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Sapozhnik posted:oh no removable storage is so hard let's not do it just get an iphone. lol
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no. it's vitally important that i can use the 1tb class 2 micro-sd card from aliexpress to store my precious memories, music, and apps
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Mar 1, 2021 16:50
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Sapozhnik posted:oh no removable storage is so hard let's not do it 
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Mar 1, 2021 16:53
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infernal machines posted:no. it's vitally important that i can use the 1tb class 2 micro-sd card from aliexpress to store my precious memories, music, and apps don't be silly, i don't just use a 1tb class 2 micro-sd card from aliexpress to store my files i sync them to my server at home using syncthing as well, i'm not a complete animal. which is what set off this unhinged ranting. syncthing is a lovely piece of software but there's not much it can do if android keeps breaking programmatic access to external storage. i did get it fixed, eventually, after a lot of cursing.
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Mar 1, 2021 16:55
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Mar 1, 2021 16:57
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DoomTrainPhD posted:As an embedded engineer, I hate sdcards with a passion. Apple was 100% correct never to add them to iPhones. where are you embedded
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Mar 1, 2021 17:00
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DoomTrainPhD posted:As an embedded engineer, I hate sdcards with a passion. Apple was 100% correct never to add them to iPhones. lol
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Mar 1, 2021 17:06
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Sapozhnik posted:i did get it fixed, eventually, after a lot of cursing. i know that feeling
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Mar 1, 2021 17:08
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Mar 1, 2021 17:19
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android thread: i did get it fixed, eventually, after a lot of cursing.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:19
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I need a phone with a sd card slot because there's not enough internal memory to store my anime and roms
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Mar 1, 2021 17:24
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carry on then posted:sorry that every product is not designed expressly for your usecase over all others, i guess this is so dumb, there's so incredibly much room for different kinds of phones for different people, but the google toothbrush nonsense has infiltrated (idiot tech) peoples brains to the point where "well not *everyone* want this thing, so clearly it must not be done".
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Mar 1, 2021 18:06
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idk what you mean, plenty of companies make phones with niche features that don't work, like micro-sd storage. the fact that it's poorly/barely supported by the os just means it's up to the vendor to implement properly. oops
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Mar 1, 2021 18:16
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at this point I've given google so much of my data that after I die they'll be able to create a sentient digital copy of me to hawk ads and poo poo-tier telephones to my descendants
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Mar 1, 2021 18:25
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DoomTrainPhD posted:As an embedded engineer, I hate sdcards with a passion. Apple was 100% correct never to add them to iPhones.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:15
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infernal machines posted:it's technically secure if the update disables all the radios or just prevents it from booting, right? my wife's fi phone already does this in the US no regulations needed
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Mar 2, 2021 21:55
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hifi posted:lol
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Mar 3, 2021 05:40
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infernal machines posted:idk what you mean, plenty of companies make phones with niche features that don't work, like micro-sd storage. google has been trying to phase out sd storage because it is a bad idea and causes infinite problems. vendors are fighting it because they are dumb. so here we are.
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Mar 3, 2021 17:21
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sd support is one of the last things android oems have over iphones in the eyes of the dyp inclined consumers
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Mar 3, 2021 17:41
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look, it's critically important that I have the full libraries for the sega genesis and saturn on me at all times
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Mar 3, 2021 17:54
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the only rooted android feature thats even halfway useful for normal people is call recording
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Mar 3, 2021 18:17
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The Management posted:google has been trying to phase out sd storage because it is a bad idea and causes infinite problems. vendors are fighting it because they are dumb. so here we are. tbf vendors are fighting it because it's one of the tiny scraps of feature differentiation they have left that isn't a screen gimmick or increasingly absurd camera clusters. it's terrible and has always worked poorly, but this is android we're talking about, there's clearly a market for that
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Mar 3, 2021 18:20
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People who demand sdcard storage also buy the cheapest piece of poo poo sdcard they can find and then complain when it's slow or breaks, and they yank them out all the time while the sdcard is mounted and in use. Removable storage is awful, and I'm glad it's going away.
