I have owned an iPhone since the very first one. Never have I used a case. I should not need to purchase an accessory to use my phone. The option should be to add things to the phone to increase functionality, not to resolve a bug.
No color filters. No screen protector. It’s brand new out of the box. It’s blue. Honestly, I’m shocked this hasn’t been reported. Maybe I got a dud.
I genuinely can not find a single thing to like about it. It feels like development was stopped shortly after they finished the wire framing. Plex and QuMagie are significantly better (and they suck).
I’m not blaming my hardware or Elestio for the archaic user interface. It looks like it was developed in the 90s and never made it out of alpha.
Thanks again! I just moved a publicly shared photo album from Google Drive to Ente and it’s great. Just the fact that you can sort images properly is a relief. I can’t believe how horrible photos sites are in the 2020s. Ente certainly has a lot of missing features but I’ll be using it for stuff like sharing (less than 5GB) photo albums with friends and family.
As I said, I already tried that. Immich is a hard no.
Frankly, it’s shocking so many people recommend such a really bad photo application.
Ente
Thanks!
Appreciate that. Archaic, no?
Fair enough. Plex may not have the bells and whistles but it’s simple and intuitive to use. I’ve also tried the QuMagie app on my QNAP which does have all those features but found it to be a bit more cumbersome than it was worth.
I tried Google Photos briefly as well and was very shocked at how bad it is, compared to Apple Photos. It took me several days just to figure out how to delete more than one picture at a time. I have to assume it’s much more robust on an Android than on an iPhone but even their web interface was horrible.
I don’t know why people recommend Immich. I found it to be the most bare-bone photo app I’ve ever used. It feels ten+ years old. I tried really hard to make it work but Plex photos is about 20% better and it still sucks.
Wow. This is incredible.
Everyone complains about robo-calls and getting car warranty calls and they still keep giving out their phone number. I have yet to get any spam phone calls or texts.
Right - SMS MFA is the worst and should be avoided whenever possible. Unfortunately, most financial institutions still have not advanced to offering anything more than that.
Consider signing up for a service and using your cell phone number to register with it. Then you forget about that service and years later you need to gain access to the service but you have a new phone number. Now you’re shit out of luck. It has happened to me (a lot) and it’s happened to the person who had my cell number before me. This is the paranoia I suffer from - not having access to an account and the fear of the database being leaked or hacked - also something that has happened to me (thanks, TMobile). I’ve also had physical mail delivered to my home address for years because the phone number I currently have was used by the previous person to register with a service (DoorDash / Chewy).
No one should ever use a cell phone to register for a service. MFA is one (bad) thing, registration is another. It’s foolish and it’s insecure.
ChatGPT does in fact require you to register with a phone number when you sign up with either your Google / Microsoft / Apple ID. You’ve already logged in with an authenticated service so there’s no legit reason for ChatGPT to also require your phone number to register for an account. We’re talking about a platform explicitly produced and utilized to gather and store data and people are freely giving it information that can be used to authenticate their online persona.
I get that this whole thing is about giving our decision making abilities to a computer but maybe we should all take a little bit of a pause to use their own grey matter to consider the ramifications of our actions before diving in headfirst at warp speed.
Yeahhh… that’s the point. They don’t care.
Go ahead and give your number away to every website that asks you for it. I don’t care what you choose to do.
I don’t see this enterprise as anything but malicious if it requires a cell phone just to sign up to see what it can do.
Everything we do is tied to our cell phones now. Most banks offer MFA but not app-based or hardware-based MFA. If / when you lose your cell number, you’re screwed - which has happened to a number of people I know. People are dumb and willing to do anything for a thrill without considering the repercussions. If it’s not yet an issue, it will be in the very near future.
I hope people seriously take a moment to pause and wonder why this service requires a cell phone number, what they’re doing with that number, and how secure the database is that maintains your personal information.
This may be a good moment to remind people; if you’re not intending to open a bank account, apply for a credit card, or loan / mortgage soon, you should contact all three credit bureaus to proactively free your accounts so no one can open accounts without your knowledge.
Still requires a phone number to sign up 😡
Of all the things I am not giving my cell number to, it’s an artificial intelligence.
The city with the third highest percent of car ownership taking home less household income than the city with the lowest percent of car ownership is a surprise.
the more limited people are, the more ingenious they begin to get
Just another way of saying necessity is the mother of invention. Which I don’t disagree with at all.
I think the opposite has taken place over recent years though - Invention has replaced Necessity.
Smart people have invented “cool” technologies often for the sake of being cool. The spectacle and wizardry of technology can distract us from what’s behind the curtain and from a task that only a human mind can or should unwind. I can’t tell you how many times my boss would tell me to integrate some cool new widget into something then when I asked why he’d say, “cause it’s cool”. Yeah, where’s Google Wave now?
I think taking the leap into unknown technology has been the problem. For me, at least. I wound’t have a career without doing so but at this point, the weight of my choices is building up.
Home automation is something I struggle with. In fact, I’ve worked in the home automation industry since 1998. Ironically, I have nearly zero home automation in my home other than the recent addition of smart bulbs via HomeKit. Maybe my experience with troubleshooting automated technology for over two decades has something to do with my philosophy here.
I have a small home with a handful of lights from Ikea and Voco. As has been my opinion for 25 years, automated lights are one of the single best home improvement investments someone can make in their lives. But now with everything so dependent on Updates, it’s incredibly easy for an iPhone or WAP update to break your app-controlled automated lights. You might need to wait weeks or months for the manufacturer of your lights to push out a firmware update so you can use them as you always have. Or Apple, or Philips, etc., may simply decide they have a better idea to use something that’s contrary to what you and your family is used to.
So, yeah, technology is great but my point is aren’t we too reliant on it? We’re slaves to software and firmware updates with essentially zero recourse other than disable auto-updates on everything we own.
You forgot use it as a bank, hail transportation, order food.
Yes, his idea of the everything app was reportedly conceived in 1999.
I don’t want buttons to do anything. In previous generations, the volume up and down buttons were somewhat useful and the power button would just turn the screen on and off. Now these buttons are open in apps, taking pictures, turning on lights, doing things. In your pocket. I’m very happy they’ve added the option to disable them entirely. I’d be happier if it were the old toggle mute button which made sense.