Guardian452Bob

My toddler dropped my 40oz and it landed just wrong with the shoulder of the bottle landing on the corner of a wooden block, and now I have a permanent dimple about the size of the pad of my thumb there that actually makes the bottle easier to hold and indexes perfectly with the new spout cap. This has not effected it's ability to keep my ice water cold. Also the paint didn't chip or crack it's like they used plastidip or something. Edit: fixed "off" to "of", added comment about paint

They should be spraying at different angles. It is sometimes hard to tell because there aren't a lot of temperature and pressure nerves in that area. But the "front" setting is for cleaning the lower anatomical structures unique to people assigned female at birth, and the "rear" setting is for cleaning anybody's rear. It is possible yours is defective, but there isn't really an easy way to test this without getting a lot of water on your bathroom walls and floor.

Quite a shame that something that used to be a pretty standard feature is now relegated to the rare and expensive.

My PC only gets turned off for annual maintenance, and hardware upgrades. It does get the occasional reset when Windows inevitably becomes unstable. My current uptime is just a couple hours shy of 69 days.

Thanks I will check that out. I didn't even know ASUS made a phone other than the ROG phones. I was looking at the Razer Phone 2 right after I made this thread, though from the look of Razer's site they are already ready to abandon it, assuming they have yet not. Also, it appears the ROG phones also have the front firing speakers. As to sticking with something familiar, that isn't the issue. If familiarity were my goal, I would have changed carriers and stuck with HTC phones after my ONE M9 died. I have used an HTC phone since 2008, their first party apps for things like ringtone trimming and photo editing were so seamless and fluid that I just assumed every Android device was like that... It was actually quite jarring when I bought my Pixel 2 XL to find that the default music player didn't have baked in ringtone trimming, or that I couldn't just edit a picture with a Photoshop like experience in the camera app. I have said that a rear or down firing loud speaker is a design flaw since the days of yore, before actual smartphones, when people were ohh'ing and ahh'ing over phones that could barely double as an MP3 player (looking at you OG Moto Razer). Hell, before that... my first cellphone which was before 3g was a thing had the speakerphone speaker on the back of the phone, which at the time I considered a design flaw, though not critical, as the phone couldn't even display more than 6 digits of a phone number without scrolling the monochrome LCD display. The moment you add video playback to a device, a speaker that does not fire in the direction of the viewer becomes a critical design flaw. I may be overreacting a bit on labeling the notch and holepunch as critical design flaws, they are really just compromises to remove bezels. Though the only people I know that asked for smaller bezels on their phones are the executives and engineers whose job it is to come up with ways to maximize the profitability of a design. Also for the record, I am not a fan of curved displays, it feels like a design move specifically intended to defeat screen protectors and maximize the likelihood of you needing to replace your device.

I recently had my beloved Pixel 2 XL get run over by a fire truck. It still works, thanks to its Otterbox Defender Case, but the screen has been shattered, and cannot be replaced because the chassis is bent. So, unfortunately, it is time for a new phone. I mostly use my phone for media consumption, and I can't tolerate Bluetooth headphones, because they never perfectly synch with video, and the audio lag gives me a massive headache. Therefore, I need a phone like the Pixel 2 XL (Or my HTC One that it replaced). A phone that does not suffer from the following CRITICAL DESIGN FLAWS: Notched display (unless the notched space can be wholly black barred at which point it is basically a bezel) Hole punch cameras Down/rear firing speakers IMHO the HTC ONE M9 was the best phone ever made, it only had one flaw, and that was its "Ultra Pixel" camera. It was a Pixel 2 XL without the Pixel 2 XL's only two design flaws. The M9 had a headphone jack, and a micro SD slot. Are there ANY modern Android phones with front firing stereo speakers and expandable storage? Or am I better off finding a refurbished M9 or Pixel 2XL and installing CFW on it?

Lies! Lies and slander. It has totally been forgotten.