Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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I recently discovered a secret browser located inside the "Manage my account" popup that Android has in various apps (quite important apps, such as Settings, and all Google suite apps).

A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions.

This is a pretty exciting “extra feature”, Google!

  • raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
    23·
    1 year ago

    Boredom really is a valuable and underrated tool. Leaving reddit and cutting back on my social media time kind of reminded me of that fact.

    A day or two after dropping reddit, I spent the time I would’ve spent on reddit learning powershell and writing a script to automate a little bit of my job. Simply because I was so mind numbingly bored.

    Next I need to write one that will bump my mouse during that space of time I saved while I sit and twiddle my thumbs, lol.

    • Nepenthe@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Oh, yeah. Anyone who complains they don’t have any hobbies actually does have a hobby, because I’m quite sure they’re not spending that time staring blankly into space. It just happens to be something like TV or scrolling a lot, and if I don’t do that I get bored enough to read, draw, etc fairly quickly. Turns out I don’t draw like I used to as a kid because I’m not bored in class.

      My only current downfall is it’s REALLY hard for me to take a walk without music like I used to now that I have access to traveling entertainment for the first time. It’s healthier to be able to sit with yourself in boredom and distress because it forces you to process your thoughts, but it’s not fun and we don’t have to do the un-fun work thing now, and that’s probably damaging psychologically

      • raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
        4·
        1 year ago

        For sure, when I was a teen my friend and I used to take walks “around the block” as a last resort when particularly bored, which where I lived was 3-4 miles of rural-suburban roads. I’d do them by myself too fairly frequently.

        Like you say, it’s a great way of putting your head in order. I would sometimes be in an uncomfortable/restless headspace when I started, but by the end of the walk I’d spent so much time thinking about almost everything in my life that I was far more calm and centered. It makes you realize how little time we give ourselves to really mull things over and explore thoughts in our day to day. The expenditure of physical energy really helps too.

        Walking a significant distance feels like it draws on some kind of ancient part of our human brain, like a totally different rythmn and mode of thought, which I love.