That’s a stupid product name.

Stellaris is great sci-fi future ambient music to focus to.

Arm CEO ignores RISC of open CPU design.

Probably nothing unless a really good deal from my wish list shows up.

Opensource FOSS civ clone based on Civ 5. Works well as a mobile game which I enjoy because decent mobile games are hard to find.

https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.yairm210.unciv

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.unciv.app/

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/unciv

Unciv

I only buy referb phones because there is no reason to spend $$$ on a brandnew phone. I got a used Pixel 5 a year or more ago and its been great!

When buying Pixel know that you can install Lineage OS and that more than takes care of all your software support concerns.

Cannot recommend this enough. I have a 2012 Asus Nexus 7 that is still getting security updates, as is my Pixel 5. If your phone is still in good shape and you dont want to replace it, then Lineage OS will turn it into a new phone.

From what I have read its simply not how Google works on the inside. They have all the best programmers developing new “products” which then get tested live. If a product wins great, put the best on something else. Maintaining existing products outside of the core search and ad’s is seen internally as a menial job, and managers focus on keeping maintenance costs low and quiet new ideas.

But yes, Hangouts was amazing at its peak. I could group chat, video chat, send MMS like posts, connect it directly to my google voice and more. They should have kept working on it.