Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.
Skype still… exists?
It is Microsoft Teams now, but older installs had it called Skype for Business
Yeah, likely they’re using the same backend to provide voip services (maybe skype’s backend just scaled up) . Teams must’ve borrowed something from skype given how haphazardly it was developed and released.
I mostly use it to make international calls cause sometimes the country my folks are living in shuts down the cellular internet for some reason when major exams/riots are happening and whatsapp stops working.
Imaging telling a whole nation of people they can’t use internet on their 500+ dollar phone. The fuck did they buy them for, playing temple run?
Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Jordan apparently. Source: https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2024/05/31/exam-cheating-internet-blackout/
Btw you can suggest them the Briar messenger app. It can send messages via nearby peoples phones if they also have Briar. So if enough people installed it, a city could have it’s own messaging network even when the official one is down
Those “briar clients” still use the “same” internet…
It could work if clients/nodes would exchange data using other channel (lora/bluetooth/etc)
Nice, I don’t think I’ll be able to convince the whole city to install it though :-)
It’s still one of the best options for video calling. Available on all the major platforms, no time limits, the quality is great. International call rates are some of the cheapest out there.
Big downside though: it’s not so great on the privacy side.
You realise that this is because Microsoft spent billions of dollars on what amounts to a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.
If you’re unfamiliar with the abomination, it’s a dumber version of Copilot.
Oh, I’m somewhat familiar. Our school computer lab when setup had all windows 95 machines and I later got a xp at home so I got to play with office 2000 and such.
Iirc it never was able to help me with something. I thought they put in a interactive mascot or something. Like a mini-game you can play with while typing a letter to your principal.
Copilot has been little helpful sometimes though when I want to generate images of things made out of jeans.
I hate it so much. I want to do one simple search. Instead I get bullshit ad google links that are irrelevant, then MS MS Edge pushes me into Copilot for more garbage, which I have to mouse out of. Stract has become by search engine to get back the nostalgia of when the web wasn’t all shit
Thanks for the suggestion. What differences have you noticed compared to Google. Do you always find what you’re looking for. Have you tried searching niche stuff like some really old painting or an obscure compiler error etc.
Weird that it gave me a link to franchise a taco joint when I searched for tacos near me.
You want tacos? Open a taco shop.
I wouldn’t consider “tacos near me” a representative search; google specifically optimizes searching for products and especially local food.
I just searched for “first speedrun” and the first few results are decent but wrong, and the videos, shorts, and related searches after the first 2 entries are complete garbage.
Being served 70% links to products sucks when searching anything related to a product isn’t fun either.
Fair point. I don’t think it’s ready to become a default search engine as of now.
Admit it. You did want a new cocktail though didn’t you.
I suggest you to UBL (Unlock Bootloader) your phone & use AdAway
Or just use Adguard if you don’t wanna UBL/Root your phone
Depends…
Adguard has little secret that can strip any protocol request, basically it’s has monitor that can detect any weird behavior apps that has access to internet
From my experience it’s work flawlessly, but you need a little bit of work to enabled it & of course you need the right filters
In my device i used AdAway for host blocking (a.k.a non regex filtering) & Adguard for blocking ads that has weird behavior. Both of them works flawlessly & since then my device has no ads/tracking or whatsoever wherever i go
ah right, unlock bootloader and break every banking app and break widevine HD playback on streaming apps
excellent suggestion!
Well part that break any banking apps, i can’t deny that
But there’s fix for that things, i just followed some guy instructions from XDA Forum & all my banking/paying apps work flawlessly
Of course it’s not easy work at first tbh, but always remember it’s hard but you only do that hard working once
I remembered 10 years ago have same thinking like you, but after internet has became shitty i must do that. At first yes… everything seems like hard things to do since it’s first time for me do something to my smartphone way beyond it’s recommend, but after that it’s just like walking in the park
Will adaway remove the Copilot section? I think this a app feature/ native component. Ad blocking might not do much here.
