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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 101 points 11 months ago (5 children)

At this point I don't think I should have degoogled my life, I should have just gotten Google to pay me to continue to use their products. Given the what they're paying everyone else, I must be worth at least a few hundred dollars a year.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

You can get Google to pay you through Play Rewards!

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

You are, but you're not getting it.

Probs get down votes, but look up data latte, you can put your data on the blockchain (anonymized) and get paid if somebody buys it, eg for market research.

Which essentially is what Google does. Sells your data to the market

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Hmm interesting, it seems blockchain is everywhere. Thanks for the info!

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The pure data isn't sitting on the blockchain itself, but in a ipfs or something similar. But the contracts and tokens allow you to automate it and own it/give out access to it to a certain extent.

Its a small project, but I like the idea, could be something.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

You can go pretty far with that analogy. A docker container is just a glorified zip folder in a kubernetes cluster. Yes sure you get some of its functionality, but you're missing quite a bit.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 11 months ago

Sorry pal, you're product, not customer.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Technically based on how much you'd need to pay for the different services to replace Google it kind of works out? Eg. It's the price you're paying for free Gmail, search, calendar, etc etc.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That does explain why they dropped Bixby.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bixby was actually pretty useful before they abandoned it. I remember using Bixby Routines to configure my phone to set itself to vibrate when I was at work and within work hours. I can't seem to do anything but an or condition with Google's replacement, "Modes and Routines."

[–] rob299@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One thing to note, Lg has their own app store, they would bundle it on smartphones along with the playstore. I remember having a phone from them that did the bundling. Now I use Blu phones.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] rob299@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

hadn't use an LG phone in some time.

[–] rob299@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did this post get nearly 200 upvotes but fewer comments, then an average post with 75-100 upvotes I mean I get this this news is shocking because it's Samsung not apple, so it is a new leak regarding Gogole, but sheesh a lot of things this week was just about as 'shocking'

The numbers are impressive, so i'm not necesarilly complaining, but those numbers caught my eye. congratulations op

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Many people vote but may not have much to say about the topic or that someone has already said what they're thinking.