Don’t fret.

Things like this are #kllledbygoogle next year and some other intern will have a new product name to bolden their advert battalion.

The cycle never ends, and they don’t click on that we ain’t having it :/

I’m lost. Why is this ruining Android?

If you’ve got decent throughput at home buying a rasp pi 3/4 means you can have your own VPN

https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes

I’m just waiting for everything they haven’t killed to merge onto YouTube

Me and ye both.

Using the “website” YouTube in my mobile browser sucks and I have to disable their “app” because it’s a system app for some reason or other, to then allow me to use a better app like Newpipe without their system app popping up in the share menu every time I get an update.

Speaking of updates my Xiaomi just updated to A14, and even thou I now get this…

You couldn’t make it up.

🥺

Being a consumer means I don’t attribute others ethics, nor ideology, when making a buying decision.

I buy things because I’m a consumer of goods that tries to save myself from having to spend more, to line others greedy pockets though.

If those are my ethics, call me a dirty consumer perhaps? But people getting paid minimum wages whilst people who do nothing other than tell their sales department to up their price “just because” it doesn’t come from a certain geography is like chopping your nose off to spite your face IMO.

edit: I found a perfect example of this. Berghaus fleece Vs a Amazon basics, or hell, even a Regatta fleece. Just the badge, and nothing else.

All you need to do is pay a bit extra.

Like I said in another comment in here, I find it odd that we need/want to pay more for things that don’t actually cost that more but do because some companies can’t run the books right (ie: fat cats and excessive profits) and end up with massive corps having to submit a First Gazette Notice.

I had no idea what that meant since I found out last night my company I work for here in the UK, has done just that :/

My curiosity lies with peeps like the above actually being to walk around their house and not find things Made in China.

I know I’d be hard pressed, and then components in devices?

AP telling me things are not interesting smells like clickbait.

Why the hell did that happen?

I think from some of the comments they’re concerned that it won’t be a toggleable flag, that at any point, some spooky man from Google or some 3 letter agency can enable and/or override.

At any time. Which is a very fair point?

However, swings and roundabouts from my end likes the idea of being able to recover lost/stolen hardware so I’d like to hear others voices on it.

I have a Cubot King Kong 5 Pro. Yes, it’s named that.

I haven’t even had the endurance to test its battery life. Thing lasts forever if it has no SIM card / WiFi / BT and might as well be a MP3 player that lasts you weeks.

Probably read the rules and post in !androidmemes@lemdro.id, which got auto populated by Boost for Lemmy upon me typing it. Which was fucking neat.

Then, learn how to use adb shell list packages` to list your entire app list.

Also, androidcirclejerk has a really good list of the common apps peeps usually jerk about, but I ain’t linking weddit.

Good luck!

Gotta be honest I’ve used Syncthing for a while and the forked app too, but yet again gone back to SMB2Sync

I don’t know if it’s the nerdiness or granular nature of it, but I prefer it and I don’t have to worry about the client/device being up to date like you do with Syncthing?

Is there no sign of a Pixel 8a?

You are probably going to say “but those are Lenovo laptops, not Motorola phones”.

I asked for sources on Motorola phones being compromised, but I ain’t seeing that still?

Aspersions don’t equal anecdotes > evidence. You show me that and I’ll shout louder than you.

Have you got any sources for Motorola phones coming with spyware on them?

You don’t need to pay a subscription fee for cloud storage when it’s super simple to host your own, and Android allows the mounting of different filesystems too.

SMB on a rasp pi + cheapo storage + Tailscale, all the way to paying £$€ for a dedicated NAS enclosure with as much storage as you can afford also with Tailscale?

Yup, fuck subscription fees.

You also can then use the corporate cloud storage providers like G/ProtonDrive etc to use their free offerings for off site backup of the most important data.