In my opinion, no. At least not under the reins of Google.

Android 11 added scoped storage, severely limiting file access from apps, although app developers have found ways to work with it.

Android 12 did a lot of UI redesigning, including the horrible Internet toggle and it just seemed like there is way too much whitespace.

Android 13 did something right: Made you confirm if you want notifications from apps. IDK why it took this long for such a basic feature even iOS had for forever.

Android 14… Nothing really useful, but they are limiting sideloading of old apps that tend to be super efficient on storage, memory, and CPU. It’s a defeat in the ongoing war between Google and sideloading. They also are trying to force the volume down when it’s too high for too long, even when it’s paired with a Bluetooth device at low volume, another braindead move with possibly good intentions but terrible execution.

With other OEMs (Samsung, BBK, Xiaomi, etc), they still sometimes add useful stuff, but I have a Motorola, so I don’t have much of an opinion on the extra stuff.

Google is saving their actually innovative and useful features for the Pixel line of phones. Many of these features are really software that Google arbitrarily locks to the Pixel.

And many of the Google stuff has just been getting worse and worse, they’ve been getting more and more pushy on me when I do something they don’t like (disable location, for example). Google likes the idea of trying to make Android more like iOS and restrict user freedom. This is why Android market share is declining in the US: If you want iOS, buy an iPhone.

With how locked down mobile is compared to desktop I think it’s a good thing to start with mobile

I don’t have a car because I’m a college student, but I do have a 2006 Suzuki GZ250, a small cruiser motorcycle. It’s my first vehicle that I own. I absolutely love riding it, even though a Prius is faster, this feels much faster because it’s a manual transmission motorcycle, and gets better mpg.

Unfortunately, I need to replace the battery soon as it seems to have some parasitic loss when not ridden for several days. I want to DIY it to save money, but I can’t unscrew this impossibly tight worn screw mounting the cover to access the battery.

I think it should be a flat number of years like 20 years, giving the author plenty of time to exclusively control his IP and then afterwards they can still profit because they can still make things from the same IP and sell them to people knowing that they were the founder of the IP.

I feel like the death of the author clause gives a perverse incentive to murder the author so that their IP becomes public domain sooner.

I thought Intel was dropping the K9 branding and skipping desktop chips for 14th Gen…

I think the creators are free to bake in sponsored segments, but I totally agree with the rest of it. YT is treating us like lab rats and pushing tons of unwanted unnecessary stuff on us. I don’t really want to reward that behavior with a monthly subscription.

This is a problem with so many monthly subscriptions: Instead of treating the continuously paying customers well to keep them in, they treat them as fat wallets that they can potentially milk more out of.

Jerboa because you can see the number of upvotes and downvotes separately. And it’s FOSS.

Boost is still smoother and feels nicer though.

I prefer over ear headphones as they tend to sound better, don’t fall off my ears every few minutes, and have better battery life. But that’s just my personal preference.

I’ve noticed when I browse YT on Firefox with uBlock origin (usually for non-YPP channels or game OST videos I don’t really want anyone profiting off of), everything grays out after a second. Currently I can click f to go full screen and remove that, but I don’t think this workaround will work for long.

He said “motorways” which I’m pretty sure is just a British word for “freeways.” He’s not talking about school zones.

And the creators know how Google could pull the rug at any moment. This is why they also have sponsorships, which is a more stable revenue stream not dictated by Google’s greedy whims.

Quit work and take lighter loads in school.

Buy a nice house in Maine right on the water.

Buy a supercar, and all the motorcycles I could ever want.

Go on crazy adventures like an Appalachian trail thru-hike.

All this would be less than 10% of my yearly income. The other 90% would go to charity, helping the homeless and bolstering free and open source software.

Same here, why I went with a motorcycle instead lol

When I pay for a copy of a video game, pirating it is ethical imo. I already paid the devs for a copy of my game, so why should they care that I also play it on my phone on an emulator?

Wait, really? I’m currently using my university account to back up some folders to OneDrive (provided by my University), and it saved my butt last November when my SSD borked out of nowhere.

Yes, 10¹⁰100 is equal to a googolplex.

By 10¹⁰100 I mean 10⁽¹⁰100), which is significantly larger than (10¹⁰⁾100 = 10^(10*100).

Googology. The “study” of ridiculously large numbers. It’s a rabbit hole of recursion and mathematics that starts with stuff like googolplex (10¹⁰100) and never really ends.

5000 per day?! That’s insane. I feel like I get bombarded with notifications, so I checked how many I got today. Exactly 69.

I’ve heard of it but never actually used it. Is it much faster than Steam?