I can’t believe multiple people put a lot of effort into making this. So weird.

Wrap it up boys. We found the winner! WTF?

This was an issue in the military too. The smokers would take their smoking breaks. So I started taking non-smoker breaks. lol

A head unit is the actual radio hardware in a car. Some of them can be replaced with after market hardware. Yes, when my phone is connected to the radio by Bluetooth, I have to keep the unit on and set to the Bluetooth input in order to hear notification sounds. If I have it off, or set to another input I won’t hear any notifications that come in.

In my state it is against the law to hold your phone while you’re driving so I keep it connected by bluetooth for calls. It’s not a problem when I’m listening to music or podcasts which I frequently do. It’s only an issue when I’m not listening to anything. I’ve looked into updating the car’s software but it’s already on the most current version.

Unfortunately I don’t have Android Auto capability in my car but thanks for the reply. Maybe this will help someone with a similar problem.

How coincidental is it that I was editing some Real Estate photos I shot this morning and look what I saw!

For me it’s a good Philly Cheesesteak.

Picture from 2012.

I love these things! I live in VA and have only seen them twice. They are a sight to behold!

Thanks. It was one of coolest thing I’ve ever had the opportunity to see in person. That and Armstrong’s suite at the Air and Space museum. I posted some other photos if you check my post history.

That sounds cool as hell.

“Mine is that I pour the milk before the cereal. people are always extremely confused by that.”

You’re a psychopath. lol

In the case of my wife’s family, if we make plans, most of them are guaranteed to show up late. We’ve made it a habit to plan things for 30 minutes to an hour before we actually want to start because we know they’ll be late. Being a veteran, it drives me crazy. If I’m not a few minutes early, I feel like I’m late.

Yeah, I agree. I don’t understand that part. I just want to be able to change the theme. I don’t need anyone else to know that I did.

Even though I have the exact version mentioned in this post, I have been unable to find any flags in the debug menu that will enable the ability to change colors in a chat conversation. For some reason neither the post or the telegram channel it links to, do not mention which flags to enable. I’ve seen it mention on other platforms that “bugle.enable_custom_themes” is the specific flag, however that does not exist on the current beta version as far as I can tell. The version I have and the one mentioned in the post is messages.android_20240125_01_RCO0.phone.openbeta_dynamic.

If anyone has a suggestions, please let me know.

*tips hat

One thing I often think about coming from a Christian upbringing is the idea that God knows everything that will ever happen to you, every choice you’ll make, when you’ll die, etc. To me, that signifies determinism and total lack of free will. That just doesn’t sit well with me.

This is kind of where I’m at in life at 40. I grew up in the Christian church but as an adult, I see so much hate, intolerance, oppression and exploitation. I’m a lover of science to my core and I also believe in a higher power. I just choose to keep that mostly to myself in my day-to-day life.

I was a teenager. We were in a somewhat rural area just outside of the DFW, TX area. There was an abandoned housing development that became an urban legend called “Crazymans”. The area had nothing but paved streets and a large tower in the center that kind of looked like a fake lighthouse or clocktower. Supposedly the developer lost all his money and murdered his wife at the tower or something like that. Kids would climb to the top and carve their names in the wood, drink and smoke, etc. The ladder was on the outside and it was somewhere around 3-4 stories high I would guess. It was the middle of the night and I was the first one in the group to go up. As I reached the top rung on the ladder a huge owl flew out and scared the shit out of me. I nearly fell but managed to climb up and sat down to wait for my heart to start beating again.

EDIT: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-05-11-0305110459-story.html