I’m not in a swing state but I still get a decent amount of political spam. It’s mostly random PACs sending clickbait texts asking me to donate. Every so often I get a text from a candidate running in a completely different state and wonder where they got their lists.

to: Dr. Jækel Hydensen and Family would be better in English.

We sometimes send things to “The Hydensen Family” but that does seem to assume that the heads of the family have the same last name.

Book ads are at least usually at the end of the book and for other books you might want to read. And they’re static. If internet ads were like book ads I wouldn’t have to block them.

The official app won’t work with my instance (pixey.org). Pixeldroid does through

As an amateur photographer, I’m still hoping for a Flickr resurgence. Instagram is so restrictive.

I recently bought and then returned a used Verizon pixel 8 because I couldn’t unlock the bootloader or even add a non Verizon eSIM.

My library estimates I’ll be able to read it in 7 weeks, so thanks for the future surprise I’ll forget about until then.

Did you move your videos section? Mine is at the top (but I’m also on mobile)

I have, it works better on Fedora than PopOS or ubuntu. There’s actually a fix for the 17 inch version of my laptop in the main kernel, but it explicitly mentions the full model number so doesn’t apply to my 13 inch version. I spent a long time trying and failing to figure out how to build a kernal with a patch for my model.

I switched to Linux on a laptop of mine because an update to windows caused it to not boot.

Now I get to deal with my keyboard backlight not working, sometimes the keyboard freezing on resume, my Bluetooth not connecting on the first try, and my wifi sometimes not working, but it boots fine every time.

Drysuit. Wetsuits keep you warm, not dry.

The android version was awful from the start

There’s a FOSS app for anyone who wants this functionality without Google

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

I basically need to stick this xkcd chart next to my computer or I’ll spend days creating something that saves me minutes per years.

Although sometimes it’s fun to automate things just for the hell of it.

Maybe coffee is very expensive where OP lives

The last Pixel to have a headphone jack was the 5A released in 2021. The 6, 6A, 7, 7A, and 8 do not have headphone jacks.

Libretube works sometimes, but I often have to press load several times.

Or privatize it using a friend’s company.

See how to enable glide typing in the FAQ:

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard?tab=readme-ov-file#faq--common-issues

Which pixel is getting you that battery life? My 6 has been struggling to make it through a day on GrapheneOS recently.