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Pixel Watch Icon Reference

Quick Settings Icons

Google Home
Open the Google home automation app
Touch Lock
Tap to disable the touch screen.
Long-press (2 seconds) the Watch Crown to re-enable the touch screen.
Flashlight
Open the flashlight app.
Wallet
Open the Google wallet payments app.
Airplane Mode
Turns off all radios on your watch: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, GPS/GNSS. You can turn each of these on independently.
Find My Phone
Tap and wait for your phone to ring.
Brightness
Open the brightness settings app.
Bedtime Mode
Start bedtime mode.
Theater Mode
Turn off your screen and suppress notifications and incoming calls temporarily.
Battery Icon
Battery Saver Mode
Start battery saver mode.
Press and hold to open the battery settings app.
Settings
Open the settings app.
Not Silenced Icon
Ring & Notifications On
Tap to turn off.
Press and hold to open the sound settings app.
Phone Connected Icon
Connected to phone
WiFi Connected Icon
Connected to WiFi

Watch Face Status Icons

Battery Saver Icon
Battery saver mode is on.

While constructing this chart my Pixel Watch (V1) screenshot feature stopped working. When screenshots work again I’ll add more icons.

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Attack of the Deer Keds

In October 2023 I was bitten by two of these introduced biting flies. The Deer Ked (Lipoptena vcervi)

My first Deer Ked photo 2021-10-16
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Rhode Island 2024 – 2025 Hunting Season Fluorescent Orange Requirements

The state of Rhode Island requires all visitors to wear safety orange during the busiest hunting seasons. For the 2024-2025 season the regulations are:

All other users of State Management Areas and designated undeveloped State Parks, including but not limited to: hikers, bikers, and horseback riders are required to wear 200 square inches of solid daylight fluorescent orange from the second Saturday in September to the last day of February and the third Saturday in April to the last day in May.

500sq. in. by all hunters (including archers) and all users of management areas and undeveloped state parks during all portions of shotgun deer seasons.

A sign detailing Rhode Island safety regulations requiring all users of state management areas to wear fluorescent orange during specific hunting seasons, with penalties for non-compliance.
Typical sign seen at state management areas

Here’s my publicly available Google calendar showing the 200 & 500 sq. in dates.

Note: the calendar dates only apply to Zones 1 & 2 which is the vast majority of the state. For Zones 3 (Patience & Prudence Islands) & 4 (Block Island), refer to the regulations for the dates.
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Google Does Not Make It Easy to Help Them

I noticed that the Google infobox from a search for a local town contained photos of sites in neighboring towns. So I sent them feedback to help them improve their service. But the feedback system changed my comment to be about one of the nature preserves in another town rather than feedback on the infobox itself. Almost certainly that means they’ll keep showing people pictures of things they WILL NOT FIND in the town they searched for.

Generally I find Google search gives me the better search results than any other general search engine but there’s always room for improvement.

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Privileged White Woman Wants Exemption from Speed Limits

What a horrible piece of work Laura Burkett of Pawtucket is. She’s whining about getting a parking ticket for violating a parking ban law. Then she says she doesn’t want the city to enforce speed limits around schools, WTF!

Burkett said she thought the $50 “robo tickets” for tickets in school zones, where someone is ticketed for going 31 mph in a 20-mph zone, were bad enough.

https://www.valleybreeze.com/news/pawtucket-business-owner-after-parking-fine-enough-with-the-money-grabs/article_b5ea506a-c9d1-11ee-bd74-db715c021304.html

Seriously of all the places you don’t want people flagrantly violating the speed limits it’s school zones. It’s very likely the system lets you get away with 25 or 26 MPH in school zone, but she wants to drive 11 MPH above the limit, what a horrible person, I bet she cheats on her taxes and violates many other laws too.

Thankfully the judge slapped her down in court. I think the city of Pawtucket will be far better off if she moves to a town that is willing to let well off white business woman ignore the laws everyone else has to follow.

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