Samsung had a little pressure sensitive area at the bottom of phone screens in the S9 era. It was handy and I had it set up like a hidden home button.

The S9 also had a variable aperture camera, which I feel like could have been developed a lot more.

I also miss notification LEDs. Sure, AOD mostly replaces it, but it was fun setting different colors for people, situations, etc

The Essential phone had a ceramic back that was very comfortable and cool in the hand. Though it was slippery. Another idea that could have been developed further.

The different back materials on the Moto X were very satisfying. The customization of that phone was unmatched!

I have Boost which tells me when it’s been cross posted. It says 3 times.

Why is it trash? And it hasn’t been posted on this community before

Yes, honestly the most damning thing they’ve done, selling out their own users

Many types of malware are open source

Shattered my wrist riding a rental scooter. I hit a crack in some concrete and the scooter became a small catapult, sending me flying over handlebars. Took a year to feel recovered

I am not one to force monogamy on people, though I personally am not interested in being with anyone but my partner. That being said, I think it’s wrong for anyone to violate a partner’s trust. I find it messed up that your high school peer bragged about betraying someone who she claimed to care about (at the time). In a nutshell, it seems like it would be good for society if we got over our puritanical zeal for enforcing monogamy, since some people clearly are wired to need multiple physical partners while still wanting to emotionally connect to one person. But I personally would continue to only be with my chosen partner.

That’s a good point. Can I still self host on my domain while also using their cloud for voice processing?

I have been fiddling with Home Assistant’s voice command solution. Because I have it running on raspberry pi, it is not fast enough to process commands efficiently, but I am probably going to move it to an old desktop I’ve been using as a home server and see if it runs faster.

Well voice assistants are very handy in the car and great for safety. They also do save time around the house, to ask things like what’s the weather this weekend, set a timer for one hour, how many cups in a quart, play Radiohead on my TV speakers, what’s the humidity in my terrarium, how long will it take to get to work, turn off all the lights in the house, play the NPR update, etc. I am working to set up Home Assistant’s voice stuff to replace as much of this as I can but still tinkering with it.

And fortunately I don’t care if you think I look stupid! ;)

I was trying to stick with the new one, but I just caved and put it back. I have started cussing at it when it responds incorrectly

Pretty much every update screws up my config these days, but it’s good because it means they’re actually working on improving the interface

Many black holes remain in the gravitational influence of the galaxy or star system where they originated. Rogue black holes do not, so it is often harder to observe them

Yeah, I couldn’t get through it. Even as an audiobook read by Wil Wheaton

The Last of Us: The T-shirt

The Last of Us: The Coloring Book

The Last of Us: The Lunchbox

I used to use old phones (Nexus 6P, Galaxy Nexus, Moto X) as security cameras, stopped for exactly this reason. They all got really warm, even with the screen off, and I was uneasy about it. IIRC my Gnex removable battery started expanding a bit! That’s when I stopped using them for it.

The repeated harassment of the Sentinelese is accelerating and it is makes me intensely angry. There should be a steeper penalty- it’s essentially attempted manslaughter in my mind, considering their vulnerability to disease.

Hell yeah, that’s what this group is all about!

Now I want to fight the man and have some blackcurrants