A bank card is far more practical than a second phone. Even if Google Pay did work on GrapheneOS, I would not use it. It looks like a privacy nightmare.

Artificial intelligence built upon real stupidity.

Google blocked it.

https://9to5google.com/2024/02/29/google-messages-rcs-rooted/

As a GrapheneOS user, It would be nice if they made it available to their android platforms first.

I have configured my home router to redirect all plaintext DNS traffic through it. I did it because Chromecasts try to sidestep DNS and go straight to Google.

While doing that was a couple of lines of nftables config, blocking DoH would require an actively maintained list. Even then, it would be trivial to host your own by renting some server space.

I hope they’re just patenting this to prevent other manufacturers from doing it.

Even if you can’t cleanly remove it, you can probably delete a few system files and break it. It’s not like the whole thing will be baked into kernel32.dll.

This was at a stockpile yard at a port where raw mined materials were stored before being shipped.

Basically, if the wind was blowing strong enough in the right direction, it would blow over a nearby town. The problem wasn’t really knowing where the dust was going, but where it was coming from. Accurate monitoring could detect exactly which pile the dust is coming from, so you could direct all the water to the source. It’s impractical to wet the entire yard, as it’s huge.

This reminds me of something I worked on at my last job. I made software to detect plumes of dust pollution from a mining site blowing onto a nearby school and town. The EPA issued fines if they detected too much dust over the town. This system could catch it early for quick intervention.

After it was deployed, I got a glimpse of their production config. They hadn’t configured the alarms for early intervention. They had configured them so that they could get as close as possible to their allocated limit before they intervened at all. Because, ya know, spraying water on stockpiles of ore is expensive.

Fucking mining companies, man.

This sounds like an improvement, if anything. I know I’m opening a file I downloaded. I don’t need a warning. I need it to execute, because that’s the instruction I gave.

My bank apps all work fine. Just keep your physical bank cards on you because Google Wallet won’t work with credit cards, NFC or transport passes. Your gig tickets and membership cards will load fine though.

You probably don’t want Google rummaging through your purchase history anyway. I certainly don’t miss it.

So, Disney+ gift cards carry no value at Disneyland, but the Disney+ death waiver does?

My car does about 5,000km a year, and almost all of it is with a passenger. Taking kids to school and sports. It’s also a 930kg car.

It’s faster, cheaper, and more convenient to catch a train to the office in the city in peak hour.

However, there’s no way I’m going to use PT to lug around a full trolley of shopping or multiple baseball bags with catcher’s gear and 3 kids.

Basically my point is - travel less, travel lighter.