Yeah, I switched my launcher to Lawnchair because they put the AI button right where my right thumb would touch the search bar. It seemed like it was also by design. My launcher now looks identical to the stock launcher on the Pixel, except without an AI button.

I’m on the home screen for one second. The remote, in fact, has buttons on it, I don’t even need to look at the home screen.

You can add or remove tiles as you see fit (although they definitely like to add some for you from time to time), but like I said, I barely use the tiles.

I love people on here who don’t and have never used it expressing any feelings on it at all. Like, why do you care, other than were all here (on the internet) just to get mad about shit?

I appreciate what you’re saying, but I don’t understand how it’s feasible. You have people with second homes in beach communities, and so they shouldn’t have those, those second homes should be primary residences. But those communities, now, are not situated to support people in those as primary residence, not at 100%. I’m talking schools, police, fire, utilities, the whole nine. All of those things take into account basically nonuse during a certain time. And that’s excluding the fact that if these were occupied full time, people wouldn’t be able to get to work every day, it would be chaos. And yes, there are solutions, but feasibility is key, and I just don’t see it being feasible.

I like what Mamdani is doing. If you’re essentially wasting space, having essentially uninhabited apartments in a city that needs affordable places to live, he’s taxing the shit out of them (I’m simplifying). And so ideally this creates some pool of funds to be used toward affordable housing, but at the end of the day I still think the best thing to do is mandate set-asides for affordable, 20% of the units on any project. An alternative is obviously that the government builds housing, but the benefit of private development is that now those affordable units are also tied to market rate units, and so the developer has an interest in maintaining all the units. With a 100% government funded affordable housing project, it just leaves the door open for cuts that turns it from an opportunity into a slum.

I don’t disagree with you, I just don’t know that it’s realistic. But I do think its philosophically where the discussion needs to begin, and then we need to account for pesky reality.

Nobody would build anything if the first X number of units had to be affordable, unless I’m misunderstanding you. The city needs 200k units of affordable, and so until that need is met, any new unit is affordable? Development would be stifled entirely. And I hate it, as someone who likes affordable housing, but it’s a give and take, and nobody is going to spend money on a project that they can’t make money. Mandatory set-asides on projects over X number of units is the only feasible compromise.

The US’s best export, so to speak, is it’s money. People in the US buy more than anywhere. It has a larger consumer market than EU, China, and India combined. That’s ridiculous to think about, a country of 350m outspending 3.5b. As much as I can’t stand trump and think everything is wrong, leveraging the US and it’s buying power is a tactic that makes sense. I wouldn’t even be mad if it was just part of some negotiation, but it coupled with obviously all the rest of the shit kinda changes the light that it’s shown in.

The Prius actually looks better, these headlights are awful, holy shit. I love Ferrari, every model for the last 40 years, but my goodness.

Yeah, I don’t even know what you’re talking about, and that makes me extra certain that politicians definitely don’t know what you’re talking about. It is nice to see them perhaps taking into account expert opinions on this subject, but 1 for 100 doesn’t make for a good average.

Yeah, I just tell my kids that we aren’t getting them Roblox. The only concession I made was letting my daughter get some for dress to impress vip, and for the couple bucks she spent there, she’s logged enough hours to make it feel like it wasn’t a waste. I tell them absolutely not to spending money on anything that’s not persistent, or to anything that’s “cheating,” because what’s the point.

Generally agree with everything you said, a lot of rehashing, although they’ve sucked me into the “obby” games, as I grew up on platformers and still enjoy them, and so I’ll give their silly platformer a try here and there. It sucks when they’re just reskinned. My son also likes to play the horror games with me, and it’s incredible how many different version of roadside stand with anomalies there is.

Yeah, I’d rather bright mornings, and so here we are at an impasse!

Just leave it, it is what it is. Or shit, make the following Monday a holiday, how about that. Give us an extra 24 hours to adjust.

It’s just strange to me that communication is breaking down so much that I need to basically explain the joke. Soon I’ll be saying “please clap.”

I apologize, I didn’t understand that to be the meaning, maybe I gotta read better. I don’t have an answer. I can’t remember what prompted me to grab a lifetime pass. I have to assume there’s some benefit, and that it was obvious to me at the time.

What are we doing here?

Explain. How is it crap? Excluding the price, from the perspective of those of us who got Plex pass many years ago, what’s crap? I see too many people saying this and it’s just disingenuous. If your gripe is the price, say that, and that’s totally fair.

That’s called biting off your nose to spite your face.

Being upset with Plex because of what they’re doing with their prices is totally a legit gripe. Suggesting Plex is shitty is silly. It works great, it’s simple for boneheads like me, and if you paid $70 or whatever a decade or so ago, it’s been a phenomenal deal. I’m using it right now, I use it on a weekly basis at the very least, and it’s super art it and forget. I have a media library on my PC, when I add to it I just right click the taskbar icon and “update libraries,” and that’s it. It requires next to no fiddling, it runs perfectly, it finds subtitles automatically, it does the whole metadata thing automatically. It’s great, I have zero complaints.

But yeah, $700 or whatever is crazy talk. But $70 was awesome.

My software for work operates this way. You buy a license, it just works. They add new features, and you pay to upgrade. They never add features that break it. It seems like a reasonable model.

And just for clarity’s sake, I have contracts with local governments, and in the process of initially getting and subsequently renewing them, I fill out a bunch of forms about whether or not I have relationships (paraphrasing) with numerous countries, Iran, Belarus, Russia. Oddly enough, no China.

This being said, I don’t know for sure, but I’m curious if not only was it a lie by omission, but she knowingly submitted false statements via these forms or similar.

40% is closer to 1/3 than 2/3, but your point still stands. The fact that 40 think homosexuality is morally wrong is nuts. It’s that damn religion thing.