It's still a different vinegar, that shouldn't be kept with food

Guessing Genshin Impact like gameplay? Dunno what engine they use but AC: Jade seems to be awfully similar gameplay-wise and it's on UE afaik

Yeah, those are CONSIDERABLY bigger than USB A to USB C dongles

I might have worded myself wrong because English isn't my native language, but I've already said my intention wasn't to mock his decision to guard his data by not explicitly giving them to Google but the meaninglessness of his way to do so.

Because by using an always connected Android phone with all other 3rd party spyware like Facebook etc. he's already vulnerable, he's using RCS for messaging, he's being tracked on so many levels and already owned by corporations, at this point the manual contact sync has little to no sense especially it's visibly harder for him to do it that way to the point he's complaining about it.

By saying I use Google provided sync I'm not trying to one up him because I know it's a trade-off between privacy and convenience, same with Google Pictures, I respect his choice to not use it's built-in cloud pictures synchronisation but IMHO on a phone without an SD card support but I won't be silent when he starts complaining after losing all his photos because he didn't to back them up

Don't get me wrong I'm all for privacy, but degoogling without an on premise private cloud or similar solution is kinda troublesome at least

Yeah I understand that, i just wanted to show the futility of such small choices while using an Android phone, using stock ROM and using all it's online features, it's like using Facebook but with names switched and posting those chains saying you don't allow to use your photos, instead of just writing the platform, also he's IT, not some 60yo aunty who just got the phone

Also it's an Android related community, not !privacy or !grapheneos ffs

Often I find myself downvoted for comments suggesting cloud based or non-FOSS solutions, even in non privacy or FOSS related communities, while I'm a fan of open source and privacy, sometimes those are IMO still a better choice for a layman end user, I understand Lemmy people are more tech/privacy/FOSS oriented, but this it's bordering with toxic zealotism

Yeah, "I'm ignorant so I'll say something" lol

Yeah like the guy is some kind of an actor, right? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

ITT: ignorant people that didn't frickin' read the article or even tried to understand the post title, it clearly states they're stopping online services, not making your single player games unplayable, so there's no reason for piracy here, not mentioning that pirated copies mostly don't support online services anyway

Python?

~~But~~not a problem in free to play games, not in full price games

When it comes to proprietary apps Authy is nice, it offers synchronisation between devices, but yeah, it involves cloud (someone's computer) and you need to give them your phone number, so that's for privacy, in the end you might as well use Google authenticator, it syncs between devices to, it's about who you trust more