I/you

Pick one.

This may not be helpful to you in particular, but I wanted to throw this out there.

I don’t like Auto Rotate because apps can undesirably rotate when the phone is in odd positions. However, I think it’s great for video apps, camera apps, and photo galleries.

Auto Auto-Rotate fixes this. It’s free and open source. When you toggle the Auto Rotate setting on or off, you’re doing it for just the current app!

So now I just rotate my phone the way I want and YouTube matches. No need to hit the full screen button.

Also, if you don’t know, in the YouTube app you can swipe a video up to make it full screen without having to use the full screen button. Of course, it’ll rotate the “natural” way first, which is what’s annoying you. Just thought I’d mention it. I sometimes use that feature when my phone is flat on a table while I’m eating or something and I don’t want to pick it up to engage auto-rotate.

To work best, Auto Auto-Rotate equires a persistent notification, but even with that off, it will work for a long time before you have to relaunch the app. Battery optimization for the app should be off, of course.

I was the first person to post on the pluriverse in 2008.

Cookie cutter engagement bullshit questions. “Which blah would you blah if you could blah a blah? Let me know in the comments”

when it’s done, fill it up again. Repeat all day.

So every 10 seconds?

And pistachios, too, sometimes.

Haha, that’s not the best astro photo I’ve taken with my phone. It’s not even in focus. 😅 Let me dig up another. And yes, I knew that was Andromeda. It’s pretty cool that it captured it.

Here are the Northern Lights during the recent Perseid meteor shower with some stars.

Ironically, I couldn’t really see the Northern Lights with my own eyes. It was foggy out, and they were very faint, but my phone’s astro mode could see them. I even have videos, because the camera app always makes a 1 or 2 second video from the individual images while taking an stacked astro photo.

Here’s one that shows the Milky Way pretty well.

I saw it with my eyes. It was without a doubt a string of 9 Starlink satellites. If you look closely, the image is a composite of multiple trails in a nearly colinear path.

I’m a nobody using my phone to take the occasional image stack using Google’s “night sight” mode on my Pixel 7 Pro. Out of the 30 or so pictures I’ve taken, one has a Starlink Trail.

Explosive decompression

Doubly backwards

It’s a fixed bid. The faster you get the work done the more you make per hour. (Per minute, really.)

Meanwhile… decades in the past? Still doesn’t make sense.

Ok, how does $5 sound?

People are still doing “Nobody:” memes? They don’t even make sense. This would be improved 100% by removing the “Nobody:” line.

I definitely had the bug when double-tapping the app switcher on my Pixel 4a, but I never had that problem on my Pixel 7 Pro, nor this one:

For example, Google Pixel owners running alternative launcher apps can’t use the “select” feature seen in the Pixel Launcher’s recents menu, which allows users to select text and images in any app.

the continued influence of pizel-art

Pizzelle-art

Obvious photoshops are different. This example is funny because it’s obviously not real. The truck one is intentionally pretending to be real and not entertaining at all. That’s the difference.

Yup. I use Lawnchair and 3-button nav, and I double-tap the recent apps button 100 times a day.

Weird. It doesn’t happen at all on my Pixel 7 Pro.

I remember that being a super annoying problem, and then it went away. I haven’t thought about that issue in years. Maybe it only happened on my old 4a.