Yeah I’ve tried that search multiple times myself and end up back on Google for driving, it’s just superior

My car has Bluetooth only. I wanted Android Auto because it was awesome on my phone, so I got an Android Auto tablet off Ali Express.

It’s not arrived yet, I’m expecting it after the weekend, but I can’t wait to have that UI back, that ease of use while driving.

It can connect to my Car by Aux or FM radio so can be wireless. I’ll be changing to connecting to it instead of my car over Bluetooth. Then I’ll be able to use the UI or Voice to control my phone while it’s still in my pocket.

I hope it turns out as well as it is in my mind. For £30 it’s worth a go

I’m so glad to read this, incredibly useful app that is just a bit shit

I have a Tornado just sitting in my basket going “BUY ME, BUY ME!” but I’ve only just yesterday got a sub 40 second solve so it’s staying there. Plus I’m broke.

I couldn’t give away my RS3M, it’s my baby ATM.

I’ve been eyeballing the Tornado V3 Flagship myself. I do the cross on the bottom, but advanced f2l means adding the f2l while doing the cross and I’m not that good yet. I feel like this week I’ve just started getting a real feel for pairing up the blocks, and that’s lead to quicker solves. It’ll be a few more weeks of practicing to get it intuitive but I’m definitely on the right path.

See the icebergs?

Yeah magnetic cubes!

They have little magnets in the corner pieces so when you push, it stops in the right place.

There’s also maglev cubes that have magnetic cores. I just have corner magnets ATM because EVRI ARE A DOGSHIT DELIVERY COMPANY but that’s another story for another time

I’m 39 and right there with you, although I can’t seem to get under 80 seconds for a solve yet. I’ve been cubing for a couple of months and have got the 2 look pll and oll down nearly now, just a couple of algorithms I’m struggling to remember. Love doing the last layer though, it’s like magic.

I’m at a point now where I’m solving faster than I was (it was around the 3 minute mark a couple of weeks ago but I’ve just got a RS3M) and it is starting to feel “easy” now.

I also have one in my pocket most of the time, it’s another hobby my wife hates lol “Do you HAVE to bring that thing with you?” YES I DO

When you look up how to solve them, it’s a white cross (so the white would be the first layer), making sure your middle tile of the cross pieces match the middle of the sides (red green blue orange), then you put the corners of the bottom (white) layer in, matching the colours. The middles don’t move so you then put in the corners of the middle layer, completing 2 layers.

The top layer is the yellow one, opposite the white layer.

It was my eldest that got me going actually. He came home from school with the old shit cube he had, did 3 turns on it and said “There, I solved it Dad.”

I said “Did you fuck. Who sorted that for you?” and he told me a kid at school was just asking everyone if they had a cube and to bring it in to school, so he did and the kid solved it for him.

I thought “If a 12 year old can do it, so can I” and used it to help with my Reddit withdrawals.

I’ve finally got a magnetic cube now and just have it in my pocket. I’m trying to improve my F2L speed where you put the corners in and the 2nd layer at the same time. I really like doing the last layer with algorithms, it’s like magic.

Yeah it just goes to show that hobbies are like icebergs.

I picked up a guitar in Covid and managed to learn basic chords and songs in the first year of playing it every single day. I’m 4 years in now, and I feel less advanced than I felt back then.

I think it’s because when you’re learning a new technique, you fucking suck at it, but when it’s in counterpoint to other techniques that you can do to a high level, it sounds worse than just one technique being played badly, plus you’ve trained your ears over the time you’ve been playing, so you can hear the bad bits better.

Guitarists that have been playing for decades have more of these techniques down so they sound better, but that’s just to people who have struggled with those techniques themselves. To the uninitiated guitarists are just guitarists, some play country and some do that wiggly wiggly guitar solo thing.

Guitar playing is an Iceberg with a big bit sticking up, chess and rubix cubes are smaller icebergs, but you’ve got to mine it all the way down before you can climb to the top.

Since the Reddit blackout I decided to learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. My best time for solving one so far is 82 seconds. I know it’s no world record but the average person can’t solve a Rubik’s cube so I’m way more experienced.

Hi there from the UK Feddit!

Yeah I was in the Home Assistant sub. The number of times I Googled something I was struggling with, only to find a Reddit thread with MY comment telling people how to solve the exact issue I’m struggling with lol, I’ll leave it up.

Yeah I filled that vacuum by learning how to solve a Rubiks cube, and now I’m trying to do it faster. Sync for Lemmy came out and felt just like Sync for Reddit and I was a bit worried I’d fall back into my old ways, which I kind of am tbh, I just have to make sure I’m not on Lemmy as much as Reddit somehow.

I learned how to make my home “Smart” using a Raspberry Pi and Home Assistant. I also learned how to play the guitar, although that wasn’t all Reddit, it was where I discussed it with others learning, and where I got tips on the best places to learn.

I think it’s just an age/wisdom thing. When I was younger I was all about “The Truth” and would fight to the bitter end for it. At some point down the decades I realised that sometimes it’s better to just know “The Truth” myself and not share it with people who would disagree and fight about it.

Now a lot of the time I find myself just observing something and smiling at the wrongness and walking away.

I’ve learned how to solve in 3 minutes or less since the Reddit blackout protests. I have a friend who said his personal best was a minute and 10 so that’s my target, and my personal best is a minute and a half as of last night.

It’s not 3.1 seconds like the WR but since nearly everyone I have come across in the last couple months can’t solve a cube at all, I’m quite impressive to them.

I sit and solve my cube on my break at work, it’s literally to stop me spending all my time on my phone. It’s a newish job so now everyone thinks I’m quite intelligent, which is nice.

I made bread in Lockdown 1. I may have to pick it back up again, just to give my mates some.

I got a Breville kettle that only boils a cup worth at a time. Game changer, meant I could brew up between games of COD back when I played it. I’ve never gone back to a regular kettle.