How is the Android compatibility of Apple Airpods? I remember reading the latest one is now certified as a hearing aid.

I got recommended Macrodroid, so I’m going to try that as well as a comparison for my needs

How long before it requires a subscription?

I’ve never heard of that before. It looks awesome and I’m going to look into it!

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.

So it seems it is specifically those services I found more info here

• Can read messages. On Android can reply with canned responses set up in the Connect app
• GPS tracking during workouts without having to have phone within range, has heart rate, sleep tracking and more
• Instinct can control media (play/pause/skip) when phone is in range, though the Forerunner music can store music to play via Bluetooth headphones
• No LTE/eSIM support on any of them that I know of
• Best feature for me by far is the time is always visible and in fact is even more visible in direct sunlight

Garmin Instinct 2 Solar gives me 31 days on a full charge if it doesn’t get any sunlight. It is smart enough to vibrate me awake without waking my partner and receive notifications, no matter what Android/iOS phone I use.

What were your main gripes with the Pixel watch?

The joke in my brain was that Nitro is fast tracking the enshittification of discord

Ironic that traditionally Nitro makes things happen faster, probably in this case as well

Let me know what you think about it. I also loaded the swipe gesture pack and it is super responsive

VRAM?

I sideloaded HeliBoard on Android via F-Droid and the predictive text is coming along nicely the more I type.

I cannot believe how responsive this keyboard is. Absolutely love it and I have multilingual typing enabled. The swiping is also incredibly smooth after loading the library they suggested. Stunning

That’s very Roku of them

Element.io apparently. I’ve never heard of it before

Sadly, you make a good point. They will probably develop their own RCS servers and let others connect to that.

So I read that the RCS Apple wants to implement isn’t exactly the RCS Google is using.

My hope is that once Apple starts using (a hopefully open standard) RCS, then everyone will switch to that and everyone everywhere can communicate securely.

I’ve tried to listen to some podcasts on YouTube music. It really doesn’t work well compared to Pocket Casts. They need to separate the music and podcasts more clearly and make managing podcast playlists more intuitive

My understanding is it is a file linked to your account that links to the epub file. It lets you and only you download your copy of the epub file you purchased.

I buy all my ebooks on Google Play and then export them via ACSM converter and back it up (you can only convert and exported file once)