I don’t understand how any app stores make it past version 1.1 without such basic features like this in their search.

I’ll allow it!

That’s why I thought ahead and stayed with the Pixel 5A, so that I would not get Android 15.

/s

Doh!

Really can’t trust their software if they flat out lie like that.

I do get a billing error about every 2 or 3 years. Usually something like they double bill a month, or the price for just 1 month is suddenly 2x - 3x the normal price.

I’ve used them for probably 2 decades, getter in because of the $1/month for a year deal.

I think I’m on the top, or 2nd from the top, tier. Has unlimited disk space, but it’s not open access from the start. Every so many tens of GB you have to call to get the soft limit raised. They are trying to keep a bot from just filling the space up.

I use their hosted WordPress, so that they handle the upgrading.

I also have run a few wiki sites on there. Those install and run fine.

I wish I could figure out if I could install OwnCloud or such on there. I’m not great with Linux. You don’t have rights to the OS, but anything you access through a webpage or FTP you can put there. You should have access to chron jobs, but my skills aren’t there yet.

I mainly use them to host my own email domain, that I then access from gMail.

Biggest problem I’ve had with them is they will charge extra if you use a phased-out version of Python. So you have to make sure you keep anything using Python updated.

You’ll be forced to use only Windows forever.

It’s worked for Windows?

I’m not saying that today everyone should push a button and start self hosting. I’m saying it would be great if more people learn to self host and that there are benefits to people learning more.

People don’t just absorb knowledge. It will require education programs.

Did you know how to do everything before you started?

More self hosting would improve the “average” person baseline.

Education of people is always(?) better, I’d say.

It’s good to exercise the mind, just like exercising the body.

What if 25% of car drivers could handle their own car maintenance? The one downside people will scream at first is that fewer mechanics will be needed.

But that is too short sided.

More home mechanics will need to buy more tools, so that’s more store jobs and more manufacturing jobs and more shipping/trucking jobs.

And more people who understand mechanics mean a better workforce who can invent new/better products or processes. And can do more research into manufacturing science, which would improve society.

This would also lead to safer cars because they are better roadworthy, and car manufacturers would have a harder time using low quality parts.

So all of those changes would apply to technology when more people know how to use technology.

Nice. I would not have thought to clean the connectors.

Who is SmartPrix?

Pixel 5A was the last. Pixel 6A doesn’t.

You’re right, I haven’t looked at mid prices phones in a bit. They used to have headphone jacks when the flagships didn’t. But that could have changed since the Pixel 3A days.

Oh, you’re right, it’s more of a mid price phone. The budget phones market has continued to expand. But the budget ones are definitely slower than the A series.

Without a headphone jack, not sure if I’ll be staying with the Pixel series.

But the A series still has a better camera than other budget phones, right?

As long as you remember before you turn off the computer!

That’s a neat idea of using an extra phone as a file server. I’ve only thought of phones as consumers, not providers.