Gotta love the Japanese culture of holding onto tradition until you can’t anymore.

Gotta remember that Japan was still mostly feudal up until the World Wars. Pretty recent in human history.

Your experience is subjective

General listening: Spotify + car speakers w/ EQ

Immersive listening: FLACs + HD 560S w/ EQ + Scarlett 2i2 + foobar2k

There’s a setting to screen call as many people mention.

But there’s another setting tucked away somewhere else to block unknown numbers and that’s helped me a lot as well.

How are you rooted?

Magisk Hide + Play Integrity Fix should fix it. Also hide all Google play services from detecting root.

Samsung Galaxy S5 supremacy; what a revolutionary phone that had it all: heart rate reader, IR blaster, replaceable battery, SD card slot, headphone jack, fingerprint reader, and IP67 rating.

EU forcing manufacturers to all have removable batteries again by 2027.

Nothing like “upgrading” your phone’s life back in the day by buying a bigger battery replacement

Yes like high end computing is cool and all, but forcing an extremely low end chip to do something technical is always incredible.

Introducing the SlightlyBetter™ phone. Every year it gets slightly better!!

This year’s features include:

• Slightly improved camera

• Slightly larger battery

• Slightly faster processor

• Slightly brighter screen

• Slightly louder audio

• Slightly quicker charging

• Slightly no headphone jack

It’s the same phone as last year, but now SlightlyBetter™

Spigen for budget, caseology for a little more personality, and dbrand for full customization

I think the problem is that it’s super popular for those who already own a PC and have a huge Steam Library. I got console friends wanting a Steam Deck but ultimately don’t want to buy one because it means rebuying their games.

No, because those don’t have social media functions built in. Snapchat has those TikTok slideshows and ads among posting pictures of yourself too. It’s more of an all in one that many use

It’s the WhatsApp equivalent in the US tbh. People ask for each other’s Snapchat instead of numbers sometimes these days

It literally is the government’s job. That’s the whole point of the FDA.

It’s the age old argument of “if there is no God, how do we teach what is right or wrong?”

Yes we can teach morals and ethics without a creator in place. As Penn from Penn and Teller would put it. “I don’t need the fear of eternal damnation to tell me that I shouldn’t murder. I shouldn’t murder because it’s wrong”.

Discord streaming is the way. Most of my friends don’t care about super high quality either so a little compression doesn’t hurt. Plus there are ways to bypass the 720p restrictions, too.

Everyone sleeping on qBittorrent with the search plugin enabled. I never have to go to websites ever again, I can just pull from various domains with one search built into the program.

Yea, hence money money money.

But I more meant that Apple kinda has too much control over their own iOS. Google even allows different flavors of Android to exist like OneUI, NothingOS, or even all the Chinese ones too.

The end result is a locked ecosystem though. The open source nature of Android makes this a bit harder to regulate for Google.

Also money money money

Kuru Togas for sure for their rotating lead engine. The Advanced Upgrade specifically is my daily driver. The Pentel GraphGear 1000 is also a very comfortably hefty pencil. Otherwise the Pentel Orenz Nero and it’s auto dispensing lead mechanism is also really cool. Rotring 600 and Staedtler 925-35 are also popular pencils that I’ve tried and like, but I don’t own.