The removal of SMS will be necessary because Google is cutting out third party apps from being able to access the messaging framework, including RCS. Google’s closing the walls around their garden.
Even then, the large phones are so flat thin, human fingers can’t bend at those angles easily. Thick cases generally help with that, but if the phone were a normal size, it would be easier to hold, could have a larger battery, and not need a case.
Also, since the manufacturers are all anti-bezel now, there’s no safe place to set one’s fingers without delicately holding the phone by both sides or side+back in some balancing act. Razr 5G 2020 was a neat combo, pretty thin borders, (but a notch), but the traditional old Razr bump at the bottom for nostalgia, which gave the phone a chin one could easily grab onto without fear of hitting touch buttons.
These companies quest for a thin sheet of touchscreen as the entire device and completely discard the fact that human hands have to interact with the device.
What was the Motorola mobile arm is now owned by Lenovo, so…ehhhhh… That being said, the Razr reboot line has been pretty neat. Although the lack of OS updates is absolutely terrible.
…that’s hilarious, as Google Home is a terrible husk of an app that feels like some beta thing written by an intern 5 years ago and they’ve never went back to actually flesh it out. Settings buried in random menus, no UI consistency, is it a … menu or a gear to get to settings? Is it for the device or the routine? Oh, how do you get to your camera? How do you reboot your camera? Wait, it controls the thermostat like the Nest app but doesn’t quite do all the features of the Nest app? Media controls, sorta! Maybe your TV shows up, maybe your neighbor’s Google product asks to join when you launch the app. It’s just a mess.
I use Komoot for wild walking and biking, and it’s incredible. Hugely more accurate and reliable. Just wondering if there’s something like that for city and intercity travel. Thanks for suggestions!
You may want to try going into Maps settings->Navigation settings and turn off “Prefer fuel-efficient routes” as it tries to pick poor routes to keep speed down to save gas, and it is enabled by default.
Their navigation was already mediocre at mapping successfully to a destination, now they’re trying to map down secondary roads they have even less knowledge about to pretend to be “green” annnd…stupidity ensues.
Maps.me is pretty functional, powered by OpenStreetMaps, and has a not too expensive annual charge to remove ads. It allows one to store entire countries offline on your phone. Although it seems to be plugging some “pro” feature now so not sure if they’ve become enshittified. It also has an option to not use Play Services in settings.
I don’t recall seeing ads in the phone app, however, just the webapp, so perhaps that is new? Which makes some kind of dark sense given less people use computers to do things anymore, and every tech company is trying to pull off increasingly maximum grift over the last few years.
None will, Google is slowly closed-sourcing the entire platform. Messaging was one of the next steps. Also why apps like Signal won’t be seeing carrier messaging in the future.
So I switched to a pixel 7 from an iphone 10 xs a few months back, and I’ve absolutely loved it in comparison to the locked down nature of an iphone. So I think to look up material you on YouTube for fun, and decide to read the comments and found that people hated it. Quick googling led to me to find two reddit threads and an...
Point 1 is 100% one consistent behavior across mobile platforms the last decade and change that has really been annoying.
I remember when BBOS went to “every icon is chrome” as an example of similar past mistakes.
No longer could one go, “I want Internet, click on blue/green circle.” “I want messaging, click on blurple-dotted-weird-shape.” It’s much faster to identify an application by distinct colors and shapes than wasting brain cycles to read text on the screen through a monochromatic monoshaped boring UI.
The tech industry’s desperate attempts to constantly “innovate” and get people to interact with their apps to drive false interaction metrics by pointlessly changing things seems to always lead down this path of mediocrity.
It’s origin came from a good place. The wireless industry, not Google, started driving the standard to retire/replace SMS/MMS. However, then the wireless industry was reduced to a duo-culture and Google decided to drive RCS after many years of carriers/manufacturers trying to do their own thing to little success.
