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Greetings my friends. Welcome to another Saturday. I hope that your week has been a good one, and I am so grateful to all of you for coming to check in with me.
I am sad to say that not so long ago, my beloved , Star Trek inspired flip phone died, and not in the way that most insisted it would. I kept being told that the hinge that gave it its flip feature, would be what failed and made me regret purchasing it, but no, what happened is that the case I used failed, it came off the phone in a fall, and thus the phone broke. So after five years of loyal service, I have retired my flip phone, and upgraded to a Pixel 9, So in one move, I changed phones, and ecosystems. Still android of course, but Google is so far different from my any of the Samsung phones that I have had over the last several decades that it presents a significant learning curve.
So far, I have learned to switch to dark mode. I have changed ring and text tones. I have enlarged and changed the default fonts, found a bit of software to turn the inbuilt camera int a magnifier, and learned to use the AI Assistant, Gemini, to read some of my messages as well as to make calls/
If any of you have tips that will make this new phone more useful to me, I would love to hear them.
