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[–] 66 points 10 months ago (16 children)

It's not just AI, but new android phones drive me spare.

You can't disable that. You can't uninstall that. You can't make a backup of the whole phone. You can't make a backup of one app and restore it to a different phone, unless you go through Google. We're going to install these apps you don't want, and there's no way to cancel it.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    Universal Android Debloater.

    It's a community-rating systems for apps, and you can remove/permanently (even through os updates) disable them through ADB, without actually needing to know anything about ADB because uad comes in a nice GUI package.

    I think I removed ~200 apps (most of them invisible, background ads stuff) from my phone. Much better experience.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    My Android phone app started to show me "suggestions" instead of the call history. Geez, thanks Google. Instead of calling my GF, imma call a proctologist.
    And I just know this feature will soon be used to serve me even more ads. I mean, the play store is bad enough as it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    And even simple things like the gallery is so bad, scanning your whole phone. I want the gallery yo show my photos, not my video collection or downloaded images.

    I'm not rich, but if I could I'd jump ship with my xiaomi 13t.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Get a refurbished pixel and put grapheneos on it. Best thing I could ever do.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I need a good camera, and I heard the pixel is good. I'll look into that, I can probably keep an older xiaomi for my banking app with all the google crap on it...

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    check out the fossify gallery app. not on play store probably. it can ignore folders, or only look in some

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Pretty sure you can achieve the same with the standard gallery and other media apps by putting an empty file called .nomedia in the folders you want the apps to ignore. I'm using a third-party gallery app, but seems that the feature is widespread (likely because of the apps relying on Android's own media scanning).

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn't work for me.

    And to be honest, it feels like the whole "windows is usable you just have to..." do things all the time (then it gets removed from time to time, or changed or ignored)

    Thanks for the tip though!

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Just to check, did you put in the dot at the beginning of the file name? It's the convention for hidden files in Unixes. Could just be that Xiaomi forgot to support this feature in their app, of course, and a third-party one would fix that, like the open-source Simple Gallery.

    Anyway, I'd guess most people are fine with the gallery showing downloaded images β€” I know I need that to find the meme I want.

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