#google

I was showing a friend the Pokémon gen1recomp project on my phone the other day, and he wanted it on his. Easy enough. Hand over the APK and the files it needs, walk him through the setup, ten minutes while we’re sat in the same room.

I’ve been having a bit of a think about data I’ve left entirely in someone else’s hands. Specifically Google Photos, which has photos going back to 2011 and no local copy anywhere. I’m not going anywhere dramatic with it, but having a backup I actually control felt overdue.

I’ve been using Google’s Call Screening feature for a while now. I turned it on mostly to filter out calls from numbers I don’t recognise (I’ve signed up with TPS and reported numbers to the ICO, and neither has made much difference), but in practice it’s doing something I didn’t quite expect: it’s almost exclusively screening other AIs.

I enabled Google Daydream support on my OnePlus 3T today and I’m pretty impressed.

Here’s a useful trick I’ve come up with, to maintain a list of WordPress installations and easily see if they’re up to date.

… Google Hangouts for Chrome needs some work.

The long-speculated consolidation of Google Talk, Google+ Hangouts, and Google Video Chat has finally occured, and it’s pretty spectacular. My digital life is so dependent on Google services that it’s nice to find some cross-platform consolidation.

I created a userstyle for Reddit to make it look more like Google+ and other redesigned Google sites. To install you will need either Stylish or Stylebot for Google Chrome. I’ve only tested this in Google Chrome, and it’s far from complete, but for now it functions nicely enough on subreddit pages and comment threads. For the best experience, disable custom styles for subreddits.