The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

[enginerd]

The METAR for my local airport says that the weather is FU. That’s one concise way to say it, I guess.

Yes, I know that it means smoke, but it’s not funny once you explain it. Besides the 4 letter word that you thought about is accurate.

[Hallic]

Here’s to turning 50.

Birthday is actually tomorrow, but Sep 11th sucks ass now, so I started drinking early.

Just felt like sharing, tired of being alone. Gonna go pass out now, g’nite everybody.

[Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha]

Happy birthday! (soon)

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@Hallic

Birthday is actually tomorrow, but Sep 11th

Happy Birthday

(It’s the 11th September in NZ)

which is 11/9

[Hamspiced]

Haps brother.

I turned 40 in March so I’m playing catch-up.

You’re not alone.

;

[amal]

[Pilgrimsmaster]

They are getting close to time travel

Solving a Rubiks Cube in 0.3 Seconds

[Pilgrimsmaster]

[enginerd]

That reminded me of a certain thread…

[JPlowman]

I did go from Samsung to the iPhone 15 last year, because they finally did USB C charging.

Biggest draw for me was the Apple Watch.

Long ago I had an iPhone 6s and Apple Watch series 2. I left the apple ecosystem because my iPhone battery completely died on me while I was out of town for work. Would only work while plugged in and charging.

I agree that year to year improvements are marginal to not noticeable.

[JPlowman]

Robux cube?

That sounds like a combination between Fortnite Vbucks and Roblox.

I play neither. That’s just what popped into my head when I heard it.

[Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha]

Robux

[JPlowman]

So Robux is a real thing. I’m sure I’ve heard it before. Didn’t click right off though.

[enginerd]

@JPlowman

I agree that year to year improvements are marginal to not noticeable.

The only changes I’ve noticed lately on the Samsung side of things is that the headphone jack disappeared, along with the heat rate and oxygen saturation sensor, and the iris scanner also got removed.

As far as improvements go, I haven’t noticed any.

[Az_F]

Props to the Rubik’s cube for not melting or shattering I imagine these a lab somewhere with a sign that says “watch out for flying cube bits”.

[Az_F]

@enginerd

The only changes I’ve noticed lately on the Samsung side of things

I think I will stick to Pixels. Every time I try another brand it’s a random outcome. Some are amazing, some are bad and it’s hard to tell when choosing.
Pixels seem to be consistently decent.

I used to really like the Asus Zenfones because they made very specialized models but they don’t do that anymore.

[TSMC55]

I agree. I have had iPhones, Samsung and now onto my 3rd Pixel.

The Pixels are consistently good. I can’t see myself ever going elsewhere now…

[Hamspiced]

Same. I used to be team Samsung but the update delays just pushed me away. Something about instantly getting access to the newest updates makes me feel good

[enginerd]

Pixels were not available where I used to live… But my next phone will probably be one.

[TheCyborgFirefighter]

Each device to me has/had it’s different pros and cons…

I started out, one of my first “smart phones” was the Sony Xperia Play, cause I love Video Games lol.

Then decided to switch to iPhone, because of iMessage. And then stayed with it because of the watch…

@JPlowman

Biggest draw for me was the Apple Watch.

I just like the square watch design better than the circle. Also having no cell service at my house, I relied on iMessage via Wi-Fi.

Then Wi-Fi Calling became a thing, and I didnt have to rely on iMessage too much. Then I started an internship at my current job, and they used Samsung. Hard to be a System Admin and troubleshoot cellphone issues, if you haven’t used the system much… so I switched to Samsung Galaxy.

That Camera! . Unfortunately now a days, with the current models I know some of the “good shots” are AI enhanced… and while it’s cool I can zoom in and get a full shot of the moon, it’s kinda disappointing to me that its not all “true photo” (I just have a little soft spot for photography lol).

@enginerd

the headphone jack disappeared, along with the heat rate and oxygen saturation sensor, and the iris scanner also got removed

I thought I was going crazy a few months back! I wasn’t feeling the greatest and tried using the O2 sensor… and it wasn’t working. I’m like “I know this model definitely had a sensor in the past!” And as expected, the sensor in my Galaxy Watch didn’t work.
Only “positive” on the Galaxy Watch, is I have the golf edition and get basically a free built in range finder… but other than that battery sucks, and ease of use is so much better on an Apple Watch imo…

If Google Messages doesn’t start integrating iMessage to their RCS soon… I might switch back to Apple.

(Or bring back the Microsoft Windows Phone!)