Laughs in European

I’ve never had to pay extra for hotspot usage even though all of the phones I’ve had were bought directly from the service provider.

It’s easier. You need enough room for the nose to swing around because the front wheels follow a wider trajectory than the rear wheels. The access road is usually much wider than the parking spots, so backing into the spot gives you much more room to maneuver.

You also have much better visibility overall. If you go in nose first, you can’t see the front corners of your car, and you also have terrible visibility when backing out of the spot. If you back in, the mirrors show you exactly how close you are to the cars around you, and you have an unobstructed view when you leave.

Wireless charging pad. Yes, it’s less efficient than wired charging, but it’s just so convenient.

Strange how they only refer to it as “a ship” or “the ship” and never mention its name. It’s called Fremantle Highway.

And before that, they were in a separate section like they are now, but it had a thing you could click to hide that section entirely for 30 days.

Just because it’s less bad than the previous thing doesn’t mean it’s good.

Wooden spatulas are supposed to look rough though. It somehow feels wrong to cook with a spatula that has no battle scars.

Taking naps with our dog and hearing and feeling her peaceful breathing as she sleeps on my pillow with her snoot snuzzled against my face or ear.

Or wearing pants.

So I had a Z1 and Z2, and the Galaxy was an S8+. To be honest, I don’t remember much about them, but overall I think I’d rate the Xperias higher than the Galaxy simply because I don’t remember ever being annoyed with them. They were just reasonable, good phones that didn’t try to do anything crazy.

My two major gripes with the Galaxy were:

• There was a HUGE physical button that would activate the Bixby voice assistant thingy so I’d often press it by accident. The button could only disabled in the Bixby app… which required a Samsung account. So I had to create an account just so I could go into the settings and flip a switch to disable that stupid button, and then never use the app or account again.

• The fingerprint reader was totally useless. It was so small that it wouldn’t work unless I hit it just right, and it was placed on the back of the phone right next to the camera so it was basically impossible to hit reliably, and chances are I’d accidentally get fingerprints on the camera instead. It was even worse with a protective case on because the reader was recessed inside the hole for the camera.

The one thing I really liked about the Galaxy was the always on display. It was nice being able to check the time in the dark without lighting up the entire screen and blinding myself. For my next phone, I’ll probably get something that has that feature.

For fun. My last iPhone was a 4S, and after that I had a couple Sony Xperias and a Samsung Galaxy. When it was time to upgrade, I decided to get an iPhone 11 for a change, for no other reason than to see what they’re like nowadays.

I’ve been really happy with it, it does everything I need it to do, and I don’t miss the Galaxy at all.

Why say lot word when few word do trick?

ENT era, and specifically the Andorian Kumari-class.

Use whatever distro you’re comfortable with, unless it lacks the features you need. I prefer Ubuntu MATE, but I use Arch because the official and user repositories generally have the newest versions of everything and I don’t have to mess with PPAs.

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Greetings from Finland.

I use Arch btw.

Sad? It is a good day for Twitter to die.

My dad gave me a cheap radio receiver that plugs into the USB port on a computer, and I built an antenna for receiving images from weather satellites.

Here’s the antenna (it’s just a plastic pipe, a couple pieces of perforated steel strap and some threaded rods, nuts and washers):

And here are some of the images I received yesterday from the NOAA-19 and NOAA-15 satellites respectively (with a map overlay):

Stargate Universe or Dark Matter.