ThrowawayOnLemmy

Things that’ll never happen for $400, Alex.

Looks scarier than it is, but I know what those 33 apps are and I’m ok with those apps using my location. Plus they use location while the app is open, not always.

I like the new layout. Settings categories are better grouped together.

Of course though, Google had to put it’s settings at the very top even though it’s probably my least used settings menu. Other than that, the layout and order make sense to me

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I got caught up in the marketing back when they first launched and I bought a moto 360 and it crapped out within a year and never held a charge for more than a day. Never picked up another one and honestly I wouldn’t recommend anyone use these pointless things.

You don’t gotta do anything you don’t want to.

I will watch the intro once.

If you have a pixel 8, are you gonna upgrade?

I got a 7 pro that google will give me $540 for trading in if I pre-order. But I’m tempted to wait till closer to the holidays to see if a better sale comes along.

Why though?

That price is stupid too.

I edited my original post right when you replied, my bad.

I dunno if you can do that much remotely, honestly. I kinda feel like something might have corrupted? What kinda system are you using? Any more details you can provide?

Does your router have an app or way of letting you remotely see if the server is even showing on your home network?? It could be a physical disconnect or Ethernet port failure, or NIC failure maybe? A reboot wouldn’t help if the issue was related to something like that.

Edit: Actually, re-read your post and thinking about this again, what I said wouldn’t make sense…

You could have some sort of corruption causing an error in the appdata, preventing it from running. Might be a RAM issue.

My last 5 phones have been out of contract, and less than $400 with trade in and/or discounts. I always stick with the pixel lineup. Frankly I don’t think I’ll be spending that much on this next upgrade though. the latest and greatest just doesn’t make that big of a difference in my daily usage nowadays, and paying a premium for the high end stuff doesn’t really get you much more than the mid range stuff.

I get that. And I self host the things I care about. But for the average layman? I don’t see self hosting as a real option. Unless you are decently tech savvy, and have an aptitude for troubleshooting, most people aren’t gonna put in the time or effort of initial setup. Even if maintenance is minimal once it’s running. That first leap into self-hosted is daunting.

I think of it this way… would I expect my dad to be able to do it? Absolutely not. And my dad is decently tech savvy for 70.

Not familiar with the nextcloud side of things, but I just pulled all my photos from Google photos and imported them all to Immich. I’d imagine if you just have a folder full of images, it’d work the same way. During the Immich setup, you can designate an import folder. Point that import folder at your photos folder that you want to bring in. Once you have Immich up and running, you can use the terminal and run an import from the command line on that import folder. You’ll have to make an API key for the CLI to use, but you can make that in the settings. Immich doesn’t currently support mass importing from inside the UI, so this is the only way I’ve found to do it. The import ran fast for me though, went though 125gb of photos and videos in about 5 mins.

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Funny, I think it’s used a ton and it’s so ubiquitous in some situations that I forget it’s even there, but immediately notice it’s absence.

Had me fooled.

Anyone have any idea what any of this actually means?

Gotta agree with this comment. If it’s an unknown network, and you don’t know the password, you can’t connect anyways, so who cares what it’s called. And what additional insight is gained by labeling your parents wifi ‘parents house’ when you know you can only use it at their house?

I think the point I was more getting at is that the bullshit that companies do is extremely subjective, and everyone has their own different things that they feel are important issues. But you’re not wrong. There is a lot of BS to keep track of.

And I’m thinking that if it’s related to something you do actually care about, you should be digging into it. Plenty of people are trying to mislead people all the time, and it’s so easy to get swept up in fake outrage if you don’t actually stop to question things.

That’s why a bunch of people are angry at a consulting firm for a bunch of different game studios right now. Because somebody literally just made a list of things for people to be mad at.

Do you really need a list to tell you what to buy and not buy?

I mean it really doesn’t take that much effort to avoid those companies you don’t like.

Keeping a community list seems stupid, everyone has different things they like and don’t like, and the gaming community isn’t a personal army, despite what others might think.

Umm… they’re doing this. I literally was prompted the other day to test out Gemini as my assistant app. Granted this was my fuckup by opting in, but I thought it’d at least have the basics… Now I can’t set reminders, or look up my calendar info with my voice like I used to. Not being able to identify songs is just as equally ridiculous. It barely searches.