Recently I encountered a user that had created a new Google account when switching to a new device... on their last 5 devices.

So when they switched to the latest one and called me to set up the phone, I had to wrangle the contacts, photos, cloud storage and whatnot from all of those accounts.

Another pain point for me (in the EU/Balkans) is the transfer of Whatsapp and Viber. For reasons unknown, the accounts, contacts, chats, downloaded data can't be transferred during device setup. The only way to transfer data to a new device is to create a cloud backup on the old phone, which requires creating a wapp/viber account and setting up the google drive backup (local backup to a file? lol no. Any other cloud service available? lol no). Of course, when dealing with a media-heavy user (lots of photos, lots of memes/videos from group chats that are automatically downloaded to the phone), often is the case that the cloud storage tied to the google account doesn't have enough space for the backups, because it is filled with the automatic google photos backup that nobody turns off. And the user usually doesn't want to pay for extra space on Google because they don't understand why or just plainly don't want to.

So yeah, the transfer process is slow and complicated and full of traps, but it also offers an insight in to how much the imaginary "average consumer" doesn't care about this stuff and just agrees to everything offered.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709038

Points: 13

# Comments: 12

That's what spyware does, right?

I'm using Inoreader which does that - I have a folder that is displayed as titles only, and a different one that displays as "cards".

I've tried a few of the more famous self-hosted ones, but none of them have that feature. I know that a keyboard shortcut can be used to change views, but my early-morning doomscrolling brain doesn't want to think about that.

You can just choose to create a "work or school account" and then leave the domain name empty.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/09/26/no-youll-still-need...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45371622

Points: 22

# Comments: 10

Because nobody would ever want that.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066298

Points: 13

# Comments: 11

https://socialfixer.com/

It loads 10 posts at a time and filters out all of the junk. Then you have to manually load more posts.

It's really eye-opening when you load 10 posts and it filters out 9 of them.

But besides that, the thing that's really pushing me away from FB is the pure hate, agression and stupidity on display in the comments section of local groups. It hurts to see the levels people descend to when they can comment without any repercussions.

reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

To enable the classic right-click menu :)

Here the phones that you can get from your carrier and pay off on a monthly basis often end up costing more than in retail.

All of them had an option to skip iCloud login during setup.

Of course, you have to log in to iCloud to use the app store to get OS updates. Since I'm not an Apple user, I don't know if there are offline options available.

I had to block the PC from accessing the Internet in my router settings to get the "I don't have an internet connection" button back.