OneLeggedCat

This is an inadequate comment.

> The module should go to sleep

lol tell Subaru owners about this. There are tons of them complaining of batteries going dead the last few years, just from sitting a few days in the driveway, while the always-on cellular is at edge of range, hunting. Subaru's solution to this has been to in some cases pay for a bigger battery for those customers.

Ah. So vaginal probes are not invasive. Interesting take you have.

I wonder if the fingerprint and face authentication still suck.

The camera (actually cameras) on my Pixel 7 Pro is the most over-hyped mediocrity ever. I can't believe that it reviewed so well. The jpeg processing is so over-done that everything looks like cartoons and plastic. The video drops dozens of frames when zooming in and out. The raws are not real raws, but are instead just less processed pseudo-raws, and yet still have terrible dynamic range anyway.

I do like the colors of the jpegs.

> Jerry here is asking Anil to make search results shittier on purpose so users will have to make more queries so ads get more impressions?

As we've all noticed from the shittier Google results the last several years, this has been known. The surprising part is that this communication was not done over the phone or some other secretive non-transcripted way. At least this time. Amateur-hour on Jerry's part.

> Quite literally a first world problem.

Exactly. People who have to work for a living are not wasting time or money on the unregulated, abusive, intrusive, deceptive, under-delivering shit show that home automation has become. They just like, hit the light switch. People of normal means do not have time for all this sillyness.

One moment? Have you created a Google account recently? It's not nearly as easy as it used to be. Wants to know DOB, gender, a working phone number that they verify, etc. Seems to me that by linking the phone number to what is probably the same phone number for your other Google accounts, you may as well just have used your main Google account to begin with.

> You NEED a smartphone nowadays for everyday life: banking, gym access, maps

It is bizarre to me that anyone would state the few minutes saved per month on these as NEEDS.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

"Tweets" shall now be called "Xcrements"

You can pull a fuse in at least some Toyotas.

Your can pull a fuse (I think it's marked DCM?) in some Toyotas if you don't care about the entertainment/navigation system ever contacting a cell tower again. I pulled the one in my 2021 Tundra.

> In the future (or maybe it already is), most of our appliances and vehicles will be subscription-based just because companies can push it.

This makes me angry and sad. But evidence so far shows it to be completely true. Free markets are not properly sorting this out, because markets are not really free. Instead they are mostly oligopoly, and can thus control image and regulation and competition.

Well that's awesome.

"You’ll get a thrilling approx. 45-50 minutes jet ride including:

- A walk around the MiG-29 jet including detailed explanations

- Cruising at double Supersonic Speed (Mach 2)

- Manoeuvres such as rolls, steep diving and climbing and more, depending on what your worked out plan together with the pilot

- A fantastic view onto the earth from above

- You will see the curvature of the earth

- Possibility to control the jet"

"45-50 minutes MiG-29 flight costs EUR 17,500"

That's almost affordable. If my wife ever leaves me, I'm doing this.

> gnome

Gnome is the Apple of Linux world. A lot of Linux people hate gnome.

Hard to convince advertisers to cough up real money for an audience of Russians and impoverished rednecks.

That "WORKSFORME" tag is such a powerful insult at the users.

Yes. It's become clearly exactly that, although some do not want to hear it.

> Why should an agency be allowed to spy on non-americans more anyway?

The answer is that most democracies have various fundamental protections against spying on their own citizens (including the USA), because citizens want that. But governments still want to spy on their own citizens anyway, because terrorism and think-of-the-children and the war on drugs and geopolitics and general control of 1%ers over 99%ers. So it's not even really about non-Americans.

So what to do? How to get around that, in a way that citizens don't mind? Why, you set up a secretive Five Eyes agreement (also the other "Eyes"). UK spies on USA citizens, USA spies on UK citizens, the USA shares that gathered intelligence with UK, and UK shares their intelligence with USA.

Voila! Now each government can spy on all its citizens via trusted foreign proxies. It's legal, and the citizenry is not informed enough to care.

Anyway, that is the answer to your question. 1%ers want it, and citizens are not informed enough to care.

Baloney. This evidence is poor. No serious birder considers them to still exist.

With only iOS and Android as realistic choices, we genuinely need a more viable (real) Linux phone soon. I have zero faith that Google will let something like GrapheneOS stay in the somewhat usable state that it is in now.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

He said, "Even if just to support such a project"

That's a lot of summonses.

Many Android devices are still not available to be updated. For example, Verizon Pixel 6 users did not receive this patch until yesterday.

Pixel 6, 6a, 6 Pro are NOT protected from this on GrapheneOS. Not yet.

> affected Pixel devices have already received a fix for CVE-2023-24033 in the March 2023 security update

That line is carefully deceptive (lawyerly, even). Pixel 6 series have not yet received the March 2023 update.

Google Support said that the Pixel 6 series won't be updated until March 20. This seems horrific to me.

It really is. Above referenced scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag14Ao_xO4c