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I am right now in Sri Lanka and couldn't connect to a WiFi that I connected to after I still was on airplane mode. After reading that support thread I could reproduce this issue. It really seems that WiFi networks are not discoverable in Sri Lanka when your device 'recognises' via connecting to the carrier that it is in Sri Lanka
GrapheneOS would solve this issue permanently.
You have to go out of your way to develop this feature too? It's not like there is anything country specific about connecting to wifi. People had a meetings discussing this and thought it was a good idea and some developer actually coded this.
Can someone explain why? Not technically but politically why this would be necessary? Sri Lankan laws? Geo restricted sale strategy?
2. "Do you travel? Potentially to places where it will be hard to get roaming data? Fuck you!" -- Google
Discovered while helping a friend set his up. Most consumers don't know how to channel peg WiFi. Seems like a massive flaw, adjusting WiFi to suit one device?
Really does not inspire confidence spending money on any Google product.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/jdvmh5/chromeca...
So if you ever go on holiday, its safer not to buy a google pixel? Who comes up with these dumb ideas.
If that's real, that is insane. Why buy a pixel? You have to go out of your way to develop this feature too? It's not like there is anything country specific about connecting to wifi. People had a meetings discussing this and thought it was a good idea and some developer actually coded this.
And a used Pixel can be had rather inexpensively due steep depreciation of Android phones.
I am right now in Sri Lanka and couldn't connect to a WiFi that I connected to after I still was on airplane mode. After reading that support thread I could reproduce this issue. It really seems that WiFi networks are not discoverable in Sri Lanka when your device 'recognises' via connecting to the carrier that it is in Sri Lanka
GrapheneOS would solve this issue permanently.
Why does Google support consist of clueless 'product experts' who offer no support at all, ever? I've never seen a more useless support channel, it's insulting. I'd honestly rather them just say they offer no support at all, as it would save a lot of time and frustration.
These are most probably not google employees just people who like to "help" and get such titles for their posts resulting in a skewed persception of support without the company paying them which is a "win-win" situation (???) the issue in the specific thread is the lack of common sense, so I buy a device and I can't travel with it ? a mobile phone that is not a gun. These are answers that could be attributed easily t…
All these company support websites are so bad that people have been trained to ignore them in google search results, and hence they go directly to stackoverflow or reddit where real humans interact. Not seeing how anyone wins in this model. MS also has this issue. If you ever google for windows problems, the stuff on any microsoft.com domain will be utter garbage with clueless people talking over and over about things like clearing the cache or rebooting the machine with a paragraph long boilerplate that will ask for upvotes.