For anyone who doesn’t get this comment https://youtu.be/Q-25c8Rsobw

Great comparison, a dialect used by millions of people to a dead language. It really shows how much you care about the people who speak that dialect…

Nice try FBI!

Your choice is making sure to buy a well supported, timely updated device.

Sure, that choice is currently available, but it wasn’t when many of those devices were purchased. For example, I’m currently using a Galaxy S10e which had just about the best support of any Android phone. Now I’m stuck on Android 12. I actually planned on using it with Lineage, but somewhere between my S7 and the S10e, Samsung stopped using Exynos in their Canadian phones, and I didn’t realize it. The hardware is still more than good, and as others have pointed out, with Play Service updates, the software isn’t really obsolete either, it’s just a concern I’m not getting security updates.

Nothing stops you from doing both (except limits on your time). I like this one because I feel like I’m learning geography!

Just because the software is open source doesn’t means a product running it is going to be free. Heck, even some FOSS projects have financial contributors who get perks like software support, access to pre-released software, and input into feature development.

I don’t think that’s a fair assessment, and I’m someone who’s pretty invested in both projects (I’ve been using Beeper for almost a year and I’m still wearing a Pebble).

It’s too bad this has a MediaTek SoC. That means it’s unlikely to see 3rd party ROM support which makes the limited software support hurt even more.

“Thrift” doesn’t mean it’s a charity either, take for example Value Village. There are also a ton of “consignment stores” that are for profit businesses and will get real mad if you call them a thrift store.

Yup. I’ve volunteered at a couple thrift stores, and we’d just toss stuff like this.

Signal is only officially distributed through Google Play, so their APK isn’t reproducible, and I believe it still contains binary blobs.

Sure, but any messaging app (including Signal) could have these backdoors in place. Heck, there’s even vectors for unrelated apps on your phone to read this data once unencrypted.

Would it not be E2EE? Isn’t that one of the reasons for using the Signal protocol?

Is there something in particular about Indiegogo that I missed, or are you just pointing out it’s crowd funded? (and that means you could lose your money without anything in return)

Thanks for the links. As I read it, none of that is saying their ratio is below 1:1, just that they switch between vehicles as needed.

And the “what their operators do” link sounds like they are the equivalent of a driving instructor sitting in the passenger seat, giving instructions but not “directly controlling” the vehicle.

I haven’t heard about Waymo being below 1:1. Do you have a source? I’d love to read it.

That’s the whole point of this post: When? 'Cause it’s not happening now.

AVs don’t have a driver, instead they have 1.5 operations staff per vehicle.

It’s not happening.

Because he’s heavily invested in Nebula and believes their system is better for him and other creators in the long term. That doesn’t mean he believes YouTube monetization doesn’t work at all, just he prefers to keep bonus videos on Nebula to entice users to join.

He is using YouTube’s monetization…