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Xitter has gone down the shitter

Is it possible that they offloaded the scraping to a different company to avoid direct litigation now theyre out in the open? To say "we didn't scrape your website, and you can't prove it."

Like DDG, Ecosia, Qwant use Bing for their data Or how feds buy data from data brokers. Outsource the dirty job like every tech company does and shift the blame if caught doing something unlawful.

It seems they are trying to garner some positive PR after they scraped through everything without anyone noticing.

There are languages that are just not convenient to type on a keyboard. A stylus combined with a proper OCR keyboard app could read the handwriting and compose messages in a lot less time.

Ultimated Privacy Achieved!! lol

I just want a better battery/performance. The talk on r/googlepixel is they are getting good battery life in their 14 beta release. Hopefully stable release will be even better. But I'm not holding my breath.

Open source and self-hostable

https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy

Pocket does the job

I don't think that's not the point. Of course it does the job, so does every other read-it-later service which has an firefox extension. For those who don't use pocket, it just becomes bloat.

I too used pocket before and after Mozilla acquired it during my college years as it had apps for all my devices and other services like instapaper were a paid service.

But now I use a different service now and pocket is the first thing I disable on "about:config"

Afaik Rustdesk server isn't opensource and you're limited to using their free servers in Europe for relay. I just need an alternative for lan remote desktop.

I still have an original pixel xl for photo backup and a pixel 6a for daily use. I had Oneplus and Samsungs and a iPhone in between. Off the top of my head, the notification toggles have changed from simple squares to large rectangle bubbles. You could fit multiple toggles before, now you have 4 (portrait). The wifi and data used to be separate toggle, now they are inside "Internet". To turn off wifi, you need to go inside Internet, then turn off Wifi. Some features and options are moved around different sections inside settings. It used to be double tap to wake the Pixel screen, now it's a single tap. Uninstalling some System apps from playstore doesn't actually uninstall it, it just goes to factory version, and an "Update" button is displayed.

It isn't a significant change if you get monthly updates, but really annoys less technically inclined people who update less frequently, usually when things change for a more complicated process. Many google apps don't even follow their own design language. On iOS, even though its interface is boring I can find settings when I help my parents or relatives even though I don't use it much at all.

I'm not talking about the SMS app. We very rarely use SMS. First there was Google Talk, then Hangouts, Allo & Duo. Now there is Messages by Google, Google Voice, Google Chat, and Hangouts is still on the playstore.

For AI there's Duet AI, Bard AI. These AI are not specifically on Android yet, but you never know with Google.

RDPWrp used to be able to run a patched version of RDP for Windows Home to enable incoming RDP but it isn't maintained anymore. You didn't need to upgrade to Pro.

"It's all good until we decide to change the entire interface of the OS every few iteration, abandon apps you love to use, introduce you to multitude of messaging apps (any of which you can't be sure to last), so you need to learn everything over and over again.

And have you heard about our new AI assistant, that's better than our old AI assistant that we're purposefully making dumber by the moment?"

It’s all good with Google on Android because we ~~need~~ want your data.