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I've seen some youtubers recommend OnShape. It's a browser based CAD app so it should work fine.

I always forget. Can we do a release upgrade to this or do we have to wait until 24.04.1?

Edit: Nvm. You can update today

sudo do-release-upgrade

What steps do you take to create the group?

From the Settings tab in the Google home app, I can create a speaker group with multiple speakers but I can’t create a light group.

In the Favorites tab in the Google Home app, I don’t see a way to create a group. I can add the “Living Room” lights group that’s already there but that controls my lamp and all the other lights in my living room.

As far as I can tell, the only way to natively combine more than 1 light to function as one device is to create a room and put those lights in that room. The command “turn on living room lamp” would work as intended but “turn on living room lights” would not.

I hear what you are saying but what if I want to use the app because I’m trying to be quiet and not wake anyone?

What if I only want to turn on the lamp and not other lights?

What happens when I tell Google Assistant to turn on the lamp and for some reason, only 1 light bulb turns on?

What do mute people do if they can’t speak to the assistant?

You don’t have to answer any of that. My point is that, sure, there are workarounds but none of them really solve the issue and it ends up being just another papercut. For all of Apple’s faults, of which there are many, it feels like their engineers actually use their phones.

Hangouts was dope. With a Google voice number, you could also send text messages from your computer which was pretty novel for Android users at the time

Ignoring low hanging fruit answers like “iOS can use Apple apps” or “iOS gets more than 4 years of updates”; These are hardware specific but they work out of the box:

• I don’t know if this is still true and even if it is, it’s not true for much longer; satellite SOS
• LiDAR on the pro phones and faceID. Both can be used for 3D scanning
• this also may not be true anymore but I had a bitch of a time getting my WireGuard VPN to automatically turn on when I left the house on android. I remember a pixel OS upgrade breaking my tasker script. Works fine on iOS.

Edit: I know android can unlock with your face. That’s not what I’m talking about. The 3D scanning aspect is what’s cool

Google has a Google problem. Seemingly no one is steering the ship. They have a bunch of internal teams doing their own thing. How many messaging apps have they killed now, 3, 4? Allo was great. It worked on Android and iOS. I had all my friends on it and then Google canceled it. All they had to do was add sms fallback for android users, spent some money on marketing, and it could have rivaled iMessage by now. Before that, it was hangouts and regular people didn’t know about it. How many times do they think they can burn customers before people catch on?

Their pixel phones still don’t get the same amount of updates that iPhones do and iPhones retain their value for a lot longer than Android phones. Financially, it makes more sense for a parent to buy an iPhone. They can pass it down to their kid when they upgrade and know it’ll still get updates for a long time. Yes, Google can patch and update parts of the phone from the play store but good luck explaining that to regular people.

I have a lamp with two smart bulbs in it and I can’t combine them into 1 light in the google home app. The light bulbs are controlled independently. It’s infuriating.

I could rant for a long time but I’ll end with this; I don’t enjoy using iOS but my only other option is death by a thousand papercuts.

I work at a small company and one of my many hats is “the only IT guy”. I promise you, you don’t want to self host email. You will always be in spam filter hell and you’ll never really know if the email you sent actually made it to the destination until it’s too late.

Buy a domain, pay for an email provider, and hook them up. If you ever get upset with your email provider, find a new one and switch out the connections. That way, your email address never changes but where it’s stored can be.