Definitely GrapheneOS.
Re-Google Maps: I use Here We Go, it is much better than the open street maps apps, has live traffic data, and reviews. Unfortunately needs to be downloaded from Play Store for use with Android Auto though (not even Aurora works).
I recommend using a separate user profile for work.
Depends on the business I am running, how otherwise qualified they are, what their supposed crime actually was, their side of the story, and general demeanor. I’m going to be honest though, it’s mostly the last one. You can usually tell real fast by how someone acts if they had trouble with the law because they’re an uneducated degenerate or a con man. It’s not impossible to manipulate me, but most criminals are not geniuses. If it really seems like they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they have learned from their mistakes if they admit to it, that’s a different story.
I was friends with a murderer for a long time actually. He got blackout drunk, woke up, some dude was dead. He used to have a drinking problem. Doesn’t remember it, but is positive it was him. Was in jail a long time, used the time to read a lot. He was significantly older than me and would give me and others advice on how to not be an idiot like he was. His words. I doubt the family would forgive him but shit happens. He told me once sometimes he wished he’d gotten the death penalty because it was hard af to turn his life entirely around, but it got better once he had a daughter. I’d still be friends with him if he didn’t become annoying and stubborn over the years. He wasn’t always wrong, just mildly an asshole sometimes.
Controlling your emotions simply means that you do not immediately react the way your emotions would take you, and that instead you act appropriately to the situation. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have emotions, or that those emotions cannotir should not influence your resolve towards the line of action you decide to take.
I also don’t see how it is related to the rock question (or my favorite alternate, could God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it). There is not a paradox between being powerful and having emotions.
Just for fun, as a stab at the paradox: yes, God can limit his own power or prevent himself from doing stuff because he said he would. Like for example in the Christian religion Jesus came as a human and that severely limited himself. At one point he really wanted to not die but couldn’t do anything about it because that was the path he set for himself and he can’t lie. Same principle applies even if Christianity isn’t “the one”.
I think where people tend to get tripped up with this paradox is that things cannot be simultaneously true. God could make the sky totally purple, but he didn’t, so we’re here with the sky being totally blue during the day. He could make it half purple and half blue, but didn’t do that either. That’s not proof of a lack of power. He could make the rock too heavy, and then he could make the rock not too heavy later, kr himself stronger. This doesn’t disprove anything about theoretical omnipotence. And lastly, presumably things are explained to us in a way we understand. Perhaps God does have some sort of hard limits to power, but as far as we are concerned it may as well be infinite. There’s not much of a point in semantics. The very question betrays our human way of seeing things, God probably does not usually have a body to lift things. Does levitating it “count”? Does moving the earth down count? Does asking someone or something else to do it count? It’s an interesting question that has persisted for a long time, I just don’t think it ultimately means much once you break it down.
Having power over somebody does not exclude you from having emotions. Superman is nearly invincible and a great guy who always does the right thing; but his feelings can still get hurt if people are mean to him, and he still gets angry when people are cruel to each other, such as a human murdering another human. God would be above a superhero, but the same principle applies.
If you are God, the point of creating humanity is because you’re alone, and want to love and be loved. If you spent a lot of time and effort to raise your kids and they grew up to hate you for no discernible reason and did terrible things just to act the opposite of how you raised them to be, you’d be pissed too. Do I have “power” over my kids? I guess. I’m bigger than them and even if they’re adults, you can always pull out a .22 and shoot them if they don’t obey. But that doesn’t solve anything and it’s not very loving is it? I want to raise my kids to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do, but also because it benefits us all to act that way reliably, and makes us all happier.
If everyone obeys God just because they have to fall in line or die/be directly punished every time, that defeats the point of making humanity because they won’t love you. Yet maybe it would be necessary to step in if they’re harmful enough to the rest of humanity, hence the smiting. But most religions have an idea that God is trying to move us past the point where he has to step in, or has already stepped back permanently. Maybe God punishes evil after death to facilitate us getting our act together. Or perhaps he simply rewards the good and doesn’t reward the evil. Maybe he experimented a little in the past as to what actually works. Maybe he knew he was justified to punish evil, but didn’t realize the toll it would take on him by hurting your own children until it happened, and that’s why he doesn’t do it anymore.
Don’t @ me in the comments criticizing some specific version of God you have in your head. There’s a million different religions that say a million different things. This is theoretical, answering OP’s question.
Weird article. “I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things.”
