Yes. I could talk about quantum indeterminacy as a scientific argument for it, but fundamentally, I believe in it because I want to[1]. I don’t like the idea of being a deterministic machine with a fate I can’t influence with active choices. It’s not provable either way with the current state of science, so I choose to believe my preferred option is the correct one.

[1] Of course such a statement presumes free will. I think I want to, anyway.

Iv had to deal with plenty of people that just moving the windows task bar from the bottom to the top was enough to make them go full stupid and forget they have been using a PC for 20 years.

This is why I drink.

Kitty!

It is not impolite to say something like “I’m married, and even if I wasn’t, you’re underage. We are not dating, and we are not going to date.”

She’s being very inappropriate in this situation. That isn’t really meant to be a harsh judgment of her because she’s a kid and kids shouldn’t be expected to how to behave yet, especially when they’re very new to experiencing feelings of sexual or romantic attraction. Shutting her down firmly (but without any cruelty) will help her learn.

A big Bluetooth upgrade will soon boost your privacy and battery life

Not if I keep this Pixel 4a going for another five years it won’t.

In this context, I imagine it means you’re not going to freak out when you see something that isn’t Windows or Mac OS. Can you move things around with the file manager? Find the wifi settings? Get files off the external hard drive you just plugged in? That’s probably sufficient.

Of course there are dozens of possible file managers and wifi widgets. They could be using any of many distributions with a near infinite combination of software. I’m proficient at Linux by nearly any definition, but I haven’t checked out recent versions of desktop environments other than the one I use regularly. As long as you can figure out basic computer stuff on something that looks a little different from what you’re used to, you should be fine.

You must now pay the cat tax. You can’t just mention your cats on the internet and not post a picture.

From what i understand, this works because there are multiple batteries charging at the same time?

That shouldn’t make a big difference in charge speed because it doesn’t change the ratio between capacity and input power. The difference is likely the silicon anode batteries Krudler mentioned; they’re not as easily damaged by fast charge rates as the graphite anodes used in most Li-ion batteries.

Epic was planning to distribute it in its own store in the EU.

flashlight man.

I’ll take it.

It appears phones as old as the Android 8 era can support this and phones that shipped with Android 13 or newer always do. I had the impression it had been universal a little longer.

No, Google is also trying to stop hobbyists running custom builds from accessing services built on their software (the aforementioned SafetyNet). Hackers keep finding ways around this, but Google keeps trying to lock them out.

That’s a side effect. If Google really wanted to interfere with hobbyists, they would mandate hardware-based attestation and all the current workarounds would be broken. It would be much harder to create workarounds for that.

The DMA should never have allowed Apple any oversight of apps distributed outside their store.

If manufacturers had their way, there wouldn’t be any phones for one side.

There’s nothing stopping manufacturers from permanently locking the bootloader. Some do and others don’t suggesting that the industry does not have a universal preference.

I do think Google wants it to be inconvenient enough to run a version of Android they haven’t blessed as one’s main phone that it has no chance to become mainstream, but that’s about the prospect of an OEM not bundling Google’s apps and store, not hobbyists running custom builds. If that sounds like an attempt to use market power to exclude competitors in violation of fair trading laws in a multitude of jurisdictions, you might be on to something.

This is usually coupled with the expectation that I’m going to use some special knowledge to do it rather than just pasting the contents of the error message into a web search and following the simple instructions contained in the first link.

Your point seems to be that the fine is about two days profit.

If you did something illegal and got fined two days pay for it, that would probably get your attention. You might think twice before doing the thing again. If not, the EU can fine them a larger amount next time.

The EU just fined Apple half a billion Euros and has imposed larger fines in the past.

“Butthurt” implies personal offense. This is about maximizing profit, nothing else.

It is, and it looks like the bad press got to Google and it will soon be fixed on Play Store.

I’d generally recommend getting things from F-Droid where possible anyway, but that could be a tech support headache for a larger institution using Nextcloud and requiring people to install the client.

I think this is a cooperative between the people who own the units in the building to handle building maintenance and the like, not a gang to bully neighbors who don’t make the same landscaping choices OP would.

They probably will once it’s not in early alpha as the readme says it is.