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Don’t forget you can’t call emergency services if you had Microsoft Teams installed. Also you still can’t call emergency services due to some other bug? One y

Don’t forget you can’t call emergency services if you had Microsoft Teams installed. Also you still can’t call emergency services due to some other bug? One year they forgot December existed in the Contacts app. Also wasn’t their permission model terrible from the start vs. iOS’ fine grained prompts?

baz00 3y ago
Also Google Pay stops working half way through a journey across London meaning you end up in a massive human pile up. SMS messages stop getting received suddenly at least once a quarter usually when I'm in the middle of fucking nowhere and need to so a 2FA bounce requiring a reboot. And that time it destroyed the filesystem on an SD card resulting in the loss of two weeks of irreplaceable holiday photos in Australia. Travel advice for Android users: 1. Take a DSLR/mirrorless and use that. Or upload all your shit to OneDrive or something at every available WiFi hotspot. 2. Use actual debit/credit cards rather than rely on Google Pay. 3. Write down all your bank details and credentials on paper using a simple cipher (shift left/right a few digits / alternate). Still I'd rather travel with an Android device because I'm less likely to get beaten over the head and getting it stolen because it's 3 months' salary where I am travelling.
- numpad0 3y ago
  4. Don't ever buy Google in-house hardware. 0. This may be an unimaginably reckless contribution to techno-totalitarianism, but just get an old iPhone. They just work.
  - walteweiss 3y ago
    SE series is great. I’m still rocking the very first SE, and apart from OS software updates (I still have security updates sometimes) it’s fine. Given the broken protective glass screen, it doesn’t look very attractive. The same could be said about modern SEs with the looks of iPhone 6. I bet something that looks like iPhone 5/5S/6 in 2023 isn’t that attractive to steal, even compared to modern Android phones. But if we stay on the subject of travelling, I would definitely took _at least_ two phones, an iPhone for stability and an Android for functionality.
  - baz00 3y ago
    I'm using a pixel 7A at the moment. It's fine. In fact it just replaced my iPhone 13 Pro because it has serious issues As for the iPhone, they mostly just work yes. For a price. Even the old ones are overpriced.
Dah00n 3y ago
>Don’t forget you can’t call emergency services if you had Microsoft Teams installed. That was on Microsoft – not Google, though. >Also you still can’t call emergency services due to some other bug? FUD. >Also wasn’t their permission model terrible from the start vs. iOS’ fine grained prompts? If you want someone to tell you (read: decide for you and leave zero room for choice) what permissions are Good and which are Bad, then yes, iOS is much better. If you want to decide which permissions are Good and Bad, then no, Androids are much better.
- marak830 3y ago
  You will need to back this up a whole lot more for 'app installed blue coed ES call'. Now as a MS customer it would not surprise me. But data makes arguments.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  > If you want to decide which permissions are Good and Bad, then no, Androids are much better. Okay, I've decided that arbitrary network access is bad; how do I remove it from most applications on my Android phone?
  - M95D 3y ago
    Use NetGuard, or a lot of other firewall apps. https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

baz00 3y ago

Also Google Pay stops working half way through a journey across London meaning you end up in a massive human pile up. SMS messages stop getting received suddenly at least once a quarter usually when I'm in the middle of fucking nowhere and need to so a 2FA bounce requiring a reboot. And that time it destroyed the filesystem on an SD card resulting in the loss of two weeks of irreplaceable holiday photos in Australia. Travel advice for Android users: 1. Take a DSLR/mirrorless and use that. Or upload all your shit to OneDrive or something at every available WiFi hotspot. 2. Use actual debit/credit cards rather than rely on Google Pay. 3. Write down all your bank details and credentials on paper using a simple cipher (shift left/right a few digits / alternate). Still I'd rather travel with an Android device because I'm less likely to get beaten over the head and getting it stolen because it's 3 months' salary where I am travelling.

numpad0 3y ago
4. Don't ever buy Google in-house hardware. 0. This may be an unimaginably reckless contribution to techno-totalitarianism, but just get an old iPhone. They just work.
- walteweiss 3y ago
  SE series is great. I’m still rocking the very first SE, and apart from OS software updates (I still have security updates sometimes) it’s fine. Given the broken protective glass screen, it doesn’t look very attractive. The same could be said about modern SEs with the looks of iPhone 6. I bet something that looks like iPhone 5/5S/6 in 2023 isn’t that attractive to steal, even compared to modern Android phones. But if we stay on the subject of travelling, I would definitely took _at least_ two phones, an iPhone for stability and an Android for functionality.
- baz00 3y ago
  I'm using a pixel 7A at the moment. It's fine. In fact it just replaced my iPhone 13 Pro because it has serious issues As for the iPhone, they mostly just work yes. For a price. Even the old ones are overpriced.

Dah00n 3y ago

>Don’t forget you can’t call emergency services if you had Microsoft Teams installed. That was on Microsoft – not Google, though. >Also you still can’t call emergency services due to some other bug? FUD. >Also wasn’t their permission model terrible from the start vs. iOS’ fine grained prompts? If you want someone to tell you (read: decide for you and leave zero room for choice) what permissions are Good and which are Bad, then yes, iOS is much better. If you want to decide which permissions are Good and Bad, then no, Androids are much better.

marak830 3y ago
You will need to back this up a whole lot more for 'app installed blue coed ES call'. Now as a MS customer it would not surprise me. But data makes arguments.
yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> If you want to decide which permissions are Good and Bad, then no, Androids are much better. Okay, I've decided that arbitrary network access is bad; how do I remove it from most applications on my Android phone?
- M95D 3y ago
  Use NetGuard, or a lot of other firewall apps. https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard