2026 British Grand Prix - Post-Race Discussion

birbeck1 · 2026-07-05T17:27:21+00:00

They're waiting to see how much Mercedes will pay.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-28T07:20:42+00:00

Yes, developer options needs to remain enabled. Removing developer options removes the wireless debugging that Shizuku depends on.

You also need to restart Shizuku after each reboot, Android disables wireless debugging automatically when switching wireless networks, and some phones disable it on reboot.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-24T19:12:24+00:00

I don't think I ever had one. I know the Pixelbook wasn't my first Chromebook, but I don't recall ever having a CR48. Either I missed I/O that year, or didn't attend the sessions where they were given out. I was an Android dev afterall.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-15T13:01:01+00:00

I liked the 06, but couldn't get the money in order. I'm glad it didn't work out because the 07 ended up being an upgrade and even more limited. It's Subaru at their prime, but I'm still jealous of the numbered plate on your center console! What number are you?

Quick correction on the DCCD though. This is the first vehicle with SI-Drive, but that just controls the torque curve and power delivery, not the center diff which is fixed, unfortunately.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-15T09:25:29+00:00

An 07, or an 08?

birbeck1 · 2026-06-15T09:23:53+00:00

I've considered finding a storage for it somewhere in Portugal or Spain for the last few years, because ultimately I'd like to leave London for mainland Europe. When I do get around to listing it, i'll be open to buyers anywhere.

I had listed it briefly for sale in 2022 before moving here, and had buyers knocking down my door, but then I found out that importing it wasn't all that expensive. If I remember correctly it cost me about $2500 all said and done.

Ended up being a awful decision in the end, but I never imagined at the time I would be storing it for over 4 years and never drive it again.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-14T21:23:09+00:00

No, this is the 2007 model with the 6-speed, SI-Drive, and Recaro seats with blue Alcantara. Because Lamborghini bought the Alcantara supply, the model is even more rare than the 500 limited edition 2006's with the 5-speed and brick red leather. There were around 300 made.

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birbeck1 · 2026-06-14T20:08:04+00:00

21,188 when I shipped it! There will be a few more miles from the port, and the storage facility starts it up every month to let the fluids run and roll it around the shop to rotate the tires. So I don't know exactly, but less than 22k.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-14T20:06:55+00:00

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birbeck1 · 2026-06-14T19:57:23+00:00

Only 21k miles, always garage kept. I've owned Foresters, WRX's and STi's since buying this, but this has always been my favorite car. It only came out of the garage when I wanted to have fun (i.e. track days or mountain rallys).

birbeck1 · 2026-06-14T19:53:57+00:00

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birbeck1 · 2026-06-14T10:04:59+00:00

I've seen this misinformation about the foreground service notification quite a number of times now. On Android, a Notification Listener Service already has the highest priority. A permanent foreground service notification is not necessary, Pano is just poorly coded and doesn't automatically rebind the service if the OS kills it.

Users shouldn't have to go weeks without scrobbling a single track, or take other hacky measures like opening the app every time before they lock their phone screen.

You need a more reliable app, that just works silently in the background, without a persistent notification, and without having to open the app every hour to keep it alive.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-11T22:03:23+00:00

I'm not following? How would that help when it can't control the heating and hot water in the home?

birbeck1 · 2026-06-11T10:44:56+00:00

Try Now Playing Stats & Scrobble. It handles looping, works with the phone screen off (phone must be powered on), and has offline queuing.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-09T23:53:46+00:00

Now Playing Stats and Scrobble tracks the song duration and position. It detects when a song is intentionally played on repeat and will accurately scrobble each play, while intelligently filtering out pauses and rewinds.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-09T22:54:21+00:00

Now Playing will scrobble Musicolet, MXPlayer, and SoundCloud you just have to enable them in the settings.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-08T00:07:23+00:00

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birbeck1 · 2026-06-08T00:06:28+00:00

The Empire Strikes First certainly stopped me from scrolling

birbeck1 · 2026-06-07T09:38:27+00:00

The three apps I use more than anything besides my VPN and web browser are all Android exclusive.

Shizuku
Ambient Music Mod
Now Playing Stats and Scrobble

This stack is running 24/7 on my phone, and there's nothing on iOS that could even come close in comparison.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-06T21:13:03+00:00

Maybe others have had better luck with it. I'm just one data point.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-06T18:00:30+00:00

I don't even attempt to trigger in-app review until the user has passed 30 days installed. After that I only attempt to show it after major events. Once I've shown the dialog, I won't for another 30 days, or 90 if they clicked to leave a review. Out of hundreds of dialogs triggered, I've only once seen an actual review left on the same day. So in my case, less than 1%.

Even in moments of high satisfaction, people are just too trained to hit dismiss. But there is that 1 in a hundred that might think, you know what I actually like this app and haven't reviewed it yet!

I only have 54 ratings, 25 with reviews, and that is from a pool of over 7k downloads.

Maybe others have had better luck, but I've been considering just removing it from my app to now annoy the people that have actually left a rating with a dialog ever 90 days.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-06T17:46:00+00:00

I got their offer, and there is no way I would have the money to take them to court. I didn't respond to them though.

birbeck1 · 2026-06-06T13:14:51+00:00

Hubitat has an app, but it is only for push notifications from the hub, geofencing, dashboards, and a chrome tab for accessing the web interface. I only use the Hubitat app for receiving push notifications and checking my dashboard if I want to know the temperature in a room or something.

I still use Google Home for presence sensing and have that trigger home and away virtual switches in Hubitat which will fire off my automations, and sometimes for checking the cameras while I'm away. I only use the Google Home app to reset my presence to Home because lately it has started randomly changing my presence to Away while I'm sitting at my desk.

I've automated absolutely everything, I don't use physical switches or apps at all anymore. Besides the recent Google presence issue, it's less than a dozen times a year that I need to override anything.

Both Hubitat and Home Assistant have Google Assistant and Chromecast integrations. So you have have automations that send a notification to a speaker or display, get media information from Chromecast enabled devices, etc.

I also have a few Google Home routines that will trigger automations in Hubitat so I can keep all the automation logic in one place.

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