Othello and Desdemona in Venice by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello,[a] is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulated by his ensign, Iago, into suspecting his wife Desdemona of infidelity. Othello is widely considered one of Shakespeare's greatest works and is usually classified among his major tragedies alongside Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet. Unpublished in the author's life, the play survives in one quarto edition from 1622 and in the First Folio.
Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both among playgoers and literary critics, since its first performance, spawning numerous stage, screen, and operatic adaptations. Among actors, the roles of Othello, Iago, Desdemona, and Emilia (Iago's wife) are regarded as highly demanding and desirable. Critical attention has focused on the nature of the play's tragedy, its unusual mechanics, its treatment of race, and on the motivations of Iago and his relationship to Othello. Originally performed by white actors in dark makeup, the role of Othello began to be played by black actors in the 19th century.
Shakespeare's major source for the play was a novella by Cinthio, the plot of which Shakespeare borrowed and reworked substantially. Though not among Shakespeare's longest plays, it contains two of his four longest roles in Othello and Iago.
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Sorry if this question is stupid, but how based is Android? I know next to nothing about technology, and I figure it can't hurt to actually know what's going under the hood, and possibly if this could be a viable career choice.
Just reading off of Wikipedia, Android's a FOSS operating system, but I know that Google has made a lot of contributions to the project which does raise some red flags. I'm going to hold on to my iPhone until it gives out, but when I will have to make the switch, Android seems interesting as an alternative.
Android was open sourced initially as a market strategy for Google to penetrate the then-Apple-dominated smartphone market, and its freedom and open source friendliness has been getting slowly pared back as that is no longer a necessary function of the OS. As it is now it's fine but there's a reason forks and stuff like smartphone Linux are popping off and it's because Google has been signaling recently that they want to cut off app sideloading and lock the OS down the way Apple's is.
There are more privacy focused versions of Android like grapheneOS that rip out the Google bits, I haven't looked too much into it myself though
Android the way it comes preinstalled is less private than iOS due to all the proprietary Google software that is bundled in, although app pricing and functionality is generally better. But if you buy a compatible phone, you can run LineageOS (improved basic FOSS android) or GrapheneOS (hardened and security focused android fork).