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Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by lern_too_spel »

thewebguyd wrote: post #731
lern_too_spel wrote: post #727

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Even Google also gives actual E2EE by default for Android backups. Same with Samsung. Others have mentioned that Proton and others do this for services that Apple won't. https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/risks/bac...

But not for photos, arguably one of the more important things to a lot of people to be E2EE, and not everyone wants to host their own Immich instance, or do things manually. iCloud offers E2EE photo back up and sync and native apps for it, it's a huge selling point that Google could just as easily offer but willingly choose not to.

> it's a huge selling point that Google could just as easily offer but willingly choose not to.

Google Photos is meant for sharing, where E2EE makes little sense. You can search your photos from any device.

If you really want to give up that convenience for E2EE, you might as well do it right and use Proton or Ente, which have E2EE for all photos, unlike iCloud, which isn't for shared albums or photos shared to anyone with the link. Unlike iOS, Android lets these apps have access to all the same device APIs as Google Photos, meaning they're as seamlessly integrated as possible. Apple iCloud uses iOS APIs not available to third parties, locking you in to using either a gimpy service or a gimpy app.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by frollogaston »

zamadatix wrote: post #132
the__alchemist wrote: post #2

Looks like they're still only available in "Huge" and "comically oversized". I guess I can keep buying Pixel 4s until new ones (req for battery) are no longer available.

It's interesting how this type of feedback always comes up for phones yet smaller phones have an extremely hard time actually selling enough units to justify making more of them. It seems part of it may be folks remaining in this group seem much more willing to stick with old devices anyways, helping drive less priority for small sizes on top of already being a smaller market segment. Perhaps there are some other big…

Probably. I don't expect the market to cater to me when I don't cater to it. The only reason I ditched my iPhone 5 in 2019 was the carrier entirely stopped service for it. I don't like my new 12 mini as much.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by _puk »

godelski wrote: post #710
dakiol wrote: post #57

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> I love the idea of an on-device model that I can say something like "who's going to the baseball game this weekend" and it'll intelligently check my calendar and see who's listed. Or saying something like "how much was the dinner at McDoogle's last week?" and have it check digital wallet transactions. It's probably just me (or a few like me) but I don't really keep my life in digital format as much as others (and I…

> I pay with debit/credit cards but I don't have any digital wallet. I don't take my phone with me most of the time (my phone is big and having it hanging in my pockets is not nice). I hate having things in my pockets, so that's actually why I like digital wallets. Honestly I'd rather forgo my phone but it is easier to give up my wallet, which is only carried for the ID. But I've also recently moved away from flagshi…

There's non flagship, and there's ex-flagship.

I'd much rather have an ex-flagship phone that, at the time, had what was considered one of the best cameras (actually pretty much all I care about).

That said, I'm looking forward to trying this out in about 5 years!

Written from my "new to me" pixel 6.

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Post by AlecSchueler »

dakiol wrote: post #57
jjice wrote: post #10

> Tensor G5 and the latest version of Gemini Nano work together to run Magic Cue privately and securely on your phone. Running Gemini Nano on device is the most interesting thing here. Magic Cue sounds exactly like the Siri improvements that Apple failed to launch this past year (and have stayed mostly quiet about for this coming year, except saying "eventually"). I hope it works well, because on-device AI for simple…

> I love the idea of an on-device model that I can say something like "who's going to the baseball game this weekend" and it'll intelligently check my calendar and see who's listed. Or saying something like "how much was the dinner at McDoogle's last week?" and have it check digital wallet transactions. It's probably just me (or a few like me) but I don't really keep my life in digital format as much as others (and I…

> (my phone is big and having it hanging in my pockets is not nice).

Not to critique how you love but a little bum bag could fix this.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by sometimes_all »

red369 wrote: post #674
littlecranky67 wrote: post #353

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Bigger phones encourage more user engagement and more screen space to show ads. Smaller phones are used by people who use it less. I have only anecdotal data, pretty sure google has the analytics to find that out.

I put Bloomberg TV on the other day, just because it's one of the easy to access channels on a Roku I was setting up, and that experience makes me agree with your statement about space to show ads. It wasn't full of ads (yet?), but the tiny actual video surrounded by huge amounts of other content reminded me strongly of the TV future shown in Idiocracy. https://www.bloombergmedia.com/press/bloombergtv/

Bloomberg's ads are slightly separate from their regular ads; the "other content" is still news most of the time - Bloomberg is at its heart a data and news feed company (the video news is mostly an add-on for them), so they are doing what they do best anyway. "Idiocracy" is an interesting example; while the style is similar, the side content on BTV, while a pale shadow of the actual terminal, is actually quite information-rich (especially on BTV+); the actual terminal is entirely populated by feed/data/whatever function you're using.

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

cyberax wrote: post #228
vvvvtt340 wrote: post #214

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I switched from Android to iOS a few years ago. I used to be deep into Android customization - custom ROMs, custom icon packs, etc. But today, I feel that iOS and Android offer pretty all the features that I could ever want. My deciding factors when I switched: - iOS UI animations are significantly better - access to iMessage - Apple got around to adding their version of "always on display" - I turn the vast majority…

> iOS UI animations are significantly better And if you don't like them: tough luck. They're mandatory.

You can disable them in Accessibility Settings.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by tucnak »

red369 wrote: post #685
Disparallel wrote: post #236

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The help section article lists # Data that isn’t protected by the VPN Not all network data from your device is protected by the VPN. Examples of data that aren’t protected by the VPN include: - Tethering traffic - This includes USB and Wi-Fi hotspot. - Push notifications - Wi-Fi calling and other IMS services - Work profile app traffic - This applies if a work profile is configured on your device. - Data traffic from…

I wonder why tethering traffic doesn't go through the VPN. I could be wrong, but I think it works the same way with iPhones. I might test that later, but this (old) SE question seems to confirm my memory: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/266871/is-there-a-...

FWIW, all tethered traffic in GrapheneOS goes through a VPN.

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Post by ljf »

gruez wrote: post #560
delichon wrote: post #20

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Or for the police, "list any legally questionable content on the phone or behavior by the owner."

Why would the police bother with that when they have forensic extraction tools, that itself possibly has AI built in? Why trust a quantized model on a phone that possibly could give you wrong answers?

Because they can do this in an instant at a traffic stop?

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Post by tucnak »

neilv wrote: post #362

> It isn't just a simple crop; Pro Res Zoom uses Tensor G5 and an all-new generative imaging model to intelligently recover and refine intricate details. Unclear what "intelligently recover and refine" means here, and I'd like to make a request of people who might also be unclear yet influenced by this idea... If you build features that sound like this into the image-capturing stage (from the user perspective), and y…

Because of course "serious photographers" use their smartphones at 100X zoom. Please.

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Post by mrheosuper »

jjice wrote: post #10

> Tensor G5 and the latest version of Gemini Nano work together to run Magic Cue privately and securely on your phone. Running Gemini Nano on device is the most interesting thing here. Magic Cue sounds exactly like the Siri improvements that Apple failed to launch this past year (and have stayed mostly quiet about for this coming year, except saying "eventually"). I hope it works well, because on-device AI for simple…

call me insane, but i used to want a virtual assistant that run and listen to me 24/24. Yeah, some paranoid would scream like hell, but think about what we could achieve.

It could listen to my conversation, take notes, and auto add a reminder in my calendar if needed.

Since it has a large amount of context, i could something "Hey do you know when John said he would come back from his trip?" and it would answer me "Yes, he said he would be back on Friday at 5 PM".

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