They also have to deal with Wendigos. Not sure if slow internet or a horror beyond human imagine is scarier

And then I woke up lol

Sundar Pichai needs to go. In his tenure there has lead to more bad decisions than good, and now their show horse Google Search, is beginning to stagnate.

They need to turn things around fast if they want to keep their reputation and marketshare from dwindling.

Just had a similar experience with my birthday. Reminded me that I can just buy stuff for myself, so the excitement we had as kids isn’t there lol.

Duality - Set It Off

I am good, I am evil, I am solace, I am chaos, I am human, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

This is the motto for the whole duality album. This tells the listener to not hide who you are. Be comfortable in your own skin be you, let the song show you how to accept yourself.

I use 1Password. Love it so far! it’s been a smooth experience and it is cross platform.

I’m not in redacted, but I’ve heard that and Orpheus are the replacements for it, are they any good?

I haven’t noticed performance issues or any battery drain on my S22 Ultra

I’ve used iPhone sporadically (and developed for them on one project) and you can’t change the things I’d want to change. I dislike the home screen grid and they added widgets far too late. It took them multiple years to semi-fix notifications. The lack of a back button still perplexes me, especially when one app launches another.

Absolutely agree, the notifications are still a mess and the lack of a back button can be headache.

Unfortunately I’m increasingly feeling that Android is a buggy mess too. Android 12 was a complete disaster and my phone is still messed up from it (some apps still don’t get notifications) even though I’m now on 13. Google is focusing on the wrong things IMO but I don’t think I’d last 48h on iPhone. I actually preferred Windows Phone to iOS.

I do miss the Windows phone, Microsoft really dropped the ball, but it could’ve been a game changer. Also on Google’s direction with Android? Yeah, I think Google as a company has made some cool things, but their track record for creating and abandoning projects has really rubbed me the wrong way, and it is leaving me thinking if I should consider other avenues, but the grass is always greener on the other side, and there is no “better” option, just what you can tolerate the most.

Now that’s a power user! I’m excited for the foldable world, I have only had “candy bar” style phones so far, but I plan to get a foldable in the future because of this exact reason, having a portable phone/tablet/mini computer sounds like an absolute powerhouse.

Any podcast suggestions? I’m starting to get back into them to reduce my screen time.

Apple’s app store monopoly is a huge issue, I recently was suggested an app for iOS called, “Carrot Weather” as it was highly acclaimed for being optimized and brandishing a clean UI, however, when I opened the app, I was asked to pay a yearly subscription of $50. For a weather app.

Noped out of there immediately. Everyone and their mum seems to have a subscription service now.

I’ve heard great things about GrapheneOS.

My friend recently went on a trip into the mountains for some hiking, they took some photos that made me ask if it was from a DSLR camera, but it was just from a Pixel 7 Pro. Amazing how far phone cameras have come.

But I really don’t like iOS. Or the lightning connector.

USB-C, come on guys, lightning needs to go the way of the dinosaurs.

always tell people the best phone (or best one iPhone vs Android) is whatever is best for them. My wife loves her iPhone and everything about it, and that’s okay!

Absolutely, animosity and tribalism are not the way forward!

There’s a certain level of classism I feel when it comes to phones, it almost feels tribal. Outside the tech/enthusiast space, the average person (at least here where I live) correlate Android with being the cheap option, whereas if you pick iPhone, you are picking the premium option.

I can sideload any app I want, and install open source apps from F-Droid

Going to shoutout Jerboa for Lemmy, it’s working really well surprisngly even though it’s in a very early stage of development.

I can use projects like ReVanced to install modified apps effortlessly, and don’t have to go through the AltStore/Apple Developer BS to install simple things like uYou

I don’t know how Apple plans to handle the EU law for sideloading, but currently you can only sideload an app for 7 days with free software like AltStore, it’s really not fun lol.

I can entirely replace my home screen with a different launcher app if I wanted to

Launchers are such a game changer, I hope they continue to thrive!

I recently started using Niagra Launcher, love the minimal design it has.

Ori and the Blind Forest