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Re: Android 10

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Post by ssully »

kbenson wrote: post #44
garysahota93 wrote: post #23

As a recent iOS user coming from Android, this almost makes me want to go back. I really do miss the Smart Reply and native Google Assistant features. But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group.

> But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group. Man, in my extended family SMS text group, this comes up once every couple weeks. One of us will note they aren't getting a random message, or someone will send a video and the quality will be crap, and the iPhone users will all mention how if we all had iPhones, this wouldn't be a problem. Cue a few of is getting kind of triggered because it's only Apple's…

iOS user here who successfully convinced one of my group chats to migrate to Signal. Shaming people into buying an iPhone will never work, but downloading a free app just takes a few days of bugging. Once you get a few people to do it, the rest will fall in line.

Next step is to get my family to do it. My Dad constantly sends video's that get compressed to hell due to the SMS file size limit.

Re: Android 10

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Post by burtonator »

kec wrote: post #167
Someone1234 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. But it does look nicer/work better for what black themes are actually good at: Using at night. So while the additional battery savings between "true black" and grey are within the margin of error, the battery benefits remain for both and the non-battery benefits remain for our eyes.

True black looks nicer in the same way that oversaturated TVs look "nicer" in the showroom: it's great for grabbing your attention, but a pretty crap experience in the long run. White on True black UI has way too much contrast and is much more fatiguing than white on dark gray.

grey text on black background looks decent. Does this hold up for a true black background?

Re: Android 10

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Post by burtonator »

TwoNineA wrote: post #15
dddddaviddddd wrote: post #12

This should be available for Pixel phones sometime today, right?

Yes, and other Android phones probably never, except some current flagships who'll get it in 6+ months.

Yeah. I'm thinking of getting a used Galaxy S9+ and the lack of upgrades is a real killer here.

Re: Android 10

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Post by wyldfire »

heinrich5991 wrote: post #149
gnusty_gnurc wrote: post #99

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Telegram is the best compromise imo

I don't like suggesting Telegram because it is not end-to-end encrypted. I prefer WhatsApp (where it's Facebook that has access to all the metadata like who speaks to whom, but not the message contents), or Signal (which is also end-to-end encrypted and doesn't have the "Facebook" problem).

Note that even though I advocate for WhatsApp I recognize that it's not really what I would call "end to end encrypted". Any time that you allow a broker to execute the initial key exchange, you're implicitly trusting the broker. And beyond that: if you let the broker re-exchange keys without even informing you (!!!) then it's a stretch to call it "end to end encrypted." But if the system re-transmits old messages encrypted with the new keys without user interaction then "end to end encrypted" has lost all meaning whatsoever.

You can opt-in to at least be informed of new key exchanges, so at least I can tell myself that I took some precautions. But if I'm honest I know that it's not very effective.

Re: Android 10

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Post by input_sh »

mopay wrote: post #100
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #95

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No way, dark mode is great. Combine it with an internet browser that has a night mode (Samsung's fork of Chrome) and the phones are significantly more pleasant to use at night.

Dark mode is only great if absolutely every single website and app you use support it, and you are never shown bright images ever, because then your eyes explode. This is, it's useless.

> if absolutely every single website

prefers-color-scheme recently landed in all major browsers: https://caniuse.com/#search=prefers-color-scheme

> and app you use support it

This is a prerequisite for that. You're not gonna manually turn on dark mode in every single app for much longer, your OS will support it as a setting and third-party apps (including browsers) will read that setting and adjust accordingly.

Re: Android 10

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Post by coding123 »

kbenson wrote: post #79
robertoandred wrote: post #65

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iPhones start at $450.

That right, you're correct. If I want to buy a new phone that's three years old, I can pay $450 for an iPhone 7. Or $600 for a 2 year old phone, or $750, for a phone released a year ago, which is more what I would consider when buying a new phone (why would I buy a new phone that's multiple years old hardware?). So, I think $750 is a fair amount to reference, and I agree that $1000 is a bit high.

That's why I paid 475 for the OnePlus 7 (not the pro I can't stand the pop out camera). I was going in for the latest tech, I don't want 3 year old tech for that price.

Re: Android 10

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Post by rb808 »

garysahota93 wrote: post #23

As a recent iOS user coming from Android, this almost makes me want to go back. I really do miss the Smart Reply and native Google Assistant features. But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group.

FB messenger really solved the cross platform group chat problem for me. Allows for video chat too to replace facetime.

Re: Android 10

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Post by colordrops »

vladdanilov wrote: post #138

The website assets are optimized in a rather strange way. The total page weight of ~20MB is huge for mobile. The images are heavily compressed using WebP lossy with quite noticeable blockiness and washed out textures and fine details, but squeezed into 1MB, yet the videos are only lightly compressed, and make up most of the page weight. Had they been compressed with libx264 at good quality, the page weight would be m…

It somehow loaded instantly for me on mobile.
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