Google, please stop being "helpful"

I have limited data on my phone. I have my phone set to only DL on wifi. I have like 5gb of music downloaded. I'll put in a 500 song playlist on repeat and shuffle.

What should happen is it plays that playlist forever. If I go in and change the playlist fine.

Instead google waits until I'm driving and then

  • switches to a "radio" based off the current mix, and immediately stops playing because the "suggested" song hasn't been downloaded.
  • Or, after I've been in range of wifi decides the next song should be whatever was next in my queue while I was listening on my computer - again that song probably isn't downloaded so it just stops
  • or decides it'll play an alternate version of the song in my playlist (or the video version) which of course isn't fucking downloaded and so it stops playing.

Today after I switched back to my playlist it gave me a popup that it had "learned from my actions and would update my recommendations" with a link to "settings" to learn more which does NOT explain wtf it meant or give any way to turn ANY of these behaviors off.

I just want to listen to my tunes while driving. I should not need to fuck around with the interface while I'm driving. This is so simple that it's amazing they can fuck it up so bad.

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u/aslum — 4 days ago

Oat Milk/Almond Milk - Is it actually healthier than half and half?

Comparing the Oatmilk I recently purchased to some Half & Half - it has more fat, but less cholesterol. I didn't really like the taste of Almond Milk (and don't have the carton anymore to check) but I'm wondering if making the switch will actually be healthier? I have high cholesterol so I feel like it should - and yeah I know I should probably switch to just drinking my coffee black, but I've already cut sugar from my coffee, I don't know if I can go all the way and leave creamer out too.

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u/aslum — 4 days ago

How to design a Parametric Flat Spring

I've seen them frequently in 3d prints - a little up down wave that prints easily and allows a part to be stretched or compressed. I found a Slant 3d video where he discussed them but he didn't really show how you would design one - I'm just getting started with onshape so it's probably several things that are just so basic he didn't consider it worth mentioning, but I haven't had any luck finding a tutorial that explains how one would do it.

Example of the type of spring I'm talking about is the Extention string on the left: https://i.imgur.com/Wg5r8eP.png

u/aslum — 18 days ago