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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

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Post by misterdata »

fruitworks wrote: post #238
avcloudy wrote: post #224

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This is a really ideology driven push. I don't think you really think the iOS browsers are worse , there's just less choice, because they all fundamentally use WebKit. Having to use Chromium is a worse experience, and not being able to use Gecko under Firefox is not a clear upgrade - particularly as WebKit is so tightly integrated with the hardware, leading to less battery use. If you really don't like WebKit for wha…

no ublock How can whatsapp be better? Android at least has features like scoped storage. Where is the ios equivalent of newpipe? Where is the iOS equivalent of pojavlauncher? where is the iOS equivalent of libretorrent or syncthing? Open source is essentially banned on iOS. What is the advantage of iOS? "Feels smoother"? Totally subjective.

Synctrain is an open source (MPL2.0) iOS Syncthing client (which I made) with full native mobile-first UI and tight iOS integration (shortcuts, background processing, etc).

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Post by gambiting »

trinix912 wrote: post #120
gambiting wrote: post #58

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>>Apple has had better mobile hardware for years Are you joking? Look at the latest Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese manufacturers, Apple would love to have the hardware they are shipping right now. From batteries to cameras and screens, apple is way behind on hardware tech. Yeah they are better than Samsung - but Samsung has also massively fallen behind what's the state of the art. >>is another customer Google has to…

> Look at the latest Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese manufacturers, Apple would love to have the hardware they are shipping right now. This is true, but their phones don't ship with Google services out of box (at least the last time I checked). So in reality, "Google's Android" is really mostly Samsungs and Pixels.

>>This is true, but their phones don't ship with Google services out of box (at least the last time I checked)

I have an Oppo Find X9, purchased directly from them in the UK, and it came with all google services the same as my previous samsung.

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Post by nevi-me »

direwolf20 wrote: post #250
Macha wrote: post #189

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> Choose a bank with viable web banking. There are five options in my country, 3 of which require app push based 2FA to log into the web interface and 2 of which only have an app interfere. Maybe I could get a EU bank from another EU country but my employer will not accept an out of country account for salary deposits because it makes their tax life difficult and my mortgage provider doesn't trust foreign accounts ei…

Your employer's tax obligations should depend on where you live and where they live and where the work happens, not where your bank account is.

It's not just tax obligations, no? Employers in many countries have an obligation to ensure that your salary reflects on the X day of the month (or whatever frequency you're paid). Banks in my country have a payroll payment system for this reason, where funds will clear on the day they're made despite the destination bank (in the same country).

If my employer has to use SWIFT to pay me, on whom does this obligation to ensure I'm paid on time fall? I've had a salary payment from a foreign employer fail to be delivered for 2 weeks a few times. We'd have to go back and forth with my bank, their bank, their payroll vendor. That's an exception because they hired me as a foreign employee. Despite paying their local employees on time, I always received my salary at least 4 days 'late', as long as their payroll system reflected that I was paid on the X day, it wasn't their problem.

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Post by bestnameever »

einsteinx2 wrote: post #561
8note wrote: post #496

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how do you live without ublock on your browser though? firefox with adblock is the high quality youtube app

I use the AdGuard extension just like I do on macOS Safari. It works perfectly fine for removing ads.

Another vote for Adguard. it works perfectly.

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Post by econ »

SoftTalker wrote: post #435
swiftcoder wrote: post #326

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I mean, as someone who is mainly a programmer, same. But high-end cameras, big touchscreens, and an excellent pencil input is sort of the optimal device for a whole bunch of creative tasks

Are the cameras "high-end"? Good for a phone, certainly. But compared to a real camera with a much bigger lens and sensor?

I make the superior picture with my camera but then it sits there on an SD card in the camera. I have to boot a desktop, hope the USB connection works today, find a folder, create and name a folder in the folder, copy the pictures there, find and open something to view and edit the images with, find and open something to upload the images. OR open the camera, take out th SD card, boot up a computer, plug the card into a reader or a laptop and do the same ritual.

People pretend this is a perfectly acceptable workfow. It is not.

The pictures would have to be dramatically better than those made by phones. They are not.

I shoot, review on the much larger phone screen, click share and chose from countless options to publish immediately. OR edit it a bit and enjoy the same.

I also never consciously bring the phone, it's just there in my pocket. Interesting things happen, you unholster it and start shooting. The real camera is more like guard duty. You sit there waiting for the interesting shot. Sometimes that works out and some of those times the extra quality is actually visible and some of that time it is totally worth it. The rest of the time I wonder what it is I think I'm doing.

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Post by gambiting »

trinix912 wrote: post #214
socialcommenter wrote: post #210

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They do when purchased outside China (largely EU, UK, also Singapore and others)

They don't in the EU. Not in Slovenia, so not the entire EU. I've seen it first hand. It's also not some special law that we'd have invented here so I'm pretty sure there are other EU countries where it's the same.

>>They don't in the EU. Not in Slovenia, so not the entire EU.

In Poland you can buy Vivo phones with google services out of the box just fine.

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Post by kstrauser »

physicles wrote: post #601
throw3e98 wrote: post #590

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I use Wipr 2. You throw $5 at the dev and you never have ads on any iOS device again.

Wipr 2 is in the running for the best $5 I’ve ever spent in my life.

Thirded. I recommend it without hesitation.

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Post by cesarb »

econ wrote: post #625
SoftTalker wrote: post #435

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Are the cameras "high-end"? Good for a phone, certainly. But compared to a real camera with a much bigger lens and sensor?

I make the superior picture with my camera but then it sits there on an SD card in the camera. I have to boot a desktop, hope the USB connection works today, find a folder, create and name a folder in the folder, copy the pictures there, find and open something to view and edit the images with, find and open something to upload the images. OR open the camera, take out th SD card, boot up a computer, plug the card int…

> but then it sits there on an SD card in the camera. I have to boot a desktop, hope the USB connection works today [...] OR open the camera, take out th SD card [...]

Or open the app on your smartphone (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.canon.ic...), connect to the camera through WiFi, and copy the photos directly.

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Post by literatepeople »

8note wrote: post #496
hoistbypetard wrote: post #425

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I don't know about categories overall, but I'm attached to my iPad and won't switch to Android in part because Affinity is not available there, nor is there any near equivalent as far as I can tell. I still think Overcast is nicer to use than Antenna Pod. Microsoft Office apps work much better on iDevices, in my experience. (I know they exist for Android, but I've never had much luck editing there, where it actually…

how do you live without ublock on your browser though? firefox with adblock is the high quality youtube app

ublock has been on safari for the past year! there were others before. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

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Post by orhmeh09 »

8note wrote: post #496
hoistbypetard wrote: post #425

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I don't know about categories overall, but I'm attached to my iPad and won't switch to Android in part because Affinity is not available there, nor is there any near equivalent as far as I can tell. I still think Overcast is nicer to use than Antenna Pod. Microsoft Office apps work much better on iDevices, in my experience. (I know they exist for Android, but I've never had much luck editing there, where it actually…

how do you live without ublock on your browser though? firefox with adblock is the high quality youtube app

I use uBlock on mobile safari.
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