developer verification can be disabled, bypassed, or worked with

In reality this is useless given the technical capabilities (or access to the technology necessary) of nearly every android user. What percentage of them do you think has the capacity and capability to use ADB?

you called it sideloading removal, which it isn’t.

Strictly it ticks the box, however effectively it is sideloading removal. Arguing otherwise honestly makes me think you work for them. It’s such obvious marketing bullshit “Oh, we left this tiny window open to tick the box which people can use, but almost certainly not you and even if you are capable, it’s a pain in the arse”. There are lots of intelligent people in my house. I’m the only one capable of using ADB without enormous effort, making it a deliberately huge barrier and even I’m not going to do it to install a trusted open source app.

Let’s be clear; the only reason they left that little window open was to have people like you say “no, sideloading is still possible” to cover their arses legally and also for actual developers, not because they care about an open ecosystem.

Adb is functionally useless for most people.

This is the context I came to the comments for. Thank you. I knew Mandy was a solid human.

What is that thing on the bonnet / hood?

You should be able to pick up an old style timer plug for under 10 euro / USD in your hardware store.

They’re a tiny bit fiddly to set up but given how power hungry those things are you’ll be saving money in no time.

We have one around here somewhere. I’ll see if I can dig you out a picture.

Internet was faster…

Is it a subscription though? Investors like that

2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.

Perfect summary. Absolutely nailed it.

Everyone looking at the date counting down going “before what exactly?”

Yeah, all fair points. I do love the convenience of using my phone to pay too in fairness.

This may seem like a silly solution but maybe pop your debit card inside your phone case. It should bop through it.

Howled laughing at this. Amazing.

This is so good that I sent it on to my mother.

I am not surprised in the slightest. I mean if you have a bunch of smart, highly motivated people it sounds like keeping the crazy man at arms length is the kind of thing they’d organise very effectively.

NASA is clearly capable of things given the right circumstances and budget.

Absolutely agree with this but there is no denying the innovation levels at spacex are higher (I’m not saying this is down to musk specifically. The man is a horror story of a human).

We were all in total awe when seeing booster stages land themselves successfully for the first time. It was such a giant leap forward and to the best of my knowledge no government funded space agency was even considering it before spacex.

Number six when something bad happens:

It’s Latin and as far as I can tell congratulating pope Benedict who was two popes ago. I guess the joke is that it’s internet explorer posting.

I accept that 100%. I’ve seen a decent bit the US and it’s such an enormous lump of land with so many different people and cultures that anyone trying to lump them together into some homogenous mass is off their rocker.

Sure you can travel an hour on a train in Europe and be in a totally different world culturally. The distance for those changes is bigger in the US but holy moly do they exist.

I’m only across the water in Ireland and I can tell you from experience that ambulances arrive quickly, are free and so is the treatment. The UK health system is measurably better than ours so I feel like this is plucked from somewhere that the sun doesn’t shine.