Do they ever cover the fact that they are now the only representatives of their “species” and will never be able to find a mate? Are there any episodes about it?

Secret to die young?

For usability the solution is using some custom ROM like Graphene OS or iode. They support AA now.

For privacy the solution is to use a very old car with no infotainment. Modern cars have telemetry and always on connectivity you can’t control. Even Linux phones will not help with that. We would need open source cars which will never happen.

Just don’t do bugs. How hard is that?

My take on Android Auto (I’m sure everyone wants to hear)

pros:

• free to choose the maps app you want (OsmAnd, Organic Maps, Google Maps or anything)
• stream music for the app you want
• decent voice control for maps and spotify
• decent integration with some EV charging apps, you can find and initiate chargers from the dashboard
• you can write your own Android Auto apps

cons:

• Android Auto app is very invasive, polluting phone with stupid notifications
• the standard is shit. Android Auto doesn’t work work with Android Go phones but it’s not specified anywhere in the documentation, wireless Android Auto only works with latest android but it’s also not specified anywhere
• it’s controlled by Google and there are no alternative implementations

My solution so far is to use cheap, secondary phone for AA (which was hard to find because of the stupid limitations). If someone would create a open AA client not controlled by Google I would put it on my primary phone. AA should now work with Graphene OS so I may try to set it up in separate profile some day.

It’s not about ease of use. Remember Windows RT? It worked exactly like normal Windows and it still died because people didn’t understand what it is and were confused but the limitations. Making Linux as similar to Windows as possible is not a solution for the masses. It works for people that understand what they are doing or have someone who does at hand. Normal Windows user will just try to install Word and download exe files and be confused that they don’t work. If you want normal users to use Linux you need to make it clear that it’s something different, like OS X or Chrome OS does. You basically need a major OEM to create immutable Linux distro with clear branding and offer commercial support for it. Android for Desktop basically which will be very similar to Chrome OS.

The other 70% are non-AI brainrot videos. 1% has any value.

The linkedin post this is based on sounds like a troll/joke/fake/mental episode.

In Linux, Unlock the partition with secret key (easy) and skip login (easy). Overall: easy.

I’m also old fashioned and it was always faster for me to reach to light switch than to unlock my phone, find the app and toggle it from there.

Heh, I have 64 and still can run out. Teams and Outlook for work, one or two java projects in IntelliJ, rust project in Neovim… try to build and run tests with maven and I’m at 70-80% easily. Couple more tabs like discord and I’m out of memory.

The year is 2031. Every phone comes with government mandated, pre-installed spyware scanning everyone incoming and outgoing message. VPNs are illegal now and special police units track and stop anyone with unauthorized account. Random stops and phone searches make sure no one is using modded ROMs. Failure to unlock phone for police is punishable with long prison terms.

People seeking privacy (i.e. criminals) resort to drastic measures to evade those new rules. Unlocked phones are smuggled through the channel but it’s to risky to carry them around or even to connect them to the network. “Privacy phones” are usually carried in the ass and only taken out for a quick PornHub session or to post illegal meme to lemmy. ROM updates are only traded underground and getting the images is more dangerous than trading drugs. Police informants are everywhere. Truly, the darkest days for privacy online.

On the bright side pedophilia was completely eradicated and all the children are safe now.

I was replying to this comment

Mass shootings were much more rare in the 1950s-1980s, despite similar guns and similar men. What changed?

I didn’t claim men or guns cause shootings. I was saying that if we accept the theory that men with guns cause shootings then it’s normal that we see more shootings now as there are more men with guns.

If you want to argue that the shootings don’t have anything to do with guns or men you need to argue with the other guy.

Except we’re talking about total number of mass shootings and not mass shootings per capita. More people with guns == more total number of shootings. I didn’t claim any ratios changed.

More guns and more men?

Or is that too far fetched for you?

Bye!

I don’t think the claim is women never do mas shootings. The claim is that the difference is staggering:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/mass-shootings/shooters/

Since 2006, only 16 of the 497 deadliest mass shootings in the United States — just three percent — are known or suspected to have been committed by a woman acting alone.

Only it’s not really staggering. Everyone knows why it’s like this.

(Edit: found a better source)

I liked the movie when I saw it years ago but thinking about it know it is an incredibly self-masturbatory boomer fantasy.

Also, politicians respond to money, not voters.

So you’re saying I should add Emacs there?