Excellent tip

I really like to Google Photos memories thing. Good times with my wife. If we broke up I'd probably kill myself thanks to them but so far it's really nice
- In apples photo app you can exclude pictures with certain identified persons. Was quite helpful when my relationship ended.
  
  "Hey Siri, show me all my pictures without my ex-wife in them."
  (nothing)
  
  Same for Google Photos
  
  Did the same thing when my best man said he was “uncomfortable” being my fiend.
- I really liked seeing random old pics until someone ran over my cat. Now it's too hard to see Fluff pop up. Getting better, though.
- Well good news then, because married couples don't break up; they divorce.
  
  Doesn't it mean the same thing or is "breaking up" just meant for non-marriage relationships
  
  Not necessarily. My wife and I broke up (separated) but we didn't divorce.
  
  Booooo

The what feature? She talks like everyone has this and I don't even know what it's about...
- It's an Apple Photos feature. It can be enabled or disabled in Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Featured Content.
  It will pull together photos of a person or animal over a period of time, a set of photos from a particular date, a group from a place, or similar and make them into a slideshow.
  Sometimes it comes up with good ones (I get quite a few of my daughter and my dogs) and sometimes they're hilariously bad or random/contrived.
  Can't say they've ever really made me sad, but I may not be in the same stage of life as the OOP / not looking for internet joke points.
  
  It's not only Apple Photos. Google Photos does the same shit but at least for the latter (don't know if Apple offers this feature) there is an option to exclude people from these "highlights".
  
  Well if you just broke up and they make a slide show of you with your ex it's not that nice
  
  Ahhh a crapple-feature. That explains. Not used one of their devices to this day. No wonder that flew by my radar 😄 Thanks for explaining!
  
  It's also a Google Photos and Samsung Gallery app feature.
- Same. What is this feature?
  
  Pay Apple tax and your phone can automatically display its best guess at nice photos you took and might want to see again. Plus slideshows/movies with muzak too.
  It’s pretty smart though it does get confused if you take a photograph of a screen.

It never ceases to amaze me how most users just ignore all settings and go with default values for everything.
App started showing lengthy and disrupting ads? I guess I'll just have to watch those. App now sends hurtful old memories? I guess I'll just suffer.
- I don't find it surprising at all. The menus are often designed as kafka-esque with dark patterns all over, hiding toggles in submenu after submenu to make you go for the default setting (see privacy settings on facebook, notification settings on android). Then the app updates, the setting is somehow reverted, and you're back to square one. No wonder people give up.
  
  And even if you change the setting, they constantly re-enable it ("They didn't like it before, but they'll love it now that we added AI!!1") and then move the setting somewhere else
  
  Not on Windows 10 Mobile. It is setup to be easy to use but powerful. That is why I still use it.
- nah my phone didn't always show me those a random update did that 😮‍💨
- Oh this is wild to me too. I work IT support and we recently started swapping everyone to W11, and as soon as I upgraded mine I turned off all their ads, news/weather popups, Bing search garbage. When I ask people if they want help to get rid of it they're like "nah I'll just live with it" as if it wasn't the most distracting thing in the gd world.

Google photos will give me prompts like "selfies" or "2018." Very often it tries to do "golden hour" which should be dusk or dawn. When I actually actually check it I get photos of mostly what it should be but also get photos from when the PNW was on fire and my city looked like Venus or Mars...
- Gotta love driving to work with the mexico/post-apocalyptic filter turned on.

When I was in college some years ago I used to take a lot of pictures of the books and the exercises list I did to share with my colleagues. And now all my "memories" are a bunch of mathematics exercises, like remember 8 years ago when you were doing this integrals?

i'm convinced these machines are specifically designed to make people more miserable and dependent on more bad tech
- miserable
  I dunno, I’m on good terms with ex-girlfriends and photos of departed loved ones are OK by me…
  dependent
  Oof yes
  Also miserable is fine too if someone makes a buck 😉
  
  one of the byproducts of my insomnia is that i get to fuck with aussies and kiwis. got to say they've yet to let me down.

Get off the train. A Pixel setup with Graphene OS never has such nonsense features. I even fully control my own notifications. A 2 year old device still has 2 days of battery life with lots of use, and I have no bloatware at all. It isn't like some difficult techie thing either. Updates are secure, automatic, and over the air.
- It's a shame that you still have to support Google by buying their phones to be able to use Graphene OS. I hope one day they'll support fairphone.
  
  It is not about that. The pixel has a TPM chip (Trusted Protection Module). This is similar to how secure boot works in desktop computers. It is a special external chip that has a secret internal cryptographic key that can never be accessed by anyone. This chip can be used to create secured communications between devices. This is how it is possible to do over the air updates securely and how the device's security can be checked with a special app and an external device like an old Graphene phone. All files on the device can be hashed with the secret key to determine of they have been changed. Other phones do not include a TPM chip and this is the primary reason they cannot be supported directly by Graphene.
- Awesome. No (minimal at least) big adware tech for you!
  Bummer app compatibility isn’t a guarantee but besides banks does everything work?
  e: typo
  
  I have been using Graphene until last month (temporarily off it because my phone picked a fight with a rock and lost). So just going off memory. But compatibility is in a much better place these days. I don't recall having had any compatibility issues besides banking apps and "pay with phone nfc" over the last few years.
- I need to get on this train
- Show me a Pixel with two days of battery life with heavy use. My 8a lasts about a day, sometimes less. Similar reports for a friends 8a and my brother's 7a.
- I have a OnePlus 7T, is there any way for me to do something like this? I've never messed around with my phone much unlike my PC.
  Would I lose all my data?
  Would I still be able to use my Chase banking and other sensitive apps?

But I love this feature.
Is it universally hated or something like that? I had no idea.
- It hurts when it decides to show you photos of dead pets, or people that you've had a falling-out with. Sometimes, sweet memories can come from it. But other times, it's a punch to the gut.
  
  I see. Now that I think about this, it wasn't so nice for the first year afer breaking up with my ex. Still, I enjoyed it before and now I enjoy again.
  Thanks for the explanation!
- I find the feature hilarious, admittedly this is mostly because I almost never use my phones camera so it tries to use memes or anime screenshots/art to do its job.
  this leads to interesting results such as nightscape (shows picture I took of a burning building), clothes (shows furry porn), dog (image of Junko), cat (same image), sports (music videos)

This is apparently a feature that was enabled on my phone recently, because suddenly I got a notification about taking a look at the moments from the past.
When I opened it, it was a slideshow of beer I had uploaded to untappd...
Thanks for the reminder that I have no friends and was drinking alone.
- I don't understand why the default isn't just from the camera. It's even more confusing when it wants to help you remember images you saved.

🙋‍♂️
How do I turn that feature off in my brain?
- Edibles

I don't know what this means. What phone has this feature?
- Windows 10 Mobile. I get them everyday.
  
  There's a windows 10 mobile?!
  Oh, apparently you and 0.01% of the market