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Mar 4, 2021 01:34
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i get why some of the dypers want them i mean when youre minmaxing multiple mvno subs trying to keep your monthly bill under $20 im sure you arent swimming in money to spend or data to burn on streaming poo poo otoh that feeling when i just got a spotify sub and decided to never janitor my music collection ever again was so freeing i cant imagine the kind of person who is like "no i never want to feel good ever so ill just keep managing music like its 1997" i understand there are people like that but theyre so tedious to be around that i enjoy watching bad things happen to them probably not my best personality trait but i cannot help but feel this way
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Mar 4, 2021 01:38
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LastInLine posted:
storage used to be a real pita on iphones when 16gb was the default and you had to sync music/podcasts onto them but now with photos/overcast/spotify all being smart about offloading to the butt and 64gb being standard i never even think about it. i literally just had to check whether my iphone11 had 32 or 64 onboard storage cos poo poo just works praise timb, pbuh
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Mar 4, 2021 02:56
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LastInLine posted:i get why some of the dypers want them i mean when youre minmaxing multiple mvno subs trying to keep your monthly bill under $20 im sure you arent swimming in money to spend or data to burn on streaming poo poo you're in good(?) company since everyone in yospos has that personality trait too
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Mar 4, 2021 08:00
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sb hermit posted:you're in good(?) company since everyone in yospos has that personality trait too yosposters are huge nerds, but we're all self hating nerds, so we bully each other into doing 'normie' things that are actually good, like using spotify instead of music janitoring
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Mar 4, 2021 17:58
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Plank Walker posted:yosposters are huge nerds, but we're all self hating nerds, so we bully each other into doing 'normie' things that are actually good, like using spotify instead of music janitoring
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/7/22318369/google-hr-advised-mental-health-leave-racist-sexist-behaviorquote:Several current and former Google employees say the company’s human resources department would often suggest mental health counseling or leave in response to complaints about racist or sexist behavior in the workplace, NBC News reported.
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Mar 8, 2021 09:14
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I guess google switched out the google pay app and now it has less features and costs money to send money to other people. people seem mad but it's like, what do you expect at this point. also the new app has a messenger app built in
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Mar 9, 2021 07:04
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Jenny Agutter posted:I guess google switched out the google pay app and now it has less features and costs money to send money to other people. people seem mad but it's like, what do you expect at this point. also the new app has a messenger app built in not exactly its a lot dumber than that all of the old app was moved into a difficult to find spot in the new app (actually its not even in the new app its in play services) this is the nfc payments and reward cards the new app was built entirely for india and the innovation there is that google gets a percentage when you send money to people which i guess isnt free over there for some reason oh yeah if youre absolutely insane the new app has a way for you to hook up as many bank accounts as you want to it so google can mine them for data. im not making that up and theres nothing in it for you if you do it other than more ads in the app and it will show you your bank transactions like your bank app does
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Mar 9, 2021 07:26
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Jenny Agutter posted:I guess google switched out the google pay app and now it has less features and costs money to send money to other people. people seem mad but it's like, what do you expect at this point. also the new app has a messenger app built in hahaha that's amazing. real cherry on top of a poo poo sundae
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crepeface posted:hahaha that's amazing. real cherry on top of a poo poo sundae its difficult to state just how bad the app actually is. its got three tabs and none of them are devoted to the features you would actually use the default one is just a stream of advertising where even the links to your loyalty cards doesnt actually bring up the barcode to scan its just ads for that merchant one of the other tabs is for gpay promos which is advertising for the app youre already using so its like invite people and use it at this other place etc the other tab is the one to look at your bank accounts that you link with (i guess) a list of transactions youve made i go through this to point out that aside from the fee-encumbered money sending between users (where the messaging app is lol) is that absolutely none of this has anything the user can actually do with the app itself. three tabs in the ui and almost none of it is actionable information. the only link to anything useful is a tiny picture of your card in the top right that kicks you out of the app to take you to the old interface that has poo poo you can use oh yeah and that link to a completely different app thats actually useful? theres actually a system wide shortcut to go directly to that without using the app at all. the only reason for the app is to funnel you toward using it to send money with fees that every normal bank account can do for free. its completely pointless in every way
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Mar 9, 2021 11:49
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i am torn between "lmao anroid" and "lmao google"
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Mar 9, 2021 13:44
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my android/google pay experience is tried to use it to pay a coworker once. the javascript page had 2 fields, whole dollars and cents and the only way to get the cursor to focus on the cents portion was to press the '.' key on your keyboard, but not the '.' key on the numpad, that would result in a '.' character placed into the dollars field which was invalid and still wouldn't let you put cents in
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Mar 9, 2021 15:26
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Plank Walker posted:my android/google pay experience is tried to use it to pay a coworker once. the javascript page had 2 fields, whole dollars and cents and the only way to get the cursor to focus on the cents portion was to press the '.' key on your keyboard, but not the '.' key on the numpad, that would result in a '.' character placed into the dollars field which was invalid and still wouldn't let you put cents in lmao perfect distillation of google experience
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Mar 9, 2021 15:29
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LastInLine posted:android: not exactly its a lot dumber than that
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Mar 9, 2021 15:35
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google is extremely sore about being locked out of china (where Apple is making shitloads of money). they decided that they’re going all in on India because it’s obviously the next boom economy. they keep releasing India-specific products and features and these keep failing miserably. and also India is not really growing anywhere like China did, but google is in denial.
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Gpay does well here (India), but the new update definitely made it perform worse. Contactless cards and machines are a rarity here so this makes up for that.
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LastInLine posted:its difficult to state just how bad the app actually is https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-new-google-pay-repeats-all-the-same-mistakes-of-google-allo/
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