Even more basic: Why are people just taking this? Why do so few people care?

AFAIK it’s specifically google play services that enforces it, if you don’t have that on the phone then you’re fine.

that’s unfortunately not what my experience has been, but then i also have like 10 apps with constant background services that i don’t want to live without… That said, the battery life is still perfectly fine IMO.

It’s not made specifically for android but it seems to work well enough if you just play in horizontal view:
https://sh4dowsand.itch.io/terraformental
You can use the Mitch app to download the web version of the game and run it offline

It’s honestly one of the best games i’ve ever played, just by sheer dint of how well the gameplay is designed. It’s such a great way to add flavour to a text-based game!

eeeeeh i found that to be really quite amazingly boring, you literally just queue some actions and wait for hours…

Here’s the install guide, basically identical for all pixels afaik: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/shiba/install/
It’s come a long way from the cyanogenmod days.

the thing about pixels is that putting lineage/graphene/whatever on them basically turns it into a completely different phone, all the complaints about AI and whatnot largely dissapear and they become what i’d call about the best experience you can have on a smartphone. Easy to install lineage (dunno about others, presume it’s equally easy), just works, no bullshit.

from what i’ve seen it seems like the pixel line just has a curse placed upon it, where every model has 1% of phones suffer from fairly major hardware problems and the other 99% are perfectly fine.

the #1 reason it’s what i’ve been using is just that they don’t have any locked down nonsense compared to other brands, unlocking the bootloader and flashing another OS is absolutely trivial and stuff just works.

you can get around a lot of detection with stuff like microg/kernelsu and other layers of arcane bullshit technomagic

it’s even worse when you factor in the opportunity cost of spending 4 hours every day doing nothing but drive, that’s time you could be spending earning more money instead!

yeah it’s kind of insane that people still get haircuts, let alone that so many barbershops exist. People complain about cost of living and not affording food and then blow 80 bucks on getting someone to cut their hair…

hit me with that satanic picnic

…sweden?

I checked the places near me and yeah a normal-ass haircut STARTS at $50, many places get very close to literally charging 80 bucks for a standard haircut.

$30 bucks maybe gets you a children’s haircut, here. Maybe.

Perhaps more mildly infuriating is that the mods here seem to be on vacation

so here’s my “no stupid questions”: How on god’s green earth could you possibly afford tipping a barber 20%? Are american barbers dirt cheap or do you just actually consider it perfectly reasonable to pay closer to 100 bucks for someone to trim your hair?

when you say “every single iteration”, does that include stuff like lineageos? Because that’s what i’ve been using for ages and i still struggle to believe how non-shitty it is.

ironically google’s pixel lineup is one of the best options available, i’ve been using that for many years now and it’s so fucking easy to install lineage on them.

seriously, lineageos after having dived into every setting is by far the best mobile experience these days, i’m almost never even slightly annoyed by it.