The most effecient way is to NOT peel potatoes. Why would you ever want to peel them? Potato skin is yum and rich in nutrients, whereas the flesh is mostly carbs. By throwing away the skin, you’re not only wasting nutrients, you’re getting rid of the texture and fiber it adds.

Kinda related for me, is keeping in touch / communication / or just talking in general. It’s the reason why I don’t have any friends left, and that’s because I can’t be bothered to stay in touch with them (and I hate social media).

At the same time, I’d like to have some friends to go watch movies with, or go to a restaurant etc. I almost stopped going to the cinemas after I lost touch with my old work friends.

I wish I could have just casual, activity-based friends so there’s no commitment to keep a relationship going and you just meet up for an activity when you feel like it with no expectation of any follow up communications or getting involved in their lives.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220211102618.htm

https://360info.org/why-we-should-not-reuse-plastic-water-bottles/

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00238

I use a stainless steel bottle that I got for free from my previous job - possibly the best thing that came out of that job tbh, as it’s light, big and has a stainless steel lid too, so it’s super durable and eco-friendly. Prior to that, I’d use a glass bottle which also doubled up as a tea-infuser, only problem with it was that it was heavy.

#Avoid plastic, even if it’s recyclable or reusable

Plastic bottles tends to leach toxins into water over time - even the so called reusable and durable ones too - and the longer you use it, the more toxins it releases, which can cause inflammation to eventual organ failure or even cancer. Avoid plastic.

https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2022/01/plastics-leach-toxins/

Texfaces

They’re called Kaomoji btw.

https://www.unicodepedia.com/kaomoji/

but once it’s written, any common criminal can use it.

It’s not that simple on ARM world, every device uses a different bootloader and has a different partition layout, different boot image resolutions and different type of warnings. So you’d have to a custom bootloader written for each model you sell, or just pick one model and reduce your audience.

They could use the compromised phone they sell you to phish or ransom you.

It’s far more safer to just compromise a website or phish via emails/websites/fake apps, instead of selling malware on eBay and risk getting caught. And way way more easier to just make fake phone calls and pretend to be Microsoft support and then grab their credit cards or install malware on their PCs. So many easier and safer (anonymous) ways to scam people.

All of those only work if the software already on the phone allows them to work. Factory resets, updates, and USB flashing are all implemented by software.

Now you’re entering the realm of really hypothetical scenarios here. Sure, what you’re describing is theoretically possible, but faking the fastboot firmware is even more advanced than just simply patching the bootloader warning screen. If something like this was happening widely, we’d have heard about it by now. After all, Android phones have been around for 15 years. Now there have been a couple of instances of dodgy no-brand manufacturers/sellers shipping malware, but even these were just simple userland malware, nothing at the firmware level.

If you are that paranoid, then I guess you don’t buy any piece of electronics from any retailer, and buy everything directly from the manufacturer always? I suppose you also walk directly to the factory, personally inspect the entire manufacturing and software development of the phone you intend to buy - because you don’t trust the supply chain right? Sure, you may trust the manufacturer, but do you really trust the parcel package, the driver, the delivery person? Where do you draw the line exactly? Because in your hypothetical world, anyone can be a hacker right?

but it is probably also possible to unlock the boot loader and then replace the boot loader itself with one that merely pretends to be locked. How would you know the difference?

Sure, in theory, but doing that would require advanced knowledge, it’s not something a random shady seller on eBay would do. With skills like that, they could easily get a high paying job, or if they really want to be a criminal, a better option would be getting into something like phishing or cryptolocking, which, skills wise, is easier than writing a custom bootloader.

Obviously criminals aren’t going to install security patches for vulnerabilities that they are exploiting.

Which is why the first thing you should do is do a factory reset, update the phone, and do another factory reset. Or an even better option would be to just flash the factory firmware downloaded directly from the vendor.

Yes it will. There’s no way to bypass it, if there is, that would be a serious security flaw - the kind that would get patched very quickly. There have been some phones which had a vulnerable bootloader that allowed this in the past (eg: OnePlus devices), but there’s no such exploit available for current generation devices

I’d like to see some sources backing up your claim, which is applicable to current generation phones.

And rooting the phone requires an unlocked bootloader, which would present a warning when the phone is booted up.

Yeah, I won’t jump on the FB/Twitter even if you pay me. And Australia has too many racists and spiders, so I’d rather not go there unless I had a very good reason to.

Why do you keep re-creating the ame comment in different spots?

Because someone keeps downvoting my comment, so I’m deleting and resubmitting the comment so that the score remains positive. Also, why do you care, I thought you already blocked me? If you blocked me, you wouldn’t get any notification replies from me.

you decide who gets to be Hindu or not? where did you get this idea of “qualification” from anyways?

No, whether someone is a real Hindu or not, is decided by whether their core beliefs aligns with the beliefs of Hinduism, and does not conflict with them, as written in the holy books of the Hindus.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zmgny4j/revision/4

No

Gacha/pay-to-win games.

#Sync

Because nothing compares to it really. The polish, the UI, the UX, plus the developer ljdawson is an awesome bloke who listens to his users, as he’s shown time and again. So, I’m happy to support a dev like that.

I don’t. In fact, I don’t send birthday wishes to anyone unless they’re really close family/friends. Otherwise it just seems fake, there’s no point wishing someone if it doesn’t come from your heart.

Pretty much most manhua/manhwa. There’s sadly no manhua/manhwa community here.

eBay is fine. Just check the seller’s reputation first before buying.

If overall positive feedback is greater than 99%, and they’ve sold hundreds of items, then there’s no problem buying from them.

I’ve bought dozens of phones from eBay over the last two decades, never had any issues.

And?

By checking whether the bootloader is unlocked or not. If the bootloader is unlocked, then all bets are off, but if the bootloader is locked, you can only run the original, unmodified firmware. Any alternation to the firmware will result in the dm-verity check failing, causing the system to not boot at all. The only data which can be altered is user data, which is wiped in a factory reset. So a factory ressr definitely gets rid of it.

If you’re paranoid though, you could always flash the stock firmware downloaded directly from the manufacturer’s website, which will override all system partitions, so you can be absolutely sure there’s no spyware - besides the spyware included by Google etc of course, or the spyware embedded into the hardware by the chip manufacturers…

Swappa is US-only, it seems that you’re in the UK so forget about Swappa.