SanguinePar

Well, not rabbit, anyway.

As a UK right hander, shifting with my right hand would be super weird! Completely used to doing it with my left 😁

Soup is Good Food 😁

Seconding this - batch cooking is the way to go. Sometimes on a Sunday I’ll just spend a day making large batches of 2 or 3 meals like this, almost all of which will be frozen and then used over the next few weeks.

No problem 👍

Thanks! 😁

Yeah, I doubt I’d go to all the trouble if I was starting from scratch now. But this is more or less what I had back when Nova was king, and I’ve just replicated it because of muscle memory!

Not sure about the latter part, but Total is another launcher allowing 4-way swiping for shortcuts. Absolute godsend.

Using a non-default launcher gives you more options to customise your home screen and any other screens off to the side.

For example, Pixels always have the Google search bar right there on the home screen, and it’s not removable (or not last I checked). But what if I don’t want it there? A 3rd party launcher will usually give me that option.

Or another example - some launchers allow the use of gestures to activate certain things, eg open app A, start an email in app B, call a specific contact, etc. This can be gestures on empty parts of the screen or swipes on icons.

On my phone, on which I use Total Launcher, it looks like this:

Tapping each of those 12 icons opens a folder. But I can also swipe each folder icon up, down, left or right and have certain apps or activities open without ever needing to go into the app drawer.

So, if I want to make a call, I swipe left on the communications folder (top right). If I want to open Lemmy, I swipe right on the Internet folder (blue, bottom row). If I want to open my phone settings, I swipe up on the Tools folder. And so on.

That way, I can activate 48 different things while only having 12 icons on screen, keeping it quite neat and tidy, and leaving space for my little collection of widgets at the top.

I’d go with:

Mercury - Who
Venus - What
Earth - I Dunno
Mars - Why
Jupiter - Because
Saturn - Naturally
Uranus - Tomorrow
Neptune - Today
Pluto - I Don’t Give A Darn

Spot on. Glad I’m not the only one who saw that whiny bollocks in the middle of an otherwise innocuous-seeming post.

Our country is going down hill, and everyone can see it in live. Our culture is dead, if we even had one. Marriages are dead, relationships are dead. Those of of us who can get a woman, get wrecked. Those who can’t get a woman, get wrecked. The ones who try to be good, get wrecked. The system is built on ensuring that men don’t build any sort of individual power, legacy, or asset ownership, and the cost of living enforces that ideal. There is not a shred of respect for men in this country. Watch any American movie or tv show or cartoon, and you will see a pattern: the female characters are super capable, super intelligent, super competent. The male characters, ESPECIALLY fathers, are portrayed as dumb, deaf, blind, and exhibit incompetence of the highest order. They can’t even do basic things right. Even if you watch our commercials, you get a dumb, deaf, blind male who comes and shows his incompetence, and then a woman comes to the rescue and shows him how to use some product the right way. Even John Wick managed to get his butt handed to him by someone half his size and half his weight, while he could effortlessly beat others twice or thrice his own size. The subliminal disrespect for men in this country has become clearer and clearer over time.

This is self-pitying, anti-feminist horseshit, which you’ve concealed in the middle of your query. Get a fucking grip and stop blaming women for your troubles.

Haven’t seen Warfare, but would definitely second Tora! Tora! Tora!, it’s a magnificent film.

Drama - The Wire
Comedy - Arrested Development
Mystery - Twin Peaks

Those should keep you going a while 😁

Ha, yes, certainly got plenty of disdain for the world. I’ll give it another go 👍

I love Brave New World, but couldn’t get into Island at all. I still have it though, I should give it another go.

Great song too. And a pretty decent spy agency. On their day.

Oh, that’s a shame. It’s really tremendously useful. Probably a third party app that could replicate it, but I’m not sure.

Swipe down on bottom of the screen (from anywhere) to open notification bar. So handy. It very occasionally seems to stop working, but a reboot sorts it.

I think it’s technically an accessibility feature, and it may be unique to Pixels, I’m not sure? Either way, it’s essential for me.

For anyone looking for it, it’s not in Gestures as you might expect, it’s in One Handed Mode, and is one of two options for what the gesture does:

Indiana Jones.

Probably.

Hooray for Santy Claus!