Totally with you here and ready to die on this hill. I dread the day my Chromecast Ultra croaks.

Wow. That battery looks truly terrible.

I revisit Slay the Spire fairly frequently. Vampire Survivors when I have my Deck and a little bit of downtime.

Have noticed this lately, and it absolutely sucks. I’m not a pirate, I just want to be able to purchase books (like I used to physically) and read them at my convenience offline or on any device I like. I’ve been sticking with services where I can do this currently or avoided purchasing those books when I can’t.

We finally got around to playing Gotham Knights this year since it was a few bucks on sale for a coop adventure. Certified stinker for sure.

Last one I bought (it’s been a year and a half or so) I was able to use Calibre to decrypt it. I do believe the store page has to have a flag saying it’s a digital editions download. I don’t think all offer that IIRC

Years ago that may have been true, but Messages combined with RCS support (and other carriers with their own apps supporting that should you not buy a Pixel) has been pretty uniform. If Apple would get on board then it would be a non issue by now.

I’m getting the 8 Pro, but think this artificial limitation of features is such bullshit. Really wish Google were better than this at this point in time. Those with the 6 & 7 pro could really use the manual selection. My SO has issues all the time with the 4x optical camera not automatically switching fast enough on the 6 Pro.

Chances the creator of this came up with the idea, logo and all, while Shopping in a Publix?

That doesn’t look like a graphing calculator? For what it’s worth, I haven’t needed one in years but I used an emulator for one of the popular ones when I was in school. Still ran as an app and you just grabbed the ROM for it, but was far better than the competition.

Nova being bought out by a third party ad company made that a no go for me nowadays :(

Okay, so at no extra cost to me I get a $700 phone (by your standards) and a $350 watch, both of which I use basically all day every day for any number of reasons that will last me 3 years like my current one. Sounds good to me.

I grabbed a Pro for myself, a worthy upgrade from the 5, and getting a free Watch 2 with it is great. I love my OG pixel watch so that with better battery life is all I ask for.

“Sourcemaps, what’s that?”

I use iTunes on the desktop, but I’ve only ever had it happen when I’ve been listening to music on my phone a minute or two prior. I’ve never logged out on either and if it was outside the few-minute window I was never prompted with that popup. Sorry it didn’t work for you, and that would probably be a dealbreaker for me, but fortunately that’s not something I run into.

On a single account, no. You cannot listen from multiple devices at the same time. You can have multiple logged in, but only one can be actively playing a time. I’ve swapped between my phone and my desktop – and occasionally you’ll get a popup that “only one device can be listening at a time” but it usually just takes dismissing & clicking play again to get it to refresh. I think if you have a family plan the limit is 6 devices or something, but don’t take just my word for it.

IMO I find it really useful in scenarios where you have a set condition that needs to be met (and can always be met so it’s not endless) and looping through to achieve it. I wrote a simple part calculation for a production company I worked for. Essentially while parts_needed < parts packed, pack qty 'x' of part 1, and qty 'x' of part 2 until all parts were filled to the correct amounts. Though it can be done with either / both I just find it more legible.

Google Play Music.

Personally, I listen to most of my music by Album, then by all albums of an artist only in my library, and finally by playlist. YouTube Music made the default organization (atleast when I tried it) by viewing the entire artist, and viewing individual albums was multiple layers deep. I also kept running into music on there having their licenses renewed (I think?) and they would be disappear from my library. I’d have to go back and re-add the albums. I just became frustrated enough I had to search for something else. I just really like the layout of My Library -> Artist (play or shuffle all) -> Albums (play or shuffle all).

I do find it amusing that GPM closing down made Apple Music the best music experience on Android. For how I browse and listen to media it’s far better than YouTube Music was for me - not to mention it actually looks really good.