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That came out more sexist than funny.

We have advanced climate studies since your "high school" (sounds like 50 years ago if you heard ice age prophecies), and at the moment it's like 99% of the scientists working in the field or related agree we're at the progressing climate emergency.

> we still have the same weather.

Oh.... So your local weather is now deciding the global temperature patterns, averages or temperature records being broken year on year?

OMG....

Apple, cherry or plum seeds are very yummy, and match the taste profile of the fruits perfectly.

Sure I wouldn't eat a handful but several are not a big deal and given their taste I usually do that.

"They don't taste good" is such a sweeping claim in the post attempting to generalize. You know what, people can't even agree which apple variety is the tastiest, and you want to make a claim this broad?

:)

Same, they never asked for a selfie back then.

Try opening one now. Today it's hard to get a hire purchase contract as an existing custoner (already known and verified) without photos of the ID and selfie.

Most banks now require selfies, try shopping around. KYC requirements get tightened all the time.

You could say that.

The lack of root is only significant because unlike in other vendors the built-in backup doesn't work reliably, and you can't use third party software.

But I'm very hopeful, recently they released this Messages update, they're working on introducing native RCS somehow (no idea how but I wish them well), and they recently made a first-class automated call recording.

> there has been recently numerous experiments which challenge this premise

I've seen Sabine Hossenfelder mentioning some papers but without the gory details.

But she also notably said:

>> A lot of research [in] the foundations of physics is now pseudocience. It hasn’t followed the scientific method for decades.

What experiments you're talking about?

I see the passive aggressiveness only in your response, not the parent.

Hetzner?! No, I would never use them if I wanted to host a pirate proxy myself. Very crude, trigger happy, operating in a country very cosy with all the police organisations.

Currently only Google Messages supports RCS indeed, so Messages is not a replacement yet.

Personally I don't need RCS so I simply use Textra since forever as it's far better than Messages, but lack of backup is impacting everyone much more - no other app can be used to back up the OS.

You're right, this is not a solution.

And I'm syncing some of the app data already, but that is not a replacement for the OS apps.

Most of the data cannot be synced like this.

I stopped preferring British produce when I read about the farmers cheerfully using toxic industrial sludge on their fields: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e5y85p488o

I guess others are no angels either, but at least they have regulations with teeth and less corrupt politicians.

Just buy what you want and certainly do not _prefer_ British. If they don't care about your health why should you care about their bottom line....

I am a parent and I'm grossly offended by the thin veil of fake excuses in the effort to normalise staggering invasion of privacy.

For my kids.

This effort trains them to expose their full name and home address and their real face to all the sites and services that request it. Predators dream, really.

If the age verification was done in the privacy-preserving ways, it would be okay, but already several high profile leaks and scandals proved this is the exercise in data collection and deanonymisaiton.

It's maybe $250 for someone's old phone.

Other than that -- next year. And this is other companies' choice, not GrapheneOS team, to fix on releasing grossly insecure hardware or NOT releasing patches and fixes.

> Messaging, high impact.

Messaging can be replaced with one of the hundreds decent messaging apps.

Unlike the backup app which is utterly unusable, untrustworthy and frankly crap. And CANNOT be replaced by anything else.

As it stands it's impossible to have reliable backups in GOS.

What? :)

You mean the perfectly functional (if barebones) AOSP call app? :)

Investigated, prosecuted and jailed (if necessary).

So all the people companies are better off, not just you and other shareholders.

You know, the opposite of two-tier justice system.

In the longstanding tradition of leading on the forefront safety, we introduce Engine Check coming up after mysterious, unaccounted for, unsigned voltage drops.

Can't be too safe if it could be a short, right?

"Tinkerer mode" only £14.75 per month*

*additional checks during the annual service apply.

Thank you very much, that was so easy to understand, it'll genuinely help me.

Thanks again.

That one is on me — I failed to take into consideration the limitations that you put in plain in front of me. This won't happen again.

That'd be even better TBF, thanks for the update

Hm. If these glasses can run custom software maybe they could even start recording automatically? :)

That's a massive difference to me (you rightly called me out on that one).

One is 5 seconds on wifi, second is grumbly attempts to create throwaway email to create the throwaway account.

I agree in principle but disagree because I hate unnecessary friction.

You won't see GOS on the $100 ever, because they don't contain the hardware GOS relies on.

It simply won't work.

Of course you can fork it, adapt and run the less safe clone, but the official GOS won't.

...unless you accept refurbished ones, then the recommended minimum is Pixel 7a for approx 200€

(pixels 6, currently supported, approach EOL)

Which things you'd say are very suspicious?

And "they are suddenly very AI obsessed" sounds so alarming - can you point to something I could read?

This reads shockingly bad, but most of that won't apply to the new devices.

Like, it will be Qualcomm, it will support unlockng, relocking, custom keys and will not have a secret debug key - otherwise there simply would be absolutely no deal with GoS.

IMO these new flagships will not be fully impacted by these issues (if at all), considering how much of the partnership initiative started* at Motorola.

It was likely them providing the GOS team with source code of some of the most critical patches, when Google withheld it for months waiting for Samsung to release patches.

Why? I guess to get the bragging rights to have the most secure android handsets in the world, to improve their own codebase (GOS pushed a lot of patches upstream and perhaps the hardware).

I'm cautiously optimistic - given how allergic the team are to the notion of the enforced compliance imposed by Google, I think it's likely these new flagships will be automatically unlocked in the same way pixels are.

connection != account

You can do the Pixel unlocking whilst driving by the random McD.

I'm quite surprised it flies with the team.

Kind of not like this.

I mean the coat on my brick wall (and ideally roof), that will reflect most of the infrared and UV.

I've used a white paint like this on the conservatory and white walls outside, and along with a solar-reflective foil outside of my windows it's the biggest factor to having a nice temperature inside. I might also actually consider painting the interior walls with something like this as well - there's less he t escaping through radiation if it's reflected back, right?

Window blinds for the worst hours (can be angled so the sun doesn't enter but the view outside is retained), and solar reflective foil for the normal days. I'm still looking for the good, transparent matte coat for my exterior walls, but I've already cut some of the cooling power use via passive means.

And having to restore everything (this is a house with personal items, not a loaner, anonymous flat) if someone trashes it?

Naah, even a small risk is unacceptable in such case.