Right. It’s different in that it lacks Google Framework Service, and adds a bunch of privacy controls, like additional quick toggles to control the cameras, and microphone, the way other Android can quick toggle the flashlight and location servcies and bluetooth.
The biggest thing is substantially more granular per app permissions, controlled from a calentral interface in settings.
You never met my neighbor…
Joking aside, I really did have to move away to prevent things getting worse.
I pride myself on getting along with people, but this experience made me admit that some people just genuinely suck.
The nicest thing about the second picture is how much free untamed land it leaves for me to find a spot to bury the body of my asshole upstairs neighbor.
Edit: I’m not a murderer… But only because I moved out.
Return the internet to the pre-“smart” phone era, in which a minimum bar of effort and knowledge needed to be present in order to connect and participate on the web.
Yeah. I think that’s happening now. The public will discover the Fediverse, but I’m not sure if they’ll be welcomed into every community here.
History tells us there’s also a release valve of a swift brick to the side of the head, one brick per billionaire.
It sounds messier than paying taxes, to me. But I’m not a billionaire, so I can’t say I understand their motives.
Lol. It’s not the groundhog we should be watching, then?
They probably mean Open Container Initiative (OCI), the protocol shared by Podman and Docker.
Perl is the only language that looks just as incomprehensible before and aa rot13 transformation.
Lol. You’re not wrong.
I’m kinda jealous. I don’t miss maintaining production Perl code, but Perl was more fun to code in.
Lisp is the more logical choice.
Relevant XKCD. Python has replaced Perl, but things have otherwise changed quite little.
The only way to know if you are competent coder is for other coders to tell you. If none are telling you, your imposter syndrome isn’t.
Or, considering that they’re mostly introverts, if they look approvingly in the general direction of your shoes…
Yeah. An elephant won’t stay crisp in the egg compartment.
Gee. The police are still protecting us by smashing fun things
Edit: Since I don’t in any way routinely buy from these guys, there’s no way I can possibly let y’all know later, when the supply is in no noticable way diminished by this.
The exciting thing about this is just being able to reuse more USB controllers that happen to be lying around available.
The vast majority of the Evercade catalog has no particular use for Analog controls, but it’ll be nice to be able to plug in and use a controller that happens to have analog sticks.
It’s also worth noting that none of the games that do support Analog actually expected the player to have analog sticks. I’ve played most of those either on PS1 or Evercade, and they’re winnable without analog sticks.
Analog sticks for PS1 were available, but most folks didn’t have them.
I’m predicting that the “hidden secret” for those “on the ball” is a bonus Piko game when Piko Collection 3 and 4 are inserted. Since Piko 4 features Glover, and bonus games for cartridge pairs have been a tradition for awhile.
Ever since they added DRM Anti-cheat to Capcom Arcade 1 and 2, I satisfy my nostalgia for old Capcom games… Other ways.
There’s this guy who stands in an alley near my house who sells a USB stick with everything Capcom ever made before 2004.
I’m sure he’s officially licensed. He’s my preferred Capcom vendor, because that USB stick was DRM free.
“Best friend I ever had… We still don’t talk, sometimes.”
You’re not wrong to give the benefit out the doubt and believe their PR person isn’t lying.
But I’m not inclined to give that benefit of the doubt. I don’t trust these folks farther than I can throw them. I don’t, myself, need proof, to believe they would try this crap.
And this is definitely evidence.
But without hard evidence I don’t believe random apps are just recording clandestinely in the background.
I certainly do. Malware attempts to record you is old news.
We have always assumed voice was off the table for practical reasons - voice recordings are expensive to decode and correlated usefully.
Cox has particularly deep pockets, which makes this interesting.
I do actually agree, this really could just have been a vendor bullshitting. Normally I would say Occam’s razor points there. But Occam’s razor points the other way, to me, when I consider that basically everyone I know has experienced a voice targeted ad.
The big ugly question is which apps are recording voices?
It might just be name squatting spyware. I haven’t seen confirmation that any do this, and I always assumed it was too expensive. Maybe it still is, but my guess is Cox isn’t the only ones who got that sale offer.
The creepy part is, if you’re not inclined to take Google, Amazon, and Meta at their word, then one wonders what other apps are recording voices…
Here’s the conspiracy part:
The conspiracy emerges when we look at these data points and squint a little.
Edit: I think many of y’all are in denial about how much you shouldn’t trust Meta apps on your phones.
We know Meta wants to use things you say to build an ad profile. We have evidence they don’t have any moral qualms about doing it. We know they have unfathomable terms of service and closed source apps.
And now we know there’s been at least one closed door conversation about buying the recordings that supposedly don’t exist.
I don’t have proof but I also don’t have any apps by Meta on my phone.
That’s something, at least.
I want to show more empathy, but the dude made the choice to start a new war in the nuclear era when we cannot afford war anymore. (And yes, I’m aware he’s not the first.)
I wonder sometimes if we face a choice between strictly rejecting his kind (war starters) from our species, or accept that our species is destined to cease to exist.