Yeah, in cases like that, I think there could be an environment factor causing interference. There's a spot in town that no matter when, what car, or what phone, it kills the wireless car play or android auto connection.
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I use the Annoyances filters in uBlock Origin and don't get those any more.
The biggest thing for folks these days is there's no Android Auto support.
I didn't know that Samsung had that feature, but it does sound nice - so long as you have the ability to enable maintenance mode.
I recently took my pixel 7 in to ubreakifix for a screen replacement. The screen was 100% dead, but I could still hear the notifications coming in. I couldn't put it into maintenance mode if it had one, so I think I'd still stress a bit about whether or not the phone would be wiped, such as in the case I was unable to verify the upload of a recent Aegis backup. It would be nice if the maintenance mode was able to be triggered via a web interface in cases such as mine. Or maybe even a specific button combo that would be difficult to accidentally do.
I've only read the first 2, I believe. I like them because they do give some back story to a couple things that are learned in the games. Won't change the games any, but you can at least learn about the Anderson/Sanders and Anderson/Saren relationships back story from them.