yeah, the charging cable for my JBL headphones had similar double sided plug

To be frank I’ve never seen ads on free sync, maybe it’s a bug?¯⁠\⁠_⁠ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I might have worded myself wrong because English isn’t my native language, but I’ve already said my intention wasn’t to mock his decision to guard his data by not explicitly giving them to Google but the meaninglessness of his way to do so.

Because by using an always connected Android phone with all other 3rd party spyware like Facebook etc. he’s already vulnerable, he’s using RCS for messaging, he’s being tracked on so many levels and already owned by corporations, at this point the manual contact sync has little to no sense especially it’s visibly harder for him to do it that way to the point he’s complaining about it.

By saying I use Google provided sync I’m not trying to one up him because I know it’s a trade-off between privacy and convenience, same with Google Pictures, I respect his choice to not use it’s built-in cloud pictures synchronisation but IMHO on a phone without an SD card support but I won’t be silent when he starts complaining after losing all his photos because he didn’t to back them up

Don’t get me wrong I’m all for privacy, but degoogling without an on premise private cloud or similar solution is kinda troublesome at least

Yeah, in many editors Ctrl+H does search and replace

For me it’s more a case of selecting and correcting what I wrote (Gboard sucks more and more with its predictions)

Yeah I understand that, i just wanted to show the futility of such small choices while using an Android phone, using stock ROM and using all it’s online features, it’s like using Facebook but with names switched and posting those chains saying you don’t allow to use your photos, instead of just writing the platform, also he’s IT, not some 60yo aunty who just got the phone

Also it’s an Android related community, not !privacy or !grapheneos ffs

Often I find myself downvoted for comments suggesting cloud based or non-FOSS solutions, even in non privacy or FOSS related communities, while I’m a fan of open source and privacy, sometimes those are IMO still a better choice for a layman end user, I understand Lemmy people are more tech/privacy/FOSS oriented, but this it’s bordering with toxic zealotism

Dude at my work after switching phones complained he didn’t have old contacts yet, when I asked why he won’t use Google built-in synchronisation, he said he doesn’t really trust them, I was like “dude, they already know a bunch about you, your contact list won’t make a difference”, the weirdest thing it’s we’re both IT guys

Meanwhile I sync everything with Google since I bought my first Android in 2012

Edit I’m appalled by the amount of downvotes my comment received, anybody care on elaborating on why? I’m genuinely interested in the mindset of people who downvote such seemingly innocent comment

Naughties…

yeah, my first question was: what platform? windows? android?

not sure about other languages, but with Polish Google is still the most useful one, Bing and DDG don’t even hold a candle to it, that said i still think Google went to shit hard

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Yeah, “I’m ignorant so I’ll say something” lol

not wanting to be rude but either I’ve worded myself poorly or you may have reading comprehension problems, regarding the wireless charging I’ve meant the magnets they introduced in iPhone 13 (?) became a part of qi2 charging standard, it’s an innovation in my book, also the stylus thing, i didn’t mean modern ipad or samsung styluses but those pieces of plastic we used with resistive touch screens of PDAs back in the days before iPhone, while you could use your finger, it wasn’t precise enough because interface was cursor oriented instead of finger oriented like iOS was

INNOVATE not INVENT

wireless charging? i mean magnets in qi2 are apple’s idea, also i wonder how current smartphone market would look like without iPhone, would we still have stylus operated resistive screens? i know they weren’t the first ones with capacitive touchscreens and finger oriented UI, but whey popularized it, definitely made it mainstream

How old are you? I’m nearing 40 and can’t see the difference between 60 and 120 on my phone

As for third party accounts you can only select IMAP, no pop3, sand it warns you’d be logged in thorough Microsoft servers, they don’t even try to hide it

Thanks for reply, it won’t mute YouTube though, right? Also I have type indicators enabled but it’s not that visible

They do point out they won’t use your personal info in ads if you pay, by choosing the free option you consent for personalized ads

That’s fundamental problem with Google apps, every one looks different, made by different teams with different set of guidelines, messages now look different than Gmail for example

ITT: ignorant people that didn’t frickin’ read the article or even tried to understand the post title, it clearly states they’re stopping online services, not making your single player games unplayable, so there’s no reason for piracy here, not mentioning that pirated copies mostly don’t support online services anyway