drawerair

joined 8 months ago
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20178785

Wanna share some of my thoughts re this. I don't wanna write a very long essay, so here are just 5 items โ€“

  1. I agree that 1 swipe down should let us alter the brightness.

  2. I'm OK with no sun icon in the brightness slider. I'll know that it's brightness even without any icon. But some may have a hard time, so adding an icon will be more user-friendly for them.

  3. Obviously Nothing didn't wanna overuse their dot matrix design. I side with Nothing on this 1. Putting it all over the os will be ๐Ÿ‘Ž for me. But beauty is subjective. Some may want the dot matrix design all over the os.

Carl Pei probably thought re the folks switching from a different Android phone or an iPhone to a Nothing phone. He probably wants the process to be as smooth as possible so the user will be satisfied. So he didn't use the dot matrix design on the icons. He said something related to this. Changing many things fast versus changing some things gradually. He said Nothing couldn't be overeager to alter stuff.

  1. Re the phone and messages apps, I wonder whether Nothing wanted the users to use the Google apps for these or Nothing is making their own now and will release those in the future. Is it so hard to make a phone app and a messages app?

  2. I agree that Google photos is not for everyone.

Some don't wanna have a Google account.

Google photos is cloud-storage-focused, not local-storage-focused. Some want a local-storage-focused gallery app.

Its search doesn't work offline. Some need a gallery app that works offline.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ublock origin โ€“ best ad blocker

Aside from Firefox + Ublock origin, I have Firefox focus. Its ad blocker has let thru disappointingly many ads.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Been using my Samsung a70 for almost 3 years and I knew re touch sensitivity only lately. I don't want scratches on my screen so I've always wanted a tempered-glass protector. I'm on my 3rd tempered glass. Since I made the screen more sensitive, I haven't felt that it's more sensitive but my on-screen fingerprint reader seems more accurate.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've noticed that more and more apps are requesting my location. ๐Ÿ˜‘

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, it doesn't mean much if the fine is 0.0001% of Android's $.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I read that pairdrop.net was ๐Ÿ‘ too.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

About 10 years ago, my usb drive was Fat32 by default. I changed it to Ntfs due to Fat32's 4-GB cap. 1080p movies that were 4+ GB were getting more widespread then. I'm using Ntfs till now.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm awaiting the day a firm makes a practical quantum computer. I'll be stoked on that day. Idk how folks will write programs for it or if the idea of "program" will apply to it at all. Will it make things faster? Like compiling code or frames per second in gaming?

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Frequently unresponsive or very unstable apps shouldn't have been in the Play store in the 1st place.

Anyway, to the Play store's credit, I downloaded many bank apps and I never got a fake bank app.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Been using Samsung messages for years, not Google messages, but I just wanna comment.

I'm OK with it. It's been an ai race. It's natural that Google is taking advantage of the millions of Android phones and of the fact that many are using Google messages and Gmail. Adding Gemini to Google messages is sensible to me. I just hope it won't be annoying.

Gmail has been my main email but I didn't see Gemini in it. Maybe in the future?

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My Samsung a70 doesn't get major software updates anymore. I'm OK with it. I'll use this as long as possible.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

1 of the ๐Ÿ‘ points that were brought up was artificial gatekeeping. Many techies know it but I guess many non-techies don't know it. Phone makers intentionally not putting the newest features on old phones to boost the newest phones' sales should be widely known. I wonder what the public opinion will be.

[โ€“] drawerair@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I like that the writer thought re climate change. I think it's been 1 of the biggest global issues for a long time. I hope there'll be increasing use of sustainable energy for not just data centers but the whole tech world in the coming years.

I think a digital waiter doesn't need a rendered human face. We have food ordering kiosks. Those aren't ai. I think those suffice. A self-checkout grocer kiosk doesn't need a face too.

I think "client help" is where ai can at least aid. Imagine a firm who's been operating for decades and encountered so many kinds of client complaints. It can feed all those data to a large language model. With that model responding to most of the client complaints, the firm can reduce the number of their client support people. The model will pass complaints that are very complex or that it doesn't know how to address to the client support people.

Idk whether the government or the public should stop ai from taking human jobs or let it. I'm torn. Optimistically, workers can find new jobs. But we should imagine that at least 1 human will be laid off and can't find a new job. He'll be jobless for months. He'll have an epic headache as he can't pay next month's bills.

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