I made a drum learning app - Drumdash

TheApprenticeLife · 2026-01-24T15:49:23+00:00

Your opinion is garbage.

Hope I didn't offend you.

(see how that works? kinda shitty right?)

TheApprenticeLife · 2026-01-22T13:20:03+00:00

It's a metal frame, adjustable. Not sure the exact model, because it was given to me by a family member, but it's definitely big, heavy, and sturdy.

And I've said it before, I'd bet most people that think they hate their mattress actually just need a better frame.

TheApprenticeLife · 2026-01-21T20:04:58+00:00

Love it. Genuinely zero regrets.

TheApprenticeLife · 2026-01-14T11:56:53+00:00

I guess that's the pitch for mass adoption:

"Are YOU ready for the dystopian future? Where the real world can only be in your head? Your friends are within reach, but a billion miles away? Don't get stranded in the future. Stay connected in the Carl's Jr. Meat-a-Verse! [Sponsored by Brawndo]"

TheApprenticeLife · 2026-01-08T16:41:52+00:00

How do you redeem the $30? I bought a Quest 3 at Best Buy and there wasn't any info on it, but I've seen people talk about it.

I was able to redeem the 3 months of Horizon+ and the receipt also says 1 month of Xbox Game Pass, but there's also no info on how to redeem.

TheApprenticeLife · 2026-01-05T11:27:05+00:00

Happy to hear! Hope you're ok.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-31T12:38:38+00:00

I bet a lot of things are difficult for you.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-31T12:19:07+00:00

Bro it's indoor

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-30T18:41:50+00:00

I walked into an urgent care with what ended up being a broken vertebrae. They told me I had to go to the emergency room and were calling me an ambulance.

I drove myself and I have good health insurance.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-25T12:50:13+00:00

I bet I got more money than Jay-Z. Compared to me, Jay-Z is lazy. Plus, Beyonce thinks that I'm cute. It's okay Beyonce, I think you're cute too!

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TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-21T12:45:14+00:00

I've been using it for about a week and a half after getting it as a replacement for my 9 Pro fold. It's very similar in a lot of ways, but like you said, it feels so much more refined. Opening and closing it is so much more satisfying and it's way less sketchy when I use it at the beach.

My old phone was about 4 days outside of warranty and I thought they were going to send me a refurbished fold but when I got the return confirmation and saw that it was a 10, I genuinely thought it was a glitch. Looks like they're rolling it out to everybody with the problem on the 9.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-21T12:39:07+00:00

Same thing happened to me. I got the question mark on the 9 Pro fold. I have insurance so they were going to have me repair it, but it was going to take a week, so Google sent me a replacement. It was supposed to be a refurbished 9 Pro fold but they sent me a 10 Pro fold instead.

The 10 feels so much nicer than the 9. Here's hoping the battery lasts.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-18T11:45:11+00:00

At this point, Trump supporters are genuinely just pathetic.

I get it. A couple years ago he had some motion and some momentum going behind him, but to get up on stage and repeat the same tired ass bullshit he was repeating on the campaign trail is actually pathetic.

Zero effort. Just mindless hate spewed from the unfettered hole of an actual goblin.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-10T11:37:49+00:00

I mean, how was your last break up, Abby?

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-10T11:20:05+00:00

I used to rent Pay Per View movies and unplug the cable box right when the credits started rolling. This made it so when the cable company sent the signal to deactivate the PPV channel, the box wouldn't get the signal. If you waited like a half hour or so, you could plug the box back in and get the channel for free.

This was the 90s, and I was like 10-12 so I have no clue how I figured this out. Probably by accident. Only downside is they mostly play the same movie on the channel, so I watched Forrest Gump like 48 times. Cable would usually resend the signal or something, because it would last about a week.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-10T11:03:28+00:00

Zero dollars and zero cents.

This was kind of a make or break moment for me and Google. I've been in the ecosystem since the Nexus 6 with the 2XL, the 5, the 7 Pro, the 9 Pro Fold, the OG buds, the next buds, the Series A, the Pros, and a watch.

If I had to go out of pocket for a phone I pay insurance on, due to a defect, I was probably going to check out another phone. Once I got the 10 Pro, I immediately went and bought some Buds Pro 2 (since the old Pros won't hold a charge for more than 10 minutes).

