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Uthor posted:What are you trying to do? I can share my current location through both Google Messenger and Google Hangouts. I can also share whatever location from the share menu within Google Maps. I just want a map that has icons for where people are, with the option to toggle sharing on/off instead of a one-off thing like sending coordinates. Ideally built in to Google because it used to be a feature and wouldn't require that many extra resources. Facebook does this but only through the app and won't work if you're using the mobile site like I am. It's not a big deal because I'll hardly ever need the feature, I was just curious if there's a way to get Latitude functionality within Maps again. The only practical reason I can think of for it would be to be able to find friends when we're all lost wandering around Vegas or go to other large spread out events like pub crawls together. Checking a map and heading that way is a lot easier than texting updates or getting drunken directions over the phone in a loud environment. Teeter fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Ah, okay. Sounds like iOS's Find My Friends, then. I hadn't actually used Latitude, so I wasn't aware that it could do that.
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Feb 3, 2016 21:55
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It used to be built in to Maps, where you could just flip the Latitude thing on and select people would see your location on their map. I suppose the Facebook app is the best option because it's cross-platform and nearly everyone has it, I'm mostly just upset that it's another feature that Google appears to have switched around and abandoned altogether.
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Feb 3, 2016 22:01
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Teeter posted:It used to be built in to Maps, where you could just flip the Latitude thing on and select people would see your location on their map. I suppose the Facebook app is the best option because it's cross-platform and nearly everyone has it, I'm mostly just upset that it's another feature that Google appears to have switched around and abandoned altogether. Google has been doing that for over a decade. And I can't really fault them for this specific change. Friend location is a very social thing. Why did they have a social thing in a utility app to begin with?
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Feb 3, 2016 23:01
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Yeah I know. Oh well, not a big deal. Only asking because roughly 100% of people use Maps and nearly the opposite use G+. It's such an infrequent use case that going with the Facebook app or another alternative is no big deal when it comes down to it. Unrelated: best pedometer app? My work is beginning a fitness challenge thing with a lot of prizes awarded for logging activity. I'd like to track steps without killing my battery too hard if possible. Teeter fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Feb 4, 2016 01:30
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Teeter posted:Unrelated: best pedometer app? My work is beginning a fitness challenge thing with a lot of prizes awarded for logging activity. I'd like to track steps without killing my battery too hard if possible. Google Fit but I've not used it as a pedometer alone
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Gyre posted:Can anyone recommend me a budgeting app that lets you overflow unspent money in a budget to the next month? Like if my initial budget is $150 a month and I don't spend $50 of it, the next month's budget will show I have $200 to spend. I find this much more intuitive for leisure spending. A couple pages back but mint.com
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AnimalChin posted:A couple pages back but mint.com Gonna second mint
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Feb 4, 2016 04:11
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I second YNAB, Mint seemed too hands off for me. I think the budgeting thread in BFC breaks the differences down well. Is there a preferred Gameboy/GBA emulator? Paid is fine.
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Deeters posted:I second YNAB, Mint seemed too hands off for me. I think the budgeting thread in BFC breaks the differences down well. Never used YNAB, but I'm interested. Does it do account integration? That's my main draw for mint.
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Feb 4, 2016 05:39
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Stop the presses people!!!!! Listed for the latest update for Google music! I'd like to think the daily feedback I've been giving over the issue prompted them to action (yeah, yeah, I know better.)quote:After listening to Code Your Face Off radio (https://goo.gl/VHnzN0), our engineers fixed a bunch of bugs including one related to resuming songs over Bluetooth Hopefully it fixes it once and for all.
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Feb 4, 2016 05:40
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YNAB just rolled out their new version/philosophy which I believe does not let you roll over overspent categories into the new month. At least I'm pretty sure this is the case as I'm still using the older version. The new version does allow you to input usernames and passwords so transactions can be automatically inputted.
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Feb 4, 2016 06:57
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Heners_UK posted:Google Fit but I've not used it as a pedometer alone I've had the opposite experience, Fit burns a crapload of my battery and causes system-wide lag. After I removed it via open gapps, my battery life has more than doubled and my phone is actually usable.
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Whenever that question comes up the general consensus is don't bother cos all phone pedometers are poo poo I don't know if that has changed with the current crop of phones but I'd guess not You're better off getting a proper one
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bull3964 posted:Stop the presses people!!!!! Listed for the latest update for Google music! I'd like to think the daily feedback I've been giving over the issue prompted them to action (yeah, yeah, I know better.) Haha, I saw that earlier and thought of the people in this thread.
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Skarsnik posted:Whenever that question comes up the general consensus is don't bother cos all phone pedometers are poo poo
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Feb 4, 2016 11:29
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Tunga posted:It's this. I wrote a pedometer proof-of-concept once and the sensor data is just worthless. Android Wear does a better job, or just get a Fitbit or whatever. Have you tried it with your new phone? It was on an n5 you did it before wasn't it? Curious more than anything else
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Feb 4, 2016 11:38
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Deeters posted:Is there a preferred Gameboy/GBA emulator? Paid is fine. Robert Broglia's emulators are the gold standard for older systems. The SNES one is free (due to licencing issues with snes9x) if you want to try out his UI first.
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Feb 4, 2016 11:41
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Skarsnik posted:Have you tried it with your new phone? It was on an n5 you did it before wasn't it? (Also wow two-years ago me was bad at gradle.)
