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Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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silviot wrote: post #108

I subscribed to the free trial for the Play store app, tried it a bit, and now I'd like to cancel my subscription. I found a "Manage subscriptions" link in the app, and it points to the Play Store app. I can't find an "unsubscribe" button there. If I try o uninstall the app I'm explicitly told "Your active subscriptions will not be canceled". I spent ten minutes looking for this, and I'm a web developer. How on earth…

Click on your image in the corner, there is a payments and subscriptions button. Click unsubscribe.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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petee wrote: post #100

This is neat, but I feel it really detracts from the creativity you are supposed to be exercising by using Legos in the first place. I'd hope no one lets their kids use this, or they'll just get good at assembling IKEA furniture instead of designing the furniture.

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Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Kaibeezy wrote: post #97

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693560 Barely a year ago. I thought it was maybe 5 years ago. Time itself must be accelerating. I need an app that can scan my hard drives, connectome and biochemistry > bleep bloop > tell me what I can still do with my life.

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Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by Kaibeezy »

I’ll just put this here…

Brrrap! A tree shredder!

Ahead of him, everything was empty bookcases, skeletons. Robert went to the end of the aisle and walked toward the noise. The air was a fog of floating paper dust. In the fourth aisle, the space between the bookcases was filled with a pulsing fabric tube. The monster worm was brightly lit from within. At the other end, almost twenty feet away, was the worm's maw -- the source of the noise. Indistinct in the swirling haze, Robert could see two white-suited figures, their jackets labeled "Huertas Data Rescue". The two wore filter masks and head protectors. They might have been construction workers. In fact, this business was the ultimate in deconstruction: first one and then the other would pull books off the racks and toss them into the shredder's maw. The maintenance labels made calm phrases of the horror: The raging maw was a "NaviCloud custom debinder". The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a "camera tunnel". Robert flinched from the sight -- and Epiphany [smartglasses] randomly rewarded his gesture with imagery from within the monster: The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stitched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert. Rescued data.

- Rainbows End, V. Vinge, 2006

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by rsgrafx »

petee wrote: post #100

This is neat, but I feel it really detracts from the creativity you are supposed to be exercising by using Legos in the first place. I'd hope no one lets their kids use this, or they'll just get good at assembling IKEA furniture instead of designing the furniture.

I agree, my 5 year old loves coming with random "inventions". He's proud of his random designs loves showing them off. He owns the whole of process coming up with idea to building it. It builds his confidence. I would not use this app.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by drexlspivey »

silviot wrote: post #108

I subscribed to the free trial for the Play store app, tried it a bit, and now I'd like to cancel my subscription. I found a "Manage subscriptions" link in the app, and it points to the Play Store app. I can't find an "unsubscribe" button there. If I try o uninstall the app I'm explicitly told "Your active subscriptions will not be canceled". I spent ten minutes looking for this, and I'm a web developer. How on earth…

That’s one thing that Apple got right, you can cancel any subscription from settings so you don’t have to deal with that crap.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by taneq »

jiggywiggy wrote: post #89
gog wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an easy problem to solve, find the socks you like and then buy 20 pairs of the same socks and get rid of the old ones.

Not so fast. Sock magic: I've only bought black socks over the last 5 year, and still I can't seem to find ones anymore that exactly match in both fitting and color (they all seem to have degraded in different color tones)

Ah, the trick here is to buy all your socks at the same time, and open all the packs at once. Don't just open a pack every now and then, or they'll age differently and you get the variation in wear and tear. Then once you're down to a few days' worth of raggedy socks, throw them all out at once and open the next batch.

(Source: Am a fellow black-sock-only person who made the above mistake last time around.)

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by zbrozek »

taneq wrote: post #117
jiggywiggy wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not so fast. Sock magic: I've only bought black socks over the last 5 year, and still I can't seem to find ones anymore that exactly match in both fitting and color (they all seem to have degraded in different color tones)

Ah, the trick here is to buy all your socks at the same time, and open all the packs at once. Don't just open a pack every now and then, or they'll age differently and you get the variation in wear and tear. Then once you're down to a few days' worth of raggedy socks, throw them all out at once and open the next batch. (Source: Am a fellow black-sock-only person who made the above mistake last time around.)

My trick is to have only white socks and to not actually care if they're matching levels of tired.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by silviot »

aetherane wrote: post #111
silviot wrote: post #108

I subscribed to the free trial for the Play store app, tried it a bit, and now I'd like to cancel my subscription. I found a "Manage subscriptions" link in the app, and it points to the Play Store app. I can't find an "unsubscribe" button there. If I try o uninstall the app I'm explicitly told "Your active subscriptions will not be canceled". I spent ten minutes looking for this, and I'm a web developer. How on earth…

Click on your image in the corner, there is a payments and subscriptions button. Click unsubscribe.

Found it, Thanks!
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