jabjoe

We all get that some times. When you just can't do all the things being asked of you, to all be done at once. When you not had enough sleep to not feel dim and emotionally unstable. Money shortages, where you're sinking, amplify it all. Young kids can be like angle grinders on sleep and mental health. And childcare is this country is absolutely cripplingly expensive.

But those times pass. It's ok to disengage with edge stuff when it's all too much. It's just a case of surviving the hard time to get through them.

That's my 2 pence anyway.

I needed to upgrade phone anyway. This one is over five years old and the camera and CPU seam rubbish now. The RAM is still enough, but screen is cracked too now and screen replace videos just look not worth the effort.

Update: Old phone on way out, Pixel coming for me to try this.

Good enough with some. Unfortantly with this bank, they use the app to auth access at all. And the app doesn't like custom roms and I've not managed to fool it. Finally trying GraphineOS this week, when the Pixel arrives.

Update: This is the path I set for now. Have to replace old phone now anyway.

Update: I'm going to try a Pixel and GraphineOS first. I'm expecting very little flexibility and understanding from a bank.

Update to this: I did try that on my LineageOS and it still wouldn't run. I'm getting a Pixel for GraphineOS. See how that goes.

So you can have Android Auto while beinging degoogled. I do. As others have pointed out there is: https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

It's a bit of a faff to install, but works.

The problem I found is no SatNav that can take into account traffic. The best I've found is "Organic Maps", but it is open and works without the Google infrastructure. No getting round that traffic knowledge makes Google Maps better.

I have non AA things forcing me towards having to at least partly re-google.

I've been eying GrapheneOS as a way to compromise without being compromised.

• avian lungs and eyes
• salamander healing
• shark immune system
• proper joints for knees and elbows.
• feline hearing
• endless new teeth.
• turtle like aging
• low fertility

All sounds good and a real improvement to now.

I've used the NY subway before. It's the kind of thing you'd want for all cities. I've passed through Chicago and saw the trams, but didn't get to go one. They looked great at least. Most US cities I've been to have just felt like sprawl where driving is only option. Often where it seamed there was no real centre to go to anyway.

The US is so big it's amazing it doesn't have good fast rain connecting it all. A wave of rail building could do wonders. Cities without a centre would end up growing one at the rail hub. You could then de-car that centre, make it somewhere to go.

It was a bit of a culture shock to be honest.