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bull3964 posted:After listening to Code Your Face Off radio (https://goo.gl/VHnzN0), our engineers fixed a bunch of bugs including one related to resuming songs over Bluetooth I have to be an all access subscriber to listen to that?
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nexus6 posted:I have to be an all access subscriber to listen to that? Its a playlist/radio station on google play music, of course you do
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Feb 4, 2016 14:11
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I think the real question is, why are you NOT a Play Music subscriber? All you can eat music and zero YouTube ads? A bargain.
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bull3964 posted:I think the real question is, why are you NOT a Play Music subscriber? All you can eat music and zero YouTube ads? A bargain. I paid a penny for three months back in December. The YouTube Red stuff is super useful and I love it. I have used Google Play Music I think once to play an album I don't own. I'm mostly annoyed that it makes it harder to search my personal albums by mixing in streaming results. Probably won't be continuing the subscription.
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Feb 4, 2016 15:12
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YouTube Red made it 1000% worth it. I used it plenty for my commute before, but now it's even better. My kids watch a metric fuckton of YouTube and always want to do it on the XBox, because of the big TV. Now that Red is included, I don't have to deal with a pre-roll ad every time they change to a new video (I know it's not EVERY time, but it's enough to be annoying as gently caress).
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Feb 4, 2016 15:44
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Uthor posted:I paid a penny for three months back in December. The YouTube Red stuff is super useful and I love it. I have used Google Play Music I think once to play an album I don't own. I'm mostly annoyed that it makes it harder to search my personal albums by mixing in streaming results. I find the radio stations are the best thing about it, either the preset ones already on there, or when I point it at a band and tell it to play stuff like it I really can't wait till Red makes it over to the uk though
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Trip report, the Play Music update did nothing to solve the auto-launching of the app with a new queue for me.
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Skarsnik posted:I find the radio stations are the best thing about it, either the preset ones already on there, or when I point it at a band and tell it to play stuff like it I'm an album listener, so listening to random tracks in a radio style doesn't do much for me. It seems like a good idea to hear new stuff, but the ratio of new things I like to old things I already own and new things I dislike is way too low to be worth my time. I'm just too set in my ways to switch over to streaming. Kids these days. Get off my lawn.
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Putting my family on a Music/Red plan was easily the most successful Christmas gift I gave out this year. Kid watches a ton of YouTube, fiance listens to a ton of music at school and at the odd times a fire up a YouTube link it's super nice to never have to see an ad. Beyond worth it.
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Uthor posted:I'm an album listener, so listening to random tracks in a radio style doesn't do much for me. I was exactly the same till I got a trial subscription (I am old). You should try it, you might be surprised. It's great with a huge existing collection as you'll hear stuff you haven't listened to in ages pop up
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Feb 4, 2016 17:16
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Am I the only person on the planet who has never seen an ad on YouTube ever?
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Does anyone have any recommendations for apps that will read texts while you're driving, but that doesn't get thrown off by a few texts in quick succession? Moto's Voice Assist is pretty good if you don't get any message while it's dealing with the first, but my wife tends to send batches of a few texts in a minute, and it really confuses Voice Assist.
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LastInLine posted:Am I the only person on the planet who has never seen an ad on YouTube ever? Yep, congrats!
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LastInLine posted:Am I the only person on the planet who has never seen an ad on YouTube ever? I'm ... pretty sure uncontacted peoples haven't seen YouTube ads? Still, those sound like some interesting YouTube habits.
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LastInLine posted:Am I the only person on the planet who has never seen an ad on YouTube ever? I have never seen YouTube ads either until a year or so ago when I got my first Chromecast. Jesus those ads are annoying. And there is no YouTube red in Germany yet. I have tested the play music all access trial twice now but although it's pretty cool I can't bring myself to pay 10€ a month. Getting rid of YouTube ads would push me over for sure though.
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It's not even the lack of ads that I like, but the ability to have the video playing in the background whole you do other stuff on your phone. So convenient!
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Feb 4, 2016 19:37
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LastInLine posted:Am I the only person on the planet who has never seen an ad on YouTube ever? I never see them in my browser because uBlock+noscript pretty effectively blocks all the cdns they get served from, but they're unavoidable in the android app. Judging from the surveys I've been getting recently I'm pretty demographically valuable to them, so I end up with ads before nearly every video I watch on my phone.
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So is the Android Pay Tap 10 promotion just some sort of weird beta thing? We heard about it at least a week ago, but I at least haven't seen anything in my app about it. They're running out of time to give me my free poo poo  !
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Slywalker13 posted:YNAB just rolled out their new version/philosophy which I believe does not let you roll over overspent categories into the new month. At least I'm pretty sure this is the case as I'm still using the older version. The new version does allow you to input usernames and passwords so transactions can be automatically inputted. This is completely wrong about no longer being able to roll over. I never used the old version but the new app allows you to over/underspend in one category and have it roll over into the next month. Or you can just assign excess from another budget to cover it as well. It really gives you much more flexibility and control than mint.com. It does have a learning curve, however it has a great guide and videos to go along with it.
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Rooted phones can have background playback and no adverts, granted I stopped using background playback, because it can be a fuzz glitchy nowadays and I messed up not grandfathering in my unlimited data plan by 5 days.
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