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A Big NO to this Android feature:
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Email I got from Google:

Find My Device network is coming soon


You can use Find My Device today to locate devices when they’re connected to the internet. The new Find My Device network can help locate devices, even if they’re offline. It can also help find compatible Fast Pair accessories, earbuds and headphones, and trackers that are attached to items like wallets, keys, or bikes.

How it works
To help owners find their offline items, your Android devices and others in the network will use Bluetooth to scan for nearby items. They’ll securely send the locations where nearby items were detected to Find My Device. Your Android devices will also securely send their most recent online locations to Find My Device to help locate them when they’re offline.
If you set a screen lock for your Android device, such as a PIN, pattern, or password, Find My Device can also use the network of over a billion devices in the Android community to help locate your items when they’re offline.
Encrypted for privacy
It's recommended that you set a screen lock so Find My Device can use the network to help locate your offline items. Your screen lock will be used to encrypt your devices’ locations. Only you and those you share your devices with in Find My Device will be able to see these locations.
If you continue without setting a screen lock, Find My Device will store your devices’ most recent online locations to help find them when they’re offline. Stored locations will be encrypted using your Google password, and only you will be able to see them in Find My Device.
You’ll get a notification on your Android devices when this feature is turned on in 3 days. Until then, you can opt out of the network through Find My Device on the web. Your choice will apply to all Android devices linked to David. After the feature is on, you can manage device participation anytime through Find My Device settings on the device.


You received this email to update you about important changes to your Android device.

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Don't ya know there's a big pile of human poo right below that cabinet? :poop::poop:
Can you imagine opening up that door and seeing that?

Holy crap! o_O
When I first looked at it, I saw a blurred out head. :) I thought, how did the head get in there, LOL
Then I zoomed in my browser...wow

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I will assume in my brain housing group, that this is fake. God, I hope so.
Snakes in panels are quite common. A quick search ( on the engine of your choice) will show dozens of instances where a snake caused power outages. I cannot speak for Cobras but I have stumbled across many surprised snakes when I opened a panel.IMG_20190506_185030.jpg
 

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Snakes in panels are quite common. A quick search ( on the engine of your choice) will show dozens of instances where a snake caused power outages. I cannot speak for Cobras but I have stumbled across many surprised snakes when I opened a panel.View attachment 202086
If there is a snake in any panel I open, there is going to be a power outage. Either from the snake trying to slither away from the lead storm heading its way and shorting itself out between two legs or a leg and neutral. Or, I pump so much lead in the panel, that it shorts out between two legs or a leg and neutral. Either way, there is going to be a power outage....and a dead snake.
 

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Many of you have already seen the rat snake on my fiber modem June of '23 and his subsequent catch and release:

 

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What's that smell?

I've had various jobs since 13 years old, I am now 75 and retired. Of all those early, menial jobs and the last 3 4 that comprised my 31 year adult career since '72 (2 years, 5 yrs, then 12 yrs, then 12 yrs), I cannot imagine ANY of them not noticing me MIA for 4 days! Even as bag boy / stock clerk / cashier at a grocery store when in high school in 1965!

Would it be considered a unnecessary, dead-end job if no one even knew you were MIA in that time? Jeez, I can't imagine. :idk:
 
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I've had various jobs since 13 years old, I am now 75 and retired. Of all those early, menial jobs and the last 3 that comprised my 31 year adult career since '72 (2 years, 5 yrs, then 12 yrs, then 12 yrs), I cannot imagine ANY of them not noticing me MIA for 4 days! Even as bag boy / stock clerk / cashier at a grocery store when in high school in 1965!

Would it be considered a unnecessary, dead-end job if no one even knew you were MIA in that time? Jeez, I can't imagine. :idk:
I know. No family checked on her, friends, co-workers? The co-workers walked by smelling a smell and thought it was faulty plumbing?
So there was a weekend in there. they said she clocked in Friday and found her Tuesday.

Which reminds me, we are closing on the Sell of our house tomorrow, we were told if the wire does not go through tomorrow, it will be Tuesday before funds will show up, Monday being a holiday, so 5 Days. Hopefully the person doing our wire at the bank does not end up unwillingly staying all weekend like this lady did.
 

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I know. No family checked on her, friends, co-workers?
OMG, you're right, I should have thought of that...kind of sad, I think. Although there's quite a few people out there that live alone, not many friends, like their privacy and alone time, somewhat introverted......sounds like my current / second wife by her own admission. I think there's more women like that than men.
 
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