sb hermit posted:

I don't mind rebooting the phone every so often if it keeps the passphrase thing away. I just want to know that rebooting is the reason for it so I can do it preemptively and not while trying to check out at the grocer.

But since Android phones can report uptime, and it's been 26 days since the last reboot, it's clear that clearing out userspace was not entirely the reason.

So hopefully this weekly reboot will do the trick, though. If I have to speculate any more on this issue then I'll probably go dig up code. If I remember correctly (albiet this may be lollipop days) that codebase is pretty bad but not impossible to follow.

sb hermit posted:

I mean, I totally understand why they want people to unlock with a passphrase at least once every few days to make sure someone didn't just kill you (or knock you out or just stole your phone and your right hand) and is using your fingerprint to maintain access.

But if I do it once per day then I think that should be good enough to prove that it's still in the right hands, not some stupid random check.

Gentle Autist posted:

it’s a mid range oppo apparently

qirex posted:

we just had an ~*innovation*~ guy talk in our all hands and he thought the google graveyard was a) an official google site and b) used by them as an inspirational tool to show their commitment to not getting attached to unsuccessful products

I did not bother correcting him, the ceo was on the line

~Coxy posted:

In Google Calendar;

-if you create a new calendar entry `1pm foo` it creates an all-day event with that title.
-if you type `1300 bar` it creates an all-day event with that title
-if you type `1300pm baz` [sic] it creates an event at 1300 called baz

flakeloaf posted:

Those who give up security for freedom deserve anroid

bobbilljim posted:

meanwhile in new zealand



I've bought cars for less

Perplx posted:

it should of been free with ads, how many consumers actually pay Google monthly for anything?

sb hermit posted:

the stretch is the worst idea

carry on then posted:

you get cameras that kick the poo poo out of the 13 pro for half the price

Sagebrush posted:

i find that i get good candid photos in social situations by just never letting the camera leave my hand and being constantly taking pictures. people quickly get used to it.

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

ok, i read the entire thing. a very good article which was surprising even being semi-immersed in this nonsense. first half was hilarious, second half incredibly sad. not that the substance changed at all, just started hitting home how loving dumb all this is.

qirex posted:

imo it's pretty funny that even microsoft was able to somehow shoehorn sharepoint into a workable collaboration/chat app but google, despite making chat apps for 15 years, can't swing it

Perplx posted:

I’m sure the next android will get 7+ years of support like Apple

they’ve only had 11 years to figure it out

~Coxy posted:

i ported to the "premium" provider in my nation and they don't support VVM by default. if you want it, you have to suffer through a live chat session, you can't just turn it on in the portal
they also send you a fake SMS telling you that you missed a call (purporting to be from the number that tried to call you)
of course you can't that "feature" or VM entirely
if you do receive a VM for some god-forsaken reason, you can't listen to it without setting up a PIN and recording a welcome message

absolutely bananas

jesus WEP posted:

my dad sometimes will send me an email and then immediately text me to let me know he sent me an email

Casual Encountess posted:

lmao how does this keep happening??

Surprise T Rex posted:

Those of you who have made the Android -> iPhone journey - were there any things that iOS does that you absolutely hate?

Notifications seem a bit weird compared to Android when I tried my wife's old XR for a while, and the lack of a global swipe-to-go-back gesture kind of sucks. Though all the ecosystem integration stuff between mac/phone/watch looks like it owns.

qirex posted:

in case anyone doesn't know this was a real thing and people actually left it on that alert sound on purpose

Asymmetric POSTer posted:

no one has connected a phone to their mac in like 5+ years, everything is in da cloud

also itunes doesnt exist anymore, nice talking point from 2006

Endless Mike posted:

honestly, samsung's biggest sin is insisting that they need to put their own version of every app alongside the stock ones google requires be included on an android phone, so you end up with two browsers, two email apps, two contacts, etc.

The Management posted:

this is almost identical to the ios settings app. except the iOS one comes with an ad for Apple Arcade at the top

The Management posted:

iOS 16.2



welcome to hawaii!

The Management posted:

Google wanted to do this in the iOS maps app when they were providing the data for it. instead Apple chose to pay about $2 billion per year maintaining its own maps specifically to avoid that.

hobbesmaster posted:

“massive mimo” is the only part of this at all trying to be marketed

Zamujasa posted:

google is famously known for folding things so they might finally have found their competence

Jenny Agutter posted:

tim Apple would rather have a world where many teenagers are bullied for their phone choice but apple profits are .1% higher than release an iMessage/facetime android app

goblin week posted:

Endless Mike posted:

google kills their pixel pass program that lets you get a new phone every two years after 22 months

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/google-kills-two-year-pixel-pass-subscription-after-just-22-months/

infernal machines posted:

google is at least on par with microsoft for incomprehensible, wildly incoherent branding

akadajet posted:

I always said it’ll a sad day when the birthplace of “debbie does dallas” restricts access to pornography but here we are.