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  • Someone got tired of hallucinated reports

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  • The former was a truth, the latter was a (poorly-placed) joke about how IRC could be noisy chaos with bots and ping floods and giant ASCII art messages. I'd take the latter any day.

  • Need a replacement messaging app for Samsung

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  • Third party apps can't even SMS on iOS. On Apple's platform, you use their apps or you don't get the feature. The iOS implementation of RCS doesn't even yet support encryption. Apple is testing encryption between Apple devices.

    That Apple and Google both hold the keys to what started out as an open GSMA standard, and now have a closed-source platform screams never trust it.

  • ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test

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  • A very good assumption. However, knowing the state of things is still powerful, and also helps one better thwart the nonsense.

  • ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test

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  • 2023 article. Would be good to have current information.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day

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  • What Google has been doing to Android the past few years puts the future of Graphene in jeopardy. Especially with closing off third-party access to the binary blobs needed to enable newer Pixel hardware.

  • This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

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  • Not that they know or care, but Toyota (and most) hybrids like that Prius have fully-electric AC. It runs at full blast with or without the engine turned on.

    Real fun when descending a mountain and you realize that gravity is powering the HVAC.

  • Need a replacement messaging app for Samsung

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  • Nothing will support RCS except Google Messages. Google closed the source and extensibility of the messaging framework quite a while back. Around the time Signal dropped SMS support.

  • A Tesla illegally parked in the Chicago Avenue bus lane at 5pm. Chicago, Illinois.

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  • Toyota Tundra: 80.2 inches

    GMC Yukon 81 inches

    Dodge Ram: 82.1 inches

    CyberCuck: 79.99 inches

  • UPDATE: Kitty was rescued and is safe! This poor cat has been stuck for 5 days, and Xcel Energy is refusing to turn off electricity so the cat can be rescued

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  • Xcel literally does nothing right. What a garbage company anymore.

  • I’ve been a Motorola fan for years, but the Moto G17 is my breaking point

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  • The Motorola phone brand has been owned by Lenovo for some years now, not the Motorola that brought the Nexus 6 and Moto X. The behavior is of no surprise. It isn't a brand borne of pride anymore, it is just a thing that makes money, maybe.

  • Washington Post gutting its climate team | Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

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  • I like you, but I don't like your words because they make sense. I do wonder sometimes if it is actually late stage, or just 1929 stock market crash repeating with some variations. Or all the market crashes of the late 1800s. A lot of similarities, going up to 1929 people were doing BNPL on RCA radios. Today it's groceries and cell phones.

    I will say one thing though, late stage capitalism sounds dark and scary because "the way of life" is going away, which always means we poors suffer and die. The other angle, is maybe something better will finally fight its way to the surface. Not what those billionaire idiots want though. Hopefully it will be as damaging to them now as it was back in the 20th century when they were somewhat put in their place for a century. Capitalism only ever worked if the evil was regularly regulated, as greed is inherent in the design.

    Next Stargate reboot ep, SG-1 visits a planet where they have the centennial saving of freedom by vanquishing the evil rich, as told over a few centuries, and only SG-1 can save them this time.

  • Washington Post gutting its climate team | Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

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  • That's the weirdest thing about it. "Green" can be, and is profitable. Why pass up the opportunity to be the front-runners in what could be the new age of wealth?

  • Someone got tired of hallucinated reports

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  • Discord, the cancer that replaced IRC. Which was an earlier form of cancer, but at least more disposable.

  • Removed

    "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in"

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  • That paying extra to get faster service thing is a complete scam too, at least with DoorDash. But they probably didn't bother researching anything about how these junk services work either.

  • SpaceX Eyes 1 Million Satellites for Orbital Data Center Push

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  • Muskrat is clearly an alien sent to Earth to ensure our doom.

  • If you have a fitbit, no longer possible to avoid Google

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  • Bear in mind that as they age, you have increasingly unstable lithium bombs on your wall.

    Nest smoke alarms were inspired and truly the best I have ever used. So pissed Google destroyed them.

  • If you have a fitbit, no longer possible to avoid Google

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  • If you do a Takeout request of Nest data, you will find a hundreds of megs JSON file with every change you made to your thermostat, every time you walked by it, any data it could harvest. A breadcrumb trail of your entire home life. I switched back to old fashioned offline battery thermostats.

  • If you have a fitbit, no longer possible to avoid Google

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  • However Fitbit accounts had different privacy policies and terms of service, IIRC. Bringing them under the Google umbrella likely allows Google easier data harvesting/combining from a legal perspective. They did similar with Nest years back before they completely butchered it.

  • Motorola is getting away with zero OS updates thanks to regulatory loophole

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  • They just copy GrapheneOS and take away features each release. Like soft-buttons instead of the silly swipe gestures? Gone (but they eventually brought back the option to enable.) Want to remove apps? They let you remove almost every one, then only disable some, then you can't even disable but you can use ADB to mask the app for your user account so it appears removed but is still present. Quick settings for Bluetooth, WiFi get harder to disable with each release because they love metadata too much. Want to do GPS only and turn off their WiFi/BT stalker? Apps that use their modern GPS API will bring an OS dialog up to re-enable Google Stalking EVERY TIME, and still not fall back to GPS. (Watch Duty is a good example of this.) Disk access, you used to be able to at least SEE most of the filesystem on-phone including app container storage. Then you could only see the root folders but not files. Then not even the folders. You can still via ADB, for now, and even that slowly becomes more limited. Bootloader unlock? Not on many phones shipping today at all.

    Then with Android 16, Google isn't even shipping the binary blobs (hardware drivers) for the chips in Pixel anymore, Graphene has had to use kluges to get Pixel 10 support.

    Google doesn't release good OS features every major release, they just keep taking away everything they can until they find the cross-over of forcibly extracting the most data users will tolerate while supporting the least freedom and features as possible.

    With their new closer Apple alliance, I wouldn't be surprised if they cease phone/OS development in a few years. They seem to have no interest in making products worth buying anymore.