Stanley Q Woodvine

Regime change in the United States would be the best outcome for the entire world.

So Russets are the new carets, or will diamonds now be worth their weight in carrots?

Well, can you? Do you?

Phone lockscreen showing dark, nine-storey concrete tower skeleton against blue twilight-night sky and lit-up street.

2020 Samsung Galaxy S20 FE is now a night shot (taken Thurs after 6pm) of bankrupt Minglian DUET condo's concrete skeleton at 2501 Spruce St. (at West Broadway). #Vancouver #VanRE #phone #camera

Flagship features like RAW-format photos and the option to wirelessly charge the phone and I gotta get a USB-C to HDMI and a big monitor, so I can try Samsung's DeX desktop mode!

Home screen of factory reset Samsung Galaxy A32 5G

Now I've factory reset my 5-year-old Samsung Galaxy A32 5G. It's been a sturdy and reliable phone and I guess it can be that for someone else now!

YouTube video by 1theK (원더케이) Son Dam bi & After School _ AMOLED _ MV

Apropos of nothing, one of my favourite old K-pop songs is called AMOLED. It was created in 2009 for Samsung by the great vocalist Son Dam Bi & the group After School. 😃

Android phone home screen.

Visited W Broadway cell repair shop seeking both case for Samsung A11 gifted to me - which I'm passing on - & advice to salvage my Nexus 5 root (which *crashed*). Owner also gave me affordable deal on 2020 Samsung S20 FE Scary-saturated AMOLED screen! #Vancouver #homeless #phones

Why Does Vancouver Want a Global Defence Bank? | The Tyee Local business leaders promote Vancouver’s connections to Asia, but critics warn Canada could end up boosting the ‘war economy.’

Donald Trump will probably also demand that the NATO bank be located in #Vancouver - Vancouver, Washington! Bwahahah!

Earth’s core may contain as much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen, scientists find | CNN As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was acquired during the planet’s formation.

CNN headline:
"New experiments show Earth’s core may hold vast ‘oceans’ of an essential element for life".

Earth is full of delicious, hot coffee?!

El Paso airspace closure ordered after drone test shot down balloon - US media The sudden 10-day closure of El Paso's airspace reportedly followed a spat over drone technology testing by the US military.

"But CBS News, the BBC's news partner, said the closure [of U.S. airspace over El Paso, Texas] followed a test earlier this week, where an energy laser was used to shoot down what appeared to be a foreign [Mexican cartel] drone, but was actually [wait for it] a party balloon." 🎈🥳

Phone and charging cable and wall square and original box.

Phone showing colourful home screen.

Generous #Vancouver Fairview resident who knows my interest in pairing #homeless peers with mobile phones just gave me a very nice budget Samsung Galaxy A11 (2020). Needed full setup. Immaculate condition. Prob never used.

Brooks Leather Bicycle Saddle | Karrot Black leather Brooks Imperial B17 Standard bicycle saddle with hole and Laces (men's). Features the classic Brooks design patented in the 1890s with metal rails, rivets and lacing. Suitable for road o...

Friend and I have put up our first-ever sales listing on the Karrot marketplace app. It's a classic Brooks bicycle saddle! #Vancouver #homeless #marketing ca.karrotmarket.com/buy-sell/846...

OpenCamera app window showing that photos will be take in RAW format, which has adds no destructive compression as JPEG does.

2/2 I overcame some of the obsolescence caused by Android 6.

I tethered the Nexus to my Samsung phone data then downloaded & installed/"sideloaded" 3 APK app files:

* Firefox 140.0: web support.

* NewPipe 0.28.3: YouTube support

* OpenCamera 1.55: Camera2 API & RAW (uncompressed) format support!

The Google Nexus 5 showing its home screen running both stock apps and some I side-loaded to make it minimally functional.

1/2 Bought a refurbished 2013 Google Nexus 5 off Amazon,ca via friend Tim for $70. It's stock limit is Android 6. Hope to "root" it & install custom ROM running Android 10 - making it a cheap, useful phone for a #Vancouver #homeless person. It may need a new battery.

Stuff I did prior to rooting...

Fixed Micky's cutline:

"..it's clear that Harper built the Canadian Conservative party to keep coming in last."

Didn't see any fake VPD (darn) but I saw photos/video of Rustad, Poilievre, Trump, Trudeau. All the reviews were by fake-named accounts. All a waste.

Olympic medals are already falling apart, not even one week in - National | Globalnews.ca Several athletes have reported issues with their medals, saying they aren't able to withstand celebrations. Officials are investigating.

Did makers of the fragile #WinterOlympics medals use the same crappy adhesive that led to bits falling off #Tesla Cybertrucks?

I'm sitting in a lobby and I can see the security CCTV output. It has a 3 second delay. I always grab this kind of info, tho I have no use for it. #Vancouver

Rough calc on searches (leaning equally overmuch on Google AI summaries):

#Vancouver water/sewer main raplacement in 1st 3 years of mayor's term:

Kennedy Stewart: 33.5 km.
Ken Sim: 20.9 km.

To be fair, I recall #Vancouver saw two water main breaks on the sane block of downtown Burrard in 2019. But every year the city replaces many km of 100-yr-old water/sewer pipes. Nothing I see suggests Mayor Sim's council is doing more than previous councils.

Not my favourite Spider Man costume.

Note that #Vancouver did over 7km of major sewer replacement in 2015, incl. along MacDonald St, Hemlock St, Alma St, Lanark St & King Ed. In 2016-17. there was major sewer replacement on S. Burrard.

Water main break floods East Vancouver parking lot City of Vancouver crews were dispatched to East Hastings Street near Clark Drive to deal with a water main break Saturday.

Here's #Vancouver's other Saturday water main break:

Water main break floods Vancouver apartment building parking lot As much as three feet of water transformed an underground parking lot at a Vancouver apartment building into a pool this weekend.

Saturday saw 2 water main breaks in #Vancouver: 1 near E. Hastings & Clark Dr. flooded supermarket parking lot, while another near Yew & W. 32nd Av. flooded Arbutus Ridge apartment building parkade. At least 4th major water main break during Sim's term.

While most Americans idled the day away frivolously watching TV Elon kept his nose to the grindstone, working on his grift!

AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You' Apple's next-generation AirPods Pro will feature cameras to see around a user, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami". In a new post on X, Kosutami said that the next AirP...

Meanwhile, over at Apple...

I've only seen #Vancouver weather alerts to open city's Extreme Weather Response (EWR) shelters. EWR activations are paid by province. Unaware of any activations this winter of city's own warming centres - not even during -4°C. Am I wrong or am I seeing stealth budget cuts by Ken Sim's ABC council?

(P)resident in the White House would like to forget.

Colours of spring!