80 cameras and nothing to do and no where to go
Anon notices what they've taken from us
Submitted 1 year ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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rabiddolphin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
- If this hasn’t been done already, being able to unlock the bootloader
- Adding “AI” integrated into the OS with vague benefits even though the processing is done on the cloud (like Windows) just so the OEM can spy on you better
- Forced volume limiters: The phone won’t let you stay at max volume for more than 5 minutes a day, even if connected to a BT device set at substantially under max volume
- Making it take more clicks to disable Internet, Bluetooth, other connected features
- DRM built into Android itself
- Being able to sideload
- Ads within the OS
All of these are already on their way to being implemented:
- Already the case with the vast majority of phones
- Pixels already have this. Samsung is focusing on this in 2024. Several Chinese OEMs already have some version of this.
- This was an idea Google attempted to implement in Android 14. Seems like it didn’t go through that year, but there’s always this year.
- Google already made it harder to do this in Android 12. Apple also does this with the toggles only disabling WiFi/BT until tomorrow. Other OEMs are good for now.
- After widespread disdain for Google’s Web Environment Integrity BS, Google is quietly pivoting to this stupid change.
- Google is now making it harder to do this on all Android phones. Now, you can only sideload apps targeting an Android version at most 8 behind the current one. This disables lots of little FOSS projects that were light on system resources.
- Most Chinese OEMs already do this, although you can usually turn it off. Samsung used to do this, but backpedaled. Also bloatware exists.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I fucking hate the volume limiter. I’ll be listening to podcasts through the vehicle radio, and suddenly notice that ive been straining to hear it fornthe last 20 minutes. Sure enough, the damn limiter decided it was that time of day to protect my half-assed hearing.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Google was attempting to make it even worse, by having it always happen no matter what. The only way to restore the regular volume was to manually click OK on the nag screen and press the volume up button.
jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t use the ultra wide camera but I absolutely use the telephoto camera
jamyang@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They played us. They ducking played us.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They also have is those things before they took them away.
Remember: you’re beholden to the whims of capitalism until it’s gone.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The manufacturer giveth and the manufacturer taketh away.
superpants@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Phone nerds are such losers.
discostjohn@programming.dev 1 year ago
You’re a loser
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 year ago
People who are attaching phones to their personal values are losers. they are fighting towards a selfish and superficial goal.
People who seek to improve consumer electronics to preserve consumer right and the environment is not. They are fighting for all of us.
AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
One of these years the next craze will be a mobile phone with no or only forward facing cameras.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Because you’re worth it.
olmium@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t understand why everyone hates the notch, or especially the hole punch camera now. You could just disable the pixels next to the notch going back to a regular screen, and if you don’t it’s only extra screen space. Even more so with the hole punch. Why more screen bad?
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I paid for an X size screen. I should have to disable a chunk of it to watch a video without a hole in it.
Realistically, while I’d rather not have a hole punch, I don’t notice it and better than a giant top bezel that does nothinh. I just wish they still made phones small enough for one hand use.
olmium@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s not like they can rid of the hardware that is inside of the notch. So either get more potential screen space, or just disable it and get the same as always. You’re not losing anything.
vvvvv@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because front camera is now not just a feature I’m forced to pay for, despite never using it once in my life, but now it also makes my experience shittier by adding a hole in my screen. I hate that.
Marcbmann@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought it was weird at first. Now I don’t even notice it.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Right, the old way was have a bunch of dead space at each end of the phone (and sides too). This isn’t the loss of where the hole now is, this is the addition of screen around the hole that always was.
i3c8XHV@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Maybe their just trying to get you to spend more time with your family and friends?
YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 year ago
What’s next? Pay per text/call. Soon your mobile plan will just be a bill for hardware and any communications will come with a large fee. I picture it like virgin mobile prepaid was back in the early 00’s with 10¢/text & 25¢/minute on voice.
Retrograde@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Haha hey I had that virgin plan on my first slider phone
YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Was my first mobile plan and cell phone. I remember it being so damn horrible that I am positive they’ll revive it somehow.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I use all four cameras. (one is a sensor)
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They also remove the tv receiver on higher end phones, but my bet is that they will remove custom launcher support.
modus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are phones with UHF receivers?
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe it’s more common in Brazil, but they used to be pretty popular on lower end models, the higher end ones never had it.
scrotumnipples@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They had them back in like 2010
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The what now
drathvedro@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The only things I need from my phone are:
Anyone who provides me with an alternative can just take my entire phone, fuck it.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Sms is horribly insecure as 2FA. Just saying.
drathvedro@lemm.ee 1 year ago
2FA is good, but SMS is one of the worst options. SMS is interceptable, fakeable, and requires a phone connected to network, which, by merit of being carried around, is less secure than, say, a PC located at home, behind a closed door, or, even better, a secondary offline PC locked in a safe. TOTP or things like digipass are a lot better. Actually, after writing the above comment, I’ve went to bully my bank to consider adding TOTP as 2FA option, and, in the discussion, they’ve admitted that they’ve had state actors tampering with SMS messages before, hence why they’ve added an additional layer of 4-digit PIN codes on auth, which is dumb, but is telling of how secure SMS messages really are.