nekobrain

Just "upgraded" to a Pixel 8 from a 4a (it wasn't even my intention to do so, went to have my 4a battery replaced but the shop botched the job and I needed a working phone quickly), I agree with every point made by the author. It does the same things as the 4a did, just marginally faster. Screen is better but I don't really care, and using it with one hand is harder. On top of that, I'm praying the dreaded green screen issue does not appear (it did on a coworker's Pixel 8). Oh well, at least I got security updates now...

The tip of your pick should be really close to the tip of your thumb, that's the main point for me.

A Raspberry Pi might very well be the reason I work as a SRE today, I think it was the first machine I SSH'd into and that got me that "anything is possible" feeling.

OMG yes! I thought it was just me being too young :)

Milan :)

Correct, I'm from Milan and riocontra is used almost exclusively in Milan. We have the same "pelato" -> "topela" correspondence by the way!

We have something like that in Italian too, in the area where I come from we call it "riocontra" (which is "contrario", ie. "opposite", with the syllables inverted) . It's probably not as widespread as verlan, but it's still pretty common among the youth of my city.