If you’re up for some constructive criticism: I think the meme would be more effective if you put the silksong price in the lower panel to balance the $70 figure found in the top panel. Said another way, the lower text is missing the suffix “…for $20”.

…and I guess while I’m at it, whatever that meme law is about fewer words is better makes me think the top panel could be trimmed down: The gaming industry explains why they need to charge $70 for a game in order to make a profit.

That would be the brute force approach.

A great idea, killed by coordination overhead.

*protocol

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

Excuse me, sir. May I have a quart of cat?

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.

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]”

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.

Yes, the base images are AI generated, but it will actually refuse to generate such an image (child endangerment or abduction).

I wonder if people are mistaking my rough gimp composition for AI giving the guy a third arm…

Causality fracturing. Partly because observing Mandala effects. Basically causality has inertia and plasticity like matter, so soft changes bend and big changes tear, and inertial mass is also proportional to the time between the incursion and excursion points.

lol… casual searches for info on this yield a lot of questionable new-agey galactic alignment stuff.

In theory, couldn’t we use the exact point the Earth is precisely between the sun and galactic center?

Both fully clothed? Double-safe hug! Smaller chance of actual skin-to-skin contact.