this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes!

My Xiaomi Redmi 11 keeps telling me the Calculator can't use the network (why?) and keeps asking me to accept the privacy policy.

Also the app wallpaper - the one that changes the locked screen background image (important complex stuff /s) - also keeps asking me to accept the privacy policy.

And, as far as my reading of the policy goes, these privacy policies are just the one, it's not a different one for each app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Default Xiaomi ROM is shit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They want your equations on the off chance you accidentally solve one of the Millenia Prize problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It could happen if you hit just the right sequence of buttons on a pocket calculator!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The right sequence of buttons on any calculator is 5318008. That was determined shortly after the invention of the pocket calculator.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They are just promising not to share with the government or any private entity that you are the idiot who had to use a calculator to find half of 17, just in case you were worried about someone finding out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Hot <> in <> want to calculate with you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The calculator is collecting anonymous information about your calculations to calculate whether the operation operators are operating properly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Operate on deez nutz.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can replace your calculator, as well as your clock, contacts, record, translate, and more pretty easily. It's well designed, and it's FOSS!

https://you-apps.net/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

You can also use this calculator app, as well as camera, recorder, gallery, dialer, text messages, and more. Also well designed and also FOSS

https://github.com/FossifyOrg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I thought it was the color scheme that was hell at first.

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[–] Mwa 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

material you colors are pretty ugly

Is this even material you it looks like it

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It doesn't calculate anything, but sends it to an AI server and displays the number from the answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I pay 5,99 a year for glasswire and cut all apps internet access unless necessary, browsers and such.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd pay 5.99 for Glasswire

Then if they want me to pay every year for the same product I already bought they can shove their glass wire up their sphincter

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