He doesn’t need their “votes” anymore. So he doesn’t give a shit.

This actually brings up a good point: each new president should be on probation for their first year, with people being able to re-vote the next year if things don’t go how they expected (I know, I know, but I’m just speaking in general).

This is the premise of the video game Long Gone Days and the Netflix episode Black Mirror: Men Against Fire.

The easiest way to implement this is to avoid the IoT entirely. I strive to avoid any smart products that cannot be perpetually used offline (a.k.a. most of them).

First time reading that PewDiePie is a “random channel”…

animated palettised depictions of giraffes

So… where are these originals?

What was his role?

The what?

Oh, I’ve never seen it in emoji form so I totally didn’t make the connection, haha. Thanks for the reminder.

I don’t get it.

Stop now; better late than never!

Someone suggested elsewhere (I can’t remember where) that Shizuku could be messed around with to allow installation without any computer’s involvement at all, to emulate adb on the phone itself. Would you know anything about this workaround?

You have a work MacBook? Man, your company must be filthy stinkin’ rich.

But we’re on Lemmy…

What? You don’t have to be atheist to be against organized religions.

Wait… what? Tell us more details…

I don’t know; I have neither the interest nor time to run one, and I have seen at least one go down recently (Lemmy.one) partly because of how complicated the whole system actually is. Individual enthusiasts may not have the resources to keep up against the long-term might of Meta, Reddit, etc. if they develop dedicated attack teams.

Hope springs eternal, though.

I await the week of dreadful news when they start using their immense wealth to take down instances via DDoS attacks, one by one…

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Mobile apps should only ever be used for check-scanning or for features that the online banking simply doesn’t allow (which would be messed up of the bank to do); same with mobile wallets.

I’m in the process of moving banking and payment off my phone

Go on… How are you doing so?

That’s exactly what they’re hoping for, and why we need to keep pouring out our outcry to reach them and hope they become more tech-literate.