this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Francisco 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.

[–] orl0pl 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.

[–] suction 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] radicalautonomy 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.

[–] lemmylommy 8 points 4 months ago

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

[–] lath 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.

[–] victorz 3 points 4 months ago

Operate on deez nutz.

[–] gedaliyah 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/

[–] gedaliyah 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

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dafo 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's some fresh hellish bug that Android has introduced, it'll adapt the theme based on your wallpaper. It's a bug because it always chooses that 70's brown color. And yes, before you ask, you're not able to disable it. You have to reset your theme everytime you change your wallpaper.

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[–] [email protected] 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.

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