Income frequently defines where and how people socialize, I’m pretty sure it’s not an intentional a thing.

I highly doubt any power users will move to IOS. IOS is far more limiting than even a locked down Android. Graphene is a far more likely candidate, though I suspect most will just stick to normal Android with unverified apps enabled as they have their phones configured today. This change is really just an added 24hr delay to the existing process of enabling unverified app installation. If Google had just announced it this way I suspect there wouldn’t have been so much pushback. But instead it was rumored that unverified installation would only allowed over adb which would absolutely be too much friction with little security benefit.

They’ve recently announced the flow to enable unverified apps. It’s a one time process which will require waiting 24hr after enabling unverified apps but after that 24hr installing APKs will work exactly the same as today. It’s annoying Google has single-handedly decided to implement this rather than going through a more transparent method built into AOSP, but if this is as far as they take it I doubt any power users will be seriously impacted. Of course with how Google has handled this I have no confidence that this is as far as they’ll take it.

If this is really as straightforward as it sounds then I’d consider this the best case scenario. Google could have gone full Apple style lockdown or even just have implemented this flow on a per app basis, but needing to wait 24hr one time to enable unverified app installation isn’t a bad idea from a security perspective. It prevents a bad actor with temporary access from being able to do much while not getting in the way of us power users after the initial 24hr period.

My bigger problem is how Google is leveraging their monopoly to implement this single-handedly and only for themselves. If they had instead gone through AOSP this perhaps could have been implemented in a better way to allow other parties than just Google to be the verifier, and that 24hr waiting period could be applied to any verifier that is not the phone’s default. I’d argue this would be an equally reasonable security measure considering how many scams are out there preying on those who aren’t technologically savvy, yet would maintain transparency.

Lyft been doing this since last year too. In Chicago our group of 5 was told to have our two men seated in the back row because the driver wasn’t comfortable with men. We were confused but the driver knew the ride was requested by a woman in our group and therefore assumed the whole group for the Lyft XL would be women I guess?

All of these vehicles can be reported for illegal parking on NYC311. It’s a bit of a pain to do but from what I’ve heard they’re acting on reports much faster than they used to lately.

Is there no war in Ukraine either? Russia is quite specific to talk their “special military operation” there anything but a war.

I can’t say I’ve had a great time with audio in either personally, though it’s indeed much easier to fix audio problems in Linux. But just yesterday pipewire must have hung or crashed preventing all browser based video playback entirely, which due to the symptoms not appearing audio related was quite annoying to debug. I still have no idea what caused it in order to avoid it happening again in the future.

Depending on how you use your phone this concern may not be as big as you think, flip phones spend the vast majority of time with the screen closed and protected. My partner got a 2024 Razr and has been using it daily for 1.5yr without any scratches or other screen related issues (there’s some expected slowness from the clunky MTK processor of course). I was skeptical of the durability at the time but for $450 with an 18mo warranty including accidental damage figured it was worth the risk. The technology is much more mature than I realized.

All my friends who have one rave about the reliability. I can’t get one on principle. They’re all at the mercy of Bambu’s closed source firmware which means you’re always only one automatic update away from a required subscription.

Removing the cap is a complete no-brainer but on its own not enough to solve the problem. The fact we can’t even do that gives me zero confidence that it will be solvent to fully pay benefits when I ultimately retire.

There’s a polished calculator for the impact of each policy change here: https://www.crfb.org/socialsecurityreformer/

Imo there are many reasonable solutions, but the only “free” thing that won’t upset the public is removing the cap, and we can’t even do that.

The sad thing is that there is a huge amount that could be done for global warming with some basic legislation around contrails. Clouds that high in the atmosphere are quite bad in terms of greenhouse effect. By avoiding flying through areas that they’d be generated there’s a surprisingly large environmental benefit for minimal cost. A good explainer: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08

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These attacks are more around the encryption and all require a fully malicious server. It sounds like Bitwarden is taking these seriously and personally I’d still strongly prefer it to any closed source solution where there could be many more unknown but undiscovered security concerns.

Using a local solution is always most secure, but imo you should first ask yourself if you trust your own security practices and whether you have sufficient hardware redundancy to be actually better. I managed to lose the private key to some Bitcoin about a decade ago due to trying to be clever with encryption and local redundant copies.

Further, with the prevalence of 2FA even if their server was somehow fully compromised as long as you use a different authenticator app than Bitwarden you’re not at major risk anyways. With how poorly the average person manages their password security this hurdle alone is likely enough to stop all but attacks targeted specifically at you as an individual.

On Android Newpipe has the best UI in my opinion.

If there were ever an election to not vote third party in, I’d argue it’s these upcoming elections. They are effectively over the validity of the constitution itself, since the Republicans have clearly demonstrated they have no intention to follow it. A vote for Democrats isn’t a vote for Democrats as much as a vote against fascism.

The system itself is incredibly flawed and the Democrats are truly spineless. I have zero hope that they’d do anything to actually fix the system’s problems, but when the alternative is becoming even more like Nazi Germany I don’t see how voting third party could have any benefit. With the recently increased federal voter ID requirements beyond normal registration I worry that it may be too late to have truly free and fair elections already.

China didn’t start it’s transformation into a modern nation until Deng Xiaoping took power, pivoting away from strict maoism with market reforms. Modern China is far from maoist, the majority of their GDP is from private companies. And for their state owned enterprises most are run as if they were a private company once they have stability and an established market.

And many state owned enterprises started out as publically traded companies, so in those cases the state has no motivation to tamper with production as it would risk the enterprise becoming unprofitable and burdensome.

I haven’t seen $20/lb brisket anywhere since COVID regardless of how nice the restaurant. But I’m also far too cheap to eat BBQ unless my work is paying for it or I have visitors from out of town.

This happened last December where I work in the US. Unlike most Chinese companies we have a pretty reasonable work life balance but the dude wasn’t near retirement age and just died in the middle of the night. It’s not like the team could have known in the AM why he didn’t come in. That was a sad day.

There are so many, you can get a good overview of them just by taking rideshare in China. The intense rideshare competition between drivers means that you’re pretty much guaranteed to get an EV just because they’re cheaper to run. Roewe is the most common brand for this in my experience, but there’s significant variety especially by region.