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Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by amyjess » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

spapin wrote: post #2

10 years ago, you would have to pay a photographer to develop the photos and go to a fucking post office, then your mom would wait a week to receive them.

10 years ago was 2005.

I had a Fujifilm digital camera which saved photos to an xD card. I'd plug it into my computer's USB port, it registered as a mass-storage device, and I'd pull the photos. If I wanted to send them privately, I could email them. If I wanted to share them with the public, I'd throw them up on a web host and link them from my LiveJournal (I was actually hosting my own site at the time, through a server in my living room, but any of the gazillion free webhosts at the time would've worked).

There were other options, too. My cousin used Ophoto. I think Flickr was around then. Facebook Photos came out about 9 years ago, I think, so I wouldn't have long to wait.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by protomyth » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

intrasight wrote: post #124

jdg1 wrote: post #71

"You can fucking strip the leading $ and commas you piece of shit mother fucking asshole terrible programmers." That sounds sensible, but now you've just broken it for every country that uses comma as a decimal mark.

But they know you locale and could do the right thing. Is not at all hard.

Even without knowing the locale, it pretty easy to know which are NoOps and which mean something.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by ascagnel_ » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:05 PM UTC

junto wrote: post #61

Lancey wrote: post #50

There's tons of problems with Google's services. They make radical changes that bloat them and slow them down. They cut services that people find useful because they're not as big as something like Maps or Gmail, or even for no reason at all. But no matter how much you complain, either on a blog post or to Google themselves, if you just come back to them at the end of the day you've changed nothing at all. Not liking…

Photo provider switching is hard these days because many people have 100's of GB of photos and video.

Dropbox offers 1TB of storage for $10/mo (or $100/yr), and their "Carousel" app isn't terrible. And you get direct access to the damn files on all your devices (regardless of platform). It's a much better service than what Apple or Google offers for these reasons alone.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by fencepost » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:05 PM UTC

loudmax wrote: post #74

avian wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this actually work for you with a recent Android phone? On my Moto G, this is more like: connect USB cable, wait 2 minutes while the computer is mounting the MTP. See it fail. Unconnect cable, reconnect. Forgot to unlock screen on the phone. Unconnect cable, reconnect. Wait another 2 minutes. The drive mounts now. Select photos. Copy. Paste to hard drive. Wait 10 minutes while the computer is copying the files.…

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.

The fact that the phone can continue to access storage while connected, so apps can get to their data (or apps moved to SD can continue to run).

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Post by mring33621 » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

hudo wrote: post #63

hudo wrote: post #55

One of the best blogs ever! Quote: "I have a pretty strict rule about not using computers in the evening time. (because computers inevitably make me furious and want to smash things and then I can't sleep)." Can't stop reading posts ...

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/02-01-15-fucking-f...

I think cbloom's "finishing team" idea is great.

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Post by TeMPOraL » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

_lce0 wrote: post #114

edem wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ..

It's funny how this turn to all-white came along just as screens that use less power the more black colour is displayed became popular...

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by geggam » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

lazyant wrote: post #81

Try sharing photos you have in your iPhone while travelling to someone with a PC (I wasn't able to do it).

funny... my blackberry still shares files easily... perhaps its the icrap ?

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by amyjess » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

tlunter wrote: post #11

spapin wrote: post #2

10 years ago, you would have to pay a photographer to develop the photos and go to a fucking post office, then your mom would wait a week to receive them.

And he should be able to just plug his phone into his computer and pull the images right off with MTP. Don't know why that's so hard.

MTP? The digital camera I got in 2005 was USB mass storage.

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Post by bontoJR » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:08 PM UTC

edem wrote: post #86

bontoJR wrote: post #78

Earlier 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?

Me too.

I think Google is taking a lot of wrong decisions in terms of strategy. I really liked Material Design and how they tackled the UI discrepancies in their products, but on the Android world this is just a mess. If you want it, you need Lollipop that is just the 5% of the Android world. Can a developer ignore the 95% of the Google Play store? NO.

Then they ported Google Apps, it was nice, but Google Apps wasn't requiring a real re-style, but a better integration with apps and with their services too. Nope, we got a new UI.

It looks like they are prioritizing things that people are not caring now, at least, not so much compared to other things...

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Post by edem » Mon, May 11, 2015, 2:08 PM UTC

jknightco wrote: post #110

edem wrote: post #65

I 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…

Its been a few months since I used the Android calendar app, but I'm pretty sure if you turn the device into Landscape it'll change to month view.

I always never use landscape because it is not handy enough for me (I use a smartphone not a tablet). I actually turned the reorientation accessibility feature off.