Does anybody here use an iOS device? This week I found an old iPod Touch on a drawer and started messing with it. It’s stuck on iOS 6 and I am very impressed at how much better the keyboard is compared to recent versions of Android and iOS itself. I don’t know what it is, I don’t know if it’s the size of my hands, I just know that typing is spot on every time. I don’t even need autocorrect to act, as my fingers fall perfectly on the desired keys. Anyone has a similar impression?
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I actually do look like John Lennon!
This is frankly ludicrous: I went to my parents' today and was configuring their WiFi, as the company sent them a new modem and the password was the SSID with two characters added at the beginning. Then I went on to update the wifi settings on their devices. My dad's phone is a Moto 5G and when I picked it up it it told me to install an OS update which had among its features Android's security updates from July 2018 - yes, twenty-eighteen! Is that possible?
>> I guess my point is that simply moving to ProtonMail for you personal/work stuff and keeping a gmail account for junk mail may not achieve much in terms of not giving away your info to google. And the worst part is that then you’d have to pay for a lot of space to store all your junk mail so that you can have access one day if needed.
>> personal stuff anymore, I mean, in general ppl have mostly moved to messaging services for that. OTOH, junk mail is arguably where the true profiling can take place. Think about it: in the same way that searches reveal a lot about your interests, various invoices, sites where you created an account, b&m stores where you’ve given your email when making a purchase, all of that info can be a gold mine for a company that wants to know as much about you as possible. >>
Hey, @dasgeek, I’ve been watching your very nice video about de-googlifying, and two things came to mind: 1. are you aware of Cryptomator? It’s an open source program that creates an encrypted vault inside whichever cloud storage service you want to use and you can access the vault from your phone, tablet and computer using their app (works even on iOS); 2. Lately I’ve been thinking that email is a very specific thing nowadays, as on the one hand nobody uses it that much for >>
How does one disable autocomplete in Gboard (Android 9)? I want autocorrect, no problem, but it drives me nuts when I start typing a word and it completes the word before I finished typing it.
@dasgeek, I’ve been following you from DL and noticed you’re somewhat heterodox in the Linux community for your not-so-immediate adhesion to Android. How is your current view on the “what does a freedom and privacy loving person do in the smartphone space” debate?
I have to install Ubuntu for a friend. Downloaded and checked GPG Keys and all that, but ‘sha256sum (...) grep OK’ keeps giving me no output at all. When I check myself the sha sum by comparing them through looking they are correct. What do you think? I’m doing this from Debian 9.
Eugen RochkoAnyone here want to implement the UI for creating polls in the compose form?
The fact that wireless charging started going mainstream just as the headphone jack was dropped is one of the biggest coordinated scams in history. You can’t charge and listen to something at the same time and someone will tell you it’s easy: just buy either a wireless headphone or charger. A problem that simply wouldn’t exist had they left the damn jack there! Now the push to go wireless is stronger than any hype, it’s been artificially made a necessity.