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Oh damn, Fdroid 2.0 does look pretty nice - even if I’ll miss the iconically out-dated aesthetic. That said:
The official client is not the only way to access F-Droid apps, but now you’ll have less reason to seek out an alternative.
For me that reason is Shizuku. Droidify supports that and gives me what Fdroid cannot, one click frictionless app installation. Until the day Fdroid can do that, I have no reason to go back.
AI tools are some of the most powerful and destructive things humans have ever created. And they are being effectively tested by the public in real time in the real world. When the Manhattan Project was trying to work out the power of their atomic tech, they did not do so by sending everyone the specs each morning and seeing which houses blew up.
Honestly, this. In their desperate attempt to break even, AI companies are throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks, without any due regard as to its effects on society at large…
Which unfortunately have proven time and time again to be horribly corrosive towards human culture.
Wow, today I learned. That’s a rather interesting story.
A bit of a sad ending, but a perfect example of why we can’t have nice things - someone will always find a way to abuse it.
While I’m not going to say its over, it sure looks like Google is about to make it a whole lot harder for people to escape their influence.
And the worst part of this is it would seem even the most “privacy conscious” governments are on Google’s side.
Because locking everything down and removing our privacy is good for the children… Just never mind the rich pedophile cabal that almost nothing was done about other than slapping the wrists a few very high profile scapegoats.
Is that a good metric??
Isn’t this just stating that you’re letting something with the coding ability of a toddler run amok through your product, having to constantly be bug-fixed by your remaining engineers?
This is exactly what Microsoft started doing, and its so far worked out terribly for them. Loads of their new software updates have had unacceptablely large bugs for even simple things like task manager!
I’m not even slightly surprised. Sounds like the exact MO of Stop Killing Games.
You don’t have to keep services running forever, that’s not fair at all, but you should have to give people the tools to do it themselves - because people should be able to preserve these experiences.
On one hand, its nice that they actually responded, because even that can’t be taken for granted nowadays.
On the other hand, they spent more text on telling you they’re holding onto your data (and trying to milk you for more) than they did telling you the thing the email was about!!
Was my first thought. The only reason special characters would ever matter in a password is if you’re storing/processing them improperly
Exactly, I’ll take boring over exciting if it means my phone will be more reliable over time.
It’s the same reason that won’t go for a foldable phone. They look cool, really cool, but moving parts means breaking parts - and if they break, they’re bloody expensive to replace.
So the profit cap has been removed and the non-profit has been kicked out of the control seat. Sounds like they’re taking off all the safeties in the name of money.
Goes to show the money always wins, and if AGI comes true, humanity will pay forfeit.
Aw, they look so cute together, like a cat looking after its kitten
It’s a race to the bed, as everybody knows monsters can’t invade your bed, that’s why so many of them live under it
At the time I got my current system, I did 1tb SSD for the main, and a 4tb HDD for data drive.
For my next system, I think I’ll split that a bit more evenly, as most of my games end up on the HDD which means they a bit to load
Alright, fine. You can have 20 miles or so, but nothing more. Oh and all the islands around it are still our’s.
I agree on them being safe - when rules are properly adhered to, they’re extremely safe, similarly to air travel. People only suspect their safety because when they do fail, they tend to fail spectacularly, again similar to air travel.
Having said that, they may be efficient to operate, but they are by no means efficient to build. They cost a lot of resources, and have a 10 year lead time - plus you need to worry about the cost of waste storage and decommissioning.
So sure, nuclear is better than fossil fuels, but you’re just kicking the nonrenewable can down the road.
That time and resources would be far better spent on renewables, because that where humanity is gonna have to go long-term no matter how well any other alternatives work.
The Internet Archive is currently fighting in the courts to maintain free digital library access to over 500,000 books they own from their own collection, yet Meta uses a pirated dataset of nearly 200,000 books to train their proprietary AI and is just allowed to get away with that??
Publishers will go after a charity making fair use of their content, but not the corporation outright stealing from them. What utter bollocks.
Pretty sure later updates for Windows 10 started doing this too, or at least it did on my PC.
Had to completely uninstall OneDrive to get it to stop - which Microsoft sure do make quite difficult to do.
Went in expecting a slightly grittier CoD, and left with the horrors of war and saviour complexes.
I cannot reccomend this game enough - it’s just a shame it got delisted over music licencing, so you can only get it secondhand now.
Good to hear - from your post it looked like you were reporting the aftermath of clicking through all that, which sounded plan unfortunate
Yeah. Shizuku enables the use of the Android Debugging Bridge internally to selectively enable root-like features, including one click installation outside of Google approved appstores