Fighting with Windows 11 introduced me to Linux Mint, which works perfectly! I’m not an OS geek, so I really don’t care about the OS – it’s just the thing I deal with on the way to Firefox.

If you have the Google app on your phone, Discover is a choice on the bottom bar.

I don’t have a watch or a Fitbit, but these screens sure look a lot like Google Fit.

You have to enable it…

Do not Disturb > Apps > Wireless Emergency Alerts

The annual subscription, which was introduced in January of 2022, goes to $139.99 in a $20 increase.

I literally renewed just two days ago, right under the wire!

For me, Music Speed Changer allows me to just focus on the segment of the recording that I need to practice. I can pick an A point and a B point and it will only play between those two points. My learning tracks also come with my part in the left ear and the other parts in the right ear and I can use the balance control to focus on one and defocus on the other. I can also make playlists for the various performances coming up so that I can practice and memorize my music while I’m driving

I use this a lot to learn new music. Some of the music we have these days is very fast, and music speed changer helps me to slow it down without changing the pitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zViMGxKdQ this is a song that I learned to sing using music speed changer by slowing down the track. There’s a lot of yabba dabba dat dabba in this song, and it’s rhythmic. At full speed I found it impossible.

The 3 button navigation is simpler, much faster than gestures and less prone to input errors than gessure navigation.

I was constantly backing out of my app when all I wanted to do was turn a page. Therefore I went back to the three buttons. The gestures are nifty, but I was always running into problems with the gesture happening when I didn’t want it to.

My tech averse spouse finally wanted a smartphone and I knew he would not understand gestures as he is very literal. So there was a double bonus: the buttons are a lot better for him.

When Google added an account switcher to its apps way back in 2019, they made it possible to switch between your Google accounts by swiping up or down on your avatar.

Wow, look at that! I had no idea. It works!

Which Android devices are you currently using?

I have a Google Home Mini, a Google Chromecast, and I’m on my 4th phone powered by Android … two from HTC and two are Pixels.

What do you love most about them?

The Home Mini and the Chromecast actually don’t do too much that is useful for me. They mainly are just there doing not much.

The phones that I have chosen have been delightful. All Android phones are delightful, the cheap free phone that I got when I signed up for Visible (cell service) for my spouse was a piece of garbage. But that’s the way that Android works: the developer/manufacturer can roll it to be whatever they want it to be.

What do you dislike?

I don’t have anything to put here, but I’m looking forward to some of the responses.

Perhaps visceral reaction. Small/fast brain over large/slow brain.

Or, perhaps, why is this an Android matter?

Is it impossible these days to un-Amazon a Fire tablet? I’d love to have a cheap tablet and someone suggested this was a way…

I didn’t know that; THANKS for pointing it out.

I had a paid Nova launcher but stopped using it when I went from HTC to Pixel 3 (now on 6a). But you caused me to check and see if I still had it dormant (and I don’t).