• 0 Posts
  • 25 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 11th, 2023

help-circle






  • Kyle@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemmy.worldShould I buy a Pixel or a Samsung?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I have the same experience. I find somehow the call blocking is more robust on Samsung. I had no idea that they even had that feature parity.

    The perception of Samsung being full of bloat is a misnomer. Can’t get rid of lots of Google apps on the pixel and can’t change the photo gallery app or the camera app.

    I have my own Cloud and don’t want to use Google’s, and Samsungs software was much more receptive in me de-googling the phone the way I wanted to with my own self hosted photo backup software.

    Also I don’t have a hand warmer for a phone now.


  • Kyle@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemdro.idBoost for Lemmy is now live
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    36
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    The same behavior happened when sync came out. Endless complaints about an app being from on app store with the option to pay the hard working developer for their work.

    Do they go on public transit complaining that see ads there too? At least when you pay for the app the ads go away forever.







  • I really really want to move from google workspace, google photos and google drive. I used it all to backup a 16TB archive, sharing photos with family and friends and keeping my personal files in the cloud and synched across computers. I used a Synology to backup the archive from the computer locally to the Synology and offsite to google drive. But here’s the thing, I’m a somewhat PC and Mac-savvy technical guy, but purely GUI. Is moving to Nextcloud on my synology going to be as easy as moving to google drive? I’m a little scared TBH. There are so many ways of installing next cloud and doing 3-2-1 backups and I don’t have time to handle a little error on a Synology destroying my whole workflow for days… Someone give me hope.


  • Hey, maybe all those people listening to mono audio on their little Bluetooth speakers can finally experience stereo or more. Welcome to 1957!

    I like this because the only way I buy Bluetooth speakers is if you can buy two that easily pair to create proper stereo separation. In a world where everyone seems to use a single mono speaker, bringing 2 dinky speakers has consistently blown other people’s minds more than any audio setup I’ve ever had and it’s always surprised me.