Even more basic: Why are people just taking this? Why do so few people care?

AFAIK it’s specifically google play services that enforces it, if you don’t have that on the phone then you’re fine.

that’s unfortunately not what my experience has been, but then i also have like 10 apps with constant background services that i don’t want to live without… That said, the battery life is still perfectly fine IMO.

you don’t even need to do it yourself, there are places who will repair batteries for you.

It’s not made specifically for android but it seems to work well enough if you just play in horizontal view:
https://sh4dowsand.itch.io/terraformental
You can use the Mitch app to download the web version of the game and run it offline

It’s honestly one of the best games i’ve ever played, just by sheer dint of how well the gameplay is designed. It’s such a great way to add flavour to a text-based game!

eeeeeh i found that to be really quite amazingly boring, you literally just queue some actions and wait for hours…

Here’s the install guide, basically identical for all pixels afaik: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/shiba/install/
It’s come a long way from the cyanogenmod days.

the thing about pixels is that putting lineage/graphene/whatever on them basically turns it into a completely different phone, all the complaints about AI and whatnot largely dissapear and they become what i’d call about the best experience you can have on a smartphone. Easy to install lineage (dunno about others, presume it’s equally easy), just works, no bullshit.

from what i’ve seen it seems like the pixel line just has a curse placed upon it, where every model has 1% of phones suffer from fairly major hardware problems and the other 99% are perfectly fine.

the #1 reason it’s what i’ve been using is just that they don’t have any locked down nonsense compared to other brands, unlocking the bootloader and flashing another OS is absolutely trivial and stuff just works.

you can get around a lot of detection with stuff like microg/kernelsu and other layers of arcane bullshit technomagic

it does go to Oulu which is a reasonably large city, and having it now go directly to Haparanda station means connections to swedish trains are easier, so i’d wager it’ll see reasonable ridership just for connections between Oulu and Luleå for example.

it’s even worse when you factor in the opportunity cost of spending 4 hours every day doing nothing but drive, that’s time you could be spending earning more money instead!

yeah it’s kind of insane that people still get haircuts, let alone that so many barbershops exist. People complain about cost of living and not affording food and then blow 80 bucks on getting someone to cut their hair…

hit me with that satanic picnic

…sweden?

it’s gotta be some sort of mental pathology, surely

It’s commonly said in scifi that any spacecraft is a warhead whose yield is only limited by how much fuel you have to accelerate it with.
The same basically applies to cars.

I checked the places near me and yeah a normal-ass haircut STARTS at $50, many places get very close to literally charging 80 bucks for a standard haircut.

$30 bucks maybe gets you a children’s haircut, here. Maybe.

baffling that this isn’t bog standard anywhere that isn’t horribly car dependent.

Like, we have a bunch of big factories basically smack in the middle of my town, and people continue to drive the like 5 kilometers there EVERY SINGLE DAY even when they know for a fact that fistfights break out over parking spaces and the weather is perfect.
I genuinely wonder if there’s anything that could convince these people to stop driving, if they’d drive to work even if there was a 50% chance of being shot in the face when exiting the car.