Yeah, you can directly download their APK and it has its own alternative push service that doesn’t require Play Services. This version also has its own internal update mechanism to keep the app current, or you can use Obtainium. Best to get it closest to the source, especially these days.
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.
So, NVIDIA CEO, shut it all down for a month and see what happens. I bet nobody will care.
I have to use a lot of LLM tech daily and wouldn’t miss it a bit, myself. Would even sleep better at night knowing all that energy use isn’t destroying the planet’s habitability.
I actually heard from an acquaintance that their employer is forcing employees to burn at least $100 of tokens a day “or else” - like, what??
Such a bubble. Can’t wait for it to pop.
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.
In the US, its citizens are corporations, its People are valueless cogs.
Replacing a train stop in one city with a bus to another city in the opposite direction an hour away to get on a train to go back in the first direction is destroying the rail network.
If you’ve ever had the fortune to travel the US coast to coast, by land or by air, you will see the entire fragile existence is held together with thin asphalt or concrete strips with absolutely nothing in between.
Manifest Destiny really should ask for its money back. We just spread out thin and failed. Now, with resources becoming ever more scarce as the billionaires hoover everything up, we will just get thinned out more.
Man, that person really needs more friends. Not a diss either. I have friends spanning countries, cities, life, I have friends that have died. I have friends that still live. Why the fuck not talk to people and be friends?
Also, am adult.
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.
Absolutely blows my mind at how much up their own asses they are to smell those farts.
They keep creating tools to create images, video, text, content. They’re replacing people with machines. Sure, this can have tangible benefits in some roles, especially dangerous ones, but they aren’t doing that. What in satan’s fuck is left in life if we don’t get to create, to build, to have purpose? Did they all collectively watch Wall-E and get the wrong message?
I always come back to that one scene in Star Trek: Insurrection:
Sojef: Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.
While in that context, they took it a bit to the extreme, it is still poignant.
It seems the timeline right now is Office Space -> Wall-E -> Idiocracy -> Mad Max.
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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.
Companies want that sweet, sweet live telemetry.
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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.
That sounds hilariously delightful.
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!
The only downside is Pixel 10 support is coming via alternative methods from standard, as Google stopped shipping the binary blobs to run the hardware. Pixel 9 series may be the last to have truly native Graphene support. Graphene is looking into long-term solutions though, although last I heard they were looking at Qualcomm-based chipsets which is bad news on some level, as they’re a US military contractor.