Another route: MMS could be enhanced to have some modern features while still being backwards-compatible. The datagrams are just XML and the syntax is akin to E-Mail. Larger message sizes could be supported, while the gateways still handle resize/reformat for older device backwards compatibility. There was even a format for a few minutes in the early aughts called EMS that had some promise but it died from disuse. Message delivery confirmation has existed since GSM and CDMA.
There’s even a standard for IMS video calls that has been in the 3GPP stack since the 1999 release that would’ve allowed universal standard video calls. Since carriers hated building data networks and consumers weren’t ready for video calls, it just sat stagnant until iChat AV/FaceTime came along and popularized video calls. It’s still there, it could still be used.
Somewhere along the way, standards-based universal calls, video, and messaging took a back seat to tech bros and their proprietary stacks, and governments (at least the US) were too stupid and incompetent to understand what regulation was necessary to correct this path we are now on. Hopefully the EU can continue to help fix this.
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....
Other browsers, however, have to use the non-accelerated version of the WebKit engine, however. So third-party browsers will always have worse performance than Safari proper. Only Safari has access to the high-performance version of the rendering engine. I think that’s what the question was.
For people in North American countries, Fairphone doesn’t have support for a handful of bands like 13, 14, 25, 26, 30. The lack of low-band specifically will harm rural coverage. Much better than previous iterations though.
Or that they would de-duplicate photo storage. Currently, if you upload one from phone+tablet+computer or some other combo of devices, the photos all count towards your storage limit rather than storing one object and having references to that same one object. It is a problem already solved multiple ways.
Ohio is a state, one of 50. Each is different with voting. Example: In Colorado one can just mail in their ballot or drop it off at ballot collection boxes scattered across the state that are under video surveillance, or vote traditionally on voting day if one wants.
Treat states like an EU country, basically. Also, Ohio sucks, in general.
Just a really weird loud subsect. They’re so loud now because they finally realize they’re the minority and they don’t like it. So they throw tantrums like children because their lifestyle is a commitment to low education and blind faith in a corrupt version of reality and a misinterpretation of their own faith.
Sadly, the Internet (troll farms, social media, etc.) has enabled easy access to loudness, to make it seem like they speak for everyone, when they don’t.
There are plenty of Americans that are Christian and not apeshit. There are also plenty of Americans that are neither Christian, nor apeshit. These two groups just don’t go around screaming about it all day because they’re normal, sane, properly educated people.
Given how they operate internally at the engineering level, probably just Apple being uninformed. The internal culture is total brainwash. Apple tech is the only tech. It is partly why they genuinely think they created technologies. They never stick their head out of the fruit to see what the world around them has, and they have a habit of buy, cheat, or steal to ensure their monopoly continues.
Maybe an interesting sociological experiment? How technology evolves in a cult versus outside the cult back in the real world?
Actually, the reason Android exists isn’t so one-dimensional.
The company Android was initially concerned more with Microsoft dominating phones like they did computers at the time, before being bought by Google
They created two prototype chains initially, one touch, one that was more akin to BlackBerry
iPhone came out, they ditched the BlackBerry-esque one and focused on what became now Android
Google was mostly just doing what all tech companies were doing at the time, trying to compete in a mobile arms race for dominance. The data tracking was just a bonus. Appeasing shareholders is paramount. Look at how Apple created an Alexa speaker just because they had to as another example of this type of behavior.
Also, Apple actually has a long history of tracking user behavior that predates both Android and the iPhone.
Apple apps since some time shortly after the inception of OS X would (and likely still do) phone home to configuration.apple.com to send apple metrics on usage. Earlier variations of LittleSnitch could actually block this collection behavior.
Apple has since reconfigured the network stack to guarantee that direct encrypted connections to Apple are always possible above any VPN, or other type of network filter connection. So there’s no way to prevent communication with Apple on an Apple product at all now short of keeping it off the Internet or blocking DNS to 17.* IP addresses, which would only work on a network one has control over.
I dont want to start a fight or anything like that, I have to decide between these 2 and cant figure out which is the best and why, mostly because if you ask on X they just start swearing to each other without giving any real explanation, can anyone help a person who want to embrace privacy and anonimity?
The second part, about why sim is not very private, well it has a unique identifier and the technology was specifically designed to pinpoint your location, as this helps keep a good connection.
SIM cards contain authentication keys for the cellular network so it knows who to bill and which cells to send a paging signal over to ring a call. The use of SIM cards does not pinpoint your location, and SIM cards have absolutely nothing to do with keeping a good connection (pSIM or eSIM). The network and handset are constantly re-evaluating signal strength across various bands and modes and the network tells the handset to switch to what works while moving about the network. The SIM just auths the user account. It is ostensibly a key to your service, nothing more.
All the network band/mode hunting will continue with or without a SIM card, the phone would just be limited to emergency calls in that state.
It also helps obscure the monopolistic back-to-cable tactic they’re playing. “Oh we have Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+, our customers get to choose what they want! There’s value and choice and freedom!”
Do they charge taxes and fees above the monthly? Just curious. Have never paid for, nor ever want to pay for the service. The Hulu+, ESPN+, Disney+ combo claims to be $24.99/mon, that’s nuts! You combine a few of these streaming services together and it’s more than basic cable.
Google claims that privacy is a priority, and perhaps it is, but we can’t deny there’s an essential conflict of interest between protecting your privacy and Google being an advertising company....
While not disagreeing with you, Android does have an Internet permission in the manifest. For an application to use network access, it must define both:
So if a keyboard is open source, one could quickly validate if the keyboard app actually is requesting to have Internet access or not, and one could choose a keyboard based on it not using these permissions.
Good callout that it could be sneaked in later without alert. I hadn’t considered that perspective. Another reason to be always wary of app updates and the auto-update model.
Republican officials are undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives that seek to protect the procedure. Ohio is the latest state to get protections on the November ballot....
The party that is currently called the Republican party, which was originally called the Democrat party when Lincoln went from Whig to Republican, has always ostensibly been run by fascists. The original Democrat party that became the modern day Republicans was started around Civil War times, and was mostly all southern states wanting to keep slavery, and owning/subjugating people. The party is literally rooted in evil, sold as “state’s rights” - they’ve been lying about their narrative since the beginning. It’s confounding really, because state’s rights sound like freedom, but they really don’t mean true freedom, they just mean, “we want freedom to subjugate.” It’s like how North Korea is called “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” - any time something sounds extra freedomey? It generally is the exact opposite.
Throughout history, the party now known as Republicans has always been pro-rich, anti-social-welfare. In the early 1900s, when income taxes began, they voted against income taxes being public information because the rich were crying about their tax return information being public and showing up in newspapers. They also pioneered the concept of poor whites in the south hating Blacks, and dangled a carrot that the poor whites were not only superior to the Blacks, but also that they had a chance of becoming a rich white some day. This made the lower classes infight rather than realize the rich whites were the source of all their woes.
The actual individual citizens that vote Republican, aren’t necessarily in this same evil mindset, though. The ideals the party espouses about being fiscally conservative, small government, and such, are often what drive people in the US to vote Republican. There are those that don’t think the US government should be responsible for every aspect of supporting the lives of the citizens. Like everything, there is always some validity in viewpoints, but when you mux politics into two binary parties for an entire nation, it makes choosing your politician of choice boil down to whatever you think your biggest issue is, possibly voting for Evil in the process.
Unfortunately, the Republican Fascists in power have wrote a narrative to blind their constituents, and with all the cuts to the US education system over the last decades, the people as a whole are getting dumber, and are more likely to fall victim to the silver-tongued lies.
I would guess it is probably mostly not worth the overhead at this point. Applications are generally compressed archives. The primary data created on mobile devices would be photos and videos, both of which use lossy compression algorithms to generate and wouldn’t compress any smaller. The remaining data that may be created on a phone like documents, PDFs, text files, would either already be semi-compressed, or so tiny in the grand scheme that the compression overhead wouldn’t buy much value.
Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Japanese automakers are serious about rolling out battery electric vehicles to catch up with the world’s frontrunners like Tesla and BYD...
Even if they mothball an EV early on, at least in the US, auto manufacturers are required to produce parts and provide maintenance for 10 years of the vehicle’s life. That and Toyota isn’t Tesla, they want to stand behind their brand.
I can see where they’re going with hydrogen. With projects like that Australian seawater hydrogen project making hydrogen generation “free”, it’s just a matter of time before it becomes cheaply accessible. A fuel cell/battery hybrid that could be filled up in minutes would be much more analogous to how gas cars currently work, versus the heavy flaws in current EVs like limited range, heavily degraded winter performance, and rapidly aging batteries in Nissans specifically due to lack of proper thermal management. Statistics are showing 57% of current EV owners don’t even want to buy an EV for their next car.
Deploying a hydrogen storage network would also not tax the already fragile power grids as an EV charging network would. Economically, having fuel truck networks, fueling stations, etc. continue to exist, would make hydrogen likely less disruptive to the existing model of transportation economics in countries like the US. Jobs could be retained.
Countries like the US are just pushing EV tech so heavily because it is available “now” and they think we can capitalism our way out of climate change. The more boring methods like finding ways to continue utilizing existing vehicles but limit driving frequency with augments like actual public transportation don’t interest the shareholders.
Often, the replacement will just be a derivative that isn’t necessarily better. The narrative that will then go out through the media is: “We’re no longer using this evil thing. Full stop.” The replacement ends up just being something similar with similar problems. People stop paying attention because they assume the problem is solved, when it really isn’t.
Example: there was that whole BPA plastic stink years back, now most bottles and food containers are “BPA Free”…but if you look into the chemical they used to replace BPA, it has the same synthetic estrogen problem BPA did. (Arbitrarily searched source: plasticstoday.com/study-says-bpa-free-plastics-st… )
In the case of replacement for water bottle or food container plastics, the best answer is to just not using them anymore, although glass and metal have their own difficulties, namely fragility and weight.
Also, in Google’s attempt to push RCS, they’re narrowing what application are allowed to use the SMS lib. They already partnered with Samsung so Samsung would removed RCS support and ostensibly deprecated their own Messages app for Google’s.
Google’s long-game is to only have one SMS app on Android, their own, much like the way they’re closing off the rest of the Android ecosystem slowly from every other vector.
Trying to support SMS on Signal long-term would just be an exercise in futility.
They should have just used the Qualcomm ultrasonic sensor that Samsung uses under their displays. It is brilliant and even works through some types of screen protectors, and some types of (medical) gloves. But Google seems hell-bent on never using Qualcomm components in their phones anymore, to the detriment of their users.
Is it possible it had an access panel with input ports somewhere around it? I’ve seen that in hotels in the past. On the side, or underneath, or in a drawer.
Tesla cut the price of some Model 3 and Model Y versions in the U.S. after the company reported third-quarter deliveries that missed market expectations....
Keeping one’s existing car if less than 20 years old, or buying a used efficient hybrid or used electric would both go further than buying a brand new electric. The typical capitalism throwaway wasteful lifestyle of the last century isn’t going to stop climate change, even if it has a cute green leaf icon on the dashboard.
I drive a hybrid in rural areas, and I try to always flip the car into electric only mode when I see a cyclist coming up so they don’t have to inhale my tailpipe. I’m sure it isn’t much in the grand scheme, but I hope they at least breathe a little better.
My favorite enshittification of Amazon is that, plus, the bonus fact the filtering acts different if you pay for prime. The filtering works better with prime. It should work the same regardless if one pays for prime or not.
They basically deliver a shopping experience that is worse unless you pay them money monthly. It’s enshittification two layers of abstraction deep.
Google is working on message editing feature in Google Messages - TheSpAndroid (thespandroid.blogspot.com)
This is why your phone doesn't have a matte display - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
Motorola Razr 2023 Review: Nonplussed - MrMobile (www.youtube.com)
New Amazon Alexa app is here and looks like Google Home (9to5google.com)
Is there a good, paid gps app? I mean for driving and walking? Google Maps etc is getting worse by the day
I use Komoot for wild walking and biking, and it’s incredible. Hugely more accurate and reliable. Just wondering if there’s something like that for city and intercity travel. Thanks for suggestions!
Google is putting ads in gmail. WTF? (sh.itjust.works)
Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.
Google Messages prepares a feature that will do your ears a favor - (www.androidauthority.com)
why does everyone hate material you?
So I switched to a pixel 7 from an iphone 10 xs a few months back, and I’ve absolutely loved it in comparison to the locked down nature of an iphone. So I think to look up material you on YouTube for fun, and decide to read the comments and found that people hated it. Quick googling led to me to find two reddit threads and an...
Apple gets the message, RCS coming to iPhone in 2024 with same Universal Profile as Android (9to5google.com)
It’s happening!!!
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....
OnePlus Open brings back Facebook/Meta bloatware apps (9to5google.com)
It's been almost a decade: Give us more base Google One storage already (www.androidauthority.com)
Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Ohio purged 26,000 voters days before abortion referendum deadline (www.theguardian.com)
Ohio purged 26,000 voters days before abortion referendum deadline
I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me. (www.huffpost.com)
Apple's called Android a "massive tracking device" in an internal presentation (www.androidauthority.com)
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graphene VS calyx
I dont want to start a fight or anything like that, I have to decide between these 2 and cant figure out which is the best and why, mostly because if you ask on X they just start swearing to each other without giving any real explanation, can anyone help a person who want to embrace privacy and anonimity?
Disney is about to own all of Hulu (www.theverge.com)
Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu.
Neighbour deliberately blocking OP (lemmy.world)
FBI director warns antisemitism in US reaching 'historic levels' (www.bbc.com)
Discussion: Is Android Doing Enough to Protect Your Privacy?
Google claims that privacy is a priority, and perhaps it is, but we can’t deny there’s an essential conflict of interest between protecting your privacy and Google being an advertising company....
Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights. GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks. (www.propublica.org)
Republican officials are undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives that seek to protect the procedure. Ohio is the latest state to get protections on the November ballot....
Interesting extra feature Xiaomi announced today: "UltraSpace", which adds an extra 8/16GB storage to 256/512GB UFS chips
Cross-posted from /r/android (u/BramblexD)...
Japan's automakers unveil EVs galore at Tokyo show to catch up with Tesla, other electric rivals (abcnews.go.com)
Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Japanese automakers are serious about rolling out battery electric vehicles to catch up with the world’s frontrunners like Tesla and BYD...
Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord (www.theguardian.com)
Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone group said staff want to work from home so they can save money...
‘Forever chemical’ bans face hard truth: Many can’t be replaced (www.japantimes.co.jp)
As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.
Signal: No Evidence of Zero-Day Flaw in Encrypted Messaging App (www.pcmag.com)
Why the Pixel 8's Face Unlock upgrade is a big deal (www.androidcentral.com)
Brought my Chromecast with Google TV to a Hotel, TV is framed. (lemmy.world)
Fuck my prior preparation day with the Chromecast with Google TV before the hotel checking…...
Tesla cuts Model 3 and Model Y prices in the U.S. after car deliveries fall (www.cnbc.com)
Tesla cut the price of some Model 3 and Model Y versions in the U.S. after the company reported third-quarter deliveries that missed market expectations....
New cars are great... (sopuli.xyz)
Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues (www.404media.co)