To me it looks like they sell the console to then try to catch you with the Software as a service. Like PS Plus. But for me this is useless because I do not play every week, sometimes I stop playing for weeks.

That being said, I think Sony did good putting some exclusives on Steam. I remember I bought Horizon Zero Dawn and Deathstranding. I even got a dualsense for DS.

And, yes, I also have a PS5 but never got a single game that requires PS Plus to play online. And the main reason I pick PS5 over PC sometimes is that PS5 is in the living room and I have sometimes time to play after 22:00.

I don’t know how much money they make selling hardware but they could just sell games overpriced for PC (to compensate for what they didn’t earn selling hardware and store fees) and people will just buy.

I just buy previous gen Google Pixel. And only if I need a phone… I got a Pixel 9 brand new in December 2025 for 441€ including fast charger (as a gift). Sold by Amazon.es

I wanted to get one of these for a server…

Ended up getting an N100 Chinese mini PC with 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, just ready to go… it consumes…3.6W - 4.1W on idle running Ubuntu Server. I’m 100% satisfied.

Still I had to pay like 260€ these mini PC were a lot cheaper before.

Man I live in Fuerteventura. Here we use sunglasses to protect our eyes, not just while driving, but also walking. The sun is quite strong on them.

I wouldn’t call all sunglasses “pervert glasses”.

The main usage is still to reduce light. And if polarized, to reduce reflections (which also helps in some car windshields).

They are tools to protect our eyes and improve our vision under harsh circumstances. Before anything else.

In my phone (Google pixel) I mainly use Firefox for browsing. While Chrome is still the default browser. At some point I’ll change default also to Firefox. I didn’t do this because I’m not logged into some apps there.

Economy is still shit but at least it got better than a few years ago.

It will go to shit again in a few years/months

Fair enough. But that’s why I mentioned “some” and not “all”. I’ve never heard about a Toyota impacted by this issue.

Mitsubishi are definitely impacted. Some Mazda too according to some people posting. But I’ve read less posts about Mazda. They must be using some similar Bluetooth receivers in the infotainment system.

This is possibly the first post when this issue originated but then in January 2025 they improved it with a workaround that works till today, but before connection was always automatic without any workaround.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1hkmjnu/bluetooth_connection_issues_since_the_december/

Anyway. Every single time you start the engine you need to go to Bluetooth settings on the phone toggle “media audio” (that failed to connect automatically) one or two times and then it connects and you can enjoy BT normally. A pain in the ass especially for 10 minute trips.

Right. And which Mitsubishi model and year do you have?

I still use that Bluetooth everyday in my Mitsubishi Outlander I don’t need more than this… I also installed some magnet mount for the phone case.

The only problem is that since December 2024 android release on Pixels it stopped connecting “media audio” automatically due to some timing issue or something. So I have to manually toggle that button on my phone since that day… (Google Pixel) And now Samsung seems to have the same issue since they started updating to newer android versions.

Google is not focusing on fixing this and just focusing on Android auto instead. But it only impacts some Japanese makes. I think some Mazda also have the issue.