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My phone is definitely at the top of the list (paired first too of course). I don't recall any way to change the order ('19 Corolla) but I I can't move it any higher regardless.

Nope, I used the speaker 2 days in a row. Both times I enabled BT on my phone before powering on the speaker. Partner was upstairs, maybe 25 ft away if there was line of sight. I was standing right in front of the darn thing. It still connected to her phone first each time.

We both run Linux :p

That's not a normal Android setting, but after a little research it looks like it's buried in the developer options. I don't really want to ask her to mess with those, but if it's just a one-time toggle it should be fine. We'll try it out, thanks.

Why should her connection even matter? If my phone was paired to the speaker first, shouldn't it get priority? Or some other mechanism? Hers seems to steal priority no matter what.

She uses a smartwatch and that requires Bluetooth. Plus she's often upstairs listening to a podcast or something. When I turn on my speaker downstairs, it starts playing her podcast instead of connecting to my phone. Like man, I just want to listen to music, not inconvenience her.

We do have other BT speakers, but most of those are cheap. The one I have in mind is relatively expensive so no, I'm not buying another. It's mine, but it has the best sound quality so I like to let her use it sometimes. I don't want to make her pair it again every time.

Maybe the car is a better use case. She has her own car, but sometimes she's the passenger in mine and wants to play a song, you know? Pairing from scratch and then making sure to wipe the connection afterward is a pain. And besides if my phone was paired with the car first, why doesn't it get priority?

On her phone or mine? I'm happy to tinker with mine, but I'm not going to ask her to turn on developer options.

EDIT: It might be worth asking her to turn off auto-connect in the dev options. That's fine if it's just a one-time toggle.

My city (US) used to have one that was signed all wrong, so cars already inside the circle would have to yield to the ones entering. Naturally this led to congestion instead of flowing traffic. Also it was way too close to a tangential road so that made things even worse because the backed up traffic on that side then affected cars that weren't even going to the circle.

Fortunately they ripped that shit out and redesigned the entire intersection.

Number 1 by far is knowing how to separate your opinions from your identity.

I've been thinking about this for years and I can't shake the thought that identity politics is the root of most major problems in western society (esp. US). It means people interpret criticism of their opinions as personal attacks instead. This overblown defensive reaction leads to turning around and conflating the opinions of others with their worth as human beings.

Yes, there some truth to that. If you hold hateful & bigoted opinions, I would say that makes you a shit person. But you're not necessarily condemned to that forever, because opinions can potentially change. This is tied in with Karl Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance", i.e. ideas should be tolerated unless they themselves are so intolerant as to undermine the wider marketplace of ideas.

When we equate (potentially temporary) opinions of others with immutable value, that's what leads to dehumanizing them and taking away their fundamental rights. And as has always been the case throughout history, the burden falls primarily on vulnerable groups (immigrants, ethnic or social minorities, children and the elderly, etc).

People need to understand that YOU ARE NOT YOUR OPINION. Others can and should criticize your opinions, but that doesn't mean they are attacking you personally. Defend the opinions, but don't turn around and go ad-hominem in response. And for fuck's sake, unless an opinion is so abhorrent or intolerant that it threatens someone else's existence (e.g. Nazis), you don't get to take away the holder's rights to citizenship, food, shelter, healthcare, etc.

EDIT: And yes I do consider this a skill that people have to learn. I think most should be capable by maybe... age 7.

It's from Sky News, so it checks out. They know what's happening above us.

I'll be intrigued if any of these are in the cast.

• Anthony Hopkins
• Bill Murray
• Edward Norton
• Rebecca Ferguson
• Evan Rachel Wood

But they've all been cast in plenty of films films I don't care about (e.g. Hopkins in Transformers and Thor, Murray in Garfield and Jungle Book) so it's not even remotely a guarantee.

Okay, that's pretty funny. Doesn't German have the verb "fischen"? At least in English, angling is a specific type of fishing with a hook and line (as opposed to e.g. spears or nets).

I'm still trying to figure this out too. Search engines are no help.

Alle anderen Fremdsprachen sind akzeptabel, nur Deutsch ist anstößig.

/s

That's obviously a Monoceramisu, arguably even a Unicornimisu.

Sadly. More power to the librarians! Those folks are truly knowledgeable and capable. I wish we would empower them to do so much more then just "survive".

Yeah but in the current climate I'm worried he's going to encourage other bigots to be similarly destructive, and that shithead nazis will come to his defense and try to normalize it.

I'm Honeycomb O'Riordan and you're listening to NPR.

Playing Mario Kart with a mouse is some next level shit.

Time to deliver a pizza ball! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOkeLQohC0