Chahk

The “You get what you pay for” excuse doesn’t hold up. My 77-inch LG OLED cost over $3k USD. It’s still full of ads and spies on me unless i neuter it.

It’s at least 1 better than v2.

Looks like I switched to Immich right on time.

Unfortunately deleting my photos out of Google now is a futile exercise. No matter what Google says, I’m convinced that they just make the photos unavailable to us, but don’t actually delete anything, ever.

Trade-in value, plus $400-500 USD. I generally change my phone once every 2-3 year, so I figure ~$150 per year amortization is fine.

Looks like you can self-host OpenTalk too: https://gitlab.opencode.de/opentalk/ot-setup

Undercook, overcook - straight to jail!

“Higher gee-bees equals more gooder. Number go up!” -typical phone buyer, probably

Until people stop renting (we can’t call it “buying” anymore) from the Play Store en masse, nothing will change. It’s only fitting that Google removed “Don’t be evil” motto just as stealthily.

Most of the time I use assistant to either perform home automation tasks, or look stuff up online. The first one already works fine, and for the second one I won’t trust a glorified autocomplete.

Haha! Look at those dumb “professional” photographers spending $15k USD on a single 600mm lens that only gives them like 15x zoom. My $1000 phone with 200x zoom will surely beat the crap outta those!

/S

This only disables these packages. Any OTA update re-enables them, and you have to re-disable them again.

Apple lawsuit incoming in 5, 4, 3…

Uninstalling to immediately reinstall, probably.

I’m done paying Google to be a beta tester for their experiments. No matter how much I may hate manufacturer skins on top of Android, I’d rather deal with software bugs and quirks than hardware issues.

My Pixel 6 always had issues switching from Wi-Fi to cellular, often requiring toggling airplane mode to get back data. It will be my last Google handset for a long while. Still deciding what to get next, leaning towards Samsung or OnePlus.

I would love a pocketable phone that is also large enough for my failing eyesight. Foldables are a solution, but they need to become more sturdy, and come down in price to reasonable levels.

This will be useful to me in about 6 or 7 years when my (then) old phone will still be running Android 14.

Any phone? Really? Even the ones with locked bootloaders? How about the ones that don’t have any 3rd-party ROMs?

Have you met Google? The app will still be there for years to come. It will be broken, but it’ll never disappear.