I don’t know how any of this works. What’s stopping Google from doing the same thing to old phones?

Same. My partner got an Apple watch and loved all the lifestyle tools, but she stopped wearing it because she couldn’t stand all the notifications. I said it would just take a couple minutes to turn off the ones she didn’t like, but she doesn’t have time for that!

I don’t know what this is and I’ll do my best to avoid it.

You got me. I made up a story so I could get my one upvote.

A friend of mine worked for a FAANG company and he taught me that people get promoted for creating something “new” rather than improving something that already exists.

Shoot! Enshittification strikes again. Well good luck. Hopefully my tips can be useful anyway.

I’ve been using Splitwise for years with my friends and my partner. It has a “simplify group debts” feature that gets everyone paid in as few transactions as possible. If Adam owes Eve $5 and Eve owes Seth $5, Splitwise just tells Adam to pay Seth. I pay for premium, which has some nice features like currency conversion and receipt scanning. Regardless of which app you use, I have a couple tips.

First, discuss ahead of time which expenses you’ll be adding to the group expenses. On a cabin trip last summer, one friend brought $100+ worth of liquor, but only one or two people drank it. Several of us were annoyed at having to pay him back for something we didn’t use.

Second, at the end of your trip you’ll “settle up” by having the people who paid less reimburse the people who paid more. Wait a few days after the trip for everyone to add any final expenses. Sometimes people settle up prematurely, and then someone realizes they forgot to add a dinner that they paid for. This makes it confusing and creates a bunch of extra Venmo transactions. Just wait.

I’ve been using it for almost 10 years. I consider any new phone unusable until Action Launcher is installed.

The prices are ludicrous.

Thank you! I’ll try that out.

Well that’s presumptive. I use a Pixel 7 in a 2022 vehicle. When I plug it in I have to open the USB settings EVERY TIME and switch to MIDI before it recognizes the device. I have bugs with Waze, and my music will pause regularly with no connection issues.

Everyone seems to love Nova, but it’s missing some features I like, i.e. drawers and a text list of all my apps. I’ve been using Action Launcher for as long as I can remember.