I am not sure what you mean. Is there a different way to connect a USB-C hub to a smartphone other than the only USB-C port?

Hardware is nice and all, but how is the software? The 2020 Nord 10 I had was way too eager to kill any background processes, and had a very bad bug consuming all storage space.

I assume the bootloader will be unlockable, being a OnePlus?

However, Proton’s policy is that if you use some accounts for illegal purposes, you will also lose access to the accounts where you have not yet conducted illegal activities.

Cue horror stories of Google locking person’s entire account due to a credit card charge-back or minor Play Store ToS violation.

Proton should have stayed ProtonMail, not a Google-like “ecosystem”.

Those are called pivots, and what you are saying seems plausible: there are vision algorithms to recognize and selectively spray weeds (see Bilberry ), recent prototypes with light-pressure grabbers to gather fruits and soft vegetables.

Even for harvesters, there are projects to automate harvesting and swapping the grain trucks (see Outrun ). GPS-guided (or assisted) tractors are already a thing.

Agriculture has some interesting innovations, but it often gets bogged down in corporate acquisitions and monetization.

DOJ did denaturalize many members of the German American Bund due to their ties with the Nazi party.

Source: You Are Not American by Amanda Frost, great book.

There is the “allow background usage” and “optimize”, but also, locking the app on the app switcher is supposed to help it stay alive.

Depends on Android flavor too. OnePlus OxygenOS, for example, does not respect the “do not optimize/sleep” setting, and will not let apps run in the background (or foreground) unless the app is in the invisible whitelist. E.g: WhatsApp is fine, but SimpleX is not.

https://dontkillmyapp.com/

You cannot use Proton Mail with another provider. And you cannot access Proton Mail from a regular email client (app) due to their encryption setup. (technically you can, but you need Proton Bridge proxy)

How good is LLM training data for a language spoken by less than 10 million people? Keep in mind that most of those people are probably multilingual (i.e. categorizing which language is which by person is harder), and language itself is similar to its neighbors. And then, again, terms.

I know someone who was a translator between two (less widely spoken) languages, and some specifics I recall from our conversations about work:

• Sometimes the translations use many technical terms, and getting those wrong (trusting LLMs) is not an option. (This was for some patents IIRC)
• Some terms simply do not exist in another language, and it could be up to the translator to invent a term to define and carry the information across. (This was for some government digital service, and the term was similar to “digital queue”)
• Tone and nuances are very difficult to translate. Phrasing can have implications and connotations. (Simplest example: “i am afraid” does not imply fear, it’s an established politeness phrase) Neutral in one language could be viewed as hostile in another, too. (And with politicians being petty, could have consequences)

None of those would be addressed with LLMs. Small training set for language (and language being similar to a few others) is an issue. Anything technical or non-existing would be prone to hallucinations. And tone is difficult enough to convey through text to begin with, let alone with LLM translation.

Imgur had the social media element since mid-2010s at least, maybe longer.

If we can get food by going to the grocery store, who needs farms?

The complaints I see about custom OS the most:

• Bank or payment apps don’t work due to Play Integrity API (blame Google)
• Some other Google apps don’t work correctly (well… duh)
• Obscure functionality that is usually overlooked or intentionally ignored, but is a complete dealbreaker for that user.

I’ve sold a few things (games and electronics and such) on eBay within the last year without much hassle.

Seeing lots of dislike for Matrix lately. Hosted a Synapse server for many years, never had issues with encryption keys, but have to agree that Element the company (formerly Vector, but they now control the protocol too?) rolls out more new things than they fix old ones. E.g: Element X is slower and calls are not backwards compatible (!). Synapse server keeps getting some (corporate-looking) auth stuff added while on-boarding and registration for plain accounts on self-hosted servers is still a pain. To give them credit, Element app is consistent across platforms (for purposes of convincing people and troubleshooting), and bridges work pretty well.

But it seems any self-hosted solution has its can of worms.

XMPP, being old, implements all modern-expected functionality as extensions, and servers are not guaranteed to have them (common argument). Spam was an issue as well (but simplicity of the on-device and server database allows easy message and attachment deletions). iOS clients for XMPP are meh and require integration with Apple push servers (Snikket and Monal do that, but for how long?)

Tried SimpleX years ago, loved the idea, but it was going through growing pains. In the same vein as metadata leaks for Matrix and XMPP, if you host your own SMP server with a few users, that exposes some info vs using default servers (along with thousands users)

The ones I know of are not really masquerading, but rather, funding themselves and/or directly related services (often hosting) via convenient ways.

• Conversations.im (XMPP/Jabber client) is $8 on Google Play, free on F-Droid and is FOSS. Dev runs their own instance.
• OsmAnd+ costs money on Google Play, is free on F-Droid, provides hosting of gigabytes of map data.
• Beeper (bridges from popular chats to Matrix) costs money (subscription I believe), but can be set up on one’s own (I run two bridges on my chat server).

What I do dislike is companies overusing “Open” or “Free” in their own or their product names, with no implication of Free or Open Source software. Similar to slapping “engineer” on non-engineering roles or “manager” on non-managerial ones.

There are some mathematical models similar to a Voronoi diagram, which would make districts convex polygons.

With the new gerrymandering 2.0 Ohio is proposing, soon all of their cities will be “red” (on paper)

A small town, or a suburb of a city that is described as “a great place to raise a family”. From what I have seen, that usually means one of two things:

1. The town/suburb is closer to the city, but is wealthy, real estate is expensive, usually very car-centric, which excludes anyone poor (or even middle class, sometimes).

2. The town/village is far away from the nearest city, not necessarily wealthy, but usually ran by a group of people that know each other (good old boys club), probably heavy on religion or other “traditional” values.

“Call Message” sounds like something you would see in a horribly translated manual.

Call it “Live Voicemail” or something. And why would it need AI Core? Playing a recorded message is high tech now?

That is also the premise of one of the stories in Asimov’s I, Robot. Human operator did not say the command with enough emphasis, so the robot went did something incredibly stupid.

Those stories did not age well… Or now I guess they did?