The exchange in looks he had with Natalie character right after the board dropped off the call was clearly also an indication of dissatisfaction from both of them.
For those unaware, OP is referring to Sony patent US8246454B2 which describes a system in which people can skip ads by e.g. shouting out the brand name of the ad.
I have always felt uneasy about that too. I think it’s because the next (and final) panel looks exactly like the first. It’s the implication that you’ll have to do something so over the top as getting up, raising your arms, and shouting a brand name, then resuming what you were doing as it that were completely normal.
You have to show exuberance when demonstrating your brand loyalty, otherwise you’re not loyal enough to pass the ad. You’ll need to watch the entire reeducation, I mean ad, in that case.
It's not a toggle, but Google Pixel phones (or at least the one I owned a few years ago) come with very few if any bloatware type apps, since the default Android apps are the Google apps anyway. Contrast with Samsung that duplicates a bunch of core apps/functionality.
Motorola is also super minimal/mostly Google. I think the only bloatware on my newest was an app to control 'moto actions', which I find gimmicky but some tend to like.
Yeah, my previous Samsung I had to spend a half hour with adb to get all their junk disabled.
Not sure what you mean by default Android apps but Google Pixel apps != AOSP's stock apps. AFAIK most apps can now be disabled in Settings on recent Samsung phones, I'm not a fan but I don't think they're that worse compared to Pixels, especially on the flagship devices.
Sony’s phones also come with minimally modified Android. They still have 3-4 bloatware apps to remove with ADB but it’s pretty manageable. I picked up an Xperia 1 V on discount to take the position of “flagship phone” in my Android app dev testing lineup and if I were switch my daily driver away from iOS, it would be in my list of considerations.
In my experience Samsung's flagship phones are top notch hardware with superb build quality. According to user reports on the internet the latest Google Pixel can't even manage to connect to the cellular networks reliably and without overheating. I wish Samsung would step their security game up to GrapheneOS standards because I just can't trust Google not to fuck the phones up.
It's not a global toggle, but Asus definitely has options to make things more stock-Androidy — you can basically turn the Settings app back into something resembling the stock version, and a bunch of their other UI enhancements and changes are also optional.
A long time Android user wouldn't have mistaken my Zenfone 9 for a Pixel at any more than a cursory glance, but you can get it pretty close, particularly in terms of feel.
Does this allow me to record something like a workflow or macro I can use as a shortcut in an open browser window or is it restricted an automated process of opening a browser window and executing some actions?
Specifically, assume I have a bunch of open tabs, each with an identical element, say the Full Screen button on Youtube video pages. Can I record "Exit Full Screen, move to next tab, enter Full Screen of the video on the page" with Autotab?
You could do a version of this if you always open your Youtube videos in the browser instance your autotab script spins up, but short answer is not really. Macros like this are super interesting though, and we've talked a lot about ways browsers could be designed for AI and automation like this.
The example I've given is really the only situation so far where I desired such functionality. I know very little about web stuff and I don't know if there is a term for what I'm looking for, so I can't give you any pointers. Macros and workflows are just similar concepts I know.
I'm glad to see Wizzy Noise on the recommendations for Full On Psytrance. Their remix of Flasback by GMS is the best melodic buildup Full On song I've ever listened to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PAoapibFWI
I used Tree-sitter to navigate and extract syntactic information from source code files in multiple programming languages. It was great that I didn't have to use multiple parser (generator) libraries.
Also for proper emotional dialogue it needs to determine the human input emotions. It seems to work with a transcript of the input.
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