They’ll just keep further stretching out releases until they stop completely. Google is trying to kill AOSP. What will end up remaining is a skeleton (if that) akin to how Apple only has a fragment of their OS open-source anymore. Google is the enemy and should be treated as such.

This is post-Apple. Apple died roughly around 2008-2011 when they figured out how to capitalize on douche snobbery. Previously they catered to the outliers. The clevil (clever evil) was when they figured out how to market that you are being an outlier if you own their crap. Which, ironically drove away the outliers.

Somebody has to talk and listen to Trump’s voters and convince them to vote for somebody else.

Unfortunately that isn’t how human psychology works with a religion. You can’t easily change a view. I can’t recall the psychological term/study around it, but its basically the person has to come to their own conclusion, and it is exceedingly difficult to feed them logic to change their view.

America falling apart is doing the work though. The more they are impacted by their poor decision, the more of them realize they idolized a false prophet.

All the protests are basically to keep hope alive. The work is being done, but the waiting is palpable.

I remember it from classic ones, had never seen it on the Switch one. Pretty hilarious.

Not sure I completely understand the thought here, apologies. Are you considering just emulating Android for some specific apps that only exist as apps? Seems a probable approach. I suppose extending that, one could even just emulate the apps on a computer at home and remote desktop into the computer from their phone to run them, although that’d be possibly obtuse.

May I ask what country has apps that require government ID to run on their phone for certain things? That seems a bit dystopian.

I don’t get why banking apps are such a difficult deal-killer for people. Banks have web sites. But also, what are people doing? Running their bank app to daily transfer money back and forth from/to checking and savings?

Have you ever tried running Android apps on Graphene? Most run just fine without Play Services, many even have smaller degoogled versions. Some Play-only apps may have an error dialog here or there, but very few just flat don’t work at all. Graphene + Obtainium config to pull apps in from various sources and manage updating them. Maybe a few sideloads. About as zero Google as one can get on a modern smartphone.

Burying with diesel-powered digging equipment, I’m sure.

How does one piss off that many birds at once in that game?

So thaaat’s the island that SeaQuest DSV traveled to 225 (maybe 218 now) years into the future to find out there were two teens on an island battling it out with video games…

They didn’t really specify what radio signals. Often satellite communications may be interrupted, HF ham radio bands. Less of an effect on Earth-based radio transmissions as the atmosphere is somewhat a shield.

If news is going to call out radio disruption in their headline, they should probably specify what, how widespread, etc.

Many apps have no reason to ever have network access. Block away until you start seeing feedback in the app logs.

Apps like Android Easter Egg do not need network access. Go from there and hit what needs to be blocked.

If you don’t like your president, elect someone else. If you don’t like the presented options, pressure whatever party you think fits into providing better options.

Unfortunately, what many outside the US don’t comprehend, is that this means waiting 3 more years. The last elections a couple of days ago already showed some change, next year’s will have more of an impact, but unlike parliamentary governments with votes of no confidence and automatic elections when a budget fails to get approved, the US is all mucking around on a beta version of Democracy and shorted out the check-and-balance circuit breaker so it no longer functions. Best to keep up the strength, but just the same exhausting.

There is no magic button to remove the President as long as Congress/DoJ is useless, and removing Congress is outside the power of regular citizens as well. Only Congress can impeach Supreme Court Justices, so there’s a no go there either. Turns out running a country for almost 250 years on a gentleman’s agreement was a bad idea, who knew?

The US is 9.8 million square kilometers in size too, so it isn’t like everyone can just overwhelm the White House and expect change. Worse, it isn’t even the size. It’s the survival. Healthcare and medication is coupled to employment, employment is coupled to showing up to work, many jobs have no concept of time off, and the ones that do often require months in advance notice. Lose your job, lose your healthcare, lose your mortgage, lose your car loan, become homeless and/or die. It is basically that simple for most Americans as the oligarchs in charge have run the population down to a paper-thin existence.

You can tell how bad it has become reading all the news reports about how many Americans are now buying groceries using buy now pay later or credit cards. Groceries are food. Basic survival stuff. On credit.

Of course, the path the US is on terminates in another (probably global) economic collapse, suffered worst in the US, so at that point it won’t much matter.

Many would prefer it doesn’t go down that route, however, or a 2A civil war, or the many other violent ways it could play out.

So one waits, and one hopes, while being extremely frustrated.

We need to stop letting supervillains pollute the sky with garbage. As well as a moratorium against satellite quantity, and satellites that serve any purpose outside of science and some communication. (Starlink should be deorbited as well, if for no other reason than the atmospheric pollution created by the short life cycle of those satellites.)

Antitrust Google. Fork YouTube as part of it. All existing content must be preserved. Remove YouTube’s ability to sell licensed content (cable TV channels, music, on demand). YouTube can then be purchased or spun off as a “YOU Tube” again - content made by people for people. Brand saved, community focused. Monetization heavily regulated (governance or internal governance, but just make it a requirement.)

Or just let it burn and replace it with something else. Video’s just super-expensive to host and provide, probably by design to keep others out of the market.

No more new hardware beyond Pixel 9 for the foreseeable future though, and Graphene’s ODM partner (if it even pans out) will be using Qualcomm chips, which is a US military contractor and not known for good security.

Rethink actually seems to block Play Services if you choose to configure Rethink a certain way. It is delightful watching Play Services become more and more desperate. Trying other states, other countries, and even other Google devices on your local network in a desperate attempt to get online and shit telemetry back to Google.

Same can’t be said about iOS. Apple routes their 17.x.x.x network and other traffic outside userspace, immune to even full-tunnel VPN. Android networking isn’t that capable.

I dont know how you figure that flying is more efficient than driving.

Basic physics. Moving hundreds of people in one machine is almost always more efficient than hundreds of people moving in one machine per person.

https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

Then, where you take a petrol car or fly depends on the distance. Flying has a higher carbon footprint for journeys less than 1000 kilometers than a medium-sized car. For longer journeys, flying would actually have a slightly lower carbon footprint per kilometer than driving alone over the same distance.

In the context of the US, which is giant compared to driving across an EU nation, there’d be no reason to fly a distance less than 621 miles (1000km mentioned above) for the most part, neither from a time or distance perspective, about 8-9 hours driving at expressway speeds. The country is huge. Whenever I’ve flown, for example, it is at least 1200 miles (1900km) or more.

Also that ‘if I dont fly on this plane, someone else would’ argument, I hope you realise that its nonsense if you think about it for a second.

No, it isn’t, I didn’t say “someone else will.” I said the plane is going to fly whether you’re in that seat or not, as they’re used heavily for cargo transport. Airlines don’t just cancel major flight routes just because you’re not sitting on the plane, short-term anyway. Longer-term they would reduce flights if there’s consistent lack of passengers/cargo. So long-term it would have a more substantial impact, but if someone is mulling over a trip to see their family and fretting over carbon footprint of one person, that airplane will be traveling to that destination with or without that person being onboard.

The US is a great example of how not to do things, to be clear. Take that 1200 mile trip as an example. Train will take longer than car because Amtrak is so dysfunctional, if you can even get Amtrak to plot a route, or if they even have stops where you want. Car will pollute more than airplane, and take more time than airplane, and you have to plot hotel stays and refueling points, and possibly have enough drivers if you’re going to switch off drivers, if your car can even handle such a long trip. So airplane, it often is.