Eh, if it’s only on pixel phones, it won’t be used. We need an open standard that can be used for PCs and phones alike. Telegram already has this feature for desktop/mobile/tablet and it works across OSs. Google and Apple need to catch the hell up.
We only started pirating after Amazon refused to let us play movies we paid for because our hardware was too old for their DRM. It was a 2014 PC made of recycled parts. At the time, it was less than 10 years old. We pirated the same movie and realized it was easier to find, higher quality, and surprise, surprise, capable of playing on a PC we kept out of the landfill.
When I see anti piracy measures that punish people that don’t pirate, such as massive performance hits or privacy violating features, it makes me want to pirate more.
Subaru offer a certain set of keys for it iirc. Their software is absolute garbage though. Either get an older model or one with physical AC controls.
Decade ahead of its time on most stuff, lol. I still miss it.
That’s a bummer, that was honestly one of my considered phones…
Generally, I love mine, I like reading the paper on mine. No issues with durability, I take mine downhill mountain biking in the PNW, skiing in Canada, the works. The only issue I have with mine is that the made for foldable apps suck ass and you must avoid them like the plague. Who wants a permanent hamburger menu that takes up half the screen permanently while the other half of the screen (which is smaller than a normal phone) is used to display content, messages, and pictures?
Imagine the ribbon at the top of microsoft word taking up 50% of your monitor, lmao.
The high price also has to go. I’d like to see foldables for $750, though I know that’s a pipe dream.
God, back in uni with free electricity and internet in the dorms, we managed to seed over a terabyte of data before IT got suspicious and turned off that port. Then we seeded over slower wifi until they turned the port back on next semester, haha. Good times.
That was where we learned that the pirated copies of stuff were easier to find, higher quality, and worked on hardware that websites declared “too old” to stream their content. It all started when we had a bunch of people over to watch a movie, and Amazon refused to play it on older hardware. It instantly converted half a dozen people to piracy, lol.
Not bad :D
The newest gen Sonicare toothbrushes are so bright, they can cast a small beam of light into the sink. Coming from the old gen with a bad battery, the new ones appear to have cut costs in several places, while still keeping the same price. :/
I recently got a pair of short shorts that were cute but didn’t have any pockets. I was kinda bummed that I now had to hold my phone or wear a backpack to carry that and my wallet. I now understand the pain.
Nothing is more relaxing than falling asleep to the dim, brown light of your router :)
Get a pop filter and it will cover the LED quite well. Also keeps the mic from being an eyesore. I got one for $10 off ebay. Also stops those annoying, blown out “Pff” sounds if you are directly facing the mic.
They are supposed to be aimed down, but some manufacturers don’t do this. On a 2021 subaru, you can practically paint a perfectly flat line on a wall at even a considerable distance. They are surgically flat and pointed down. Perfectly illumates people’s legs from far away, but not their upper bodies.
I’m honestly a bit surprised that we don’t have mandatory dimmers installed in all major buildings that turn off the lights after X hour or x number of hours without any movement.
That, and motion sensors and dimmers on street lights with shades on them to prevent light from being blasted into people’s homes and apartments.
This much light pollution can’t be healthy.
If you ever need new ones, and you have a bit of space, the phanteks t30 fans kick ass. They are slightly thicker than normal fans, which means they move more air while being quiet. Best of all, no RGB.
My favorite implementation of this is on a GPU power plug for a PC. The PSU will supply the power the GPU needs, but it has about 75w of “dirty” power from being plugged in to the motherboard, which it is plugged into for data. One company has LEDs only come on when the GPU power plug isn’t plugged in. This way, if it comes uncoupled ever so slightly during a move, the warning LEDs by the plug come on. But otherwise they are off. Easy to diagnose, and when the LEDs turn off, you know it’s plugged in.
I moved into a place with a weird dishwasher with an earsplitting beep when it’s done. Never had one of these like this before. It chimes every 10 minutes for about 30 minutes. It’s really annoying when you forget about the sound. I used to run my dishwasher when I went to bed. Not anymore. :(
Thank you!! I thought I was the only one. All my new power strips I just bought have a full brightness blue or green standard LED. Like the ones that come in cheap headlamps. It creates a column of blue or green light on the ceiling. I taped over all of them. My new heatpump unit also has a bunch, but mercifully has an “off” button that will just display the Leds for a second when adjusting the temperature or fan, then turns them back off. It also remembers this setting between power cycles. Total breath of fresh air compared to my new (annoying) tea pot that has permanently on LEDs, or my air purifier which also does unless you want it in sleep mode which essentially is the same as turning off the machine.
The sad part is that a lot of my old devices didn’t have LEDs, but broke over the years and aren’t repairable. And most new ones have chips and LEDs now to be with the times. Makes them more expensive and generally less reliable.
I’d pay $50-100 for a lifetime subscription these days. I’m in these apps for the long haul. And I hate ads and subscriptions.
1997 was at least 15 years ago. ;)