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Spotify on LineageOS 16?

I tried to do this but I just got "application not installed" and a dead of google searches. It was working on another phone with lineageOS 15 with Spotify 8.4.4.810, so I thought I'd try and track that down rather than the 8.5.x branch which probably had some horrible new Google Play Services dependency. I tracked down the latest release on the 8.4.x branch (8.4.98.892) here https://www.apk4fun.com/apk/435241/ and lo and behold, it installed!

who wants to fork git?

I noticed that this important phrase wasn't on the internet, or at least isn't indexed by google, so I thought I would add it. But seriously, how annoying is git? It's like this sanctimonious, patronising pedant that always assumes you are confused and need it to step in and help you. I would like a less intrusive version of git, which will let you delete branches with uncommitted changes, will let you be in a current state which matches a previous state (OMG I hit undo?) and doesn't call it a detached head state. Think of how good git could be, if it communicated in English (or the language of your choice for that matter) rather than badly translated one afternoon from Finnish? Come on, it's only 9.4MB, what are you afraid of? https://github.com/git/git

Unfortunately all I can contribute to this is a 60 second rant, but there you go. Also, I think we should call it "dude" because it would be a dude, and not a git.

Adding Value at Me

After going around in circles for ages trying to work out how to remove attachments from subject lines in gmail, I found out that switching the display format from "default" to "comfortable" removes those fiends. Searching the internet for "remove attachments from subject lines" gave me no results, so I'm adding it here.

Snooze my snooze

This is where I put all my google dead end string matches. In this case, the latest one is:

"gmail" + "turn off snooze feature"

whereby google trolls me with endless new features and I waste my days trying to turn them off. I finally found this answer in cog > settings > labels, yay!

Adobe Premiere Error Handling Sucks

I just had to do something obscure and boring to fix a premiere pro file of a project which I had been working on for ages. When I initially searched google for the error message, I got 947 results, all of which were useless. The error was...

"This project contained a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type."

I didn't change anything. Seriously, nothing. I just opened a file, it said this:

"The preset used by one or more sequences in this project requires third-party components that could not be located. These sequences will be modified to use a custom sequence setting instead."

And I saved it. Then it stopped working. It turns out the helpful modification that premiere was doing was to set the preview codec to an version of mpeg4 which it had lost, rather than the vanilla microsoft avi which was working just fine. However, It turns out
http://schiho.com/2012/09/25/adobe-premiere-cs6-sequence-cannot-open/

You can just hack all hell out of the XML in the actual .prproj files and it actually works. Be warned, they are about half a million lines long, but cross your fingers and you'll be fine. I actually just did a find a replace of this

<mz.sequence.previewrenderingpresetcodec>0</mz.sequence.previewrenderingpresetcodec>
				<mz.sequence.previewrenderingpresetpath>EncoderPresets\SequencePreview\9678af98-a7b7-4bdb-b477-7ac9c8df4a4e\I-Frame Only MPEG.epr</mz.sequence.previewrenderingpresetpath>

with this

<mz.sequence.previewrenderingpresetcodec>1685288498</mz.sequence.previewrenderingpresetcodec>
				<mz.sequence.previewrenderingpresetpath>EncoderPresets\SequencePreview\9678af98-a7b7-4bdb-b477-7ac9c8df4a4e\Microsoft AVI.epr</mz.sequence.previewrenderingpresetpath>

It found one for each sequence and just worked. Good luck!

Autocomplete is Creepy

Just got a "no results" for this, begging for a post...

Ozone

My latest geeky google no results string is "why does ozone absorb more uv than oxygen". I think that should get a result so here it is. In short: it's unstable.

Ozone has quite a complicated structure compared to molecular oxygen (O₂). For more information, have a look at these links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance_%28chemistry%29
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem99/chem99039.htm
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=molecular+structure+of+ozone&client=fi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/kz5sg/why_isnt_the_ozone_mol...
http://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/GenChem2/A7/2.html

As a result it's a lot less stable, and will react with photons of a range of different UV frequencies, unlike O₂ which has one solid double bond and needs a high energy UV photon to break it apart, and the sun doesn't kick out that much at that level, anyway. Have a look at this page for more info
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/ozone/ozone.html

The is becoming my collection of google no results

I have recently experienced the horror of work upgrading to the latest version of microsoft office, resulting in my losing all my abilities and being plunged into yet another arbitrary soviet hell of internal corporate logic. Try to figure out to make the font in a legend bigger, and searched google for this.
excel "adjust font size in legend"

No results. Damn, it's really easy to get no results on google. So, anyway, rather than paying any attention to the top ribbon, or anything on the legend format options box, you right click and choose font. Obviously. May this spare some poor sucker some pain.

Also, got two new ones today: "tracking particular visitors" and "exclude bounce traffic". I would have thought that cropped up loads on the internet, considering how much stalking everyone is doing, especially enterprises, but apparently not. Or, at least, they are not describing the activity in english.

One week later...

Oh hey google. Welcome to the party.

Adventures with google analytics

I was a bit disappointed that the phrase

"You may have applied a condition such as a date range, an advanced segment or a goal for which there is no data; or there may not be enough data to show the results when sampling is in effect."

doesn't come up anywhere in a google search, especially as it's an error I keep getting from google analytics. So here it is, on the internet, yaboo sucks to you, googleborgthing.... and four days later you're still not reporting it. Will you ever find it? This kind of makes me feel warming and fuzzy, because I always imagined that if something didn't come up in a google search, then it just wasn't on the internet. Perhaps I'm wrong, and there's whole mystery swathes of darknet, just waiting to be found with the right link or URL typo?

Just to add to the fun, when I thought I was getting on track for finding out how to do this stuff, I tried this search term

"navigation flow settings" "define a page group" "google analytics"

no results. Lets see how long that stays no results, mr google. Thankfully, google gave the results without quotes, which gave one result, which included the fantastic piece of prose

"makes actionable insight discovery a breeze"

I feel sick.

later that day...

Ahh, OK, so clicking on the identical gear icon in the home of visitors flows does something complete different from clicking on icon when you've clicked "explore traffic through here" on a node/page group, but when you do that at the wrong time it doesn't tell you what you could have done, it just gives you an enormous error which has no results on google when you look it up. Google Analytics, I hate you, but at least you are obeying me a little now.