Routine Revelations

This article in 9to5Google suggests that the Fossil Gen 6 may be available by the end of September and will have the Qualcomm 4100 chip.

The only way decisions made by the governors of Florida and Texas change in the future is if these guys lose their next elections bigly.

The Pixel 5a launch day is August 26, which is likely to be the date when Android 12 launches. Last year the 4a shipped with Android 10 but Android 11 was available about a week later.

My Google Pixel 4a is now last year’s phone and no longer sold by Google. In its place is the new Pixel 5a. The good news is that Google continues to produce the more affordable “A” line along with the premium “number” line. The bad news is that Google no longer makes a phone with a six inch screen.

We tell ourselves this was different than Vietnam because the kids weren’t drafted, but it wasn’t. And right now a boy or girl in Afghanistan is watching his or her parents being killed, knowing it’s the American’s fault, and vowing to make us pay. You reap what you sow.

App Suggestions do not appear to be working in Android 12 Beta 4.

I’ve enabled Focus Mode on my Pixel 4a that is running Android 12 Beta 4 so that I do not get less important notifications during the work day. When enabled Focus Mode displays a priority notification the consequence of which is that it continually displays on the lock screen and thus causes the clock to display in the smaller upper left while in ambient mode.

Finally lower humidity

Not a cloud in the sky.

“Yes, currently we are in the middle of a tennis ball shortage,” said Nancy Zinn, a customer service representative for Fromuth Racquet Sports, a tennis equipment distributor." source

It seems to happen over and over again. I read about a new app, so I click the link (assuming the author of whatever I am reading provides a link) and usually see two things that turn me off. First, the app only runs on one platform, often iOS or MacOS. Next the app has some type of subscription fee. Both are significant constraints, either I can’t run the app or I can’t afford to pay for the app.

The subscription pricing model is the most out of control. No more pay once for a version that you can use as long as one wished. Worse, are monthly subscriptions that add up to paying $100 or more per year. I get the allure for the sellers but how much in total money do these developers think people are willing to pay?

“If you’re vaccinated, you did the best thing you can do, and there’s no reason to feel pessimistic,” Inci Yildirim, a vaccinologist and pediatric infectious-disease expert at Yale, told me. “You’re safer. But you will need to think about how safe you want people around you to be.” source

A virus that does not discriminate and a egocentric country/society is a match made in Heaven, if you are a virus.

“One of my perennial complaints about the current crop of “tools for thought” has been that most of them aren’t really about thinking per se, just about improving memory. We can take down information into apps like Roam Research or Notion and recall them easily later, but it’s an overstatement to call them tools for thought. Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! " – Linus Lee

I think people who actually apply zettlekasten using their tool of choice may be using the tool for thought, but I am not one of those people. My “second brain” is more like non-volatile RAM.