I am typing this comment on a Pixel 7. I have had it for nearly two years and I have never experienced these symptoms.

The only app I can think of that doesn’t load in under a second is Asphalt Legends - and that’s because the app takes a week to load on anything.

I am very satisfied with this device, and doubt I’ll be upgrading to Pixel 9. I have no reason to upgrade.

After middling success putting a modern take on simple rock beats, they renamed the band to The Wiggles and specialized on childrens entertainment.

Through a combination of record companies wanting nothing to do with them, and a willingness to tour in the wake of the World Trade Center attack when nobody else would, the new band becomes wildly successful and gets to keep all their own money and not share it with a record company.

(True Story)

So I’ve just bought a PC. I haven’t had a new computer for 12 years. The newest game I’ve played is Subnautica (and Below Zero). I’ve basically missed everything from the last 15 years.

I own a few games that I haven’t been able to play until now (Fallout 4, Star Wars Squadrons, Witcher 3, few others). Thinking I probably have enough games in my backlog to play those and maybe look at new stuff next sale.

Surely opinions on this are going to vary wildly? Lemmy is full of people installing graphene and de-googling, while I’m happy with stock Android on Pixels with a custom launcher. Samsung, Sony and Asus all have serious devotees as well.

There’s also different responses depending on what you want in a phone. Some people want smaller than 6", others must have a 3.5mm jack. Some want SD storage. The camera is vital for me, but most of my colleagues don’t really care about the camera.

How would you sift through all that for a “best” one size fits all phone?

You might like Civ IV, it’s square tiled instead of hexagon tiles. I’ve always preferred the squares.

Well, it has an all-time peak of 23 players online and an estimated owner base of fewer than 1,000. Based purely on those stats, I assume it sucks.

It has enough owners that they’d have spread the word if it were worth looking at.

If it was that big a deal for you, why would you use a phone OS by that same company?

SMS is hot garbage:

1. The first “S” stands for short. If your message is over 160 characters, you are sending multiple messages. The implementation of SMS is a hack on the carrier network in the first place, and joining multiple messages, particularly across carriers is a complication to this hack. Sure, 99.99% of messages are delivered just fine. But if the message doesn’t arrive for some reason, there’s no acknowledgement of this. The recipient just doesn’t get it.
2. SMS is easy to spoof. If I have even basic carrier access, I can send a message to your dad from your number.
3. SMS is not secure - at all.
4. I can initiate a number port on your number, and while that port request will likely fail, it’s possible that I can receive messages that were destined for you in the short term.

But sure. It works for anyone on any phone.

The neat thing about Android is that you have the choice to do that. None of us understand why you want to use sms over rcs, but we love that you can.

the days of being remotely excited by phone design are way behind us. This looks like an iPhone 4 with a pixel 6+ camera bar. Meh.

I actually love Civ IV, myself. I’m sure Leonard Nemoy is a huge part of why.

My wife, with a PhD applying for jobs 15 years ago:
“You’re stupidly over-qualified for this entry-level job, we fear that you will leave us as soon as you get a better offer.”
or
“You have the qualifications for his role, but you lack previous experience.”

It’s a bit early to say “for life”, but my cateye rechargeable lights are six years old at this point and going as strong as the day I bought them. My biggest worry at this point is that micro USB cables will start to get rare before the lights are a problem.

I’ve actually changed bikes twice in that time.

Tech is short-hand for technology.
So, technology companies and technology workers.

Huh.
You are correct - there is a message in my inbox from you. I honestly didn’t realise/see it. I’ll reply privately.

I’m doing my part! I just got my February timeline this morning. I’m actually a bit annoyed with it - I’m pretty sure most of my “driving” km here should have been “transit”. But how is Google supposed to know if I’m on a bus or in a car?

Dear aussie.zone users,

I can delete photos. Just give me the url of the photo you need killed and I’ll happily delete it for you. But also, don’t (accidentally) upload a nude.

Love my Markus. It’s so much better than it has any right to be at that price point. It forces me to sit upright and have good posture.

We have big red magnets representing blocked to put on the board. We have to speak about every single blocker every stand up and what the team’s path forward is to unblock the thing. If it’s waiting for vendor, then that’s all we can do. If the ball is in our court for any blockers, and its still there tomorrow without a really good reason, there is hell to pay.

His pay was $300k something. So it was almost all stock.

Ahh, that makes all sorts of sense. The idea that he was paid $193 Million was unbelievable.

You could pay 1,000 moderators $100k for the year and still give Spez $93 Million if that were his salary.

Yeah, this was me. I was happy with using a saucepan for decades. Then some friends were moving back to India and gave me theirs. A rice cooker is a game-changer. Two cups of rice, three cups of water, hit the switch. That’s it. You can now go do whatever you are doing and know that the rice is taken care of. It’s almost as simple as a toaster.

I don’t know what brand of rice cooker I have, It’s a simple one that does the job. I don’t know how old it is, but I assume it was 10 years old when we got it 5 years ago, as our friends were in the country 10 years.