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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP. But I’ll give my feedback on why I stopped using android auto.

  Let me preface this with most everything in the app is fine. Navigating around the interface is maybe a bit janky but not something that I couldn’t get used to.

  The main thing that pushed me away from it is the constant crashing (crash every 1-3 minutes). I understand it to be a somewhat rare issue. But through my research I have not found any way to consistently solve the issue despite finding threads that were posted years ago.

  The closest I had come to a solution was to clear some app caches (like Google maps) and that would fix it for the next day or two. But it would always eventually go back to constant crashing. It just became too frustrating to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God forbid anyone uses anyone else’s art as a reference. /s

  The answer to your question is whether they drew the art/wrote the code themselves. Ie. Not tracing or just renaming variables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  .*.*?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are looking to get it or try linux gaming in general then I would recommend looking at heroic games launcher which supports games from epic, gog, and Amazon. Past that there is always a huge list of other games (and applications) available for install from lutris’ website. And bottles for specific things, but that is a bit more advanced/nuanced to setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I noticed that too. Thought it was just regular YouTube jank as usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I’ll agree that sometimes Bluetooth pairing can be finicky.

  But the person I replied to was talking about how Bluetooth is not good enough for audiophile quality headphones. But most people don’t care and can’t even notice the difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right. But for >99% of users Bluetooth is a perfectly sufficient connection format for headphones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was wrong about robots.txt⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like most casual users would not make the connection of “crawlers” to link previews that they talk about it the article. Sure, if you understand that robots.txt includes all robots then sure. But that is not how general news media has been talking about robots.txt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selling Surveillance as Convenience⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how many people know this but there is good reason why (at least on android) giving Bluetooth permissions also requires location permissions.

  The basic concept is that given enough Bluetooth data an app can pinpoint your location accurately anyways. So the android devs decided that they would just require any app that wanted Bluetooth data would also need to require access to location. That way users would be indirectly informed of the dangers.

  Why not just a pop-up to inform of the danger? Probably because most users will click past that warning and not read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read the article. But I’d assume this is for the same reason that not not string is faster than bool(string). Which is to say that it has to do with having to look up a global function rather than a known keyword.