Same same. I moved to Firefox for Android back then and use ublock to hide their nags forcing you to use their app. And of course the ads they were trying to shove down our throats by killing third party apps. It’s still a great repository of knowledge that I’ll search via Google, but otherwise I browse for fun here.

I’m using a Samsung device now as well, but as I recall, my last Pixel phone did have a very basic files app. But stock Android didn’t always - I was using ES File Explorer and eventually Solid Explorer on my HTC phones back in the day to restore basic functionality.

I guess I meant that it shouldn’t require a 3rd party app. When I discovered and began using Solid Explorer, there wasn’t even a viable system app for file management in Android, you had to use a 3rd party app. They did eventually add a system app, but it’s next to useless.

Solid Explorer has always been my go to. I never understood why basic file explorer functions essentially required the use of a separate app, but it’s functionality is superb and the now-baked-in-but-terrible file explorer in android can never hope to match it.

I also would have expected a hospital to offer some of the best health insurance in the country - I was agast when my wife got a job and we realized it was trash tier compared to her major corporation retail job she had previous to that. So yes, maybe - but I don’t think it’s a given or a safe assumption by any means.

Unfortunately you are horribly mistaken.

Little did they know that they threw a layer of radium on your ceiling. Oops!

Yep. And all of my grocery stores locally have it - either in the bakery or just on the cookie aisle proper, as well as the newish (5 years?) vanilla or chocolate sandwich cookies.

Ken M love obligates me to unbury you from downvotes.

You better come around quick then, before tarrifs make all of our chips 100% more expensive.

Yeah, during the GPU shortage of '20/'21, I ended up buying a prebuilt so I could at least get the GPU at RETAIL price. It was at a time when flipping GPUs on ebay was all the rage and you’d be paying 25%-100% more than it was worth to a scalper.

The system integrators get a better price on parts than we do, and now many of them are selling them for less or precisely the retail price of all the components. You really have to shop around though, some “premium boutiques” like Maingear can be 50-100% more expensive than the competition… They’re selling the same product so I don’t really see the value they bring at that price, but I’m sure as hell not paying $2,000 for their tech support.

He spotted a sucker and couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

Just Google meatspin - it’ll be easier that way than explaining it here I think. One of those things you just have to see to understand.

Nice, got it figured out then?

Well that’s not classically how DND works - it certainly didn’t on my Note 20 Ultra. Maybe you had Google digital wellbeing settings turned on? Or focus mode or something of that nature, such that when the office is in DND notifications are held?

I went to school in Hawai’i and discovered strawberry guava - the plant is an invasive species that chokes the life out of everything it can, but it bears the most delicious fruit.

I have had exclusively Bluetooth headphones for almost a decade at this point. I keep a backup pair of wired usb-c earbuds in my glove box in case I don’t foresee needing my wireless buds.

Controversial take - sometimes you’ve just got to adapt to the times. I’ll never forgive everyone for removing SD expansion in phones, because there’s absolutely no replacement except “buy our expensive cloud storage and own nothing ever!” or “spend SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN THE ACTUAL COST OF FLASH STORAGE to increase your onboard storage!” which are both unacceptable. But wireless headphones are perfectly acceptable. If I want an audiophile experience, I’m absolutely not using my phone anyways.

I’ve always pronounced it as written, not Febuary.

For me it’s Starbucks and Chipotle - they both discontinued the best thing on their menu, chorizo. I’ve had other things I liked at both restaurants, but I’m not going to waste my money with either for what they’ve done.

We’re the generation that used forums all over the internet, Digg, and then reddit before it was cool. Now that reddit is going nuclear, we’re all looking for our new home because we yearn for the internet we all grew up with as it slowly erodes away thanks to millionaires/billionaires ruining all that is good to make a buck.