I feel like they would at least do it by the interface MAC address.

You know what seriously sucks, is you’re absolutely right. But in the moment some people are so completely caught off guard that logic like this just disappears. I was uncomfortable just watching this because I know I would be also continuing to talk more than I should in response to their fake politeness.

Yesterday a man asked me to sign a paper to get some candidate on some ballot and, caught off guard, I was complying before noticing it was for a Republican candidate and logic just came back to me leading me to refuse before going too far.

Instead of real attempts at combating this we just took the capitalistic approach and turned “green” into a bullshit marketing tactic to give people the guise of doing their part when they buy an electric Hummer.

Had to scroll too far for Stratum! The watch app is also why I use it so that I can keep my phone far away from me while I work. Game changer. Surprised more don’t use it.

Thanks for this, looks like it took a long time to put together!

Some corrections with Windscribe since I use it: on Android you can get the APK directly (“sideload” - I use Obtanium) or through F-Droid. Also I think that pricing is for the full service. I pay like $3 a month with 30GB data and a choice of (I think) 3 or 4 countries IIRC. This has been more than enough for me and probably most people.

There’s more, he criticized protests against ICE in LA turning into riots, and had some nice things to say about Kirk after he was killed.

That said I think it’s really unproductive for people to turn on him after he was a big spark in a movement and is still outspoken. He has irritated me a few times lately but he’s still one of the most influential leaders.

Ah shit, I’m in the Chicagoland area. I wonder if this affects me. That’s good to know.

Surprised no mention here yet of a Pixel 3a? Both Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS seem to run best on it, so I’ve had it on my eBay search notifications for a while hoping to be able to toy with one. I really don’t expect it to be daily driver material though.

If you have a Mac, have you ever tried installing an app and have it refuse because it’s not signed by Apple, and then you had to go into settings and click “allow anyway?”

This is that, except without the allow anyway feature, like iOS. It doesn’t matter if it comes from the play store or elsewhere, as this story originally had us believe.

surely there will have to be “no smart glasses” rules

They have this rule for ebikes at the lake I love to walk and the kids are zooming by anyway. I think we’ll struggle to enforce it and that really sucks. I hope this fails. It’s hard not to be pessimistic about it, as much as I can see some legitimate use cases. I just don’t trust big tech with it, least of all Meta.

Heh…these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I’m a software engineer.

Right, but this is the exact reason even Bernie refuses to use that word. Because then we are supposed to do something about it.

Buy refurb then, it’s what I did and it’s super fast. Returns are diminishing these days and your money will go further.

Someone else had mentioned Magic Earth but I was under the impression that it was another big tech thing (I guess I was thinking of Google Earth) but you saying it again made me check it out.

Seems like not OSS but their claim of privacy focus actually makes me interested so I’ll try it out! I’m even okay with the small fee, I know servers cost money to run. Glad to see they’re working on a non-Google or Apple payment.

Have fun: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415#event-17377530652

haha I’m with you here, though tbh this is something I would have cared about some years ago but these days with tech fatigue I don’t even mind the Stephen Hawking guidance (I usually have it off anyways).

Thanks for sharing this! I just started using OsmAnd for biking and missed this nice detail.

Google Maps would take me through some awful stroads pretty regularly, so I’ll be glad for a safer route even if it takes longer.

Oh I’m aware of the “Osm” meaning.

I still think it’s a bad name 😅 how does someone unfamiliar with OSM pronounce it? Why is there a tilde?!

Hey thanks for sharing this! I’ll try Bimba. I’m planning on switching to GrapheneOS soon so the less stuff reliant on G services the better, as much as I like the Transit app.

Edit seems like it’s a bit limited on its coverage, with little to speak of in the US :(

Was hoping to get Chicagoland metro area transit.

I’m not sure this is possible without crowd sourced data