| _stink_ | OHRLY | 00:04 |
|---|---|---|
| ColonelPanic001 | yarly | 00:05 |
| Klaudioh | RLY | 00:05 |
| cmaloney | Woo hoo! | 00:11 |
| cmaloney | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFr3K2DORc8 | 04:30 |
| _stink_ | look what i dug up | 13:38 |
| _stink_ | http://users.adamlincoln.org/~adam/CHC_May2009_1.jpg | 13:38 |
| _stink_ | http://users.adamlincoln.org/~adam/CHC_May2009_2.jpg | 13:38 |
| _stink_ | cmaloney jcastro rick_h__ waldo arg, isn't here | 13:38 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, he pops in from time to time | 13:46 |
| cmaloney | Hah, good ol' CHC photos | 13:47 |
| cmaloney | or was this a bug jam? | 13:47 |
| cmaloney | I miss that caribou | 13:47 |
| cmaloney | s/that/all/ | 13:47 |
| cmaloney | Still have that shirt | 13:48 |
| cmaloney | (and I think that jacket) | 13:48 |
| cmaloney | Not that laptop though | 13:49 |
| cmaloney | So who stayed up last night to watch the big game? | 14:03 |
| jcastro | rick_h__: http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2016/03/from-hi-to-fi-to-goodbye-to-invites.html | 14:33 |
| jcastro | rick_h__: so google is retroactively giving discounts, which means I'll get my money back for the difference | 14:33 |
| cmaloney | jcastro: That's awesome | 14:34 |
| cmaloney | Saw the discount and it almost got me to try fi | 14:34 |
| jcastro | I just switched Jill and I | 14:35 |
| jcastro | our family plan from tmo was like, 120 a month | 14:35 |
| cmaloney | Ting offers TMo service for $6 a month | 14:35 |
| cmaloney | + usage | 14:35 |
| cmaloney | Their GSM is TMo | 14:35 |
| jcastro | the brilliant bit is the software though | 14:35 |
| jcastro | like, you no longer need a carrier app, which is like +1 from me | 14:36 |
| cmaloney | Carrier App? | 14:36 |
| jcastro | and like I had to have a seperate app for visual voicemail on tmo + 2.99 a month | 14:36 |
| jcastro | the app to track usage, billing, etc. | 14:36 |
| jcastro | it's always a piece of shit | 14:36 |
| cmaloney | Ah, right | 14:36 |
| cmaloney | Ting's isn't, but I rarely use int on the phone | 14:36 |
| jcastro | but the real clever bit is the wifi assistant | 14:36 |
| jcastro | the thing that transparently puts you on wifi for everything without user intervention | 14:37 |
| cmaloney | Right | 14:37 |
| jcastro | so like, when I go to target | 14:37 |
| cmaloney | Sprint's was a steaming pile of shit | 14:37 |
| jcastro | usually I have no signal | 14:37 |
| jcastro | but there's a starbucks in there | 14:37 |
| jcastro | and it transparently puts me on their wifi | 14:37 |
| cmaloney | I thought most Android phones will connect to anything you've connected to before? | 14:37 |
| jcastro | but for us it will save us a ton of money, though people will need to do math to see if Fi works for them financially | 14:38 |
| cmaloney | They're promiscuous like that | 14:38 |
| jcastro | yeah but they won't transparently route voice through there | 14:38 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, I'm glad Google is getting in this | 14:38 |
| cmaloney | Ah | 14:38 |
| jcastro | like for me, tmo never charged me for music streaming | 14:38 |
| jcastro | if I do that on Fi it's like, a significant usage | 14:39 |
| jcastro | so all I need to do is be a bit smarter about caching music and playlists etc. | 14:39 |
| jcastro | and things like making photos and videos only sync on wifi instead of LTE | 14:39 |
| cmaloney | yeah | 14:39 |
| jcastro | but like, this drops our bill $70 right off the bat | 14:39 |
| cmaloney | I picked up the 5X | 14:40 |
| jcastro | it has one flaw, which they're fixing like right now | 14:41 |
