Doesn’t Meshcore require infrastructure that someone needs to set up (repeaters or something?) and the software costs license fees ?

Thanks for bringing this up. I personally switched to a Casio ABL-100WE because it counts steps and found a smartwatch too distracting (and was annoyed to have to charge it all the time). I don’t miss my Google watch at all but now I’m curious about Gadgetbridge

Interesting that there is a Powerbank with Meshtastic! I did not know that.

I have to say I’m one of them. Cancelled my office subscription and an trying to avoid making the same mistake again. It was convenient though.

Got an email from Aura saying they are working with Google to keep the functionality. I wish they were working on a Nextcloud integration instead. Anything to protect themselves from Google I’m the future.

Too little, too late. I’m on Lemmy now :)

I can tell you it’s a very good digital picture frame for my needs that gets less convenient with this change by Google. I have one and gave one to my parents. This feature allows everyone with access to a shared Google photo album to contribute without an extra account or software and my parents get pictures of their grandchildren and what not. Also since the frame does nothing else but display pictures and play short videos it only needs to be plugged in and it does it’s thing. It is quite wonderful to be honest. It is a shame that Google is taking this joy away.

This API changes takes away the reason I pay for Google One storage so I can cancel it. If I understand the article correctly I can move to iPhone to keep a similar feature, I just need to heart s photo to add it. Might as well abandon Google altogether.