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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Day Zero On My Android Journey: Wherein I talk about what I tried to buy, and why I don't have it yet. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/22/android0.html
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
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@fastfinge How much of a joke is that fourth bullet point though, really?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes As much of a joke as you want it to be... LOL
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JamminJerry @JamminJerry@mastodon.stickbear.me
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@fastfinge to answer your question about talkback, you can still use the holding down of both volume keys, and then you release them, and press and hold them again. I can't speak to the pixel 9A as I have the pixel 9 pro XL, but I have heard that it should be the same on the 9A when you turn the phone on after a little time, you should feel kind of a heart beat vibration that lets you know the phone is ready, and you can enable talkback. I am by no means a google fan boy, but I do use android as my primary device, but I also have an IPhone. I am not an apple fan boy either. I know that some apps are better on one platform over the other.
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D.Hamlin.Music @dhamlinmusic@dragonscave.space
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@JamminJerry @fastfinge This has been a feature since at least The pixel 2, I remember it when I had one before losing my sight, and my Pixels 4, 6, and 7 all have had it.
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Tamas G @Tamasg@mindly.social
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@fastfinge LOL glad you're trying out Android! For work I'm still required to test for it of course, so I haven't abandoned my S22 myself, but really it does sit in a drawer most of the day even today so that's why, no new Android for me, it's just not a priority need or desire ATM. However, still using Android 15 / 1UI 7 on that. I think going with stock Pixel is a good choice though, less of that AI bloat and more customization in some way, + you get Google's own Accessibility Suite rather than Samsung's fork, which to me has been a bit of a let-down. (even if I can force the alternative by disabling the internal and installing over it, but bla, who wants to mess around with ADB these days when work leaves me tired at the end of the day!) So I'll be curious as to your app and general out-of-box experience especially as you're going with a flagship vendor, and as much as I do like the Jelly, it would still come with a less-than-ideal one. Even Motorola at least promises 3-years Android updates, less than Samsung's 7 but still a decent track record even if they're super slow to update phones. But I digress. Man I'm in a digression-type mood today lately.
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adrinux @adrinux@fosstodon.org
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@fastfinge horrific. I wonder how much of this bad customer service is rooted in the fact the USA is so backward in financial services compared to the rest of the world...
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adrinux I suspect a lot more of it is just “We’re google and we can do whatever the hell we want. Screw you.”
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