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[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I just want to drag and drop music from my PC onto my Pixel again. It looks like they patched out that option...

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

KDE connect lets you do that.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Much appreciated.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Huh? How? Does it not have a usb-c port? Can pixel phones not talk to windows pcs?

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't know what he's talking about. I drag and drop stuff to my Pixel all the time.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I used to get a certain prompt when I'm plug my phone into my pc, but that doesn't appear anymore. So instead it just charges.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Have you checked the notification prompt on the phone itself?

It lets you decide whether to charge or transfer files.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't get one anymore. I used to, but I no longer get the prompt on whether I want to allow data transfer via USB. And naturally when trying to remediate this issue via a Google search, I get the usual bullshit and ads. My best bet seems to be downloading an app, as people here are suggesting. The Pixel really takes all the good aspects of an Android phone and slowly patches it away.

Edit: so after searching and many attempt on and off, I was finally able to find the option. But it doesn't pop up on its own anymore.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I'm glad you were able to find it!

What was the solution, out of curiosity? Do you use GrapheneOS?

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I searched my apps/files for USB. Last few times it didn't work, cause in most tabs on the phone is would try to route me to google fill-ins. I don't know what GrapheneOS is. I'm too much of a gremlin to learn most software stuff.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To put it extremely succinctly, it is a modified version of Android that makes your Pixel more secure. If you're at all interested in digital privacy and security, even from Google, I really recommend it if you already use a Pixel. Graphene is only available for Pixels so the hard part is done.

I'm not terrible with tech but I'm very, very far from being a techie and it was very easy for me to install and it's been very easy to use. It's basically, visually, no different from Android. Internally can be much safer.

If you want to hear and see a little bit of it in comparison to Android, you can watch this short video.

If you want to install it, you can follow this really easy video installation guide (sorry, not sure which Pixel you have but it's pretty much always the same) and this is the official site.

You definitely will get the USB notification pop-up on Graphene.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll try and give this an earnest look at some point. Kind of a disaster at the moment.

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

Link 1:

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[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

You could also use Syncthing as long as you have enough space on your phone for your whole music library

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Really cuts to the quick of what photography is. Is it art? Documentation? A representation of something real, or just a sketch?

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Photmanipulation, airbrushing, retouching, goofy edits, creative double exposures, they're all as old as photography. There are all kinds of neat in-camera tricks you can do with old timey chemical film. This bazinga ai thing is more or less fancy double exposure - exposing the same piece of film towice to, say, make your friends look like ghosts, or blend a picture of a dog with the colors of the sky.

Apparently when photography first moved out of the lab in to the hands of enthusiasts there was a great deal of debate about whether photography could be called art. The machine was doing all the work, after all, where was the artist's hand? Apparently it went back and forth for quite a while until most people agreed that photography constitutes art in it's own right.

[-] matthewmercury@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

I always find it bizarre that whenever I attend family parties or events, everyone is obsessed with photos but no one owns a tripod.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

There was a time when people would joke about a picture being Photoshop. Just replace Photoshop with AI and that’s the joke you’ll be hearing.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I can tell from the ~~pixels~~ fingers and from having seen quite a few ~~shoops~~ alley oops in my day

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I like to take the photo just so I don't have to be in the photo

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. Look! They're in the frame, laughing too!

~~Having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.~~

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with this. I was just back east visiting family and it would have been useful. I was already transporting a walker and a wheelchair everywhere, I'm not going to carry a tripod and camera and I'm not going to wander around a cemetery or go house to house in nowhere, PA at 9pm on a Tuesday to get someone to take a picture of the family.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

It's interesting but i think most people will forgor and take a selfie instead

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I could see this as a way to make fun collage photos of yourself (i.e. you in multiple different poses in a wide shot of you in front of some cool mural/object)

But I feel like this then takes the meaning out of being there in the photo when you directly edit your entire presence into the photo.

I can understand tweaking eyes to remove red-eye, or replacing the background with a slightly better lit one from a different photo in the same shot, because that still captures the original essence of the shot, but when half the people in a photo quite literally weren't even next to the others, it doesn't feel like one side of the photo recognizes the presence of the other side, because they weren't really there.

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This is a lot more useful than a lot of the other crap they're putting out.

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