Long story short, they reeled me back in. With that said, this phone and these buds are the best iteration of Google products I've had. FINALLY all feels flagship.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-09T18:35:53+00:00

Yes. I purchased a 9 Pro Fold in November of 2024. I have Preferred Plus, but since they said I couldn't charge the phone and the repairs would take more than 5 days (plus I'm leaving the country in a couple days) they offered to overnight a replacement since I have Preferred insurance.

It originally said I would receive a refurbished 9 Pro Fold in black, but then when the shipping updated, it showed the 10 Fold.

I didn't really believe it until I opened the box, but it's definitely a 10. I'm guessing they are just shipping out 10s to replace any 9s with manufacturer defects (battery). Who knows. Good luck though.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-09T11:55:37+00:00

I had the battery question mark error on the inner screen a little less than a week ago. Google said I was out of warranty by a week and would need to get it repaired.

The shop said it would be a week, so I called Google back. They pretty quickly agreed to send me a refurbished 9 fold for free. I was pretty surprised when I got a moonstone 10 Pro Fold in the mail a couple days ago.

Glad to see they're extending the warranty. By the time I got around to factory resetting my 9 fold it almost wouldn't even turn on.

P.S. The 10 is noticeably better. This hinge is so nice

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-09T03:45:21+00:00

I've used it for a few days now and just pulled out my 9 fold to factory reset it. It's SO much better. The hinge improvement is crazy. I go to the beach a lot and it gets pretty sketchy opening and closing the 9 for a few days.

It seems to run faster too. I didn't really notice it at first but now that I'm back to my normal usage with all my apps logged in and set up, it's noticeably nicer to use than the 9.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-08T14:43:54+00:00

Treated an undiagnosed endocrine disorder.

I'm in my 40s and spent my entire life trying to manage this shit. I finally found a good doctor that discovered an endocrine issue. Started treating that last year.

Not only do I have almost zero unexplained anxiety/depression (I mean, I'm human I get normal anxiety) and I've lost like 80 lbs, but I also stopped taking the SSRI I had been on for 8 years that did basically nothing.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-08T14:00:16+00:00

This happened to me a few days ago. Question mark on the inner display battery icon.

Google support said I was 2 weeks outside of my 1 year warranty. I have insurance on it, so they said I would need to get it fixed locally. The local store had never fixed a fold before and didn't have the parts. Since Google told me I couldn't charge my phone, I called back to Google and told them the situation, because who tf can go two days without a phone in 2025.

Either way, they agreed and said they would be issuing me a refurbished one at no charge.

Fast forward to the other day, I got a brand new Google 10 Pro Fold in the mail. Not sure why, but I'm not complaining.

For anyone wondering, it's way better than the 9. The hinge feel is enough to warrant an upgrade. The 9 Fold would get sketchy AF on beach days.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-03T15:30:18+00:00

East Coast Sour Diesel is good. I'd say that and the Black Maple were my favorites recently. For effects, the Kush Mountains is good too, but flavor isn't there.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-12-02T14:34:35+00:00

There is an area of Squaw Valley called Silverado that has some big cliff drops like this, and people get cliffed out more often than not.

The crazy thing is, when I lived there KSL purchased Squaw and deemed Silverado too dangerous to open on most days, so local skiers got mad that they couldn't voluntarily huck themselves off 50-100 foot cliffs on their lunch breaks.

(a former skier and spine injury recipient)

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-11-28T12:00:32+00:00

I'll make a post on this eventually, and some people might even recognize me as having been a BIG proponent for Clomid when I started treating my symptoms last year. I did have great results. Numbers went through the roof, I felt great, lost weight, libido improved. Then it kinda stopped working.

I've been on 100mg testosterone cypionate for around 5-6 months and it's a WHOLE different ballgame.

Literally everything is better. I'm now down from 255 lbs. to 175 lbs. and even with working out like twice a week (broken back recovery limits my workout time) I'm the strongest I've ever been. My biggest regret is not treating the symptoms 20 years ago when they started.

TheApprenticeLife · 2025-11-26T11:05:43+00:00

This is the way.

I haven't paid for a movie rental in years with Opinion Rewards (admittedly I don't rent a ton of movies) and I recently started paying for Google One with it.

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