FINALLY found the 4K streaming camera I misplaced last month! As I suspected, it got shoved in a bag and stashed haphazardly when I needed to quickly make room in my office for some contractors.
As usual, deep cleaning of my office only seems to happen when I've lost track of something that's too expensive to just replace...
Ordered something on Amazon yesterday which arrived early that same evening.
On the one hand, I instinctively suspect that (1) this can only be possible by exploiting existing problems in our society and (2) it creates new ones.
On the other, I'm not going to click a button that more or less says "No, that's crazy. Deliver it a few days later, for exactly the same money," am I?
A couple of contractors are doing a little work inside my house today. The nature of the work means I can just go about my day without much disruption.
This must be what it's like to have houseguests if you're a really, really bad host. I'm barely acknowledging their presence. I'm not offering them beverages or snacks. I'm not helping them with what they're doing, or offering the use of my tools. They can't even enjoy this movie I'm watching, because I'm wearing headphones.
Q: And how are you taking advantage of your 55" 4K HDR Dolby home theater today, Andy?
A: I'm watching a stranger as he figures out how to write code for an extremely niche forty year old minicomputer with a one-of-a-kind OS. #HELLORLD
@ihnatko Maybe I should get a Pixel phone just in case my Google Account ever gets locked, maybe they can help those poor people too.
It's a running joke that you can't call Google, someone even tried to go knock on Google's offices as their account was locked.
It displays a transcript of what is being said on your screen, and ignores the recording of anything repeated over and over again. It waits for a genuine human to come back on the line and say something new, and then tells them that it will alert you.
It's basically a digital bullshit detector.
I had to spend 4 hours on hold with Intuit, trying to solve a problem with QuickBooks, and the Google pixels "Hold For Me" function was the only thing that kept me from gnawing my own leg off.
I wish more phone makers concentrated on actually making the "phone" part of a cell phone work better as Google does.
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I use a Pixel 6A, and it's a very good combination of perfect (for me) size, very good photography, good battery life and - most important - constant improvement. Every month they push out new updates.
For instance, the most recent update added the ability to live translate any media I can play back, so I can play a video in Japanese, and it will create English subtitles.
And I paid $350 for it.
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