Rather than an outright ban, why not say they are permitted provided their entire software stack is publicly available (and easily built, easily flashed). Many eyes and all that.

"Starting from 1 Nov 2022, apps that don't target an API level within two years of the latest Android release won't be available to new users with devices running Android versions newer than your app's target API level. This means that new users won't be able to discover or install your app on Google Play."

This means for example, that users of devices which have upgraded to Android 13 can't find older apps which they want/need in the Play store.

If you do follow a link to an old app Play store will gleefully respond: This app isn't available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android

In consequence, you might choose to sideload an APK instead.

So you can see this scanning announcement as a move by Google to mitigate a security risk which their ill-conceived (?) API level targeting policy has made more prevalent.

Somebody changed the name of the road I live on here in Australia to something non-sensical. The result is that you can't use Google Maps to find my street by its legal name anymore. I tried to change it back, twice. Both times, I've got a message saying my change "has been published Thank you for improving Google Maps! Your insights make it a better, more useful map for everyone." But months later, the map remains in its same, vandalised state.

Just found https://www.aliexpress.com/ite... which says "Alarm Action: FTP Photo". Not sure whether thats true or not...

It looks to be a vesafe.com SC7: http://www.vesafe.com/cn/pd.js...

Like OP, I'm interested in cameras that run on rechargeable batteries, and support WiFi.

In my application, I use a directional wifi antenna for a long range link.

It all works great, except the PIR. The manufacturer claims a range of 10m, but my camera is in a tree looking down, and the only time it ever triggered (apart from birds) was by a large truck.

It turns out that a range of 10m is all you can expect with these cameras; none of the manufacturers seem to offer anything better.

So I'd like to use an external PIR, which I could position better. In fact, it needn't even be a PIR, it could be a different tech, just so long as it can wake up the camera via alarm in.

I've spent more time than I care to admit looking for this in a battery/tiny solar/wifi cam. I did find some larger more power hungry solutions (with correspondingly large panels, which I don't want), but nothing like the cheap little Chinese products (all of which seem to lack alarm in, or alarm out for that matter).

The way things look, I'll either need to build my own, or give up and try poe over 200m or so.

From where I sit, whenever I click on a search result which links to a News Corp property, I hit a paywall. So its not like their content is currently accessible "for free". News Corp wants to get rid of their paywall, and replace it with a government mandated micropayments system, where Google is the payer, and effectively, the content distributor? Its a disgrace that the AU government would facilitate this, especially via the Australian *Competition* & *Consumer* Commission.

Wounding Java at least: A data point, see https://eclipse-foundation.blo... which says Eclipse and Oracle have agreed that the javax package namespace cannot be evolved by the Jakarta EE community.

was to let Oracle buy Sun, instead of buying it themselves. Oracle paid $5.6 billion according to Wikipedia.

What the former VP says makes sense, and yet here's a case which has gone the other way: Google Calendar doesn't work so well on my Chrome 69.x on Linux (the menu doesn't work - nothing happens when you click the button - and there's this blue line at the top going from left to right kinda like a progress bar), so I turn to Firefox to use it. (And yes, I've tried hard reload)

Just wait til they get to the point where maps says "I can see you want to buy gizmo xyz. Here are bids for your business from nearby retailers."

You'd expect some of the further away retailers to bid cheaper prices to entice you.

I'm surprised they didn't do this years ago...

I too started with Yggdrasil :-) but I've never really dual-booted. Instead, I've switched something like DOS -> Win 3.1 -> Yggdrasil -> OS/2 Warp -> Win NT -> Linux (1999) -> Windows 7 (~2006) -> Win 10 -> Linux (KDE in Manjaro)

Most recent switch back to Linux was driven by Win 10 forced updates. I only "need" Windows to run Microsoft Office, and that works fine in a VM under VirtualBox.

Ironically, recent voluntary Manjaro updates have broken things I rely on (copy/paste in OnlyOffice; stability of network shares in VirtualBox - in VB 6 they disappear and I need to restart VB to get them back)

So what I'd love is a distro where you can easily rollback an update made to an app and mark that app as "don't update this". Possibly you could give a reason (or select an existing reason), and be notified when it is "fixed" / prompted to allow updates to it again.

I feel your pain.. what brand is your laptop? Mine's a Dell; I do run an external monitor :-)

The Windows forced-updates problem motivated me to move my main machine to Linux (it had been Windows since oh 2005) - currently Manjaro/KDE - and to convert my Windows machines to VMs which I run on it via VirtualBox.

bumblebee/mhwd-gpu meant my laptop was using Intel's graphics, except when I explicitly tell it I want to use my GPU. Well, since it is always plugged in to AC power, I removed bumblebee, and now use the Nvidia GPU all the time (I've turned off integrated graphics in the BIOS).

I haven't experienced any issues updating, but just in case, if/when I do reboot, its to non-graphical mode (systemctl set-default multi-user.target). To start X then, its systemctl isolate graphical.target

Yes, because you are a commuter in a capital city. Just like our law makers... I'm advocating for higher speeds on straight rural roads where you might not see another car for 5 mins, and where you can see them kms ahead. Of course there are kangaroos - especially at certain times - so don't go fast in bad light.