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“Let’s see how close I can get the lasers to my eyes without going blind…”

*protocol

I thought they already gutted much of AOSP. Like removing the dialer or contacts and stuff.

That stick is a fine line between order and chaos.

Sounds like a philosophical question.

AFAIK it is an anime trope. I think it is called “sudden realism”.

IIRC, I had a PC (since sold) that had secure boot permanently enabled from the factory. That is, in spirit, a PC with a “locked bootloader”, but you might not even notice because many Linux distros have that Microsoft-blessed Linux loading shim… but it is still Microsoft inserting themselves between you and your hardware; they could decide in the next few years they no longer “support” Linux, hypothetically.

It was not immediately obvious from the image (though you might see the starfish for scale), but these things are huge!

It makes you wonder if they have a whole bunch of training data in this style, or if it is the mathematical average of all cartoon styles mashed together.

Are you suggesting I should have asked it to reprocess the image, or ask it to try again?

I would say simply to avoid buying phones from ad-companies, but more generally… if you buy hardware from vendors that respect ownership (i.e. that have user-unlockable bootloaders) then you don’t really have to worry about this kind of thing, as even if the company turns evil later, you can probably flash the phone with a 3rd party rom.

To be fair, unlockable bootloaders seem a bit exceptional on the Android side too…

At first, I thought this was a “flash forward” reference.

I would agree insomuch as Google’s privacy issues are better known.

Nonetheless, we are comparing two jail cells. One has a finger-puzzle that opens the cell-doors (and an obvious surveillance camera), and the other one is securely locked with a less-obvious/hidden camera (iphone backups)… and the issue at hand is akin to removing the finger-puzzle because the captives keep opening it to let baddies join them.

Are we seriously going to pretend that a single person can be wholly evil? Much less a company of 200k people.

Even if Google takes this huge step of requiring their blessing for every Android developer (which Apple has ALWAYS had on their side), they will still be better (by my estimation) along the freedom dimension than Apple. Maybe too far removed for my involvement, but better nonetheless.

edit: misread “just as evil [as Apple]”

Noticably? I imagine their skin imperfections would be twice as large… or maybe √2 as large?

Best “hack” I’ve heard is to NOT TRY to go to sleep. It is involuntary. It is not something you can will. The harder you try the further back it moves.

Instead, simply focus on creating an environment conducive to sleep (safe, warm, comfortable, etc.).

e.g. Try not to have an active going to bed ritual (such that a bunch of business abruptly ends with the expectation of sleep), but more of a “coming in for landing” ritual, where you need to do less and less until your mind decides it might as well sleep since there is nothing to do.

Quick! Ship it now!

Thanks.