Do they? Presumably they’d open source and upstream their firmware or at the very least provide longer software support if that were the case.

Phew. I can rest easy now. I was constantly mashing F5 to find out if they’d offer Stroll a seat.

Google wants you to handle all your storage needs through Drive and Google Photos, where they are in control, can scrape more data, train models on your photos, and push you onto paid storage plans.

I can’t really see the benefit to Google in having an excellent local file manager with wide archive-file support. It doesn’t profit them in any way that I can think of.

Thankfully the workaround isn’t too bad, just installing an alternative file manager.

I’m glad the FIA is an organisation that focuses on important things like drivers having a nose stud or missing a dinner party, and not silly inconsequential things like a driver deliberately crashing into another driver then openly admitting that’s exactly what they did.

Copy we are checking

I’m happy going back to high-revving non-hybrids.

I’m happy sticking to the hybrids we have now.

I’m not fine with 2026’s removal of the MGU-H, which just gives us what we have now only more compromised. The MGU-H is probably the most fascinating aspect of current F1 engines.

I went in 2013, it was an incredible weekend. But looking at prices now, there’s no chance I’ll ever go again. Makes far more sense to fly to Hungary and watch their grand prix for far cheaper.

The fact that you can get fined €50k for touching a rear wing (Max 2021), yet only €25k for telling your driver to drive around with it hanging on by a thread solely to tamper with safety car timing to the benefit of your other driver is absolute insanity to me.

What an absolutely ludicrously small fine for purposefully jeopardising the safety of other drivers to benefit your star driver.

I’m not even that angry at red bull. If cheating only gets slaps on the wrists like this then they’d be morons not to do it. There were bigger threats from the FIA over Hamilton’s fucking nose stud, FFS.

It’s “open” except for the proprietary stuff Google layered on top, and that the only RCS implementation Google has allowed on Android is their own, and a couple of derivatives of their own, where they had to sign an agreement with Google.

So in actual practice, not open. Even if the standard technically is.

Right now, if you want to make an RCS app independent of Google, you’d also need to make a new OS. Or fork Android and do major work on it.

Button would do it on slicks

I like Monaco, but only because I treat the Saturday as the real race.

Ideally I’d want the next set of regs to make the cars substantially smaller, though.

I don’t think you’re following. We were discussing the state of backups on Signal, then you suddenly decided not to talk about it, but to keep talking about nothing in particular.

It is a discussion point, since it’s here being discussed. And also, apologies. I didn’t realise I was dealing with such a badass.

Not really an opinion.

And I know you didn’t ask, I was just correcting what you wrote.

Cool story bro, but your feelings don’t change the facts: signal’s backup system isn’t fit for purpose.

A backup system that can’t effectively back up and be restored is a flawed system.

No, it’s not a feature, it’s a missing feature. When your backup and restore system only works sometimes, despite being set up correctly, then that’s a shit backup solution.

Also. Who the hell uses Ios?

Everybody who uses an iPhone. Which is a metric shitload of people. What kind of question is that?

Americans on Lemmy/Reddit always say this, but it’s not easy.

WhatsApp is essentially SMS. If you don’t use WhatsApp, you’re gonna have a bad time. You won’t be contacted by friends or family, you’ll struggle to make friends or get dates, you won’t receive 2FA codes for a load of services, in some places even government stuff is done via WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is about as optional as having an email address. You basically need it unless you want to live as a hermit.

Relies on people actually using Signal, which is an immediate non-starter unfortunately.

Over time, the amount of signal contacts I have had went down, not up. IMO the Signal foundation has made multiple bone-headed moves that have stifled their growth and discouraged using Signal.

Bottas: I’m gonna get to turn one way before all these losers

Imagine how much worse you’d have it if you were Spanish, Kevin