Remember, Stephen Miller directly and Peter Thiel less directly are likely driving this. Mango is just their senile puppet/mouthpiece/fall guy. Not that it makes it any less serious.

Actually…your info may be false.

https://www.motor1.com/news/707996/vehicles-larger-than-ever-usa-europe/

Average vehicle width in the US increased from 73.4 inches in 2003 to 77.1 inches in 2023.

Ford Explorer: The 2005 model had front/rear track widths of 60.9/61.3 inches while the 2025 model has 66.9 inches for both front and rear track width. An increase of about 6 inches front and 5.6 inches rear.

Chevrolet Tahoe: Overall vehicle width increased from 78.9 inches in 2005 to 81.0 inches in 2025 which suggests track width along with it, although not spending more time searching specs.

Horses, and most field, work, or food animals, are so dope. They’re just a big version of a small thing one calls a pet. All intelligence, all joy. All way more real than any LLM that might exist. Had one horse that waited for his opportunity to break out and he’d run for a half a mile and always come home. It was his game. I was some very young age child and I’d be out there trying to “corral” him - he was a HORSE - he never put me in danger, he would just feint and run off, and then calm down and come back home, his mission accomplished for fun.

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There was a whole term called “branching strategy” to handle things way more complex than a quarterly release - this is about nothing more than control. Bet it will be one to zero releases next year. They’re speed-running enshittification before a worthy open replacement can be written.

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No worries, and no neg either. This is where this timeline sucks. Quick Share is a great upgrade to the standard Bluetooth file sharing that existed for 20+ years as it adds in WiFi, but corps are all so walled-garden-metadata-stalking vampires. These companies are so stupid. Conflict too, in that sharing files easily can “make money” for them, but they’d rather fight than have standards.

I miss standards. Plugging a POTS jack in a wall and getting a dial tone was so simple. Now, everything, even “cable TV”, is JSON shitting around the Internet, but heaven forbid it’s the same JSON.

You should see them with a kerosene lamp.

Bloody game changer, that. Been little by little whittling away at apps until the Play Store can GTFO for good.

Google Fi definitely has a smooth experience, even to/from pSIM, eSIM, and no real need for special SIM features. They implemented that very well. Now, every tier 1 carrier in the US, eeeeeeek!

Requires Play Services.

Surprisingly, Apple. https://www.apple.com/diversity/

Not trying to sound pro-them, to be clear. I just use that page as a Fascism canary.

Until you have to move them to another phone. Especially if there is special provisioning on the SIM that you have to call the carrier to provision every time a new eSIM is issued, since few scenarios let a direct eSIM copy occur. (Apple may be the only one.)

including on the recently revived file-sharing service LimeWire.

Interestingly enough, the article fragment in the post explains that part. But yeah, had the same reaction initially.

Web scraper sues web scraper, “we were here first, waaah.”

EDL (Emergency DownLoad) mode on Qualcomm chips, I’m sure other chipsets have a similar mode. The chipset actually does it, the hardware manufacturer just has to support it.

It is a pretty cool fallback mode.

If only tech companies weren’t assholes and actually developed desired features instead of the shit they have wasted our time with…

They know they are the only choices, and so they shall work together to maximize that revenue stream.

GrapheneOS, the privacy and security focused aftermarket operating system, has received an experimental build for the Pixel 10 series

Received? GrapheneOS are the authors of their software, they don’t receive. Curious how they got the binary blobs to get it to function.

That “article” is terrible, and doesn’t even touch on the crucial issue - the crux, as it were. Android is one thing, hardware support is the magic piece Google is trying to remove to close their borders and kill creativity forever.

Rooting for Pixel 10 native support over here, but was it an employee leak? Similar hardware driver copypasta with modifications? Did Google just finally share the necessary binaries legitimately?

This whole thing is so vague.

They’ve woven Android so deep into open-source projects, there are likely legal commitments they have to slowly back out of, similar to how Qualcomm once drove CodeAurora Forums (https://bye.codeaurora.org/). Don’t worry, they’ll get there. This time window has to be used for designing an escape hatch to something just Linux-based.