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CaptainSarcastic posted:How many phones have an IR blaster anymore? I think the last one I had was an LG Volt from like 10 years ago. My Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (2020) had one, I didn't own a TV but I used it to control the AC. Looks like the Poco F5 model for 2023 still has it - I would probably be rocking one if they had kept the pop-up selfie camera.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:How many phones have an IR blaster anymore? I think the last one I had was an LG Volt from like 10 years ago. Most Xiaomi phones have one. I don't remember ever seeing one on any other brand. e: List of phones with IR since 2020. It almost entirely Xiaomi: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2020&chkInfrared=selected VictualSquid fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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NihilCredo posted:If you kinda care about privacy but still want to talk to people using phone numbers, go with Signal. Sorry for late response to this but: Signal is the app I use and don't think I'm liable to change anytime soon. But a bug has me seeing people I've never had in my contacts list as contacts in the app. Previously my issue was merely continuing to see old deleted contacts that are not synced anywhere and where stored on the phone to begin with. This is new. One was a professional actor. I didn't recognize the name but he has an IMDb page. Always possible the person was lying but why claim to be someone with bits parts on sitcoms when asked who the number belongs to? No clue how widespread this is. But it would seem like a huge *huge* security and privacy risk. Yet Signal hasn't responded to either of the two support tickets I've made. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Folks I need some help with finding a reliable calendar app that can handle both Outlook and Google calendars. My wife/family refuse to use anything other than google calendar, and my work refuses to use anything other than outlook calendars. These two realities are unchangeable - I've tried. I just want an app (preferably that also has a Windows desktop client) that can sync both calendars in one place, reliably. I've tried syncing my Outlook Calendar to my Google Calendar and vice versa, and I've tried using apps like OneCalendar that say they can sync everything together into one spot. However all of these options have the same problem - they're poo poo when you make changes to your calendar. Is there such a calendar app out there that can reliably do such a thing? In the past I've seen y'all recommend DigiCal, but DigiCal ain't done got a desktop client. I'm curious what my fellow internet autists think today. I can't believe this is still a problem in 2023. Jake Gittes fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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Just having the Outlook app installed allows you to add outlook calendars to Google calendar. That's what I do. You don't have to actually use the app beyond adding your accounts. You could, I only don't because it has ads I can't get rid of. Might work with the outlook lite app as well, idk, I just found out it exists. I'm not aware of alternatives that actually work.
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Google calendar is the one true calendar. I use Nine for my work email and calendaring. I don't think there is anything that effectively combines them. I have my work calendar shared with my Google account so I can view it all, but Microsoft only updates the feed between 0 and 4 times a day so you can only sort of trust it. Nine syncs it so is always up to date. It means I get 2 reminders for every work appointment which is turbo dumb.
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Yeah having outlook installed bypasses all that nonsense of using a feed, it installs a sort of api that Google calendar can use to access the outlook calendar as if it was native.
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Just gonna mention Business Calendar 2 as the no-frills calendar app, or at least it was like a decade ago lol.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Yeah having outlook installed bypasses all that nonsense of using a feed, it installs a sort of api that Google calendar can use to access the outlook calendar as if it was native. Yeah but outlook requires mdm to install and that's a big no from me.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Just having the Outlook app installed allows you to add outlook calendars to Google calendar. That's what I do. You don't have to actually use the app beyond adding your accounts. You could, I only don't because it has ads I can't get rid of. Might work with the outlook lite app as well, idk, I just found out it exists. I'm not aware of alternatives that actually work. I'm guessing my admin has this turned off. I did add my exchange account with Google calendar but it synced too infrequently making it kind of useless. E: found the "sync calendars" option in outlook account settings. Maybe this is what I want. Guy Axlerod fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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I'm just using it for my personal hotmail calendar, I didn't realize there would be these downsides/incompatibility with work provided accounts, sorry.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Just having the Outlook app installed allows you to add outlook calendars to Google calendar. That's what I do. You don't have to actually use the app beyond adding your accounts. You could, I only don't because it has ads I can't get rid of. Might work with the outlook lite app as well, idk, I just found out it exists. I'm not aware of alternatives that actually work. I've tried this method (and the other way around method of trying to add google calendar to outlook), and while they sync initially just fine - it gets erratic when I make changes to either calendar. Some changes get synced and some don't, and it gets particular wonky if I make changes to recurring events. It's very annoying. Pvt. Parts posted:Just gonna mention Business Calendar 2 as the no-frills calendar app, or at least it was like a decade ago lol. i'm gonna give this a shot because why the h*ck not?