| cmaloney | ? | 14:41 |
| jcastro | the camera app is a laggy piece of shit, but they just pushed out an OTA like today | 14:41 |
| cmaloney | Ah, I hadn't noticed. | 14:41 |
| jcastro | https://www.reddit.com/r/nexus5x/comments/49n4lh/mhc19j_build_performance_improvements_noted_by/ | 14:42 |
| cmaloney | I'm coming from 2012 where everything is laggy. | 14:42 |
| jcastro | it doesn't affect me but on jill's phone it's kind of crap since she instagrams a bunch | 14:42 |
| cmaloney | This phone is much snappier than everything | 14:42 |
| mrgoodcat | anybody here have/recommend amazon echo? | 18:25 |
| cmaloney | I don't have one, but Dan Bejamin and Merlin Mann have them and like them | 18:25 |
| cmaloney | they mention it in their latest podcast. | 18:26 |
| cmaloney | (Back 2 Work) | 18:26 |
| cmaloney | http://5by5.tv/b2w | 18:26 |
| rick_h__ | man everyone loves theirs and you hear nothing but good things | 18:34 |
| rick_h__ | but I can't past that price tag for what looks like "ok google now, what time is it?" | 18:34 |
| jrwren | rick_h__: agree. I have "hey siri" on my ipad, so its not just on telefon, and i feel like its an echo. | 18:44 |
| mrgoodcat | yea i keep balking at the price | 18:53 |
| mrgoodcat | i was pretty excited for the sub $100 version called the dot but it turns out you need to use an echo to buy the thing | 18:53 |
| mrgoodcat | i've heard the echo has much better far field voice recognition than anything offered on android or ios (obviously a hardware constraint on a phone) and it has integrated many more 3rd party services | 18:54 |
| rick_h__ | mrgoodcat: agree on all points | 18:55 |
| rick_h__ | I just don't use the voice on my phone, that didn't cost me anything extra enough | 18:55 |
| rick_h__ | and the phone is with me across the houes | 18:55 |
| mrgoodcat | i use it on my phone and watch | 18:55 |
| rick_h__ | all that being said, folks LOVE their echos | 18:55 |
| mrgoodcat | multiple times per day | 18:55 |
| rick_h__ | so there's something to it | 18:55 |
| jrwren | echo seems like a nice toy, like Paulie's robot in Rocky IV | 18:58 |
| rick_h__ | yea | 18:58 |
| cmaloney | +1 | 18:59 |
| jcastro | my neighbor has one | 19:59 |
| jcastro | the only problem is it's tied to amazon-specific things | 19:59 |
| jcastro | which means it'll never work if you use say, google music | 19:59 |
| jcastro | though there's really no independent third party one afaict that does what it does | 20:01 |
| mrgoodcat | amazon, spotify, pandora, google, audible, iHeartRadio, TuneIn all supported by amazon echo | 20:08 |
| cmaloney | mrgoodcat: I think you need to take one for the team and get one | 20:13 |
| cmaloney | ;) | 20:13 |
| jcastro | ooh, it looks like it can control bluetooth devices | 20:14 |
| jcastro | so technically, I think I can pair it with my google device and control gmusic that way | 20:14 |
| mrgoodcat | that's close enough for me | 20:20 |
| mrgoodcat | cmaloney: i might when i find a good enough excuse like a discount or something | 20:20 |
| mrgoodcat | $gf doesn't really approve of random expenditures of 200$ | 20:20 |
| cmaloney | s/girlfriend//g | 20:22 |
| cmaloney | ;) | 20:22 |
| mrgoodcat | haha | 20:22 |
| brousch | jcastro: Does Google Fi route you over a VPN when it connects to any wifi? | 20:39 |
| jcastro | brousch: yes | 20:41 |
| jcastro | cmaloney: you can do a monthly payment of $36 for 5 months, interest free! | 20:41 |
| cmaloney | I already have a phone. :) | 20:44 |
| brousch | That is awesome then | 20:44 |
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