I was pottering around in the kitchen today, kind of distracted, doing Dad things* when my seven year old taps me and says 'Dad, is the fridge running?' Confused, I said yes, of course it is.

The little sod says 'Well you'd better go and catch it then' and gives me the look. Amazing :D

*you know, poking things to see if they still work, so that my wife doesn't give me a real job to do...

I've been playing on Linux using Sklauncher for a while now, but it's feeling more and more like a scam. Every time there's an update to the launcher, the old one is immediately disabled. You can only get the new one from their ad riddled site, often with inappropriate ads, and it 'can't' handle the traffic. The download buttons are linked to the ads, so ads can't be blocked either.

It feels like the launcher is being disabled in order to force traffic to their site, making people watch the ads for over an hour in some cases.

Because of this, I want to find another launcher that allows mods, preferably easily. Does anyone know of a decent one please?

Update: For anyone who comes across this thread in the future, I ended up going with Prism Launcher. A few of the options threw me at first, but it's turned out to be exactly what I was looking for :)

Hi all :)

It's been a while since I modded a phone, so I'm a bit out of touch. If I root my phone and uninstall some apps, can I remove root afterwards so that I can use things like banking apps without workarounds?

I've got a Xiaomi Mi 10t Lite 5g, and it keeps automatically reinstalling its own apps, which then screw up my apps because they take over functions.

If I can completely remove apps rather than just hiding them, that would be a bonus.

Thanks for your help :)

Hi all :)

I've got my original PSP from the UK launch, and I revived it last year. I modded it, I think with CFW, and put copies of my existing games onto the memory card.

I'm guessing that it's not going to be ok to talk about downloads, but what's the score with talking about my own ripped games?

Hi all :)

I'm putting together a web app for a small music festival, and part of what I want to do is add photos from the various events that we hold. At the moment, they're being posted to Facebook, but I'd prefer to have something separate from that.

My thinking is to make a slideshow of lower resolution photos for the web app, and keep the full sized versions on Facebook so that people can download or share them. Even doing this is going to eventually bloat the app though.

The other problem we have is that there's no budget for storage, so I need to make it for free if that's possible.

Does anyone have any better idea than a lower resolution slideshow please?

I blocked a community recently, but found out that the main problem with it was apparently due to one user. I want to unblock the community and block the user instead, but I can't see how.