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Why are we seeing the name Google Pay everywhere even though the app isn’t available in our country? Let’s try to go through Google Pay’s puzzling naming scheme over the year and clear our misconceptions. Google Checkout Google first entered the online payment sphere with Google Checkout, which was launched on June 28, 2006.1 It was an online payment processing service that worked exclusively for websites. Android Pay Later, on September 19, 2011, they released an Android app called Google Wallet, which integrated the functionalities of Google Checkout with NFC for mobile payments.2 Initially, it only supported Citibank’s Mastercards within the US and even had an optional physical card that could be used as a general-purpose debit card.3 ...

For media players there are plenty of options to choose from. But I like to stick with mpv, mostly because it’s absolutely minimal and higly configurable. It doesn’t have an UI like VLC or Pot Player, but it’s very easy to use and you’re not bound to anything, write your scripts and configure as you want. If you don’t know scripting, mpv-scripts have got you covered with a huge collection of scripts from the community. ...

Disclaimer : This post is not something noob friendly, I won’t give explanation to everything. Find out yourself. You might have heard FBI seized Z-library aka z-lib a week ago. Pretty devastating situation for a lot of people, everyone is mourning over z-lib’s death. People are blaming Coleen Hoover fans on TikTok for this demise (I don’t like her writings TBH). Anyway, there is more to the story. Z-lib isn’t actually dead. Their site is still up and running. What FBI did to z-lib is only related to their domains. Technically they have no control over z-lib’s backend. So it is still accessible, but it’s a bit tricky to access their service right now. ...

It takes at least three addons to make YouTube bearable for me (e.g. Enhancer for YouTube, Return YouTube Dislike, SponsorBlock for YouTube, Improve YouTube) which is too much just for a single website. The easiest solution would be to start using Invidious or Piped instances. They are pretty great, no addons required to remove ads or sponsors or anything. Not a fan of their UI though, it bugs me during watching a video and I don’t want to missout liking or disliking videos, commenting, creating a playlist and other basic features that YouTube provides. So Invidious is not the best option out there for me. ...

While I couldn’t get the Migrate app working in my device I found something that worked for me. Migrator : A backup solution and data migration utility for Android. Basically it’s a collection of some shell scripts that will assist you to copy app, data, permissions and other necessary stuffs and restore them afterwards. It’s usable as a Magisk module or as a standalone shell script. Before changing my ROM I did a backup of user apps by running M -beM. This will copy necessary files to /data/migrator/. So enough internal storage is needed to do a backup. ...