I've been a pixel user since the week they came out. My launch week pixel lasted nearly 5 years before the microphone gave out and I went to a 4a. Still on the 4a and love it. Pixels are a perfect middle ground between iPhone and the full android experience of a Samsung flagship imo. Convenient to use, incredible software integration across the entire phone, and my 4a still has a 3.5mm jack which is a massive selling point for me. I intend to upgrade to an 8 when they launch if the rumors surrounding the introduction of a docking capability are true. Being able to set my phone down onto a dock and have it convert to a light desktop PC would be amazing. I know Samsung has Dex currently, but I'm really just not a fan of what Samsung does with their phones.
Dodi repack is up. Anybody getting anything from IGG or any of the usual names deserves what they get imo. Dodi/fitgirl repacks or go next
my wife and i used this the first weekend they debuted it. took us 10 minutes to get through security, most of which was due to somebody struggling at the scanners with their bags, and not so much the lines/agents. absolutely worth using, and i hope it becomes a standard elsewhere.
Yeah, it's definitely not perfect, but years of crafting my existing playlists has led to a pretty solid foundation for discovery to work with. I'll get something I've heard before maybe once a month these days, but this is after basically 7 years of listening almost weekly.
pretty much all of this. i bought into a family plan of spotify premium back in maybe 2016 and haven't looked back.
audio quality is fantastic. arguably only tidal has a higher bitrate for their premium plans, but it's so negligible unless you're really deep into audiophile territory. discover weekly is actually really good if you carefully curate your playlists and has led me to many new artists. while i don't have personal experience with other platforms underground music, spotify has a shockingly large number of small time artists that i absolutely love.
I use PIA currently because it was cheap and I wanted something easy to use mostly for streaming reasons. It's fine, not great, not awful. Connection drops more than I would like. I attribute that to Comcast knowing their IP addresses and dropping traffic in an attempt to catch any leaks. They got bought out by an iffy company not too long ago, and I plan to move to mullvad once this sub runs out
Bind your torrent client to the VPN so that doesn't happen. Qbit has an easy enough interface to figure out how to do it pretty easy. Plenty of guides a quick Google should return
I plan to make the jump to an 8 this year. I was holding out on the headphone jack but it's time. The 8 should be a decent jump and the rumors about docking are really appealing to me for light office work.