I do something similar. I got rid of the browser on my phone along with all social media apps and news apps. I kept my RSS reader. I figure it doles out a limited and curated selection of information, so it is not so bad to catch up with that without getting down any real rabbit holes.

How do people feel about apostrophes to pluralize acronyms? It seems to be the norm, but it always bothers me. I only do it when I think it will be misunderstood without (basically, acronyms ending in a lowercase s, or acronyms which become different acronyms with the addition of a trailing s).

They used to have them in San Diego (I think it is the first market they gave up on...) They were actually great, and I think they got good business, but the city kept restricting where they were allowed to park. Eventually, they had a hard enough time because people couldn’t easily park them and they gave up. It does…

I have done that one. If I know I am going to try a seat swap,  I try to find the most appealing seat to trade with.

If you are in bear country, windows won’t help anyway. A hungry bear will tear a car apart to get food inside. Always store your food appropriately (and outside of your sleeping space) in bear country.

A horse? Gasoline will get scarce pretty quick, but horse will carry gear well over various terrain and requires no industry to keep going.

I use plethora (numbering in excess) and myriad (uncountable amounts) all the time. What is wrong with them? They are concise words that give the listener a sense of scale. And existential (having to do with existence). Not sure the problem there, as long as you are using it correctly. I don’t use it often, but when I…

Well... insofar as Greenland is a part of Denmark, vastly larger, and largely covered with ice, that is a true statement, right?

Australia is considered a continent. The definitions of island and continent are generally considered mutually exclusive. Otherwise you can throw Antarctica in there.

My last iPod was stolen out of my car and I couldn’t justify the cost of a new one at the time. By the time I could, they were discontinued and I had enough storage on my phone to hold my entire collection. But I still do miss it sometimes; dedicated music players were more graceful, in some ways.

My last iPod was stolen out of my car and I couldn’t justify the cost of a new one at the time. By the time I could,…

Standardebooks.org seems to have books formatted for kindle. You can look up the email address for your kindle on your Amazon account and send files directly to it as attachments.

San Diego: Burritos. And, distinctly, the California burrito. Despite its name, it seems to be more of a San Diego thing than a California wide thing. I have met many native Californians who have no idea what it is. Basically a carne asada burrito with french fries. It is better than it sounds. I could name a number…

NYC pizza is distinctive, and if you like the style, it is definitely done best in the NY region (Although I would argue that the suburbs have a lot of pizza better than that average NYC pizzeria these days. I guess it is a form of urban blight.) Even though I think NY pizza is a fairly simple style, I am always…

Definitely a hardware issue. I have had the drift problem; the calibration routine included with the Switch does nothing to remedy it. My Switch was only a month old, so I sent the Joycon in for warranty repair, came back working. Hopefully it does not go bad again.

I might be able to get behind a hybrid, car-based, small pickup. As long as it has a real bed (6') and looks decent. Not sure what payload they could get out of it, but if it is enough to haul the kind of stuff I might need to haul (household stuff, bikes, furniture) and tow a small trailer, and gets good enough fuel…

I got a Switch in December, and had this problem develop within the month. Very frustrating. Well within warranty, at least, so it was just some shipping cost to get it fixed. Has not recurred, but I am dreading the possibility that it someday will. I play almost entirely handheld, so the problem has the potential to…

That’s... not how statistics work. You can’t just refactor the scale of the data any way you like, and statistical significance is an important concept that has nothing to do with “the numbers look similar to me”.

Yeah, basically an S10 van. People take the AWD unit to replace the transfer case on S10 projects, and the reverse (if you want a van with low range). 

I would be very surprised if they axed the SE. As you noted, they have two generations of older phones still on the update list and they were selling the SE new up until relatively recently.

Because Nintendo’s whole business model is “games!” and “fun!” What else would they do?