My dad used to like to shut off the engine coming down the mountain passes, until I convinced him he was probably just transferring costs from gasoline to brake pads, and maybe he'd be better off just engine braking in 4th or something.
I learned about it from reading (in NatGeo World magazine, I think?) about some guy who was obsessed with maximizing MPG. Beyond hypermiling, he also had a project car with insulation wrapped around the engine, a chain-driven transmission, etc. I remember serendipitously reading a number of years later that the car was rediscovered and thinking, “Hey! I remember reading about that car as a kid!”
The phone charger in this car is REALLY nice
It has what it calls a "battery conditioner" which both heats it when it is cold and cools it when it's hot. The energy expended doing so is tracked separately in the energy monitoring page of the UI, and it is a notable amount, but it still saves you WAY more headache than running with a frozen or hot battery (both are bad).
Damn you terrible Texan ISP!
I was supposed to get Fiber in August! Then they moved back my neighborhood to March! GUESS WHAT IT'S ALMOST APRIL!
Much of the point of the excercise was to have a centrally located, curated, streamable library. It'd be a pain in the ass to do that on my phone.
Mother fucking VISIO could you SUCK LESS PLEASE
Soooo I've been rebuilding my music library in Plex, and playing it on Plexamp on my phone while I drive. I've had quite a few out-of-town trips for work this month, and it's really helped pass the time.
Uhhhhh so guess who just hit his 6 gig mobile data warning with 12 days left on the billing cycle? Maybe all those FLAC albums weren't such a good idea!
On the one hand, Google Fi means I can keep streaming another 9 gigs and not pay any extra, and even after that, I just get throttled.
But it means that I'm on the hook for the full $65 this month, because I'm on the flexible plan because that USUALLY is cheaper because, until now, I barely ever used much cellular data >_< (typically my bill is like $30)
Well apparently that worked, because my data usage for the month was only 1.35 gigs. That makes my cellular bill for the month only about $43. So I was feeling pretty good about my fix.
Not that I am seeing. Google isn't interested in android being the "we give you full control, unlike apple" thing any more. They want their garden just as walled, and you will adjust your behavior to fit them. Or pay 15 bucks.
Weird samsung asks before downloading....
This one used to too. Samsung's usually a bit behind on revisions because they have to rejigger everything into their special samsung-specific crapware-laden flavor of Android, but a Pixel phone gets the vanilla unadulterated updates immediately. I expect you'll be in the same boat before too long, unless Samsung decides to counter that specifically.
i have unlimited data, but i feel ya.
It's just another annoyance in a long line of reduced functionality. I'm pretty sure the battery usage statistics are lying to me now, too. They always used to obfuscate battery use by system processes, and now it won't even show them at all. Swiping an app off the task switcher used to reliably close it. No longer, now you really do have to go all the way into settings to force it to stop. Wouldn't surprise me if the next update or two just flat out takes away the ability to force stop apps entirely.
Half the reason I got Google Fi was its early adoption of wifi calling - because the cell service where I am is utter balls.
... Has five fingers, ergo, not porn. I mean, that's what Ai seems to think more often than not.
The AI stuff is not hosted on Imgur
my Mia Sollis, Madison Kate, and Red Fox albums, however, are 
I was under the impression that they weren't removing anything, just shadow-banning it, removing it from all the searches, etc.
Nope. They have said they're taking the usage policies that apply to the social gallery side and applying it to all hosted media, and deleting anything that doesn't conform - whether submitted to the gallery or not. This is why reddit shat itself, a lot of redditors were still using imgur as nsfw hotlinkable hosting.
