Polar

joined 1 year ago
[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you read the article?

Ya, Android does this, but tell me how I get my phone to auto sync to my PC to display messages, photos, etc, and then detect when I take a screenshot, so windows can immediately offer to edit the screenshot?

Currently the only way to do it is to transfer your screenshot to your PC manually, then open it, edit it, and then do whatever you wanted with the screenshot on your PC. A million more steps.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't remember the button combo, but there's a way to use the power and volume buttons to switch between silent and back. I used to hit it all the time by accident.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense. I've watched homeless people bathe in them (using the water dispenser), I've seen people take 8+ refills, I've watched people bring in their own buckets from outside and refill them.

I don't make excuses for shitty corporations, but humans are unhinged these days, and ruin shit for everyone else.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (16 children)

What? Do you realize how insanely slow USB 2 is? Good luck transferring even a tiny ass video. I don't think you need to be a pro user to want to transfer some media from your phone and not take all day..

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't think it's fair to compare UWB and USB 2.

One is already an old ass standard. I don't even know what devices aren't USB 3 anymore. You actively have to go out of your way to be a dick and downgrade your phone to USB 2.0

Not to mention the price difference is literally negligible.

Apple is just being assholes here. They already downgrade the non pro by removing cameras and whatnot. Touching the USB speed is a special kind of fuck you.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell there is no mail essentials plan that costs $9.55 (talking USD/EUR/CHF which is all I can see).

Here's when you learn other countries exist. I am Canadian. I don't talk in USD, EUR, or CHF. I talk in CAD. My payment provider doesn't tell me I paid "X USD", it tells me I paid "X CAD".

I suppose it’s possible you are on some grandfathered plan that is more expensive because you have more custom domains (I seem to maybe remember that being possible back in the day?).

I am not, but you're correct about Proton offering to add more custom domains without having to change to a whole new tier. Another perfect example of how they nickel and dime. They realized they could squeeze more money by forcing people who need more than 3 custom domains to upgrade to a higher tier, than just to pay for the few extra domains.

You called them a money grubbing company and tried to pass yourself off as a regular user who’s paying all this money and then having to get charged more.

Again, they are money grubbing, because they removed the ability to customize your plan, and force tier changes.

When in fact, for 99% of users your situation isn’t applicable at all; and in fact you are on a weird, old, business plan (to which you’d probably save money switching to a new business regular plan [for $12.99 - $9.99] which supports up to 10 custom email domains + all premium proton services).

I am NOT on an old business plan. I am on THE business plan for $15. Again, not everyone uses USD, EUR, or CHF.

$12.99 USD = $17.65 CAD.

And looking into proton pass, it seems like the majority of the cost is because of the email alias service that comes with it. Bitwarden doesn’t in fact provide that (though they do support integration of it) and a quick look at other providers that only provide custom emails it shows similar monthly fees (still less than proton pass to be fair).

Since Proton loves tiers, offer a more expensive tier for the email alias. They should offer a tier similar to BitWarden with similar pricing, and then offer a higher tier for the email alias, something most people don't care about.

So to me, it seems like a bit of unwarranted slander and lies (though I suppose, again, you could be on an old grandfathered plan; but it still doesn’t explain how the “next step up” is $15) because of some beef you have against them.

For the third time. Other countries exist. I know it's a crazy concept, but it's true. I didn't slander anyone, thanks.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's also very true. Seems like a change just to change.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Switching the lens switcher and gallery buttons around is annoying as shit. Literally accomplishes nothing, except to fuck with us. They're not even redesigned or repositioned. Just swapped.

Edit: also doesn't work for me. Constant crashing when trying to open. I'm on the latest beta.

Edit 2: apkm bundle works.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I was already hosting them, but it's not worth it. I've been looking into switching to one of the other privacy focused alternatives that provide the ability to pay per domain, so you can add more without having to jump up tiers and pay for crap you don't want.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because Euro and USD are similar. That's how currency works. It's not $10 where I live lol.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Not the point.

Paying for something is great. Not allowing paying customers to add a simple service without having to upgrade to the next tier, forcing them to buy shit they don't want, is scummy.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well ya, but I'm not American, so it's not $10 for me.

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