Same. Never use these things on Android.

That’s about the connection to Car Play, not GPS

When customs ROMs and most FOSS apps are killed next year on Android, we’re all going to find out very quickly how much the trap has closed around us.

Same reason I loved to Linux on desktop, something that used to be cool and open and at least work mostly has enshittified beyond repair. I’m not going to let the bastards get me if I can help it.

It’s really more like the Android apocalypse is looming. We have 11 months and some change before android phones get locked down like Apple.

Well, the cat just left something in the litter box, so you get first dibs on cleaning that.

Then, uh, tea? You want tea? Or whiskey? Look, your options are: tea, whiskey, water, wine, and coffee. Pick up to 4. Same cup, that’s cool, you do you.

Then I’ll bake a tiny cake and we can watch 90’s music videos and play Nintendo until our eyes bleed.

I was able to use it for a while, but didn’t really need to after a year or two. Google Docs and Keep made it an obsolete method.

Oh no, the things you place in the memory trigger connection to the thing to be remembered. But it goes both ways, which is why I use things like crates of (12) beers that already have numbers baked in to the system.

But…I came here just for the gloating fediverse content.

What else could there be?

They also stopped support that allowed for easier development of custom ROMs a couple weeks back. So it’s not good news for custom ROMs. Either someone needs to form Android for good, or Linux phones are our next best bet.

Back in 2019 when the leadership changed, they moved to be 100% about advertising, which is why Google started going browser fingerprint tracking. Invasive is the name of the game. Within 6 months of that, they’re also locking down their entire ecosystem like Apples does, specifically to squeeze more data out for advertising. This isn’t an action taken in a vacuum.

Thanks for the perspective! And I will check out the podcast, thank you.

The memory palace really works. I had a combination lock in grad school and used that method to memorize the combo. 38 is 3 crates of beer with 2 bottles on top, 24 was 2 dozen doughnuts, and 30 somehow got associated with a plant. Which I placed in a cubicle in a set of 6 from the place I worked before grad school. Still remember it more than a decade later.

Ugh, too real!

“Look, guys, I vibecoded a wall!”

Not quite. It’s that he was flying a plane and being shot at 6 days a week, and yet still didn’t need to jump up to a new bad word. Whatever he already knew is the language he used.

No apologies necessary - thanks for this. We can’t ever be in each other’s heads to experience how each other thinks, so this is amazing.

Have you ever heard of the mnemonic device of a “memory palace”? Can you do this? Or would it not work for you?

Sorry, I mean just for the UK, US, and apparently China also.

Fortunately, the EU isn’t going down the same path, and has Estonia, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands as guides. And to just do this in the right order and do step 1: sensible digital ID system.

I’ve read this comment about 30 times, trying to talk myself out of paying some kids to re-package Mint for me. But with all the grifting, I could do this and charge $47 a pop and raaaake it in. And it’s not a REAL scam, right?

No, I need bitcoin scammer money up front to bother with this. And I don’t have that.

Same. I genuinely don’t understand what life is like without this. If I need to remember that there’s a specific thing in the basement, I’m visualizing what’s in the basement and looking at each thing. Do these people just like have an actual list in their head for this?

if I’m not at home and need to walk my spouse through something like checking for a tripped breaker, I’m visualizing the whole process so I can explain it in detail. How does the other side do this? No judgement, I’m genuinely curious how it works.

So this whole list is actually

ChatGPT

How to ask ChatGPT how to:

Coding

Computer Science …

What’s interesting is, traditionally in language, once forbidden words got ran out, there were still other bad words left to enter the lexicon. “Damn” used to be a genuine curse. My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.

What’s next? There’s no new forbidden words. Nothing left in the back of the store. Our ability to run through words outpaced our ability to make bad ones.

At some point they get large enough that the whims of users cease to affect their decision-making. If Google, Meta, and MS tomorrow rolled out a social credit system that made the Chinese version look generous, 95+% of their users would not change a THING to avoid it. Maybe 98% of their users.