I love this news, but I wish we revisited the Liberal Democrats’ efforts in 2010 to insulate the existing housing stock. My mum’s 1970s house got loft insulation for free from the coalition government and it’s now so good at retaining heat.

I now live in a Victorian house that is extremely expensive to heat and I have to have windows/vents open to prevent damp. I wish we got free loft insulation…

Just leaving this story from 2017 here, I’m sure it’s purely coincidental…

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Call me when you’re older than 20 and realise how silly you sound.

American culture? What’s that then?

Protect myself as best I can financially from the coming recession. Little else I can do. Thankfully I live in a country with decent worker rights and benefits systems so even if I lose my job I should be able to bounce back. Not like capitalist dystopian USA.

Install it using ADB which doesn’t adhere to the 24 hour waiting period.

the clutches of Google

Please reread the first three words of my previous message.

Maybe not equally but they will need to take a good chunk of responsibility for this.

Americans saw his first term, his attempts to bomb Iran were thwarted back then.

Americans watched as he tried to steal the 2020 election.

Americans and democrats had 4 years to punish him for this.

What did Americans do? They gave him an even bigger mandate in 2024.

Assuming the 2024 election was valid, this is an American-wide problem. You’ve all got to own this and you’ve all got to be the ones to do something about it.

The hysteria is rife on this subject and it’s exhausting.

A one-time 24 hour wait is an acceptable trade-off. I’m a power user. I’m enabling various developer options on my new device anyway, what’s one more process?

So much hysteria over this that I fully expect to turn out to be an absolute nothingburger once it’s live.

It’s too early to say but I think it’s fairly obvious that it’s just a mechanism to confirm that the owner of the device is the one making the change. If no biometrics are set, and no lock screen is set, I’d assume the check isn’t needed.

Respectfully, grow up.

It’s a one-time action, and it’s a necessity because humans are dumb and have allowed scammers to guide them through installing dodgy APKs.

We are globally asking for regulators to regulate big tech and this whole verification thing was Google’s attempt to quell that storm. Obviously the original plans weren’t acceptable but this really doesn’t seem like that big of a deal anymore, now that they’ve compromised.

I really don’t see the issue here that power users need to tap a few buttons and wait 24 hours once for each device. You don’t even need to leave developer options enabled, and you’ve still got ADB installation options if you urgently need an APK installed and you hadn’t previously gone through this flow.

The comparison to bootloaders is also a stretch. People in this Lemmy community are so quick to enflame and enrage themselves, it’s worse than Reddit…

Yeah, we can. The UK doesn’t have much of a land-based interceptor system but we have subs and very competent early warning systems in place. We’ve also got a dozen of NATO countries between us and Iran, and NATO isn’t just going to allow those interceptors to fly past if they can stop it.

There’s also zero evidence that Iran can shoot London. It’s just FUD by Israel to try to pull us into this shitshow of a war. Don’t feed it.

Thanks for ruining the world, Americans. Holding you all responsible for this.

Google’s Emoji Kitchen feature has me locked in to Gboard unfortunately

With Android and ChromeOS “merging” (for lack of a better term), it should continue to improve assuming Google doesn’t kill the Chromebook market.

Doesn’t the native Google Digital Wellbeing app support most of this? You can’t lock an app behind a PIN, but you can restrict daily usage so when you’ve used Instagram for 30 minutes it blocks you out of the app. You just need a smidge of discipline to not tap the button to bypass the restriction.

Android Private Space came out a year or so ago that fully locks apps behind a PIN.

Android Work Profile also provides this.

What do you mean by “more properly maintained”? What’s wrong with Revanced?

Like you said, benchmarks don’t mean anything these days. I’ll stop laughing when anyone gets close to Apple’s efficiency and single core performance.

Day one patches have been the standard for over a decade, and they are as common on the PC as they are on consoles…

The majority of games from the last 15 years that you install with a disc will require a patch to run. You could keep your pc or console off network and play the original buggy version on the disc if you want…