I guess, but for $7 a month, it’s a steal especially if you ever join any private trackers in the future

can recommend ultracc, affordable and reliable

yeah, I figured as much. I guess even seeing the .webp extension bugs me so much that I can’t even stand the sight of it.

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hmm, I usually just change the .webp extension to .png, and most of the time, image viewers just open it without issue.

The Beggars Trilogy by Nancy Kress touches on this as well, but is more focused on the issues with superintelligence rather than just gene alteration, although, because people are vain, the preference for things like hair, skin and symmetry also exist in the story’s world. Oh yeah, and the coolest concept from this trilogy is a thing called “sleeplessness”, where people can alter there genes to remove the biological need to sleep, allowing people to be able to be productive for as many hours as they desire.

This is the thing I fail to ever hear drivers admit. Okay, going 5 km over the limit, in the grand scheme, isn’t a big deal, but then all the same, why go 5 over in the first place? What tangible benefit does going 5 over give anyone? Just goes to show how spoiled drivers are, how pained they are to let go of the gas pedal for 5 seconds.

Funny how Kaspersky thinks what it comes down to are people who are afraid of change, when there’s also just people who are also not too happy with the direction Microsoft is taking their OS. And then there’s the fact that their stats only come from users who still use Kaspersky, which might be mostly businesses, instead of the average joe, skewing the data.

I moved to a linux-only system for about 5 years now, and it’s been great, as a daily-driver and a learning experience as well. Microsoft does so much hand-holding that it’s own users are not expected to care about security and privacy.

with flacs on soulseek, who needs music subscriptions?

Nice, I could tell you’re a smart dude, so at least we all can agree that Android is no longer to be trusted.

Funny how words and language become the focus of this thread, and then the main issues get pushed to the side. I was arguing against you as if we didn’t agree on the main problem 😅

You are the master of your body, the person who decides ultimately what goes in and out of your body, No doctor can force you to take anything. That’s what I mean, The play store aka the doctor wants to become the master that decides what apps go in or out of your phone, instead of the user. My comment doesn’t invalidate the premise of the use of the term sideloading, because I don’t agree with the term to begin with.

Whether the effect is ideal or not does not change what is chemically happening in the body. The body can’t tell apart side effects from the main ones, so this distinction exists because humans deemed it so, just like the distinction between play store sanctioned apps, and everything else. It’s a distinction that Google is now abusing for it’s own monetary benefit.

Okay, I understand your position. Android’s play store has market dominance, so the a term to distinguish between 99% of play store installs vs others, makes sense.

Now, that is a tangent to the main issue, just arguing semantics. The issue is control versus openness, not about the term sideloading.

Is Google’s plan to restrict app sideloading a good thing in your eyes, or no?

The words for distinguishing between apps that come from one trusted location vs others is usually untrusted or unverified apps versus trusted or verified ones. “Installing apps from outside the default app store” converts to, “Installing an untrusted app”.

It’s not that complicated.

even within android, if you attempt to install an apk directly, it doesn’t say “would you like to sideload this application?”, but instead says, “Do you want to install this app?”.

Even Google’s own OS doesn’t use made up language.

Talking to the wrong guy here, I’ve taken many a medications against their intended purpose: I am a curious guy.

But that sounds like saying, in the context of Google’s intention of disabling app sideloading, that warning users that it poses a security risk because it’s their intended purpose for android, is fine because the authority on android is Google.

Don’t just take the word of authority at face value, when they prioritize profit and mindshare over personal freedom.

Don’t forget “side effects”, when really, medications only have “effects”. Whether the effects are intended or not doesn’t change the fact that they happen.

for the record, it doesn’t “just work”. After setting up the prerequisites, it failed on my first attempt create the docker container.

ehh, tried using it . . . and a

failed to create network winboat_default: Error response from daemon: all predefined address pools have been fully subnetted

happens. I’ll create a github issue, but at this point, I could have installed a full windows vm in less time than I spent troubleshooting this issue . . . so there’s that

RIP, I still remember getting those AOL CDs in the mail, and was so excited by the concept of a disk that could allow me to connect to the world wide web.

I’m totally stealing this, thanks!