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happy birthday tao 87 never looked so good

happy birthday @Stonergoth187amd @scoobdog!!!!!

can i just say that I am not a fan

oh you know

we did a special ASMB 20th Anniversary event in 2023, and it seems *absolutely wild* to me that even UEMB will be a decade old next year

Welcome to our little hole on the internet! The long and short of it is that Luuv wanted to put together his own little community, and then near-simultaneously the remnants of the ASMB were shut down so UEMB kind of became the organic successor. Never really had the greatest outreach campaign beyond word-of-mouth, but we're here!

Hi! Sorry our email system was down so you didn't get the verification email until now

after i swapped the SIM card and tested that it works, I immediately 1am-fat-finger-dialed a rando from my office contacts

though in hindsight.......... i didn't have a screen protector on ye olde moto G7 and pretty sure it predates covid with nary a scratch so..... maybe I didn't need to waste the extra money in the first place?

ok i didn't think i could just do it but I went ahead and did it it took a hot minute to get it up and use the sticker and then put it back on so there are a few new little micro dust particles which is annoying but no where near as bad as one obvious cat hair front and center. the bottom corner I delicately pried is also not re-adhesing, again I guess livable but also annoying I am assuming "impure air upon installation because too cheap to spend $8 for the zoomer to do it for me at the store" isn't covered by the ZAGG LIFETIME WARRANTY, not sure at what point someone throws in the towel/takes the L and goes back for a screen protector do-over

asshole cat

i took all the advice here and elsewhere and sat on it avoiding a decision for two weeks and then I went to best buy and bought a galaxy A36 haven't turned it on or swapped anything yet, first thing I did just now was immediately put on a screen protector and I did it absolutely meticulously, but in the 2.5 seconds the adhesive side of the protector was exposed to the elements I can only assume a single airborne cat hair made contact, because the screen was pristine but now there's a little white hair eternally trapped between the screen and screen protector, right in the fuckin center of the screen

that is his Very Serious face

happy birthday @WereOceans!

happy belated birthday @everyone!

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happy birthday @Vercaties!

happy birthday @UwPp and @SwimOdin and most importantly @InsaneFox !

happy birthday @Still Me!

I forgot google even had their own line of phones, which is kind of embarrassing given they are the android people

did you go through the carrier out of convenience and/or some sale? to be clear - things like "bloatware" are my secondhand understand (beyond things I'm not allowed to uninstall on my carrier-provided phones), and I have the capacity to be monumentally stupid

that's kind of the bluntness I was hoping for I'm perusing, the naming conventions for all the different lines and models is completely not helpful which i assume is on purpose. is buying a phone from like best buy or wherever and showing up with it at verizon preferable to getting it from verizon? my understanding is it's cheaper plus no carrier bloatware. both smartphones I've had I think were from verizon store directly.

that was pretty much my logic when I got the g7, which may have been before COVID at this point. basically asked the verizon kid "can it do all the basic smartphone things, and also run "pokemon go?" and the price comparison was just so extreme.