Friends don’t let friends buy ASUS unless the purchasing friend enjoys months of customer support or RMA nightmare.

It’s probably the best and fastest “AI-powered search” I’ve tried so far. Think of it as a search engine on steroids, which can handle complex questions and give you tailored responses. It’s also one of the few that really jumped out of the “text-based” chat format and really embraced more modern multimedia interface.

Do you make your purchasing decisions based on these categories? Best camera, best battery etc.?

No, but it’s not really the point of this video.

It’s a marketing and publicity stunt, kinda like Nothing’s fiasco with the Sunbird app. The goal is to get people talking about them and come out looking like the good guy underdog vs Apple. To be fair their plan is probably working judging by how many people are jumping out in front of Beeper and condemning “Big Apple”, even though Apple is just doing what any service provider should be doing.

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You know what an even better take is? “We hear you, we’ll take your feedback” or just as good, say nothing at all.

Arguing that you are smarter or wiser than your users / customers is paradoxical. You are by definition not smart if you attempt to do this.

I have a COVID joke, but I did my research on Facebook and realized it’s actually a nihilism joke.

E2EE means it’s End-to-End Encrypted. If it’s decrypted at any point during transit then it’s by definition not E2EE and Beeper shouldn’t be making that claim.

What size?

Galaxy Tab A series are budget tablets that can do the job. If you want more powerful and bigger you can go with the S7/8 FE series. S6 lite is another option but it’s running out of Android updates.

PSA: this feature requires you to opt-in to sending the names of apps on your phone to the developer. You cannot enable the feature without agreeing to send this data.

But this article is in fact completely, irrevocably, tastelessly flat.

WhatsApp is E2EE but it is run by Meta, so YMMV.

This tells me Nothing really doesn’t understand the human nature behind the whole “blue bubble / green bubble” deal - it’s stupid, don’t get me wrong, but it’s about status and exclusivity.

Trying to “fake it” stinks of desperation and will just bring the user more ridicule. Just embrace the green bubble and move on.

I’m kinda surprised another company hasn’t made something to legit compete with iMessage yet

WhatsApp, FB Messager, Telegram? RCS is also a legitimate competitor.

The blocker isn’t the tech, it’s Apple’s control of the ecosystem and iMessage’s integration to SMS on iOS / macOS. I’d imagine if Apple provides an option for user to “switch default SMS app” to a 3rd party one, there’d be no reason why any one of the above wouldn’t see a huge uplift.

By the way, the iMessage domination thing only really applies to North America. Rest of the world lives and breathes WhatsApp, WeChat, FB Messager etc.

Saving is optional - you don’t have to save a photo to be able to browse it. And yes, browsing it will take some storage space as well since the app has to download, cache and render the image somehow but that’s true for any device and just the way it works.

if you upload one from phone+tablet+computer or some other combo of devices,

How and when does that even happen?

Google Files app has a feature to identify and delete duplicates from the same device. Very handy.

Separate terms to tell different things apart, I’m not sure what’s there to disagree about. It’s literally in the name, Android Open Source Project lol.

As a distinction AOSP vs Android is as important as Chromium vs Chrome. It is much more than semantics, it is literally the difference between an open-source project vs not.

Fact is if you present the de-Googled AOSP to regular users, they’d think it’s a broken experience without all the Google apps and services that people come to expect - Maps, Mail, Calendar etc. Drivers and device specifics firmware are also a big part of the foundational Android user experience. So to call Android = AOSP = open source is a mass simplification and definitely hand-waving away the reality of how each system operates and the whole point of open source projects.

If so much of the core Android experience is proprietary-dependent, can you really say Android itself is FOSS? Might as well call the non-proprietary, open-source parts something else… Like… Android Open Source Project (AOSP)?

I’m thankful for the volunteers but goodwill is not gonna last forever. Especially easy to burnout on goodwill when casual users goes apeshit on devs whenever things don’t work. The system is stacked against volunteers.