I'm so very aggravated at The Atlantic, which I subscribe to, asking me to turn off adblock even when I'm logged in. I've already accepted a price increase every year I've been subscribed.

Tom Cruise isn't the director, but should probably get the auteur tag for being behind Top Gun Maverick and the recent MI movies which are as good as blockbusters get.

I think what Nolan, Villeneuve and Cruise get right is it's important to do as much as you can practically. The weightlessness of so many blockbusters is chief among the things dragging them down right now.

Tough beat for the opening set piece to come right after a featurette about Dead Reckoning's train sequence.

None of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's quips landed for me so once that toned down I liked the character and the movie much more.

I used my Z3 Tablet Compact until it fell apart. I would buy an updated one the very second it was announced.

Overall, I wish Sony was actually competing. It really feels like HQ just forgot this tiny division exists so they keep making phones that feel designed for the idiosyncrasies of the people that work there rather than the market at large. That should be good for a place like here, but they're so uncompetitive on price.

Also what's the shorthand here? L/Android?

I have the Edge+. I wanted a Pixel like experience with the benefits of a Snapdragon 8 Gen2. It has generally delivered. The battery life is exceptional in every way. It lasts a long time and also charges in under an hour.

The camera isn't great. For the specific thing I really judge it on, photos of my pets, it's between the Pixel and Galaxy.

I have a case on mine, so the edges do in some ways help with gesture navigation. I'll say it's a little offset on the bottom edge because it feels like all elements on the bottom part of the screen are too low. Fingerprint scanner (although this one is easy to get used to), camera shutter, and the homescreen app shortcuts.

As a whole package, I'm much more satisfied with it than the Pixel 7 Pro. The update situation will be much worse, but it just feels less urgent than it used to. I'm hopeful they can at least make good on their security update promises.

I switched to Sam's from Costco. The biggest issue is after the very orderly gas line at Costco, Sam's is the wild West.

Sony realizing they didn't have the catalog to justify their own service looks smarter and smarter every day.