I was really happy with my nexus 4, but after the last update the phone started acting up. I was really happy with my Toshiba CB2, but after the last update the laptop started acting up. The only reason I haven't lost my mind is that my Macbook Pro, after the last three updates, has been acting up. :(
Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use an app called AirDroid ( https://www.airdroid.com/ ) to copy files to/from my Moto G. It works reasonably well in my experience. I have no idea what the benefit of MTP over USB mass storage was imagined to be.
I looked at that but have you seen the permissions required. Wow. Change my contact list? I'm sure they have good reasons but I'm struggling with that for something I'm going to use for copying files. While I've gotten MTP to work ok its not a first class experience. Folders with many files (like photos) can take a long time to even start copying. I assumed that MTP was done due avoid patents over FAT32 with Microsof…
It's because you can edit contacts(edit, add, etc) from their web interface.
I use it exclusively to transfer files, much faster then connecting a cable.
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes USB isn't an option: The USB interface on my old Samsung Galaxy S2 broke (seems to be a common problem), now the connection just charges, data transfer is borked under Windows and Linux. So I thought it would be "easy" to use WLAN for that - Samsung itself wants you to use "Kies", proprietary software which works only under Windows. Once I had located the right old version for my apparently-too-old phone, I…
I used https://www.airdroid.com/ for that; it gives you reasonable, LAN-speed downloads.
Just for file transfers, I really like SuperBeam. It does just one thing, it's really fast (the WiFi direct connection is fantastic) and the PC software is just a file that you run, no installation or other crap necessary.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. It seems a common feeling that is spreading during the last year... Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9074704
What I _can't_ understand is why does Google rave all day about "material design" and such when they have dog crap all over their own doorstep?
Can't understand why everything in lollipop is so white and bright, complely degraded the UX. Android was dark-ish from the start.. now all apps are following the same trend, which will only worsen the situation
If I could, I would downgrade to 4.x ..
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#115Guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E "You are sitting in a chair, IN THE SKY."
It's still frustrating ,because google did the hard part(storing 8 gb plus data) and mess up the easy part it's angering.
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#116I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously? Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this. Anyway back to your issu…
Lollipop is just a bad, bad update. Tap the square button and close two apps at the same time. If you did everything right, now your phone says that Android UI failed. This has been going on since day one. Day one. Which was sometime in November.
Their Hangouts app sucks. I don't know how people in the U.S. use it, but here people use it only for SMS, and they crammed everything in that so it's hard to do the main function. But not to worry, they made Messenger too. So, if you're a sane person, you disable Hangouts, install Messenger and all is good, right? Of course not. Because since the 5.1 update, every few minutes you get a nice message that says "Hangouts has stopped unexpectedly". You know, the app that you supposedly disabled because you have no use for. So you enable it again, and the message goes away, and the app just stands there, unused, taking up space and memory. And by the way, why do they feel the need to make two or three different apps for doing the same thing? Photos and Gallery? Why not. What about Email, Gmail and Inbox? Sure, my app drawer was a bit too empty anyway...
There's so much more that could be said about Google "products" (I hate this word) and their problems, but my blood pressure is already acting up, so I better leave it for another day.
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#117About 2 months ago, I went to my grandma's funeral, and snapped some pics of family and friends with my new DSLR.
After two weeks, I realized that I wanted to share all these photos. I discovered OneDrive has a ridiculously easy interface for photos: upload folders of jpegs. I thought the web interface for looking at them was sexy too, with the photos featured prominently (not much text, no comments). It even has a "Download All" button! I sent a public view link to everyone. Damn, Microsoft is getting things right these days.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. It seems a common feeling that is spreading during the last year... Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9074704
What I _can't_ understand is why does Google rave all day about "material design" and such when they have dog crap all over their own doorstep?
They could never get design right. First it was complete shit because they didn't care, then they copied Microsoft's metro and called it Holo, then they came up with Cards UI and now they have Material. Not one of these was properly implemented in their own apps, which should tell you a lot about their inner workings.
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#119He's right. What surprises me is the readiness of people to put up with that shit. I'm not sure if their patience with horrible design is just a result of their ignorance.
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Your response is reasonable, but what's frustrating is not that software has bugs. What frustrating is when something that worked well enough before gets a whole slew of bugs that could have been avoided by simply not adding unwanted features.
Here's an update to the piece of software that you had enjoyed using and had incorporated into your daily workflow. It has a whole bunch of features you didn't want and the new interface is so complicated and intrusive and buggy that it renders the whole thing nearly worthless. Something that worked well for you before has been taken away for no discernible reason. Becoming enraged at this may not be rational, but it is human nature.
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#120This reminds me of Bill Gates' email documenting his experiencing trying to install and run Windows MovieMaker (read from the bottom): http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Jangat...
I got inexplicably angry just reading that
Because its a bunch of overpaid managers measuring dicks and talking about small design choices that will inevitably trickle down to the average programming intern to implement.