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Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


I, for one, would be very interested in hearing about big developments in the wild world of beef stroganoff.

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Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Ola posted:

Oh right, yes well *sweats, whispers with lawyer* I believe I was not informed at the time that the Awful Imgur implementation included uploading as well.

*internet sentator pulls handle, trap door opens*

Why do you post like this, wtf

Someone mentioned the Awful apps upload feature way up the page. Everyone should thank baka kaba for his great work on it.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Skarsnik posted:

thanks baka kaba

:hai:

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Lutha Mahtin posted:

is this a Play Store policy? if not i don't understand how it would possibly be enforced

Nah. In theory, you can do anything on Android that you can do on other platforms, because developers are allowed to write native code. Obviously in the native code there are restrictions, but those restrictions are based around permissions, typically. A situation like this is simply that Java and the Android framework didn't provide tools to do this, and writing low-level native code for something like this is Hard and most app shops are not equipped for that.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Very easy to accidentally send. They need at least some kind of confirmation.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


manwithoutskin posted:

Does gboards swipe texting go from great to absofuckinglutely terrible for random periods of time for anyone else? So incredibly frustrating and making me want to ditch gboard altogether.

Absolutely. I stick with Swiftkey because, even though it's terrible, it's consistently terrible. I never know what will happen on Gboard and that's worse.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Congrats on being the unwitting victim of A/B testing. No, you can't get it back because it's controlled by a random server-side switch.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Most importantly, it has this



Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


It can use a bunch. Are none of these good in Canada?

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Use Google Photos instead of Facebook.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


sirbeefalot posted:

What's unique to Inbox at this point anyway? I'm glad they actually integrated many of the new features into one app though, instead of just killing it off and forgetting about it.

Feature wise, nothing really. But I really enjoyed the interface, it helped me process everything easier, and the controls were quicker and nicer, IMO. The main thing I'll miss besides the interface is the really intelligent automatic grouping of emails, which would or would not give notifications depending on importance. I rarely had to modify where stuff went by default. I can do that in Gmail, but it's a manual process as far as I know. It'll be annoying switching back, but I'll adjust eventually.

Taffer fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Sep 13, 2018

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Ugh. It had been so long since I used Gmail that I forgot how much it was actually missing. I had thought labels and categories were a worse version of bundling, but apparently they aren't even that.

loving Google.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Don't put your fetish porn in the same place as your family photos. Hope this helps you, op

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


LastInLine posted:

I mean you can but it sure is Holo as gently caress.

Not really. It had pretty unique and clean design even at the time it came out. It's definitely not Material, and definitely a little dated, but it's still clean and very functional. I use AMDroid these days but I used Timely for a long time too, it was great.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


saintonan posted:

Lastpass isnt any less secure than any of the others, they're just a lot more transparent about disclosing attacks.

Yes, it's significantly less secure than something like KeePass, which is individually and privately hosted (or not hosted at all, for the particularly paranoid). Lastpass is a centrally hosted cloud service, which means not only is it a target, but if the attacker gets through the security they get potentially millions of passwords. Those passwords are still encrypted and will likely remain so, but it's a much different situation.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


hooah posted:

I'm looking to move my family away from SMS because it's just awful. I'm considering Allo, Telegram, or Signal (staying away from Facebook). What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of these three? My understanding is that Signal is probably the best from a security standpoint, but that's not a huge concern. Both Android and iOS devices need to be supported.

Telegram definitely.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


You dorks saying telegram is harder to set up have clearly never even tried it. It only takes a phone number, exactly like WhatsApp.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


CLAM DOWN posted:

No one who is not a turbonerd uses telegram. WhatsApp has widespread worldwide adoption and Facebook owning them is irrelevant. Get WhatsApp

Lots of normal non-nerd people I know use telegram. Also Facebook owning them is extremely relevant and keeps me from wanting to touch it with a 10 foot pole. Likewise for many (normal and not nerdy) people I know.


Heners_UK posted:

Reminder: It's OK to have more than one messaging app

Also this. Like literally everyone i have a ton of messaging apps

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


bull3964 posted:

In my mind, WhatsApp has all the disadvantages of Allo. It's tied to a phone number, no real-time cloud sync of messages, and it's not designed to be used across multiple devices.

I want a chat program that I can sit down at any one of my devices and continue the conversation, even mid chat. To this day, Hangouts still does that the best.

I have good news, Telegram does this exceptionally well, better than anything I've ever used, it's the main reason I love it and recommend it. Better than hangouts/discord etc. Real-time message drafts, synced notifications (if you look at a message on one device the notifications go away on the others), and extremely fast native clients on every single platform. And even a web client, if you hate yourself for some reason.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


But if it had a nice fast native app would you still want to use the web one?

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


CLAM DOWN posted:

Why would you want to install a native app for texting, when a web client could exist? It's 2018.


e: this is in reference to desktops, where the web client is used, just to be clear

I would! If I use something frequently I prefer it to not be in a browser. The web gets slower and more frustrating every year and it's a serious breath of fresh air every time something has a good native (desktop) app.

Of course, if I'm only going to use it occasionally then that's a different story.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Discord (and slack and many others) is made in react native (and the desktop app is electron) which incurs huge resource overheads compared to a normal native app, so yeah its pretty bad. But also anecdotally for me it doesn't even approach how bad snapchat was. But i uninstalled snapchat ages ago so I dunno if they ever fixed their poo poo

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


What kinds of playlists are people making that makes the 1000 limit annoying. Assuming normal song lengths that's nearly 3 days of non-stop play.

Maybe I just don't get it because I never saw a reason to make playlists. The closest I come is listen queues and that's just a few songs :shrug:

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Roid666 posted:

I use Kiwi browser without any issues? What problems are being talked about?

None, LastInLine is just pre-empting the practically inevitable milkshake duck moment. I just downloaded it last night to try it out and it seems good. I uninstalled brave; I tolerated it for a while despite all its ~~blockchain~~ associations just because it was a fast ad-free browser, but then it started giving me notifications for donations, which uhhh, yeah thats not happening.

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Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


Surprise Giraffe posted:

Anyone know why I can't see posts in the awful app? Threads and sub forums show up fine but there's no actual posts! (Of course what this means is I can post any old poo poo I like and never actually hear about it)

Try asking in the Awful thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3571717

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