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I'm not used to things working for me that don't for others. It's usually the other way round!
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Flipperwaldt posted:I'm not used to things working for me that don't for others. It's usually the other way round! this is the way
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Am I stupid or is it literally impossible to only browse paid apps on the play store?? I've tried the store app and then Chrome in desktop mode on an iPad. Absolutely maddening, I want to filter a handful of specific paid apps out of a sea of "free" garbage. Google has always made this a little tricky but the last time I needed to do it, it was POSSIBLE.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:Am I stupid or is it literally impossible to only browse paid apps on the play store?? I've tried the store app and then Chrome in desktop mode on an iPad. Would "Top Charts" > "Top Paid" work?
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Google makes orders of magnitude more money from freemium apps than paid. They're directly disincentivized from making that easy to filter against.
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Google Play *needs* to explain on its store what 'Contains in-app purchases' means. At least in broad strokes. Does it mean some features are locked before purchase or that some additional content is available? Or on the other end that there is only a short trial before purchase or even that you cannot use the app at all without purchasing it? That last one is super annoying because I think it's used to not reveal the price until there's some effort already made to install the app. Many of these even from popular publishers don't tell you the prices on their website. I've had mixed results from emailing and asking what the prices are. (It was the principle of the thing.) They'll never do this because it would almost certainly rely on publishering selecting from a drop-down menu when submitting a new app; and if they later change or even outright lie the recourse would be complaining to Google who don't want to deal with it. Intertia might also a role. There may also be other reasons. They'll never do it. But they need to do it. Would also be really nice if the store told you if you need an account to make use of an apps basic functions.
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H110Hawk posted:Google makes orders of magnitude more money from freemium apps than paid. They're directly disincentivized from making that easy to filter against. I can see that from their perspective but this is just making the android ecosystem seem like even more of a trash fire to me. I made the switch to iOS for my tablets a couple years ago and have been happy, my wife is getting an iPhone, maybe i will try hating life as an Apple user for a while. It’s hardly just this one thing, I’ve been on android phones for a decade and a half and I feel like a lot of stuff has been on a downward trend for a while. Pixel 4 was maybe the high point for me? If they have literally made the $4 audio apps absolutely impossible to find behind a maze of poo poo, that is enough to push me over the edge. Of course, Apple does nearly the same poo poo except they do a better job actually showing paid apps if they exist. They have also substantially degraded this functionality compared to a couple years aho, but remain much more useful for audio tools. hooah posted:Would "Top Charts" > "Top Paid" work? No, I want to be able to search for ‘frequency analyzer’ and find the ones that are 1.99 with no loving ads baked in, not freemium bullshit Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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Literwlly using reddit and "best of paid audio app" listson websites to find apps now This feels like sharewrae in the mid 90s Everything old is new again
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Cabbages and Kings posted:No, I want to be able to search for ‘frequency analyzer’ and find the ones that are 1.99 with no loving ads baked in, not freemium bullshit You mean like this? 
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It was imo on Google to convince me I'd be better off on the play store than to install barely vetted apps by randos on f-droid or github and they've just not succeeded in that. The way the play store is an adversarial ad infested shithole is just a constant reminder of the perversions of the commercial motive and makes me feel at risk. That's a perception problem if anything. Just make it feel more like it's there to help me and I wouldn't even be thinking of circumventing it. E: Audio spectrum analyzer on f-droid Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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hooah posted:You mean like this? This is fascinating and just enrages me more, because while audio apps are 90 percent of what I do, the thing I was trying to find last night was a night light app, maybe with sound, that was ad free, etc Go attempt that same search experience with "night light with sound" as your search term I get a different UX with no "premium" filter. So it's gating based on some kind of algorithmic nonsense. If literally zero premium night light apps exist (unlikely), I still want to be able to do the search to ascertain that. As it was i made do with no night light app for kiddo because all the poo poo I saw had ads etc and I felt like if I left them running we might wake up to loud audio ads for viagra or something. Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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Cabbages and Kings posted:This is fascinating and just enrages me more, because while audio apps are 90 percent of what I do, the thing I was trying to find last night was a night light app, maybe with sound, that was ad free, etc Yup, same result as you. That is strange.
