what's worse: none of my trusty backup phones support eSIM. so when my eSIM phone dies, i'm pretty much fucked until i buy a new one. :/

not OP, but the main selling point of Sync is an absolutely top notch buttery smooth and good-looking UI, adhering to Google's Material Design.

it looks and feels like a Google-made app, only it's made for nerds, so it's more configurable and maybe a bit bolder in terms of innovation.

in geneal this means: no loose ends, no jarring or lazy design, no janky transitions, and focus on ease of use (configurable gestures, bottom screen nav, presets, clever set-up tour, well thought out settings...).

of course you'll always find this one niche feature that someone Absolutely Needs which it doesn't have... and that's ok. can't have them all. but it covers 90 % of the bases and in terms of polish, you'd be hard pressed to find better. incl. Apollo, in my opinion (though it was some years ago that i used it).

man, I gotta admit I'm here solely because of Sync. no idea about the content yet, just enjoying the smooth ride of the app. (after the janky atrocity of the official reddit app. ;)

just a while ago i bumped into a tweet by elon musk recommending a carlson video.

and now this? what's happening.

i mean, both these dudes have always been a bit out there, but htf can they not see all the absolute, nutty, trashy, debilitating bullshittery that carlson spouts?

some old any flight game

ftfy

i see, TIL.

on the other hand, this doesn't solve the hassle when my primary phone dies and I'm unable to log in to my carrier's self care to generate the new eSIM QR code.

unless... it's somehow possible to do that beforehand -- "preload" the new eSIM in the backup phone and activate it only when the main phone dies.

i didn't realize it was eSIM only until i had it at home. and i didn't think much of it until a few days later.

ah, this explains why there's almost zero hubbub about it on reddit right now.

i explained the concept to my gf like this. so you say: increase wages of female workers? naah, increase wages of all workers!

immediately she was like huh... damn, you right.

haha :) hat tip!

Well yeah, that because its Reddit app, but who uses that?

everyone now, unfortunately.

am thinking it is just familiarity for a lot of people.

yes, it's definitely that too. but i think in the context of "the official reddit app sucks" it's also an obvious quality issue. which, in case of sync, was helped by a timely and well executed user migration to lemmy.

now you're like my mom asking me why i need a bmw when the old skoda drives just fine :).

yes, it may be insignificant details in the eyes of one and annoying deficiencies for the other.

in the official reddit app, transitions between detail and list are janky, collapsing comments is slow (there's a lag), the post list jitters randomly during scroll, to go to my fave subs i have to open an annoyingly remote hamburger menu, I can't set swipe gesture to exit a post detail. etc. etc.

north/south is just as arbitrary, maybe even more so.

technically the antarctic pole is the North (since the magnetic field lines exit the Earth here) and the arctic pole is technically the South (here the lines enter the Earth).

we decided to name them in reverse because it was simpler to say that "north is where the north part of the magnetic hand is pointing to".

cool, thanks for the info, I'll check it out!