What? NOBODY is confused what Copilot is because it is integrated into Microsoft Paint. It’s a shitty Ai agent that they shove into their previous products. End of story.
That’s just save scumming, which is another form of cheating!
You can export and import Totp codes pretty easily with most apps I’ve tried. Except Microsoft’s.
A few things to add to this:
Graphene adds new permissions: network and sensors. So if you don’t want an app to access the internet, it can’t.
Graphene also allows you to install Play Services, Play Store, and Android Auto, but sandboxed the same way that any other app is. For example I find Android Auto very useful and that requires Play Services, and the fact that I can get easier push notifications and the security of Play Store is nice. This also minimizes incompatibility for apps that use the Play Integrity API. If you’re going to do this I’d recommend making a burner Google account from Settings so it will allow you to use a VPN connection and not ask you for a phone number.
GrapheneOS removes Google’s location services and uses their own.
GrapheneOS supports multiple user profiles, and apps can be pushed from the owner profile to other profiles. So you can havw some profiles with or without Play Services, further sandbox sketchy apps you’d rather not have to use but are forced to, separate work apps, have multiple accounts for apps like Signal that only support one account, etc.
Where are you seeing that in that page? It has macOS at 16% and Linux at 4%
NewPipe: original. no sponsor block or dislikes
Tubular: NewPipe but with sponsor block, dislikes. Relies on upstream updates from NewPipe, so takes slightly longer to fix whenever Google routinely breaks something.
PipePipe: same features as Tubular, and additional accounts/sources such as PeerTube. it is also a hard fork from NewPipe that doesn’t rely on upstream updates and will likely change more over time. also that bug where it stops playback due tk an error and you have to close the video and reopen it happens less often on PipePipe, and can sometimes be fixed just by pressing play again. I use this one as of right now.
Invidious and Piped are both websites that proxy YouTube traffic. they aren’t separate apps, but some apps can use them as a source instead of scraping YouTube directly. Materialous is one that uses Invidious.
There are other apps in FDroid tk choose from too, they usually have a different Ui than NewPipe related ones. I also use Metro List for YouTube Music specifically.
I thought it was an interesting concept with interesting characters. It took too long to delve into the mysteries of what was happening though, and the angels became a monster of the week. I understand some of this was to give time to develop the characters as they worked together, but they didn’t focus enough on this either. And then I can only assume the writers were rug lulled and shoved 5 seasons worth of lore into the final few episodes, while simultaneously not explaining much of anything. I can gather a lot from implication, but it fell flat on its face, and End of Evangelion movie did very little to clear it up. I think it was aiming for something like Ghost In The Shell where it just “is”, but I can tell it is desperately trying to say SOMETHING. Hell if I know what that is though. And the ending is so frantic, I think it’s supposed to be a grand conclusion. Very scatterbrained in the execution. Some things like the nature of the angels and mechs are barely addressed or badly explained. And if I’m confused, I know Shinji’s dumb ass was, yet the crux of the show is him making far reaching decisions. But what is the message if he doesn’t even know what he’s talking about in many ways?
Vibes are great though.
But how many people will actually admit to having an Ai “girlfriend”? Surely the number is much higher than what is being freely stated.
Do you often get charged per call by your carrier in Europe still? If so that’s really too bad. Most of the VoIP services I’m familiar with is NA only but I know others exist, you’ll just have to do your own vetting.
Preaching to the choir here buddy
Endeavor also has a decent installer if I recall, and Arch is already going to be more up to date than almost anything else, so yeah no reason to install a new OS I’d wager.
Nobody said you shouldn’t use SMS ever. When you can avoid it though, do.
RCS and iMessage are essentially just separate internet based messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp. iMessage doesn’t even require a phone number if you’re only messaging other iMessage users. The only difference being, they CAN message phone numbers, but if it isn’t “their” app, they’ll fall back to using SMS. iMessage has implemented RCS if messaging someone using Google Messages, but it is not encrypted, so essentially the same thing as SMS from a privacy and security perspective.
As far as understanding it, both carriers and Google/Apple need to pay for infrastructure. For carriers it is cell towers, for internet based stuff it is servers. Carriers need you to pay for the infrastructure because they offer a single service (kind of, all 3 sell your data). Google & Apple make all kinds of money off of you in many ways, and getting high adoption for their apps makes them more powerful, especially since they have closed standards while SMS is open.
And alternate apps exist, but combining them confuses people into thinking SMS is secure.
Did you really just ask me for YOUR opinion on a topic?