I found, ages ago, that I never used the google app for something I couldn't do in my browser. Like, this was back in the days just after Google Now died—all the features that almost worked just got scrapped because they really didn't work. It allowed me to keep up with one college sports team, but other than that, opening the app was just a slower version of opening up my firefox and searching there.
So that's what I do now. I disabled the Google app, and I don't miss it at all.
I disabled the google app years ago. I use my browser for search, and then when I get the results, the results actually show in my browser, and I don't have to switch apps or anything to get to my browser.
Plus, I don't have to look at the vestiges of all the features the app used to have, which now just feel like they've left the UI cluttered and pointless.
Plus, every time I open the app, I feel like I'm being spied on, because I am.
Plus, Google Assistant sucks ass. The voice commands are super unreliable, and as for search, I don't want AI to guess what I'm trying to search for, deterministic imperative searches are actually better.
Nobody actually using bitcoin bitches and whines because there are only six of them and they're all neck-deep in the cult mentality promoted by the hundred thousand other guys who pump the culture to maximize their returns.
OP already has a bank. OP has a problem to solve and instead of trying to help OP, you decided to act like a dick and just whine about how easy you think crypto is and how everybody else should think it's just as easy as you think it is.
By the way—you don't have to store your credit card number anywhere. If you lose your card, or it gets stolen, or somebody else manages to guess it, or any other form of loss or fraud happens to your credit card, the company will keep you safe. The concern with crypto wallets is that most of them are actual scams, if you install one from the wrong place you will lose every penny as soon as you add it to the wallet. If you store your key in the wrong place, you'll lose your money, and if you don't store it in enough places, you'll lose it and lose your money, but storing it in three secure places is basically its own fucking job.
And that's not even to mention stuff like death—death is a hard problem for most crypto wallets, because it requires you to trust other human beings with your payment info, and the only wallets that can handle that are social recovery wallets, which aren't even EOAs.
You have to be a fucking idiot to think crypto is anywhere near as convenient or straightforward or safe as traditional banking and credit cards.
You do realize that you've skipped about 70 steps, right? OP needs to figure out what currency the recipient wants, pick a wallet app (most of the ones people recommend are god-awful), install it, create a wallet, figure out how to store keys for the wallet safely (which is really not possible), figure out how to add funds to the wallet in the right currency, pay attention to the transaction to make sure the right amount of funds are being transacted... and each of those steps has a dozen substeps, and requires research in an industry that is constantly lying to people.
... plus, OP did not say that there was a QR code involved at all, that's a very odd assumption on your part.
He might be federally barred from office. On March 4, 2024, his insurrection trial will start and if he is found guilty it would be very difficult for any legal system to state he can still hold federal office.
Federal courts might call this a non-justiciable political question. Individual states might bar him from the ballot, but good luck getting a lot of red states to do that.
well, I'm on f-droid, so I guess my only issue is that I'm going to stop getting updates... but I'll need a new gallery eventually, what are people switching to?
Koler was very pretty, but there's no way to get back into a call once you switch out of it. This is really bad, partly because it makes it impossible to hang up without restarting your phone. Huge, glaring bug they never fixed.
I'm absolutely with you on Contacts.
I hate Google Photos for a number of reasons, I think my current app is just simple gallery.
Android has an easy remote backup system built in. You can save a file to any location, including cloud locations, as long as the cloud service provider plugs into the API. Signal actively disables this feature because they would rather spite users than risk even the shadow of a chance that a user upload an encrytped backup to an internet service that could theoretically then be hacked and hypothetically maybe one day decrypted.
Matrix doesn't have this issue, it just stores encrypted messages on servers.
Apple's biggest crimes here are creating a proprietary platform with an exclusive protocol and making it the default messaging protocol on their devices. None of this is really new, though. All that shit is common. We need Signal or Matrix to improve in user-friendliness and even do some marketing to the point where they become viable solutions.
insurance is part of health plans. There is a deductible and an out-of-pocket max, which are both designed to protect you from those catastrophic risks. But because those catastrophic risks are best addressed by preventative care, and regular checkups, and freakin' gym memberships, so the economics of insuring health becomes the economics of health incentivization, fucking around to figure out what it takes to get people to take care of themselves in advance rather than waiting but not getting people to go to doctors for frivolous issues.
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I found, ages ago, that I never used the google app for something I couldn't do in my browser. Like, this was back in the days just after Google Now died—all the features that almost worked just got scrapped because they really didn't work. It allowed me to keep up with one college sports team, but other than that, opening the app was just a slower version of opening up my firefox and searching there.
So that's what I do now. I disabled the Google app, and I don't miss it at all.