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Google Fi doesn't sell locked phones, so that shouldn't be a problem.

They do have various deals that require staying on the Fi plan for some time (I'm getting the full price of a Pixel 7 back in discounts spread over 2 years), but I read that they're delaying this increase for anyone on a promo (probably because a change of plan would allow people to exit the deal).

It's sad for anyone who has to pay more now, but it was pretty strange that the price was actually the same for 4 lines as 2 (taxes and fees excluded).

Do not attempt to combine options 3 and 4 on that list!

Pixels just do it automatically on the lock screen, no need for assistant, or even going online, it works just on the phone.

Eula.

Glass was just a heads-up display in the corner of vision, nothing like any sort of vr/ar/xr system. I don't know why you would consider that comparable to any of the headsets. Hololens and Magic Leap were augmented reality, but by not using camera passthrough they were limited filed-of view and could not do opacity. Quest 3 is much more similar to the Vision Pro in terms of what it can do (aside from the outer display). For instance, it's possible to place large browser windows around your room, and replace your monitor with a larger virtual version.

The Quest range. I'm sure that the passthrough isn't as good quality as Apple's (some glitching at the edges of objects), but it's easily enough to walk around in, especially the Quest 3.

One day I'm going to make my fortune by writing a silica gel recipe book.

So true. I should have said "Allo", but I'd forgotten it existed.

I have Google Fi and it was fantastic to have that work using Hangouts. I could turn any device into a spare phone. The "replacement" website feature is disappointing.

Are you sure that you're not thinking of Duo/meet/Hangout?

A Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode had two crew members meeting someone from the future:

Ortegas: Hey, what’s the future like? Do you have jet packs or what?

Chapel: We have jet packs now.

Ortegas: I know, but, like, smaller jet packs.

Heavier, too. It's about as heavy as the competitors despite having a separate battery.

It's not necessary to have the external screen.

The Quest has passthrough cameras to allow you to see the world with stuff displayed over it too, but Apple has decided that simulating eye contact is important.

It's Apple's unique selling point here, but they'd have what sounds like a high-quality headset without it.

My eyes couldn’t roll any harder.

But if they were actually just eyes displayed on a screen over your face, then, with the right app, they could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.

I think that this captures so much of the human condition.

Oh, one really cool thing, newsreader programs would usually show you which message threads had new messages, so it was easy to keep up with interesting conversations.

What it looked like was an email program with a list of subject names like mail folders, each containing subject lines of conversation threads. The threads were fully branched, replies under the correct messages, like Lemmy. Not a simple list, like email.

Also unlike email, the messages were posted publicly instead of to you.

There was a list of newsgroup names for different subjects, you'd pick which of those to get messages from to appear as the "mail folders".

The names were in a hierarchy, so computer subjects were comp.something, hobbies/recreation were rec.something etc. a bit like website names, only back to front, general to more specific, e.g uk.rec.sheds, alt.startrek.fanfic , rec.humor, rec.humor.funny.

You'd download messages from (and upload your replies to) a server and it would share messages with other servers, like Lemmy federation. So each group would be a merge of all messages from all around the world. Effectively there would only be ONE alt.folklore.urban for instance.

Usually your isp would run a server and you'd use that.

At first it wasn't mainly used as a way to share binary files encoded as text messages, but eventually that took over, isps dropped having servers and big paid ones took over.

Back in the day we had to just use VU-3D.

https://youtu.be/6Em-CWYZhG8?feature=shared

Not everything should be called 'AI'"

I blame that Paul Simon song.

The Fitbit subscription also includes

Emergency Sharing, Fall Detection, Safety Check, and reach emergency services and contacts

So some safety features don't work without it!