hydrospanner @ hydrospanner @lemmy.world

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I have the Pixel 7 Pro currently.

It'd be a nice phone if shit worked, but the fingerprint scanner is literally worse than useless, various apps and functions lock up all the time, gestures don't always work like they should, the Bluetooth connection with my car is wonky, it frequently gets in "moods" where I don't get notifications, or texts come in on like a 5-15 minute delay, and sometimes it loses signal and won't pick it up again until I restart it.

The fingerprint scanner is the big one though. The backside scanner on the Pixel 3 was flawless. This one is so bad that I'd rather just not have one, and have the thing designed around not using one. It's fantastically, wildly, comically bad.

I guess I am just past the time where I enjoy...or even am willing to...delve into the way my devices work, run non standard stuff on them, or have some unique setup on them.

I don't feel like my needs or desires are too awfully picky or niche at this point, I just don't want my shit to be actively fighting me in day to day function.

When I got my first smart phone, I went Android for the increased options to customize and more hardware and app options.

As time went on, I got to a point where the hardware all sucked compared to iPhone, couldn't find a phone I liked that did all the things as well as an iPhone, so I switched, trading customize-ability for function.

While that was a trade that worked, I still missed Android as I found the iPhone trying to constantly force me to do things a certain way. And when I went looking for ways to change that, most of the apple community basically said, "If you don't want to do things the apple way, you're the one that's wrong and needs to change"

So after that one, I came right back to Android.

My last phone was pretty good but this one has so many quirks and hardware issues that just the experience of using the phone frustrates me and I've only had it a few months.

Not seeing anything else I like on the market, my options seem to be annoyance with hardware, annoyance with software, or annoyance with hardware and fuss with installing non typical software.

To make poop knives?

It's an incredibly well made and reliable wooden spear but it costs ridiculously more than other wooden spears that are 95% as good.

And since they're primarily concerned with big military contracts for wooden sticks, they make it clear that the persistence hunter market is one they actively disdain...but we still line up to buy their wooden sticks.

How incredibly presumptive of you to assume.

And of course you'd be wrong about how similar we are on guns, since most of them are part of the crowd that doesn't own or use guns and therefore feel that because they've survived without them just fine that the only obvious and reasonable course of action is that of course we should simply outlaw all guns and just have everyone all over the country turn them in (not buybacks, not voluntary, just everyone come hand over all their guns). And they feel that anyone who doesn't see how that's the obvious choice is just crazy.

Also, I don't even agree with what you've laid out here. So you're off on both sides of your assumption of similarity.

Eh, for me, when he said that he lost my support. Ever. For any office.

Sorry, you can drop it from your platform but you already told me where you stand.

This.

It's caused plenty an awkward turn in conversations with friends as well as friends of my girlfriend's who are almost universally Classic American Liberal Democrat™

I'm with them on domestic policy, marriage equality, LGBT rights, racial justice, electoral reform, and abortion.

Then we get to guns.

And I'm certainly not some kind of NRA nut or Y'all Qaeda tacticool dope, so it's a lot tougher to make a strawman against gun owners when there's one sitting there across from you that you know, like, and respect.

That being said, those occasions also give me pause because I know if we're falling into that easy line of thinking on guns, we're probably also doing that sort of strawman on the issues we all agree on too, there's just nobody present to challenge that view.

Yeah I honestly expected some growing pains with the switch but it was a lot smoother than I expected.

Because I don't even know what that is?

Eh, when Chrome first came out, Firefox was incredibly clunky and slow in comparison.

At least it was for me, which was why I switched back then.

Google's YouTube shenanigans earlier this year got me back to Firefox though, and the more Google does crap like this the more I'm thinking my next phone may take me back to the Appleverse.

You've just given away your identity, Mr. Joe Bethersonton of Fargo, North Dakota.

Even the president used it!

It's worse than Reddit in this respect.

Largely because Reddit was so much more diverse. Even ol hive mindey Reddit tolerated differing views significantly better than the shit heap that is Lemmy.

When they took down Constantinople with a DDOS.

Yeah don't use the S-word, but lean hard into workers reform, pro-union, safety nets, etc.

Basically run on those ideals but don't use that term.

I heard your comment in my head in the voice of Kai Ryssdal.

An eagle hatched as soon as you posted that comment.

At a certain point in each year, probably at the end, we get one extra monthless day, a holiday.

Every 4 years we do two monthless days.

Also, what the fuck is wrong with Jesse? We start each month on Sunday, so that the month is divided into 4 weeks. Not one almost-week, three full weeks, and a spare hanging chad of a Sunday.

"roast" in the microwave for extra laziness

To be 100% honest, that's just the way to go, lazy or not.

After years of only making baked potatoes in the microwave, about two years ago I decided, "Fuck it, I'm over-achieving today. I'm gonna make real baked potatoes. Baked. In the goddamn oven. Like a real chef. Hell yeah."

It was awful, took forever, had to bake the snot out of them, and in the end they were horribly overcooked on the outside and still 'fookin RAW' in the center.

Complete waste of time and effort.

I could have made them AND ate them AND cleaned up...TWICE, in the time they spent in the oven.

I'll never do baked potatoes any other way than the microwave ever again.

After it gets translucent, add a knife-tip's worth of minced garlic from the jar... Some salt and pepper.

From there you're making anything from soup to pasta to breakfast to Mexican, Asian, Italian...