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Flipperwaldt posted:It was imo on Google to convince me I'd be better off on the play store than to install barely vetted apps by randos But you repeat yourself. Apple just put in their T&C that you have to itemize all purchases in your manifest. Google could do the same but they won't for years. They literally don't care as long as the money machine keeps printing on people who can't afford Apple.
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H110Hawk posted:But you repeat yourself. I just priced out switching to an iphone; I feel like I do this every six months. I think Apple products are generally fine, quality wise and I will pay the tax on their tablets because the music app and just general DSP and audio processing ecosystem is light years beyond Android. My expectations and uses for my phone are a lot more limited; if I ever move away from android it's as likely to be for some Lightphone type bullshit, as an ios device. A family location sharing app and the ski and hike tracking and mapping apps I use are the only real obstacles to getting a zoomer phone. The cost is one thing but also if I have a better and more streamlined smartphone I will probably interact with it more, which is not a life goal. Engagement is slang for stealing people's time, everything is awful, the internet makes you stupid, etc. Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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doctorfrog posted:Google search, bad? Google, Search Bad!™
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Google, search "bad" I'm feeling lucky
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hooah posted:Yup, same result as you. That is strange. Strange, or the algorithms know that musicians are generally strapped for cash and have tons of options to compare, whereas parents searching for nightlight apps already hemorrhage money on their kids and also might install random spyware to get through a night? Could be both things at once, just another coincidink of capitalism
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Cabbages and Kings posted:I just priced out switching to an iphone; I feel like I do this every six months. the thing people don't ever include in this is repairs. i like to keep devices for years and fix them myself, iphones are completely off the table for me. even if you buy the warranty and replace the phone as soon as it expires, the accidental damage prices are insane and there are no third parties.
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Bright Bart posted:Google Play *needs* to explain on its store what 'Contains in-app purchases' means. At least in broad strokes. Does it mean some features are locked before purchase or that some additional content is available? Or on the other end that there is only a short trial before purchase or even that you cannot use the app at all without purchasing it? H110Hawk posted:But you repeat yourself. Google could absolutely do this but I'm sure metrics show people would get suckered in less, and they'd therefore take less too.
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:the thing people don't ever include in this is repairs. i like to keep devices for years and fix them myself, iphones are completely off the table for me. even if you buy the warranty and replace the phone as soon as it expires, the accidental damage prices are insane and there are no third parties. Current Google devices seem pretty bad for repairs, but I end up getting new phones every eight months because they get banged up, OtterBox or not
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The 7a is actually really repairable aside from the USB-C port being soldered to the motherboard. Parts are reasonably priced and iFixit parterned with Google on all their phones to provide genuine parts and guides. Plastic back makes it easy to get into the phone for things like battery replacement without much fear of cracking the back. For example, you can buy a genuine battery replacement kit for $39.99 and it comes with all the OEM adhesive to reassemble exactly like factory. Screen kits are $109. Google has online tools to allow you do do things like recalibrate the fingerprint sensor available for anyone.
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bull3964 posted:The 7a is actually really repairable aside from the USB-C port being soldered to the motherboard. I'll be damned. I never would have even considered that as a thing. Good for them.
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What's crazy is you can get genuine parts as far back as the Pixel 2. https://www.ifixit.com/Parts/Phone?filter%5Bfacet_tags.Device%20Brand%5D=Google Samsung, similarly, has worked with iFixit to supply genine parts for the S20 series forward. https://www.ifixit.com/Parts/Phone?filter%5Bfacet_tags.Device%20Brand%5D=Samsung
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Well no poo poo. My S20 Ultra's main camera hasn't focused in like 2 years and I just lived with it. Sadly the replacement is aftermarket and includes the stupid "100mp camera that is beyond worthless" module, likely jacking up the price. Probably should do this and refresh the battery while I'm at it. https://www.ifixit.com/products/galaxy-s20-ultra-main-rear-camera
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Holy poo poo, the "At A Glance" widget from Google is huuuuge! It's a great feature on the pixel that I wanna use on my Zenphone but this is nuts. Is there an alternative out there?
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smoobles posted:Holy poo poo, the "At A Glance" widget from Google is huuuuge! this is my main reason for liking and still using nova launcher; being able to resize my widgets.
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