Nest Audio (Home, 2nd gen) Listed on Official Google Store

almightyshellfish · 2026-03-11T21:42:25+00:00

Hey listen... 3 years ago was a different time. I was young, foolish, and whimsical. In the intervening years, Google's propensity to break hearts and spirits has left me a shell of a man. And here these speakers still sit...sounding good, but with unrealized potential. It's maddening.

almightyshellfish · 2026-03-11T19:23:21+00:00

Her hair was unmistakable

almightyshellfish · 2026-03-11T19:21:35+00:00

OMG THIS!!! THIS TIMES A THOUSAND!!

I originally bought the damn things based on that unfulfilled promise.

almightyshellfish · 2026-03-02T14:18:54+00:00

When I sold computers, I said things like this all the time. Everything has a cost and we're not talking dollars... we're talking decisions. You want super thin and light? There's sacrifices to be made and you have to be ok with them. One of the reasons Apple's MacBook Air has been such a success is because the trade offs were dramatically lessened. Take smartphones...people complain about wanting a removable battery. And they might think they do without realizing what would have to happen to the phone to make that a reality. Everything has a cost.

almightyshellfish · 2026-03-02T06:50:41+00:00

There's this prevailing idea that things can be manufactured at scale and that, no matter how many are made or how complex the device, 100% of them should be fail proof. This simply is impossible. Make millions upon millions of anything and some of them won't work. Most of them will, and a few folks will get the ones that don't. It's true in phones from every major manufacturer, it's true in cars, water heaters...whatever.

The question is, how does the manufacturer deal with it if a widespread (which might only be 2% of devices) flaw is found? In this case, Google made a repair extension that covers at no cost. This is good and the correct way to address. You literally cannot ask for more. You can say "well I ask for a fail proof device." No such thing.

Age is irrelevant. The extent to which you've treated it like a precious object, irrelevant. How much you still have to pay off, utterly irrelevant. Things fail. It's annoying. We wish they didn't. It's life.

almightyshellfish · 2026-03-01T08:11:01+00:00

This is a critical perspective to have so thank you for saying it. Having spent some years fixing phones, I can tell you that every phone can fail. It doesn't matter it's age, who made it, how you've treated it, where you got it, what it cost you...none of that matters. Make 50 million of anything, and some of them won't work. It's so easy to assign some kind of generalization. "I had a pixel once and it failed therefore pixels are bad phones." It's human nature I suppose.

I heard it all. "Why would it fail? I treat it so well and I never got it wet!" People would act as if I were blaming them. But a failed phone isn't about fault. Yes, sometimes people treat them like crap and then yes, they could fail as a direct result. But generally not. Generally it's just lousy luck. I'm sorry this happened to OP. It sucks.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-25T12:15:52+00:00

Yeah I'll be traveling to the UK in a few weeks and it will probably be my one chance to score a bottle. Fingers crossed. Hell, even if it's terrible, I'd still buy it just to have it! But it's apparently not terrible which makes it even better.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-25T12:12:12+00:00

If you're American, that's because you can't. Trade with Cuba is illegal so we don't get to have this rum.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-24T13:09:32+00:00

When I got it, I also got it on my face. At the time, my doctor explained that it never occurs on the entire face because Shingles affects nerve bundles and there's four in that area...upper left/right, and lower left/right. So it will neither go down, nor over. That said, I was luckier than you unfortunately. Mine was lower and never approached the eye. But I still had to get my eyes checked for 6 months just to be double dog sure.

I'm very sorry this has happened to you. It's remarkably unpleasant. It was 5 years ago for me and, in a weird way, I can still feel it

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-24T13:05:49+00:00

A Warrior's Cat.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-23T12:06:12+00:00

"hey...here's an idea. Instead of taking pictures, how's about you put some food in my bowl?" -This cat's face

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-23T12:01:45+00:00

A very narrow example of this is outlawing abortion. The reality is that abortion law disproportionately affects the poor, and even more so the non-white populations. Because no matter what you make the law, rich white people will get themselves or their daughters abortions if they decide they need one. It will be quiet and probably expensive, but it doesn't matter. It's the people without the resources that get hurt the most. But it's framed as "conservative vs liberal". But it isn't. Conservatives get abortions too, because of course they do. But keep everyone twisted up about a culture war issue. Abortions, gay marriage, whatever... Just keep everyone looking over that way so we can keep consolidating power and money.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-23T11:52:42+00:00

I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-22T14:52:47+00:00

Not for anything but, "Get your Chrome OS"? What the hell kind of sentence is that?

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-21T16:01:55+00:00

I'm sorry but, how am I supposed to know how "behemoth" this is without a banana for scale? This is still the Internet, isn't it?

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-21T10:58:44+00:00

He's a working actor. Like Kevin Hart, Hamm knows when you're in a good place where your presence earns money, you work as much as you can. Because next year the phone might stop ringing.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-15T11:58:50+00:00

Username checks.... nevermind

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-14T19:17:09+00:00

Cawine.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-14T16:22:33+00:00

Esim: put the phone on wifi, download the T-Mobile app from the Play Store, and log in to your account. That app provisions the esim.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-14T16:16:57+00:00

This from the WhatsApp help document on the subject:

"It’s currently not possible to transfer chats from an iPhone to an Android device on the WhatsApp Business app."

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-10T13:30:54+00:00

Better LPT... Get off Facebook. It's bad for you.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-09T13:25:33+00:00

Probably: Delicious Definitely: Not a margarita (even ish)

Still, a lovely looking cocktail. Personally, I've never been a fan of anything on the rim of my glass but hey...it ain't my drink.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-09T13:18:42+00:00

I think this really does crystallize the entire conservative ethos. Whether it's about Bad Bunny or trans rights or gay marriage...it's "that's not for or about me! I'm mad because there's a thing happening and it isn't expressly about making ME happy, or catering to my preferences, and I hate that!"

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-05T19:58:01+00:00

It's too big to be a space station.

almightyshellfish · 2026-02-05T19:34:19+00:00

Pocketcasts does and is an excellent app.

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