I just got an essentially fully refurbished Pixel 4XL (new: motherboard, battery, screen, vibrator, top speaker, top microphone, front camera, back glass) so
I'm set for a while
all repaired free of charge thanks to a google extended warranty (read: they didn't want to have another Nexus 6P fiasco on their hands so they're fixing battery issues)
@Lexibutt The difference is that in this case, it's probably not really possible to reassemble the original pieces into a working second Phone of Unionhawk
@ave yeah it just passes the emoji through unmodified and it's up to the IRC client to render it, which any modern client should handle just fine if you have the right fonts installed
I'm still quite happy with my 3a, apart from all the damage, but IIRC it stops getting updates sometime next year
Aggravatingly my wife was looking at getting a P5 (would prefer a P5a, but for some reason they're US-and-Japan-only?) but decided to hold off until the P6 announcement to see if that looked substantially better
And that was apparently a mistake because Google discontinued the P5 the instant the P6 dropped
That's such a weird decision. Delaying a major content release that was only two weeks away to avoid disrupting the minority of players who want uninterrupted time playing another recent content update.
@Fredy31 I've been using Pixels since the original, and I've loved them. They're kinda the Android version of the iPhone. They and Android are built to go together, so they get cool features first, and run super smooth
And the camera is just top notch. Nothing compares
@Fredy31 pros of my current job is that it's currently (temporarily) 100% remote (this is likely to change whenever "things go back to normal"), i've been working there for five years so i'm familiar with how things work, and the commute (once we stop WFH) is easier though the new offer isn't much worse
pros of the offer is that it's a bigger company, new skills for me to learn, and at first glance, some of the benefits seem better
A certain online retail and cloud services corporation with a primary headquarters in Seattle, WA which shall remain nameless has been trying pretty hard to recruit me but like, idk
(for something in WA or VA or maybe remote but probably not except the VA is essentially DC, about 2 miles from IAD lol)
@Yuuki ish, that is a red flag to me. If they go out of their way to go get people that didn't even show any interest first... that company has burned many people if nobody applies
@Fredy31 well, it's not like they reached out to me out of the blue. basically, a friend of a friend who works there mentioned they were looking for employees and i signed up for an interview partly to just get some interviewing experience
because except if you have like only 5-6 people that can do it in the state, when a company goes out of their way to find people it sounds to me that 'we opened an application, nobody applied'
@Unionhawk okay, we definitely know what company you're talking about. I'm surprised they're even trying to recruit someone who's that much into unions like you
