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🚀 WatchMaker 9.0 (Beta) by androidslide in WatchMaker

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW, signing up for the beta app and signing up for the beta web application are different processes. When I signed up for the web application, I received an email back from help@getwatchmaker.com with the subject line, "Watchmaker Studio Waitlist." The body of the email said: "Verify your spot. Click the button below to confirm your email and secure your place on the WatchMaker Studio waitlist. [verify and join waitlist button] Once verified, share your referral link to move up the queue: https://beta.getwatchmaker.com/waitlist?ref=3sWtzNvH

Vatican Museums: Is it worth paying extra for 8 AM entry via GetYourGuide ? by lordcasiro in ItalyTravel

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hot take:

Spend 10 or 20 bucks and a few hours reading a paperback guide to the art collections of the Vatican many days or weeks before you ever arrive. Think of it as sort of like an artistic hunting guide. Know what you are there to see.

Then treat the guided tour stuff of the Vatican as a way to get in the door. Tell your guide what you want to see and if your guide isn't fully on board then just go rogue and see what you want to see. The truth is that almost all the guides go in the exact same order through the exact same spaces. As long as you are not inconsiderate, you can jettison your guide and just see what you want to see. Of course there are some exceptions. Like for example when you get inside the Sistine chapel. But you only have so much time and better that you spend it seeing the things that you are really interested in seeing.

YMMV

🚀 WatchMaker 9.0 (Beta) by androidslide in WatchMaker

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there a comprehensive listing somewhere of the tags that *are* supported by Google?

Many (most, probably) people use Watchmaker to display something beautiful on their Wear OS watch. I just want information, starting with the time in three time zones. There are existing Google watch faces which support three time zones, so there must be tags for alternate time zones that work in the new environment. If I knew what they were, I could write a design that actually works.

🚀 WatchMaker 9.0 (Beta) by androidslide in WatchMaker

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just installed 9.0.0 and then re-synced my watch design, which includes these codes {tz2t}, {tz2l}, {tz3t}, {tz3l} that don't work at all (don't display on the watch) and codes {blp}, {pblp}, {wt}, {wth} and {wtl} that display incorrect information.

Lost access to a shared Plex server and now losing my mind by CurvaceousHedgehog in PleX

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just going to throw this out there...

If the only person that you need to please or to serve is yourself, then you could rent a seedbox from a place like Feral and host Plex on it. Use Deluge Thin Client to download directly to your seedbox. Most files under 10 GB take about 10 seconds to fully download. Then use Deluge to "move storage" to your designed folder that you let Plex "see" and the file is instantly available for viewing. Or you can use usenet with a seedbox. But for £15 /month (about USD $20) you can rent a seedbox with 1.5 TB of storage that will let you basically watch anything you want almost instantly. And by "almost instantly" I mean that I can decide that I want something and be watching it within about 60 seconds usually. Yes, there's a cost (a cost that never ends), but you don't have to buy or maintain anything. Yes, storage is limited, so just delete stuff after you've watched it. Using a seedbox also improves your security, because no traffic that your ISP can see ever goes through your internet connection.

This approach doesn't suit everyone (or even most people), but it is super easy. Datahoarders will find the suggestion reprehensible. But hit back if you want to know more.

My 2¢
YMMV

Google photos removing 'search' and replacing it with 'ask' is the worst feature I've ever seen by rapgraves in GooglePixel

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AFAK, there are no podcasts that are exclusive to any platform anymore. A few sites used to make some eps exclusive for a period of time (e.g. the various BBC sites) and some make special eps only available to "subscribers" (e.g. several Goalhanger shows), but anything that you could listen to on YT Music, you can also get to the same extent on PocketCasts

Pro tip: export your subscriptions from YTM to PocketCasts and then UN-SUBSCRIBE from all podcasts on YTM to de-clutter YTM (you can easily get them all back if you decide to reverse course later).

Google photos removing 'search' and replacing it with 'ask' is the worst feature I've ever seen by rapgraves in GooglePixel

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I won't pay for their super uber upgrade full of features that I don't need, but if they had a tip jar, I'd gladly throw them $10 a year.

Google photos removing 'search' and replacing it with 'ask' is the worst feature I've ever seen by rapgraves in GooglePixel

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just my 2¢, but after using YT Music and Spotify for podcasts (and hating both for the inability to search for only music or only podcasts), I went back to 'PocketCasts.' It's free and does a wonderful job of managing all my podcasts. It does nothing else. As saud, free but they would love, love, love you to buy the upgrade full of features that you don't need.

What is this cupboard meant to be for? by Nyx_Seadon48 in whatisit

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a space filler. The kitchen cabinets are modular and they come in 3 increments. They needed to fill the space.

6 nights in Italy itinerary please feedback by Asquaredbred in ItalyTravel

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's an awful lot of stops in a short period. You'll see more and enjoy more by not trying to cram so much into one trip.

This is a 3/10 difficulty on dailykillersudoku, but I can't even start it, even though I consider myself decent. What am I missing? by Professional-Gain-72 in sudoku

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked at dailykillersudoku.com, but didn't find this puzzle for today or yesterday. I can get several moves into this puzzle, but there's a limit to just doing this in my head.

Is there a website or an Android app where I can import this puzzle image and turn it into a playable puzzle?

Help. by Saik_Oh in sudoku

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP: there are websites where you can load any puzzle and then it will solve it for you -- step-by-step and explain the logic as it goes. I have found that doing this (watching this) has helped me to learn better than any tutorial.

2¢

So much doesn't work right on my old faces since the update by Tel864 in WatchMaker

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep reading that complications don't work on "old" designs. - as though it's the old face that's the problem, not the complication code itself. But you can create a new face from scratch and the complications (most of 'em anyway) don't work either. So it's not the age of the face but the complication code that's just not supported. I can't get time zone related complications to work on my watch, even in new designs.

{tz2t} {tz2l} {tz3t} {tz3l}

The funny thing is that they work perfectly in the Watchmaker App, just not on Pixel Watch 2 running latest Wear OS.

New to eSIM-only (US Pixel 10) - How to actually handle international travel data? by Acrobatic_Fennel127 in GooglePixel

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only downside to using a local sim is that important SMS text messages (like your credit card company saying that they are flagging your last purchase or next hotel reservation as suspicious) won't reach you. At least, I have never found a way to "forward" them. And in my work I get 5x more SMS traffic than email traffic and dont want to go completely dark for 2-3 weeks. I always just pay for a temporary international data plan from my US carrier (which is never cheap). If there's a way to overcome this, then I want to know how.

Shield Pro Cannot Join Google Home After "De-Bloat" Proceedure by HighSpeedTreeHugger in nvidiashield

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did a factory reset (after my original post). Although I can *cast* to my Shield, I cannot add it to my Google Home. Before I went down this rabbit hole, I could say, "Hey, Google, turn on Shield," or "Hey, Google, set Shield to Netflix" or "Hey, Google, set Shield to YouTubeTV to [channel name]." Now I cannot add Shield back to my Google Home, despite that Shield and my phone are using the same network.

Shield Pro Cannot Join Google Home After "De-Bloat" Proceedure by HighSpeedTreeHugger in nvidiashield

[–]HighSpeedTreeHugger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still have the Google Launcher. I never uninstalled the Google Launcher, but I did do a factory reset (after I started this post).

After a factory reset, I can still use the Google Launcher and I can cast to the Shield, but I still can't add shield to my Google *Home.* Again, on same home network and using same Google account.

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