sarsaparilyptus

Thanks for fixing the image picker issue, very much appreciated

Nice, thanks!

Nobody tell him

The fact that you don't understand doesn't mean I have an obligation to spoonfeed it to you

You mean the web, not the internet. And no, they're not the only reason, they just help facilitate consumer protection in ways that happen to be mutually beneficial—not motivated by altruism. There are a lot of people who work a lot harder than the EU, often for free, who are much more responsible for the web and the internet itself being in a decent state and being worth caring about.

It's really not, which is Google's fault. Just the ability to sidestep it for the user's gallery app of choice would be worlds better

I do too. Are you sure you're responding to the right person? Because you're not making a lick of sense.

The old image picker was so much better that there's no legitimate comparison, because the old one allowed you to use your gallery app, which is my case is Simple Gallery Pro from F-Droid because it's the best one there is. I just went from being able to search my microSD card by filename to having some kind of web 3.0 abomination that just shows every picture on local storage in a feed, and an album pane with a whopping 3 albums from local storage. Massive, massive step back. Potentially a deal breaker.

The image picker now uses the fancy new Photo Picker

The fancy new photo picker is a significant downgrade. It can't search file names, it doesn't work with microSD cards, and it's painfully slow. Can we get an option to select images with an external gallery app?

Take your meds

You can get 32GB of laptop RAM for like $60 to $80 if you find sales, and even one 16GB stick would be an upgrade for you. Modern bloat is so bad that having 8 gigs of RAM is the equivalent of having 4 a few years ago.