Google

Ive ordered 3 chipolo ONE trackers to try out google's new "find my device" network, after google enabled the network (1 year later than promised).

https://blog.google/products/android/android-find-my-device/

After testing it 3 weeks, i recommend you to NOT buy any kind of these devices, as the crowd sourced location detection just isnt works. Never could find any device position relayed by other android devices, not even when i knew a family member is near to it with an android phone. Im not living on a farm, but in suburb, with gardens. So there are plenty of people around, probably all with phones, so this isnt an isolated neighborhood 😆

Last week my cat (outdoor cat) lost his tracker, so i tagged the tracker as lost, since that no any sign of it, i also rode on bike around the neighborhood (of course i wont ring to the neighbours to get to their gardens to find the tracker), continously tapping on refresh for the tracker, but isnt found.

To find a tracker directly, the chinese clones that are not working with google find my device is just enough, but much cheaper.

So google's find my device network is just current google quality (not good).

A fresh leak may have spilled the beans on how much the Google TV Streamer will cost and what colors will be available.

Can someone please tell me why the gmail android app does not allow for this? Is there some system condition that disables this feature. It is surely related to android becuase iOS has signature matching.

Google owns every step of this.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22887353

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.pe1uca.dev/post/1434359

I was trying to debug an issue I have connecting to a NAS, so I was checking the logs of UFW and found out there are a lot of connections being blocked from my chromecast HD (AndroidTV) on different ports via the local IP.

Sometimes I use jellyfin, but that's over tailscale, so there shouldn't be any traffic over local IP, just over tailscale's IP.
But shouldn't have traffic right now since I wasn't using it and didn't have tailscale on.

The ports seem random, just sometimes they are tried two times back to back, but afterwards another random port is tried to be accessed.

After seeing this I enabled UFW in my daily machine and the same type of logs showed up.

So, do you guys know what could be happening here?
Why is chromecast trying to access random ports on devices in the same network?

Ahead of the Pixel 9 launch next month, Google is expanding the availability of Preferred Care beyond the US to the UK and Japan.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17993022

The Google Play Store is starting to roll out a local recommendations feature for promotions or app recommendations.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17962644

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