And being a Google app, which means it can access everything.

I'd sooner use a regular SMS app, and not reward their behaviour. Which is what I do. You want to use garbage like SMS or RCS? Then you suffer the issues that come with SMS.

I've had some luck in the past with simply disabling all the Google stuff via root.

Sometimes this caused bootloops (10 years ago). More recently it caused a recurring error message. Sometimes it worked just fine.

Re-enabling Google services and rebooting typically resolved the issues.

When you say budget friendly, how friendly are we talking?

And this does the same thing here on Lemmy...

I just watched Babish (dude in YouTube) make a browned-butter roux. What a game changer for gravy.

"Safe haven" hahaha

Centralized service, already getting in hot water with the EU for mishandling data. Already complaints about echo chamber issues (which any service will have, so the claim of safe haven is automatically bullshit).

Social media like Twitter, Facebook (and now Bkuesky) will always have these issues. Even Lemmy does, but at least federation distributes oversight, so you don't worry about being shutdown because you offended some overzealous admin.

I migrated from Doggcatcher to Podcast Addict a couple years ago. They're both OK. Most podcast apps are unnecessarily complex, convoluted and cumbersome to me, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Lately I've been testing Media Monkey - it's primarily an iTunes-like app for Android. It indexes your own media store, and can sync whatever you choose to your phone. It also has a podcast tool in the desktop app.

Downside is the podcast portion doesn't seem to have discovery/search like you'd think with a podcast app - you have to manually add the RSS url yourself. Plus to get wifi sync (which is critical to me), you have to buy both the desktop ($35) and Android app ($5). I get it, development isn't free, and wifi sync really works. I don't buy many apps, but I paid for both parts of Media Monkey, because I haven't found anything else that provides media management, playlist, and sync.

Then parents need to stop using such things as babysitters.

And parents also need to get up in arms about lazy "educators" using tech to make their job easier (instead of making learning more effective, which is the bullshit argument that's always used).

And "banning children", wait, I mean forcing every adult to verify who they say they are online accomplishes what?

Oh, that's right, a massive tracking database for any bad actor to use.

If your children get into shit, it's your fault for not raising them right. I got into some shit as a kid, and had friends that got into more/less shit.

I watched those fuckups raise their kids, and they learned from their own childhood experience and chose to guide their children how to use the internet properly. To understand how it works, the risks, etc.

You can't bubble wrap the world. The idiots (myself included) will always find a way around such safetyism, and in the process you'll be harming everyone else.

I experienced the edges of hurricanes every summer as a kid. You just deal with it.

Flooding, power outages, etc.

Lol, relax Francis.

Your English is excellent for a non-native speaker, probably as good as the average native speaker (frankly that's a criticism of the average speaker as much a compliment to you).

I can see how you made this mistake, it's pretty easy to make as you're thinking of the question, you kind of combined 2 ways of asking it.

"Have you ever been in a natural disaster"

"Have you ever experienced a natural disaster"

Is "you have been experienced" correct in any way (genuine question)?

I just can't think of any way that works.

By only buying older models, I can afford to buy 2 or more.

I just upgraded my 2017 flagship to Pixel 5 - I now own 2, and will be buying a Pixel 7 in a couple months. At that pint I may have spent as much as a new phone.

Umm, by definition, If you buy a device from Google, it's not a carrier locked device.

Carrier lock occurs on phone bought through a carrier, to prevent people purchasing a phone under contract and then using it on another carrier, to lock you to their service.

So, don't watch or listen to that stuff?

Oh, I'm so jealous.

Got to tinker with one back in the day.

Well, no shit.

This isn't news, it was known in the 80's.

Why do people just blindly trust directions?

Also, was the construction clearly marked? Seems like you'd have to ignore some clear signs that a bridge was under construction.

Sounds more like local construction management dropped the ball and the road wasn't blocked off properly, so they're using Google as a scapegoat to hide their failure.

That was worth reading to the end.

Well played friend. Well played.

OK, Tom Papa! (He uses "you're doing great" in his stand up, and it's outrageously funny)