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?
@whatcraic, yes, you have a point. On the other hand, even a small-ish dent on a big corporation's profits may be sufficient to scare shareholders and, I'd like to believe, make them rethink their strategies. The problem is that most people seem to not be willing to sacrifice the tiniest of conveniences and then start creating excuses to tell themselves and everyone else that it's ok to keep using what they are already using.
address. I guess I'll only use my main account for things actually related to friends and work. I guess only real people with whom I have a relation have this address. All the other things go to the junk email, then you see why I think there's too much info about me on my junk account.
But, yes, of course if people use Google even a bit less the video is already successful.
@dasgeek, I wasn't by any means criticising the video. As I said, I liked it a lot. It just made me reflect upon those things I pointed out. Probably I'm doing it wrong, but reading your answer I realized that I send much more stuff than I should to my junk mail account. If I got to the dentist, for instance, and they ask me my email so that they can remind me I'm six months to get back there for a revision, I'll probably hesitate a bit and then finally give them the junk email >
>> 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 >>
@mbmattos1113 wnay kind of stuff?
@amolith I’ll probably not be able to watch live, as my life is currently too complicated to have any fixed scheduling, but please let us know when you have the link for the Vimeo version.