There’s a pretty great video of what happens when you fuck with a police heli

Eh, could have been whatever you were fisting

Refuse to use it unless you or someone else can install an OS that aligns with your values

Software is Windows only? Make them let you use interoperable formats compatible with more ethical Unix-based software.

Company is proprietary software/hardware dependent and cannot make space for you or ethical sources? Make them write you a good reference. Or just go

Ya we really shouldn’t pretend that that is hentai - makes people like my father not know that hentai is only a genre of Animé with explicit pornographic/sexual themes. We refer to non-sexually explicit Animé as Animé

It’s only Google

Sorry for the Facebook link - it is a brushtail possum, broke into a bakery in Australia. Was ‘rescued’ and recovered fully from gorging out on pastries

Quality shitpost

Aside from being a circlejerk for the companies competing their bots, I’ve never understood why they use humanoid bots for most tasks. Are they all really that vain to believe the human body, a bipedal body, is the ideal for jobs like this.

OGs use the console controller for the on-screen keyboard like a niche demon

I dont know how much of this is sensationalist peddle, but there’s a barely disguised advert for entrepreneurs by a YouTube channel called Statrys that mentions China’s plan to destroy the competition by doing what a dictatorship not held back by bureaucracy does best; investing fucktons of money into the industries. Link

In my attempt to drive a wedge into the ideal of unconditional government faith:

I have deduced that there are five laws of society:

1. State - national or regional regulations, uses prisons, sometimes to protect themselves rather than the community
2. Religious - based on the perception of guidelines of how to live, as per holy scriptures
3. Moral - the societal, generally accepted rules to not be a dick, such as harming others in malice, stealing. Not to be confused with subjective, personal morals
4. Ethical - a broader, more easily agreeable set of regulations, almost exclusively to protect life, the way of it, and the generally accepted ideas of rights for fauna and flora
5. Corporate - enforcement of copyright and intellectual property, a capitalist creation, often used to socially and financially destroy individuals rather than battle other businesses, in some regions utilising state law

The state legal system is sometimes the absolute enemy of the people and morals, especially when combined with corporate law, and shouldn’t be treated like it’s unconditionally justice.

They asked GPT 4o to peer-review the choice and they trust it because they pay US$10/m for it

Yeah nah that makes sense. I’ve got a weather integration in Home Assistant and chose to add relatively accurate coordinates for the API calls. That at least was entirely under my control, whereas their implementation was “use it this way or not at all”, demanding location access or no weather.

The next contractor is debugging why the upstairs cloakroom has a breeze running through it, only to eventually realise it should probably have four walls

Try Fairphone. Ethically fantastic company, and they offer their phones with either Android or Murena /e/OS

>Downloads Niagara to minimalise my phone, reduce distractions
>Buys Pro, re-enables icons

Am I a heathen

Well it’s a good thing those two URIs can be easily blocked. Besides you can get the app from their Github page (sadly no F-droid repo as closed-source), and pay for Pro (if wanted) via Stripe instead of Google Play. I also had issues migrating Niagara off of Google once I’d connected the two, but an email correspondence with the lead dev Max Rumpf got the issue pleasantly and quickly resolved.

It’s likely the only reason for the privilege is to collect coords to send to the weather API. At least it’s optional, and there are alternative ways to see weather reports, just not on the home screen.

I tried accessing Google Photos via my phone to handle a couple of things I had active on that account from before. Little fuck refused to let me open the app unless it had unconditional access to all my media.

+1 for Niagara, plus even though you don’t have to, pro features can be purchased outside of Google Play.

A good movie for visualising this (IMO) is A.I. Artificial Intelligence.