They also complain about spam calls. Even on non-pixels the Google Phone app has tremendous spam blocking.

A lot of cult movies are also hangout movies. I think the second viewing where you know the plot doesn't really matter at all helps a lot. The first time it's easy to walk away being like I watched these weirdos do nothing? Repeat viewings are "I'm watching my weird friends do nothing."

I used my Z3 Tablet Compact until it fell apart. I would buy an updated one the very second it was announced.

Overall, I wish Sony was actually competing. It really feels like HQ just forgot this tiny division exists so they keep making phones that feel designed for the idiosyncrasies of the people that work there rather than the market at large. That should be good for a place like here, but they're so uncompetitive on price.

Also what's the shorthand here? L/Android?

Sony realizing they didn't have the catalog to justify their own service looks smarter and smarter every day.

I wonder what world we would have been in if the NCAA had aggressively pursued TV contracts in the 50s-80s rather than restricting it to one game a week and one game per team per year. They lost control by trying to ignore the money that was out there.

A stronger NCAA sounds terrible and yet better than what we have.

Tom Cruise isn't the director, but should probably get the auteur tag for being behind Top Gun Maverick and the recent MI movies which are as good as blockbusters get.

I think what Nolan, Villeneuve and Cruise get right is it's important to do as much as you can practically. The weightlessness of so many blockbusters is chief among the things dragging them down right now.

I have the Edge+. I wanted a Pixel like experience with the benefits of a Snapdragon 8 Gen2. It has generally delivered. The battery life is exceptional in every way. It lasts a long time and also charges in under an hour.

The camera isn't great. For the specific thing I really judge it on, photos of my pets, it's between the Pixel and Galaxy.

I have a case on mine, so the edges do in some ways help with gesture navigation. I'll say it's a little offset on the bottom edge because it feels like all elements on the bottom part of the screen are too low. Fingerprint scanner (although this one is easy to get used to), camera shutter, and the homescreen app shortcuts.

As a whole package, I'm much more satisfied with it than the Pixel 7 Pro. The update situation will be much worse, but it just feels less urgent than it used to. I'm hopeful they can at least make good on their security update promises.

Texasville by Larry McMurtry. People know about (and hopefully love) Lonesome Dove and Last Picture Show. Texasville should be recognized alongside those as one of his best works. It's one of the funniest novels I've read.

He is the master of creating characters that are both satirical but you love so much.

I'm so very aggravated at The Atlantic, which I subscribe to, asking me to turn off adblock even when I'm logged in. I've already accepted a price increase every year I've been subscribed.

I switched to Sam's from Costco. The biggest issue is after the very orderly gas line at Costco, Sam's is the wild West.

Cfb is here but barely. I think since it never locked down on Reddit, there was very little movement to find the community elsewhere. Not to mention there are multiple cfb message boards elsewhere.

Still I'd like r/cfb and Sync recreated for Lemmy by memorial day.

Chat has improved and works on iOS. It was awful to start with, especially as a consumer product. Switched to Signal and prefer it, other than not being able to use it on Android tablets.

Guess it depends to some degree if on peacock it was included with the base subscription or like this it was an extra $20 a month.

Tough beat for the opening set piece to come right after a featurette about Dead Reckoning's train sequence.

None of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's quips landed for me so once that toned down I liked the character and the movie much more.

Tough beat for the opening set piece to come right after a featurette about Dead Reckoning's train sequence.

None of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's quips landed for me so once that toned down I liked the character and the movie much more.