I love this. Definitely going to try it sometime 😁

I absolutely LOVED my 6p, but yeah, had two of them die on me, which wasn’t ideal. Although I was able to trade in the second one when I got my 2xl, and they gave me the full original value of the 6p back! 😁

Yeah, I’ve looked into Graphene, but I dunno, it’s years since I messed with rooting and flashing ROMs, etc. Not sure I can be bothered. Might try on my current Pixel after I get a replacement sorted out.

Yeah, same, I used to mess around a bit with rooting and ROMs, but for a while there’s been little need from my point of view. Really not sure I can be bothered getting back into that now though.

Ha ha, yeah, I read that one just a few months ago. Did a bit of a binge over May/June.

Seconding the Nero Wolfe books, they’re absolutely superb. Archie is a brilliant narrator.

I wish someone other than Google would try having the cameras spread across the full width of the phone, so that the phone can sit steady on a flat surface. Why do they always have to be off to one side like that?

The linked article sums my position up perfectly. I’ve had a Nexus 6P, a Pixel 2XL and now a Pixel 6 Pro which, were it not for a cracked screen and (small but increasing) issues with overheating, I’d be happy to stick with.

However there’s no way I’m even considering a Pixel for my next phone - much too expensive and fuck all that AI bullshit.

Not sure what I’ll go for, and not looking forward to a phone with an OEM skin on the OS but Google has finally driven me away from the Pixel line. It’s a shame.

Stone and Parker are the embodiment of genX politics. That is the cynical mantra that people who believe in stuff are the real fools.

Even if that was their mantra (which I don’t think it is), it’s absurd to generalise that to all of Gen X, as if all of us have the same politics.

Fair enough 👍

Ha, I only noticed afterwards that someone else basically said the same thing. Still though 😁

Debt first but redirect the payments straight into your savings (possibly slightly lower to make it easier).

And treat yourself to something small (like $50 or so), as a reward for doing the sensible thing with most of it.

And then have a brilliant time in Japan 😁

To me it’s just about how it came to be - if there any value in art (be it film, books, photos, TV, whatever) then it’s because a human (or humans) made it. Because they did what someone else couldn’t have done, because the other person wasn’t them. A machine that synthesises other people’s work and makes an imitation of it can’t ever be the same.

I don’t give two good shits if AI does write better (which I doubt). I don’t want to read artificially created writing based on material stolen from its human authors.

Nice try, Universal Pictures…

I like BlueSky, and it’s nowhere near as unhinged as Twitter.

As with how Twitter used to be, it’s just a question of curatung your feed. If someone is an asshole you block them and move on.

The key difference is that you can choose to have a feed of only those you follow, and that’s what you actually get, not algorithm-driven nonsense.

I wouldn’t say it’s equivalent - one finger is still worse IMO.

That’s true, but also it suffers from the fact that they were forced to reveal the killer mid season, thus robbing the show of its core dramatic driver. For a while they just didn’t know what to do with the world they’d built.

Deep cut first reference from The Missing Pieces - nice 😁

Would strongly advise watching the movie before S3 (but after S1 and 2) to get the most out of the final season.