Google has banned many accounts of genuine users.

What is your fallback for such an important vital service?

To play the devil’s advocate here: MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY on Android doesn’t require a Google account AFAIK. But it might change, of course.

Edit: but as pointed out elsewhere in the thread, Play Integrity is not the only way to do hardware attestation on Android. GrapheneOS devs have a guide: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

So avoiding proprietary Google stuff altogether is possible and we should encourage it.

How do you propose running Google play checks on the phone without working Google play? :)

I don't think it's possible. And indeed, avoiding is possible and better, but the companies choose lie of play store "integrity".

For Play Integrity, you do have to have the Play Services installed, but that doesn’t mean you need to sign into Google :-)

(By the way, microG, an open source Google Play Services reimplementation, can achieve BASIC_INTEGRITY now, too. Which unfortunately doesn’t help much as most applications that do use Play Integrity want DEVICE_INTEGRITY at least.)

> but the companies choose lie of play store "integrity"

Agreed, very unfortunate. Most apps don’t even need it, but the security theatre is easier to do than actual security.

Stop ignoring obesity.

Pull up the BMI chart, do the calculation. Get to normal at 1kg drop a week. Done. It works. Back pain solved.

Solid advise but I think that it is less known that tight glutes can cause lower back pain too even when your BMI is normal. Basically sitting too much and not stretching enough is a cause for the pelvic misalignment.

Actual reason: SBC retro handheld consoles now run Linux and people are using them to play steam indie games. The China holiday had some blow out pricing.

Non primary devices more likely to run Linux. Primary still windows.

I like Bezos.

He’s proof micro management works.

Food, water, then the RNG is solved by large N.

Was it a knifes edge at times? Sure. Was it abundant at times? Also true.

This is when you hire someone with autism and give them a direct report.

Their inability at social cues will cut right through.

Works every time.

I'm sorry this got dinged.

It's pithy, but correct.

Source: I'm "on the spectrum." This often resulted in me being the skunk at the rationalization picnic, because I didn't realize the boss wanted me to rubberstamp a bad design.

What’s the negative here that makes this an addiction and not just good?

I guess it becomes bad when it negatively affects other aspects of life. I experienced or witnessed all of these with AI at some point:

- Working later because of addictive loops.

- Wasting time and money building stuff nobody will ever use.

- Abusive screen time.

- Loss of deep understanding of a code base and over-reliance on the AI, with reduced incident or bug response time.

- Producing a lot of sloppy code, too much to be owned or reviewed.

- Mental fatigue.

I had to actively force myself to leave home because I was getting consumed by it in the weekend. "Just another fix", "just this one last polish"...

It's MMO all over again. And I'm not complaining, but I want to raise awareness for me and other that maybe this isn't such an innocent activity as we think. Coding with agents might just be too addictive for some.

I wonder what the optimal most fastest speed out of the solar system gravity assist path ever possible is and when that occurs?

Those who want to generate AI videos are price sensitive and quality sensitive.

Sora was neither.

You’re gonna really wish you recorded the voice of your grandma telling those tales.

Video >photo >audio >text

Take more videos, including random moments of your daily life. Just short ones are fine. Your future self will thank you.