Broken

This sounds like something I would do. So don't be too scared of losing it, there are others like you out there that would carry on just like you.

I must say though, the romantic in me sees this as a movie or book. Story of your life's struggles and ups and downs, but the wallet keeps you grounded. You finally make it to visit his grave and a woman walks up, daughter of Arnold. Ends up being the love of your life.

This concept is very understated. We need more options.

Correct, if the profiles are separate. They only share key hardware aspects (like WiFi and Bluetooth settings). The profiles can not talk to each other.

So if the first profile does not have google services it can't run anything that relies on it even if a second profile has google services installed. For all intents, they are "separate phones".

None. I don't engage enough for it to be an issue. I also know how to move on with real life if things get spicy (which happened on Reddit a lot).

GOS play services are sandboxed by default, it's how they implement it. The sandbox just keeps it from having full system root integration so its not in everything by default like normal android. It still is full play services though.

What I'm saying is that if you don't want that on your phone but you do want to use apps that rely on it then you can set up a secondary profile. On the second profile install play services and any apps that need it. That way its segregated from your main activity. Other profiles are essentially viewed as their own phone installation so they dont talk to each other.

This is common with bank apps. They basically use google as their security instead of programming their own. That's typically why people run a secondary profile with play services enabled.

Hotspots work well. They are hotspots though, so you have trade offs. For instance, you probably don't want to leave it on all day (because it won't last all day, probably 8 hours). You can set it to turn off if there's no connected devices for x minutes to save battery. When you turn it on you need to wait for it to actually turn on and connect, then have your phone connect. It takes a while, relatively speaking (not long but longer than turning on your phone).

The Mifi X Pro also has an Ethernet port which is convenient for hard wiring a laptop.

The service is solid. Overall there's no issues. I've had issues in hotels, but it's a T-Mobile network so I'd presume a standard sim card would equally have issues.

Privacy is an interesting take. I'll go ahead and trust them to not share my data (which you can sign up anonymously if you wish). The number is still trackable though, and I'd suspect stands out more because it's in a specific spectrum range. But the sim isn't in your phone, so it's not technically tracking your phone (and a side benefit is you can't get sim jacked) and I use a VPN to connect to it as well. I don't think the sim card tracks the same way because there's no GPS in the hotspot, but of course it still calls out to cell towers. I don't know if it does this when off like a phone does (I've always presumed it does).

Overall my experience has been a positive one. Choosing a phone service has been a harder issue for me. But that's another story.

Absolutely. And particularly it was is "batches" especially as you get to Shadow.

Collecting stuff as you go along playing is fine (I mean, I'd argue not because it's lazy game making but its normal). But going along and hitting a village that has 50 side quests in it just interrupts flow.

Plus, they made nested fetch quests so I felt trapped in a loop. OK I'll just do this one quest..."hey, now that I see that you are good at fetching arbitrary items, I want you to go get this for me too"

I as well was curious, but it was clear to me that this was a bad idea from the get go. Long before I became truly privacy focused, it was still blatantly obvious this was a bad idea. It sucks that it was such a hot trend and terms written in a horrible, and dare I say predatory fashion.

Flossing! I floss frequently. I floss more than I brush my teeth (yuck) but it works. Logic behind the lack of brushing is that in the morning I'm drinking coffee and running out the door. At night, sometimes I fall asleep before I brush. But I have floss on my desk at work and in my coffee table at home (as well as obviously in the bathroom with my toothbrush). My dentist can't even tell I miss brushing at times. But can definitely tell I floss regularly.

You don't have to floss all your teeth, just the ones you want to keep.

The description of the Matrix users is hysterically accurate.

First time I went there, I had an obscure problem with an app. A very friendly and helpful person jumped in and said they have that app but don't use it often. Then proceeded to run multiple tests on their end to validate my experience. I was blown away. Super solid dude.

Every other time I've been mostly ignored. Which is fine if people can't help. But as I check in all I see is forum fighting about what is right and best, as if there's only 1 answer.

I was thinking more along the lines of:

We were woken up to check out this signal.

Shine that, let's go home and get paid.

But you know, we're required by law to do so or we forfeit our payment.

OK, so what's the story we all say?

Yeah, nothing there. Must have been a glitch.

OK, let's go home.