N/T

Although, from my two second check just now, Venus is technically considered within the Goldilocks zone for this solar system it is right on the very inner edge of it. This finding differs from Venus in that respect, making it more interesting as a possibility.

All highly speculative of course, but to be fair that's exactly what the article says. Atmosphere detected, everything else speculative.

Is it, though? Seems like everyone I know is paying their monthly fees and just streaming what they want to watch. And indeed if you only plan to watch something once, there's no point in buying it on media.

Somehow I highly doubt what you suggest is possible. Pretty sure Google wouldn't allow it either.

Nope this move is entire *because* of the Sept APK lockdown. Now they can allow third-party app stores while still taking fees from every Android app developer regardless of store, and maintain full and total control over users and developers. I'm surprised Apple didn't think of this.

There is unlikely to be any change in the malware levels because Google is set to know *everything* about the developers of literally all android apps. They are doing this by rolling out their new verification program which will require all apps regardless of how they are installed and from what app store, to be signed *by Google* after the developers pay their fees to Google. Whereas before google was unhappy to lose their 30% cut, now they've engineered a way to take a cut from *all* developers in all app stores. And they will be collecting detailed personal information about all developers including government IDs. I believe Google is couching this move as a way to clamp down on malware while abiding by the various legal judgements that censured them for their 30% cut and forced them to open up Android to third parties. In short they can have their cake and eat it too.

If https://keepandroidopen.org/ isn't convincing to this crowd, I don't know of anything that will. Google's set to hold more power over Android and would-be app developers than even Apple. It's evil genius level.

Google kind of relented and will allow you to disable this "feature" requiring a multi-step process that takes 24 hours. It could be reasonable, given Android's malware problem, but I can't help but wonder if there's not a better way, but it wouldn't serve Google's purpose to increase their control over Android users.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

I guess I wasn't clear enough as you do not seem to understand the issue. Google is requiring *all* apps, regardless of how you install them, or from what app store you install them, to be signed *by them*. This means that every app available on F-Droid must be signed (and developer dues paid) also or it won't be installable. This not something F-Droid is willing to do because the whole reason F-Droid exists is to give users access to software by open source and other developers who can't or won't pay the Google tax and fork over their information to Google.

If F-Droid were to participate in Google's scheme to extort developers, it becomes a huge liability for the open source developers themselves, should Google suddenly decide their app violates their policies and IP, and slaps them with a lawsuit (even if frivolous).

The whole thing is quite nefarious. Google used to take a 30% cut in their app store, but they were legally censored for it (the whole reason we're here talking about this). Now instead of just the 30% cut they can charge literally all android app developers a fee (one-time for now, but that could change quite easily), and hold control over all of them even when they don't even use the Google play store. It's evil genius really.

But as the other poster said, no one really cares, sadly.

Nope. Google is still set to kill F-Droid later this year when they turn on mandatory developer certificates which will require developers to pay Google and hand over their personal information, regardless of what app store they want to distribute through. This will essentially kill F-Droid for casual users (their main target is almost certainly NewPipe). Yes you can still use F-Droid but you'll have to do a 24 hour delay before you can install F-Droid.

I meet them all the time. Most of them are in their 50s and have used computers their entire adult life.

Ironically, with the current state of affairs and AI slop everywhere.. I am finding more and more than the curated feed of personal connections I get on Facebook is much more aligned with what I want to be doing on social media. I am spending more time there again.

Years back I was interviewing people for a coding position. We went through the standard tech stuff and then did a bit of project to see how they thought. We said (this is circa 2009'ish I think) - imagine you're on a team creating a new phone. You don't have time to test all the functions, so which would be your top two functions to ensure working?

All a bit Kobayashi Maru - obviously you can't release a phone testing only two functions, but we wanted to see what they'd prioritise. The very best answer we received was this one: "I would make sure it has the ability to call emergency services." Their thinking was that this was likely the most critical feature of a phone for both a user, and also for the manufacturer to avoid being sued. Absolutely great answer.

And yet here we are, with the post above. Taking the thinking of this interviewee - the ability to work with emergency services is important for general society, for the user of the vehicle (so they don't get in trouble) and for the manufacture of the vehicle (so they don't get fined/sued/both). Absolutely critical.

At what point will approved American models affirm that the 2020 election was stolen?

To be more clear, in winter if tipped to the appropriate angle *for winter* snow doesn't accumulate because the panel is too steep. But that is tipped too far for summer, so you would need to tip it back to a summer angle. If you choose a middle of the road angle (90 - latitude) that works all year round, then snow will definitely accumulate where they are planning to build and would need to be cleaned off. So either way there is manual work (or at least a mechanical complexity) to either tilt the panels twice a year, or to clean the snow off.

We move our panels manually twice a year. Labor is a sunk on the farm (employees are paid no matter what they do) cost so we don't even consider it. Just another job on the farm.

We used to be investing in solar and wind in a big way and backing away from coal-fired electricity. But now that MAGA is taking over Alberta, they are ensuring that nothing stands in the way of that sweet sweet oil and gas money.