Friendly reminder that when they redact information, it's because they fear that the information they're keeping from you is worse than you think it is.
In this case, believe them.
cerebralhawks
joined 3 weeks ago
I mean, 16GB was the standard for how long? So yeah, it makes sense.
16GB might be the be standard for VRAM…
They might target, but sometimes they buy information too.
For example, my wife and I use Visible. It's Verizon but cheaper (and it's owned by Verizon). They also sell your number to scammers. So we get a lot of scam calls and voicemails. We just ignore them. Reporting them does nothing because the carrier is who you report them to (on an iPhone) and the carrier is the one that sends them. But I do it anyway. Most of them come in when I'm at work (and without my phone) anyway. So yeah, so they know who we are (name, town we live in). We just don't engage with them.
It really is. The DS9 story is done anyway, and Garak was the most interesting person on the station by far.
I’m thinking a limited series formatted like Luther. Short seasons, high quality, but spy stuff instead of cop stuff.
Like an agent? Actors and sports players have them. People who get paid in the millions. So they can hire people to act on their behalf to get them work while they sip martinis by the pool.
Why pay for premium anyway? Let alone a family plan. You still get ads. They can be skipped too — SponsorBlock will do it for free. Google could use this but chooses not to.
They want YouTube to be like cable TV. You pay for it. You watch ads. You pay more for premium channels.
Because it’s fun to?
A few years back this guy called Brad said they fired his wife — same restaurant chain — and for a minute, everyone rallied behind “Brad’s wife.” If her name was ever known, it wasn’t widely spread.
The funny thing about the logo was, they supposedly changed it to be more inclusive (e.g. to people who aren’t white like the guy in the logo), but last time I checked, they still don’t do business in California because CA has left leaning laws that protect minorities, so they’re not being less racist/sexist, they’re not being more inclusive, they just want you to think they are.
Anyway, release the damn Epstein files
Jokes entirely aside, this would be a great name for a to-do list app. Maybe if it were gamified, too.
I have an answer, but I don't covet it — I found it somewhere.
In Japan, there is an awesome trailer for Makoto Shinkai's 天気の子 (Tenki no Ko; Weathering With You), a 2019 film. The trailer starts with an ultrawide montage of all Shinkai's previous films, showing that, essentially, he's been making the same movie for years. Characters having their names said to each other. Characters being thanked or apologised to. And some other stuff — I don't understand most Japanese. Just a few dozen words. I know arigatou is "thank you" and sayonara is "farewell." I also don't know the Japanese words, but when the voice actors from his last film before 天気の子 say "Nothing more or less than a breathtaking view," I know they're saying it because it's from 君の名は。(Kimi no Na wa.; your name.) because that's the best film I've seen, and I've seen it enough, including in Japanese without subs, to know what they're saying. Anyway, it's this montage of his previous films. Then a short teaser for 天気の子, THEN the trailer. The whole thing is like 5-6 minutes long. There's a crappy copy on YouTube, it's like 360p. I have it in 1080p. It's awesome to watch. It's in Japanese with no subtitles. I don't care. Still love it. And 天気の子 is not half the film 君の名は。 is, but I don't care. (君の名は。 has its own version of this trailer, but it's not as long and it's not as good. I have that too!)
Adopt the kid, gets around the moral issue of bringing a child into the world. The kid is already in the world, you just provide for them.
Different reasons, but I don't really get the point of it either. It only works on Pixel devices, which means you gotta pay iPhone prices and reward Google's bad behavior. If you're fine paying that, you're probably not too far against Google's behavior and thus, why are you using Graphene? If you're against Google's boorish privacy practices, get an iPhone. Apple is sort of trying to take a stand against privacy invasion (at least to Google's scaling; they aren't perfect) but the fact remains, a lot of people don't care about privacy. Pixel+Graphene is objectively better for privacy than iOS, sure, but there are tradeoffs and people who love Graphene are willing to accept them.
The biggest problem with iOS is, it's closed source and we don't know what Apple will do tomorrow. As a Mac guy I don't have a problem with Apple vis a vis my Macs. However the iPhone is kinda silly for a few reasons, but I still prefer it to the alternative because I don't want to be playing around with custom firmware. That's a younger man's game. It was my game when I was a younger man and I don't want to be in that scene anymore. My choice. I know it's a good choice for others. Android isn't really open source either, though. AOSP is — but forks of it, like the Android on Pixels, like OneUI (I still wanna call it TouchWiz), HTC Sense, and all the others, are not. Of course, if you're running Graphene, or Oxygen (again, I still wanna call it Cyanogen), or something like that (I used to be sweet on an AOKP fork called LiquidSmooth), you're playing with open source so you do have that. But you also give up a lot.
I do think it's a bit weird Graphene is only on Pixel. But I guess by keeping the device list small, they can focus on what they want to do, which isn't support every phone, it's supporting ones they know they can.
At the end of the day, Graphene is a better option for privacy than iOS, which is better than any commercial Android OS by default due to not having Google Play Services.
I'd say you have to really assess what kind of privacy you need. Maybe iOS is enough. If it's not, Graphene is a good bet. I don't need Graphene. Heck, I'd be fine with Pixel Android, but I have an iPhone so I can afford to claim the high road in privacy. Just not the highest road. I know where I stand. But I know where I need to be and I'm standing pretty close to it. If someone needs to be in another place, what works for me may not work for them.
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