We will never totally stop using oil of course, but we need to mostly stop burning it for fuel, outside of a limited number of applications. We need to do something about plastic pollution too.

I'd say that will he the harder transition to manage. Electrifying everything isn't too difficult and most of the tech is already mature. Replacing or dealing with plastic pollution seems harder, as will be dealing with increasing costs as fuel oil product consumption is greatly reduced.

That's one of the reasons why so many young people in the West are disillusioned with Western democracy. They want somewhere to live, they can't afford anything. Meanwhile in China the government plans ahead, builds massive new cities, and young people can afford to buy a nice modern apartment or house.

Having visited one such development, it was like walking into one of those show houses. Not an IKEA one either, a high end luxury one. I didn't look too closely to see how much was real solid wood and how much was veneer, but the apartment was spacious and very well furnished and finished. The owner was a logistics office worker and his wife a full time mother.

We really need to figure out how to deliver that with Western style democratic systems, because the old "look how bad life is in the Soviet Union!" isn't going to work this time.

European manufacturers are finally getting their act together on EVs it seems. The Skoda Elroq is probably going to be the best selling EV this year, in the UK.

We need EVs, we need to get off oil. Some pain is inevitable, all we can do is delay it, which makes it worse.

It needs to be inconvenient and convoluted enough that clueless users can't be tricked into doing it via phishing.

False. It's the Dancing Pigs problem.

As long as there's a method, someone will write instructions that people will follow. And malware actors will hijack whatever method to install ransomware. You can bet one step will have people running command line commands and there was that ransomware installed via the command line.

The urge to get pirated apps will drive people to whatever the method is. There will be dozens of easy to follow tutorials, videos, and other things. The only saving grace might be the chance for AI assistants to screw it up completely and wipe people's computers when they try.

Well, better than Hyundai did, where the whole MAGA "oh noes immigrants" overrodw the whole "Made in America" and handcuffed, detained and locked up a bunch of South Koreans in those miserable ICE facilities to the point every one of them filed human rights violations. It took South Korean diplomats a week to get them back.

I'm guessing by the time Trump took over Toyota had sent back all its workers and it's up to the locals to operate the plant, so they got lucky. Chances are though the Japanese engineers that were providing supervision likely left out of caution.

So the plant is there, it's able to make batteries, but it's likely not running at full capacity because the expertise needed to do so doesn't dare enter the US. (Especially after what happened to South Korea).

Though, it's not likely to be an issue, since EV sales have tanked, so it might be too late.

And Ford received nearly triple BYD https://www.cbtnews.com/ford-s...

What's your point?

I know another guy in the process of fucking up the global economy.

I'm not sure if Wire has new management but I just recently learned they've gone fully open source, are working on federation, and are using an RFC-specified tree-based efficient group chat encryption algorithm. RCS is eventually meant to adopt the same algorithm.

Folks using Telegram Groups (which are unencrypted, actually) might have a look. Yeah, somebody needs to run a server if you don't want intelligence agencies to provide one for you.

I uninstalled Wire years ago when they wouldn't take privacy seriously (yeah, I filed a bug) but it seems like a second look is warranted.

Whatever method it is, it will probably defeat the purpose of ending unsigned side loading. Whatever the hoops are, users will be trained to jump through them.

Obtainium is such a useful tool. As well as open source apps, it can update apps that you aren't allowed to install in your region via Google Play. Very handy if you travel a lot, as developers often put regional restrictions on things like transport and loyalty apps.

So you took a break out from complaining about the allegedly unfair treatment of China to complain about the allegedly unfair treatment of Russia? It seems like you only respect fascism.

I had over 230k on my 1989 240SX when I sold it. It had all expected compression and ran perfectly. Got to love timing chains, it had never had any engine work done. 200k isn't impressive from any Japanese car since about 1980.

How can this be? I was told that Mr. Google was evilly rubbing his hands in glee at the thought of take even more control of your phone, cackling away as lightning flashed outside an arched window behind his throne.

He gave up on the much hated Privacy Sandbox too, which was going to send all your data to Google. That said he also decided to keep third party cookies, which kinda sucks.

You can't? Me either.

But yea, 1850 acres is a decent size. About 2.8 square miles, 7.5 km^2, or 1% the size of Memphis.

The point was that that was going to go away as a route for unsigned apps to be replaced with a requirement for signatures even when using ADB or other alternative installation methods. Google is backing off that change for now. This should mean that things like Obtainium keep working in future.