Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers
Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 3 days agodevil’s avocado: this move has saved many people’s cherished photos from disappearing by having them auto save. before Google photos I’d run into cases (I used to do home IT support) where people had years of family photos disappear because they didn’t back them up properly. Having to communicate what happened was never fun.
is Google photos perfect? No, but it’s a great solution for people who don’t want to manage their data.
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes, but that shouldn’t explicitly opt in, and they shouldn’t marry that product to Gmail and Google Drive if they are going to push it to enable by default.
Again, it’s really insidious. They push it so aggressively I had to disable it on my personal device twice, and I can’t just not use Google Photos app because it’s tied to the camera itself on pixel phones.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I agree with you, it’s insidious.
But if you’ve got a Pixel phone then you can save yourself from this problem by running Graphene or Calyx on it.
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m not worried about me. I can manage. But I had to intervene and make it a Project for my immediate family. Which is always unfun, because who wants to expose all their personal data that way, especially photos.
Crazy that Google just screwed over GrapheneOS like this.