Canada should ship them some oil, just as a big Fuck You.

Ooo that’s fun. Might have to add that to my site.

That is, I’m guessing, either BQN or Uiua?

I have dabbled in APL, and it can be written either as ‘line noise’ like this, or as readable as any other language, with comments, control blocks and clear variable names. Let’s just say I have … opinions on tacit programming like this.

This really is a new front in the war on general-purpose computing for regular people. The EU or some entity big enough that’s outside of the US needs to fund new memory fabs ASAP and get this industry out of the hands of the present cartel.

Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!

Neat, saw this just after I posted to the thread. Gonna bookmark this!

I’ve heard Chromebooks are such a pain to put alternative OSes on due to their BIOs. Are there efforts to just reflash these things so they aren’t beholden to Alphabet? That would be the most libre-resistance move: “Un-Chrome” the device permanently.

Hmm as I was typing this I did a quick search: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/chromebooks.html

…but that’s only for ARM Chromebooks.

At some point we’ll just have to tunnel IP over DNS, and then they can’t block traffic without destroying the entire internet. Not that it’ll dissuade them.

This just shows that Valve/Steam is way too powerful in games distribution. Another example of over-centralization in our modern world. My initial thought of course was “just move to itch.io or something”, but they claim no one will give them investment funds to develop games unless they can be on Steam, which is just insane.

Yeah, hard pass. Don’t let an OS which has a walled-garden by default for apps get a toe in the door. Android is based in Linux, use that instead.

Yup I use it, when I must use Windows. So much better than the default, I sometimes forget I am using Win11.

I’m gonna be that “acktually…” guy for a sec here. Oil & gas (mostly) are not dinosaurs… the vast majority of petrochemicals are from compressed dead algae, plankton and plant matter long pre-dating the dinosaurs: https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/2024/q4/explainer-where-do-oil-and-gas-come-from

Ah. That’s nasty, what a pain.

Forgive me but what is intune? I did a quick search and just found some Microsoft endpoint protection thingie – there is mention of a Managed Google Play but I have no idea what that would mean.

I haven’t yet tried – planning to do that in the next day or so when I get the time.

Others already replied with promising results, I sure hope they work for me as well (Scotiabank in Canada is particularly annoying in this respect in my experience, with LineageOS I had to use Magisk and define stealth rules specifically for their banking app).

Edit: As for camera, I’ve only tried the GrapheneOS builtin/default camera app. It’s pretty basic, but I should see if I can get the Pixel9 official camera app on there, it would be nicer to use if possible but the basic one is probably good enough for my purposes.

I took the jump and installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9 this weekend. Easiest alternate OS load I’ve ever done, didn’t even need to see a command line. (I’ve put LineageOS on many a phone and GrapheneOS’s web-based installer is amazing).

Loving it so far. I have three profiles, the main ‘Owner’ with NO google services/app store at all; and two more ‘Personal’ and ‘Work’ profiles that have Google stuff that I alone chose to install.

Amazingly GrapheneOS even lets you deny Google App Store itself permissions to install from untrusted sources (in this case, Google App Store itself) – I was suprised to see installing just App Store triggered attempts to then load: My Pixel, Google Photos, Fitbit(!!? WTF), and a few others, without any confirmation first. Was able to shut that shit down immediately. (I had never, ever installed Fitbit on my previous phones, so there’s no excuse to install it “from my previous device” or whatever…)

I hope GrapheneOS spreads to other phone models. And I’m sure Google has a team planning on how to strangle it before it does…

She’s a model and she’s looking good

I’d like to take her home, that’s understood

She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time

It only takes a camera to change her mind

Wait one god-damned minute. If this is true, and I have no reason to think it is not, why is this not another prominent arrow in the quiver of everyone who constantly has to point out how psychotic Gates and billionaires like him truly are? Jeebus Cripes, what an asshole Bill Gates was/is:

Bill’s face changes. And in just a matter of five minutes he’s losing it.

And he’s screaming at me, “YOU FUCKED HIM! YOU FUCKED HIM! YOU FUCKED HIM!” Spit — I’m not making this up — Spit is coming across the conference room table and landing on my glasses as he’s like, “YOU FUCKED HIM!” I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about

There are many accounts of how unhinged and abusive Gates was in Microsoft meetings, but this is just off the scale. Speechless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZDB9h7BLY

Gah! Don’t scare me like that.