In the wake of worker strikes and Amazon’s continued enshittification, I have pledged to stop buying anything from them.

I have had trouble with it finding addresses as well. I use Magic Earth for driving because it can actually find most all the locations I search for.

I agree that it’s infuriating! I downloaded an LSPosed module called CaptureSposed that overrides it.

It shouldn’t take a specific module hack on a rooted phone with a custom OS with an unlocked bootloader to get this functionality back.

You don’t need to apologize: that user could have clicked your link to the cricut site and easily figured it out. They are being willfully ignorant and intentionally vauge.

Your browser is most likely blocking HTML canvas data. Uploaded photos will often look like colored vertical lines.

Americans have politicized everything, so talking about basic human rights or vaccinations or milk is now political.

We are also currently dealing with the return of an incoming authoritarian president who is every vile thing imaginable, looking to cement the US as a permanent corporate oligarchy with a splash of Dominionism. We’re all wondering when we’re supposed to say “enough is enough” while we are drowning financially and breaking mentally.

And we are all expected to show up to work each day and talk and play nice like nothing is happening.

I can’t speak on the xperia 1 vi, but I have the 1 iii and the DAC is great.

That’s when you hope your state has a bureau of insurance or something similar that you can complain and appeal to, and then hope that the person assigned to your case isn’t prejudiced against the procedures in question, such as reproductive care or trans-related care, or isn’t prejudiced against you for being pretty much any minority.

What a mindfield to navigate when we’re at our most vulnerable.

I used a bicycle in a Walgreens pharmacy drive though for the whole summer, and then one day a manager told me they won’t serve me there anymore because of “safety reasons”.

What they meant was for their safety, from liability, like if a car hit me.

I don’t use Walgreens for prescriptions anymore.

It looks great. It’s a shame that it’s free-to-start and full of microtransactions.

Encourage your friends to commit to leaving if they have the means to do so. Within your friends’ lifetimes, the USA will never get better than it is right now (and overall it’s unprecedentedly bad right now).

To OP’s question: I don’t really consider their aunt’s ownership of a few houses to be a practical problem, and she is generally not who I am referring to when I say that landlords are terrible parasites, unless she overcharges (and no, I don’t mean above market rate) or treat the tenants with disrespect. She was told her whole life that investing in real estate is a smart thing to do and provides financial security.

The problem is with lack of regulations, such as how many buildings someone is allowed to own, corporate ownership, rent prices…things like that.

I backed the PS version of a game three years ago and they released it for PC but not for PlayStation. They still claim the PS release is coming. I don’t believe them, so I pirated the PC version.

Crowdfunding is scammy. You aren’t actually buying anything and have few rights or consumer protections. Stay away.

That is amazing!

And don’t forget about track skipping!

Fast Forward…wait…Stop. Play. Fast Forward a little more…wait. Stop. Play. Rewind a little. Stop. Play. “Ehh, close enough.”

Nope, but it does work toward balancing the scales of power, and christian cis white men hate that with a passion, and they conflate any perceived loss of power with oppression.

FFVII Remake and Rebirth I think are really good games overall. The [nearly] completely different combat system from the original is fresh and engaging.

The story starts to deviate from the original near the end of Remake, and continues into Rebirth. I also think this is a welcome change (as long as it doesn’t stray too far from the original). But for everyone who never made it through the original, I imagine it can feel slow, confusing, and lacking, so I would actually encourage those players (unless you really hate spoilers) to watch a story synopsis youtube video of the original Final Fantasy VII. It will help.

Oh, and for the most part the new games still nail the music. Love love love it.

Final Fantasy VII was my first RPG. It had a good (but sometimes difficult to follow) story, lots of quirky characters, Full Motion Video sequences, and a musical score that nears perfection. Hearing those songs today doesn’t just remind me of the game, it brings me back to all the emotional moments in the story where I felt like I was actually there, feeling what those characters felt and being there fighting along beside them.

A lot of how I feel about that game may be related to the fact that I was a teenager when I experienced it, but the lasting impression of that experience is why I think it is one of the greatest games of all time.

Doesn’t Google Messages require access to your contacts to even run? My experience was that it didn’t even ask permission; it just gave itself permission when I first launched it.

I learned about Swappa years ago and exclusively use them for buying and selling all my smartphones. I have no idea why they aren’t more popular, except for the fact that repair shop resellers use it too, but they are pretty easy to avoid.

My first thought was this, and when I opened the thread your reply was the first response listed as well.