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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 sudden
by 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 ago4. 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 agoSE 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 agoI'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.