Ce să vă zic, mă, bine ați venit? bine ați venit, rău ați nimerit. La locu’ ăsta îi zice șerpărie, de la șerpii care umblă pe-aicea. Dracu’ știe cum au ajuns…
@circuscritic Security wise, it does make sense. Supposedly, you still have these documents in original (edit: I mean, in physical format), and you can scan them once again how many times you want. I imagine it would be worse to simply decrypt these and leave them in a random folder somewhere on users’ phones in plain sight, available to any app that would read them.
There are plenty of options for encrypting your files anyway.
@sarmale I’m not into painting myself, but a quick search gave me Pocket Paint for Android (Google Play, F-Droid).
On the desktop, I know that Krita is quite popular. I’m sure there is some common format that you can use for both.
@ijeff One of my goals is to abstractize my data from the devices I own. This is how I plan to have a no-frill switch in the future. That means not being tied to an account or to a specific app. Just like you can open your photo in any photo viewer software, I want to have all my other stuff capable to be opened on any device, using any software. So far I managed to keep my notes in .md files and use KeePass to hold my passwords in. Google and others have the advantage of making their services ubiquitous, but what happens if you cannot access them for some reason? What if the new device you use is unable to access them, and it’s urgent for you to do so? Imo it feels way better to both have (almost) universal access to my data and own it at the same time.
@Whom I just saw the Gallery upgraded on F-Droid today. It’s nice that it now follows the Material You guidelines.
It’s also handing control over messaging back to carriers
I don’t really see any issue in this, as RCS was meant as an upgrade of the SMS protocol. Moreover, as the smartphone market is now pretty much a duopoly between Google and Apple, and pretty much what is not Apple is Google, it was natural for Google to also come up with an alternative to iMessage of theirs. Because that’s what it is currently. I’m surprised Apple accepted to implement RCS after all because of this tbh.
Imo, both Google, Apple could have worked with the major carriers to implement a solution like this over GSM (and not requiring you to use mobile data). For me, that’s the advantage of the SMS over any IM app out there (including Matrix, XMPP etc.): you’re not required to turn on your data in order to use it. It’s just right there. For the current implementations of RCS/iMessage respectively, I don’t see any advantage over just using WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger for example.
@xyguy Yea, tbh, 32 GB is the minimum usable on a phone in 2023 imo (if you play no games). But for this you need an SD Card.
And yea, it’s always better to have the ability to add extra storage imo, even if that would make you a data hoarder 😁
@Positronic The system does explain every option when first inserting the card, though.
When they fail, the average consumer blames the phone and not the cheap SD card they put into it.
I remember I received a notification about a card that was about to fail or something, because it was too old. That was on an older Huawei phone but still. So I don’t think it’s this usual for people not to be aware that their SD cards would soon go away (instead of thinking they have a problem with their phones).
@Positronic well, anything dies on this world. But you know the saying: never put all the eggs in the same basket.
I like expandable storage, as I usually keep the SD card as a secondary partition. If my phone dies for whatever reason, I just pull that card out and stick it into a new phone.
@xyguy the M8 was indeed top notch. A friend in highschool had it and those speakers were really great. It also had a slow motion camera which he used to create amazing videos. That was something I craved for every phone to this day (my current phone now has it fortunately). Not to mention the aluminum body and its relatively solid design. I accidentally stepped on it while with screen down and it had nothing. By the time I was able to get my first phone though, the M8 was no longer on sale. They had the M9 but I didn’t know if it would be the same experience.
I also had a great experience with the Lenovo Yoga Tab 8. It also had an aluminum body and a kickstand which proved itself really useful. I don’t remember watching a movie on it this way, but it was useful in college. And the battery could last me for about a full week! Also plenty of space, as despite having only 16GB of storage, the system had only 2-3 at most. I don’t remember ever hitting the threshold, even though I did install some games here and there. Also, it came with a free version of Kingsoft Office (now rebranded to WPS Office) that had no ads. And it could connect to Google Drive. I kept using that version for as long as I could. And it also had front-facing speakers.
I think the hardware of the Yoga series is the thing that I cannot live without. I know there are ways to attach a keyboard to a regular tablet and keep it in an upright position as well, but the fact that the Yoga can be placed in so many positions makes it extremely useful imo. Not to mention the slightly bulkier base can be fitted with a larger battery and can also be used as a handle to hold your tablet when reading. If I’m getting a tablet again, I think it will surely be another Yoga (I see they still produce the model). I wish it had a removable battery as well though.
@ijeff will the wallpapers stay even when it fallbacks to SMS?
@jeena I used gPodder (Yes, it’s an app as well). But I didn’t really check the sync capabilities, apart from the played/unplayed episodes and syncing subscriptions. I also tend to listen to each episode from start to end, so syncing timestamps or something wasn’t really a priority for me.
The website was also great because you could choose which podcast to sync where.
@darcmage oh, okay. Would I be able to install/remove/disable Nextcloud plugins on these providers or will I be limited on what they offer?
@jeena yea, I’m using AntennaPod myself and I used it since the website was still available. I’d like to sync the podcast on desktop as well, but there’s nothing I can use to sync it with (okay, there is the option to use Nextcloud, but I have no self-hosted instance)
@ReversalHatchery I was thinking about that. I previously worked for a company that did the exact same thing, if I recall correctly (this was years ago, so I’m not sure whether they still do it). But I wanted to see if anyone has any more knowledge about this thing than me. If that’s what happens, I guess I’ll be fine simply keeping these contacts on Google and saving anything on GeneralSync going forward (or any other such alternative service).
@ReversalHatchery I don’t have access to the feature but I’m assuming the option was rather opt-in? And now they’re sending notifications to everyone affected, so it’s not like it’s doing anything the users are unaware.
I do agree they could have better explained the reason they’re choosing to delete the documents instead of decrypting them.