For those of us with AMOLED screens, you can save extra juice by using a solid black background. Since AMOLED only lights up pixels that are in-use (and "black" is considered by the display controller to be "not in-use"), any black pixels will be unpowered, and therefore can save some some battery.

Just wanted to second this suggestion.

Battery life: If you're in a fringe area, one thing that's sucking the battery flat is the radio.When there's no signal, Android goes into a high-powered try to connect at any cost mode - which uses battery like crazy.

fuk u man Genesis has blast processing and true FM synth.

What's so interesting about that is the insistence on uniqueness that seems somewhat recent. My mom's name is Mary and I knew tons of Jessicas and Jennifers and their mothers probably never tried to tirelessly defend that they were ahead of the trend and were just naming it after some very specific person.

Note that he's making the "you can't understand because you don't have children" argument. It is well-known that having children makes you suddenly capable of making huge leaps of logic that make no sense to anybody who does not have children.

What does GTA V have to do with some little prick calling your daughter a bitch?

On the other hand, I'm not sure I want to take parenting advice from the dude who has worked at Gamestop for TEN YEARS.

Agree with all of these but 2:

This is poor advice in almost every way.

I had no idea I could want something to exist as much as I want this.

It's probably culture more than color or "being a tourist".

It's luck of the draw. First of all, nobody will give you an upgrade if none are available. Second, I never refused anyone an upgrade due to color or nationality, but I had co-workers who did, one in particular who ranted about "Jewesses".If you come up to the front desk with an attitude that everyone is trying to rip…

the thing about 'MURICA! is that we're already a pretty mixed bag, so as long as your accent isn't too heavy and you're comfortable and confident handling money and acting "normal," you shouldn't stick out at all. Depends on where, of course, but for the most part, y'know?

I'm guessing that you were a "geek" back when all it took was being a snarky pr!@% and a superiority complex. In today's world where every twelve year old with a raspberryPI can do what most of us could barely do on a $2000 Mac a few years back, that attitude no longer works. I have had the pleasure of disposing of…

Agreed. A few years back my computer got pretty much destroyed, and in the week-long interim before buying a new one, I was able to repurpose one of my mom's old, slow laptops into something usable with a quick Ubuntu install. Lifesaver!

I must say that running Linux on a USB key saved my life several times. When my computer's hard drive broke last year for instance, there I was, running Ubuntu like a breeze and doing at least part of my usual workload from a USB key. I could even paint with Gimp! It's much, much better than being stranded without a…

Hey, I'm not telling you to find it annoying, I'm just saying that I found it annoying, so here's how to disable it. Hey - if you like it, stick with it!