William

Nice! Congrats!

Ah, I see. Well, I’m a little surprised it’s backordered that far then.

For fun, I checked Fi… Oct 23-30 for me.

It’s been possible to order pixel 9s for a couple weeks, hasn’t it? When I looked at one after the announcement, it was going to be here on release day. When I looked a few days later, it was going to be a couple more weeks.

I’m not surprised that they’re backordered for a while at this point.

Not only can it be removed, they’ve already said it going to happen soon.

let’s

There’s some irony for ya. :D

I was so upset when I subscribed to Google Fi and they told me I couldn’t have my Voice account as well. Ugh.

Oh well, sometimes it’s better to rip off that bandaid. I’ve further de-Googled since then and continue to do so slowly.

Ah, so there’s a premium version with more info on the downloads, and (I think) more search filters. Thanks!

Why does it have in-app purchases?

I can see a lot of people using the drumroll thing, and that’s going to let it in the door for so much crap.

It’s one of those things that you can see slowly coming from a mile away, but there’s not a damn thing you can do to stop it.

For those wondering: The graphic suggests August is a likely month for it, with betas and “platform stability” in the months before that.

I could see it maybe being useful for certain large games that you only play occasionally, but…

That’d mean redownloading right when you actually want to play, which is a pain. Also, in ability to tell it to archive or un-archive something manually makes that situation even worse.

It feels like those “ram doublers” back in the day… Neat in theory, but just painful in reality. It puts a check mark on a sales pitch, but doesn’t actually help anyone.

I’m not real happy with how scary the warnings are for sideloading apps, but I think this is different. In this case, it was installed from 1 place, then updated from another. I think the user needs to know that, and that it might be undesirable. And it doesn’t keep warning you about that app afterwards, either.

I looked into this, and it turned out to be a lot harder to do than I expected. I thought it should be pretty easy to stand up a simple web server and reply with that info, but … No.

I think if this were my project, I would instead make an app that always runs in the background and updates an MQTT server periodically, and I’d have my other system check that server instead. Alternatively, that app could just hit a web endpoint somewhere and POST the data to it, and that server could do whatever you want.

But as far as existing apps, I don’t see anything that does what you want.

I think it depends on the device and how far you’ve gone to prevent energy use on it while it’s idle. It sounds like you probably don’t have any third-party apps installed, so that’s a good start, but removing anything else you don’t use would be good, too. Or at least disabling them as much as possible.

Depending on the actual usage, which will vary from device to device and especially OS to OS, I’d either choose to turn it off after work, or off after each time I’m done using it for an hour or more.

The other factors are how hard it is to charge, and how long it takes to boot when you need to use it. If it’s easy to charge, I’d probably not worry about it much. If it’s slow to boot, I’d lean towards not shutting it off during work.

No, it’s a bad analogy. SMS is more like shooting a homing missile at someone, and then walking away. It’s probably going to find them, but if it doesn’t, you won’t know until you ask them about it.

I think you’re being optimistic in thinking that either of those is going to happen.

What do you use for a launcher now?

That sucks. I’ve been using Mailbird, but their recent push for purchasing 3.0 (and a yearly subscription for security updates) has put a bad taste in my mouth for it. I’m definitely looking for something else rather than give them more money now.

They’ve actually been ramping up efforts to get people to pay for storage lately. I’ve always been fairly close to full, but lately they’ve started popping up brightly-colored warnings on various interfaces telling me to buy more space.

I did the opposite and got down to like 80% full, and the warnings are still there!

This is a far cry from the original statement that I’d never run out of email storage. (Yes, I use it for other things, too, but I’ve found myself having to delete emails with attachments to keep storage requirements down.

I’ve had video games refuse to play because of that. Ridiculous.