data is better for privacy, but to maintain a hotspot may become impractical due to phone battery or costly long term. I guess try it out to see how it goes.

• WiFi router may not work anyway, most schools shut off the lan ports, have captive portals and make you Mac register each device. VPNs may also not work, your mileage may vary. It is a public network, treat it as such.
• For 99% people, one laptop is fine. You may consider a laptop dock if you plan on using a secondary monitor/peripherals.
• For redundancy, I’d be more worried about data; have a backup drive and make it sync regularly to your school work folder. Don’t rely on solely on internet to store/access assignments, but the school’s provided cloud will be good as your 3rd “off site” backup.
• Rechargeable batteries will save you lots of money.
• there will be printers on campus. Most classes have digital turn in for assignments anyways. A laser printer should travel fine with some padding, maybe take out the toner drum and put that in a plastic bag just to be safe?
• everything else is personal preference, if you like the radio and other electronics, go for it. If you’re not really going to use them, leave them behind.

Few extra tips

• get a surge protector with a long cord, most schools don’t allow extension cords or power splitters.

• if your budget allows, an iPad/tablet can pay for it self with savings from digital book rentals; its nicer to read on than a laptop and renting a book for $20-70 for a few months (or otherwise digitally acquiring it) is a lot better than dealing with renting hard copies or being forced to buy them outright. (Though some require the codes, which complicates things). It’s also a more portable device than the laptop, which makes it great for simple note taking and accessing books in class.

• wire cube shelfs make great extra storage and a makeshift night stand. They breakdown and assemple really easy, making it easy to transport.

• bring some comfort items to make the space your own. Shouldn’t be any with high sentimental value, but a poster, favorite toy, a photo, a plant, or whatever else you like.

• finally. I encourage you to socialize a bit. If your first roommates don’t really vibe with you, you can select new ones for the following years. Unfortunately some people are just terrible. If your roommates suck, talk to the housing staff, they will first try to resolve issues and failing that can relocate you.

Huh, guess I’ve been doing that for no reason. I added the silent file a long time ago, and because it adds your custom ringtones to the list I figured it was because I added the file, so I kept doing that for each new phone…

I’m on a pixel with Graphene In my settings there is a “none” option I’ve never noticed until now.

P@ssw0rd no one will ever guess this one!

LPT for android notifications;

Android doesn’t give you the separate option for banner + nosound. It’s all or nothing.

However, if you have a 15sec audio file with silence, you can set the sound to that and still get a banner.

I agree Power Amp is amazing, I don’t care its not Foss and its worth the cost.

I was think more as a troubleshooting step to see if something else has the same issue.

I’d rule out Poweramp for sure, do other music apps work? Poweramp does works fine for me on graphine OS, which is also android 16.

You’re on a beta version, so it could be related to that?

That is fair, They vary their style a lot, which I think is pretty cool, but when you like one thing and they change it…

After a while, I’ve come to learn why a lot of the popular artists have hundreds of songs but only 1-5 of them get played on repeat.

What’s your favorite color? I’m torn between green and orange.

still mortal, could have an untimely death Yes, tortoises, let’s tell them to leave it all to tortoises.

Nah, pets are too mortal. They’ll be donated to the historical association and be considered landmarks we can neither destroy or live in.

I hope when you say “hot glue zip ties”, you mean hot gluing a sticky zip tie mount such as this

Otherwise you’re a monster :p

"Ensign Kim, we hope you are readjusting well to life on Earth. We have been reviewing the reports and are finding you quite the accomplished Ensign, you were instrumental to the survival of voyager and her crew, even taking on captain duties at times. You were basically 6th or 7th in command right after the doctor. We feel continuing to call you Ensign Kim would be a disservice to all you have achieved in the past 7 years aboard Voyager.

Congratulations Super-Ensign Kim. You are dismissed."

Play services work great, even Android auto works.

Personally, I don’t bother with seperate profiles. I want push notifications for somethings. However if you only want bank apps, a separate profile may fit your use.

There is a “compatibility mode” you can turn on for apps that don’t work. This relaxes the restrictions the app has and sometimes works.

OTP works fine for google account 2fa and MS authenticator. I don’t think you’ll have an issue with an app’s 2fa as long as whatever other app needed are also part of the profile, be that SMS, email or notification.

No problem. I’m not happy with the current state of things either, but crossing one thing off the list, even if its lower priority to us, is still good for someone.

I find it interesting that some of the other comments go on picking apart my thing, that basically boil down to military = bad, so right to repair = bad and its not a problem because they are already wasting money. Be glad something good is moving toward.

Consumer rights have been increasingly stomped on by the mega corporations for years now, and they continuasly push the boundries. The very concept of a terms of service “contract” that can be changed anytime by 1 party (and heavily in their favor) is insane. The more control we get back the better.

This is important. Rossman did an interview with a few military techs, and here are few highlights

• they couldn’t get the router password (that they own) for troubleshooting. Imagine your ISP locked you out of the router?
• it cost 200k to ship a 100k part because they weren’t allowed to fix the broken one. 300k - thats a decent sized home in some areas, just to replace a wire or something. (Look up military pricing too, I remeber seeing something about how the military pays $400 for $4 bag of fuses)
• they have to fly manufacture service techs that don’t get schematics, if they need them, an engineer is flown out who closely guards them.

Its a complete waste of taxpayer money. Money that could be redirected into more important stuff, but alas our corrupt politicians will find other things to waste it on.

We’re allowed to fix our own cars (although manufactures are trying to stop that), why can’t the military fix their own equipment or farmers fix tractors? Get a foothold in the military sector and the rest will follow.

Unfortunately yes, there are technical reasons I don’t fully understand. I think has to do with how it’s locked down, and that it can be relocked after graphine is installed.

Graphine takes security seriously, so leaving the boot loader unlocked is not acceptable to them.

Although, that may change with google removing pixel specific code from the android source.

I’d like my phone to last 5 years minimum.

That seems to be the new standard for continued software support too. If the phone only lasts for half of that, what’s the point?

Replacing the battery on a 9a is a invasive 64-step process(ifixit guide). The kit they sell is surprisingly cheap at $40, but has a list of other tools you need. Its definitely not a project most people will undertake.

No, that sounds silly. It must be PNG. You really should enunciate the PNG.

Is it pronounced png or png?