sir_brickalot

What about my existing device(s)? I don't want to be the one piling on the huge mountain of electronic trash! So how can I save my device from evil?

The biggest problem in my view is: It's not editable by hand. There is no production data I could open in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop (Layers) and change things to my or my clients liking.

I did.

I had a dead screen on a phone, so I was able to enable screenreader mode, used that to navigate to enable USB debugging and allow scrcpy screensharing.

That process cost me a couple of days and a similar working phone for testing, but it worked and I could save all the data on the phone.

So, no one here is a professional creative? In the print industry you can't avoid Adobe for one tool: Acrobat.

You need professional PDF creation with profiles, preflight tools, editing capabilities abd form creator tools.

Oh and there is InDesign which is an industry standard. You need compatibility with your clients' pipeline.

So until there is a real competitor for Acrobat and a change in the whole industry, Adobe is unavoidable.

To your point: What I am missing with Signal:

Choice to always store media locally on the phone.

What I miss with most messenger apps: Archiving old stuff and offload it to a remote device.

Right now Signal is 8GB in size and doesn't stop growing.

Counter: Backups for TOTP are easy and you can use multiple devices/services for a single TOTP login.

I just had a strong use case: a broken screen.

A combination of Google Assistant, Talkback, USB-C-to-USB-A-Adapter and Keyboard, a Bluetooth keyboard, scrcpy, Anydesk and a new Pixel phone for practicing helped get some data off the device and even do a migration to the new phone. Needed all of the above and a lot of trial and error and time!!

I would need the opposite:

The volume on my Airpod 2 are waaaaay to low on my Samsung phone.

No problem with the Airpods on an Ipad or with my Bose QC II on my mobile.

Bluetooth is such a pain.

If AI or LLMs or similar would be everywhere... how much more renewable energy do we have to produce, for very little to no gain in so many cases?

Madness!

I love OrganicMaps but lacks in certain situations.

When I want to be able to zoom into any and all of my bookmarks, I have to keep the map data of all countries I've ever been visiting. Thats tens and tens of GB of data on a mobile phone.

And everytime there are maps updates I have to redownload all of it. Tens and tens of GB of data.

When you're traveling and forgot to DL everythibg beforehand and have to use some WIFI hotspot you might not be able to get your maps downloaded. Happened to me multiple times.

So, my feature request:

- smaller maps data

- incremental updates

- online maps

...oh and better search of course. ;)

Isn't this already the reality in the mobile space?

I own a rooted Samsung device and have to jump through 100 hoops to be able to use my banking app or Netflix or some rando game (which I don't actually play). SafetyNet broken, hardware fuse blown, Magisk Hide + some other havks just to still be able to do online banking.

I just want to be able to ssh into my own device or install a real ad blocker, like Adaway without losing access to real world applications.

This is all very depressing.

One option is for sysadmins and IT shops serving SMBs to preinstall Firefox on workstations. That way users get used to the browser and might use it privately as well. Bonus: Preinstall uBlock Origin.

Thats what we do, anyways.

> so I'm hoping to find a Photosync system that will only upload when on my home wifi and charging. Any suggestions there?

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