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Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps?

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On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 06:57:50 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote:

> You have a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder?
> 
> Nobody I know does reinstall his or her phones or computers on a regular
> basis.

Actually, you misunderstood, but I do agree with you that nobody factory
resets their phone on a *frequent* basis.

What you misunderstood was *why* I factory reset.

The *reason* I factory reset is that I *screw* with hundreds (and hundreds)
of settings a month. I turn off Google Play. I eliminate the Ad Id. I turn
off location access to all apps that don't need it. I disable *everything
Google* that I can get away with, etc.

In doing so, I screw things up, which happens (and I'm ok with that).

However, I'm as old as Jeff Liebermann - so I am used to rebuilding Windows
OS's on a *regular* basis. We don't have to do that nowadays, but certainly
if you're as old as Jeff and I am, you'll remember those days of "regular
OS" rebuilds.

What I learned in those days is that rebuilding the OS is easy if you plan
ahead.

How to plan ahead is easy if you learn two things!
a. Put your data in a place that is never polluted by others!
b. Your data includes your app installers & your menu hierarchy.

With those two things done, it's actually almost trivial to reset either
Windows or Android in about an hour (well, Windows takes longer because the
factory reset takes longer).

What I do, on Android, is:
A. I store all my data in the flash card in /extSdCard/data/{hierarchy}
B. I use an Android file redirector for dumb apps' data
C. I automagically save all APKs to that data hierarchy 
D. I maintain a well-organized single desktop screen which I screenshot
just before a factory reset (so that I can easily reproduce it if want to)

Notice whether I'm on Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android, I *organize* my apps
and data the *same* way.

For example, on both computers and mobile devices, I have a "browser"
folder because I browse the web and Tor equally on all platforms.

Likewise, I have a "communication" folder, where I perform communications
tasks such as email and chat and text on all platforms. 

Similarly, on all platforms, I have an "editor" folder where I store
picture editors, and video players, and audio recording and editing apps.

My premise is that we all do (essentially) the same things on our devices.

I feel the reason why (most people) can't handle a factory reset gracefully
is simply that they don't plan ahead at all times for that factory reset.

I do.
Hence, a factory reset is no big deal for me.

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Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-21 05:47 +0000
  Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-22 21:13 +0200
    Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-22 22:43 +0000
      Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-23 00:28 -0400
        Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 13:56 +0000
          Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-23 10:19 -0400
            Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 16:21 +0000
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-23 13:04 -0400
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? joe <none@domain.invalid> - 2016-09-23 15:54 -0500
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 23:22 +0000
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-23 19:25 -0400
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 23:37 +0000
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 23:37 +0000
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? AL <noemail@none.invalid.com> - 2016-09-23 20:20 -0700
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 01:26 -0400
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-24 16:31 +0000
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 01:12 -0400
          Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-24 06:57 +0200
            Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-24 16:31 +0000
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-26 19:53 +0200
          Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 01:09 -0400
            Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-24 16:31 +0000
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 18:17 -0400
      Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-23 08:24 +0200
        Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-09-23 10:17 +0100

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