I just bought a Moto X 2014 last week. I really, really like the active display.

While the rotation gesture to bring the camera is nice, I find that the pictures are more blurry than with the Google Camera. It's nice to take quick pictures, but if I have more than 3 seconds, I'll use Google Camera.

I was a bit disappointed with the battery too, so I rooted it to install Greenify. I'll see how it goes.

Quite possibly, and these features are the only interesting things from this launcher, that is otherwise rather classic

I very much like Action Launcher (which is not free). The features called "shutter" (swipe up on an app to display a widget) and "cover" (folders with a default app) are something that you don't know you need until you have them.

Lots of stuff...

- A game with LÖVE

- I'm fiddling with my Raspberry Pi

- I'm learning Sails.js

- I'd like to write more Python but don't have a project to do so.

>an industry that I hate and feel is fairly detrimental overall to society

That's interesting. Care to share why?