Google made this available so they can encourage developers to use it and say “we’re not a monopoly, the developers are adding the check” and see how long they can get away with it.

Very reminiscent of this picture that’s hanging on my wall.

I tried restarting the game. I should have reloaded my save. I figured it was a temporary glitch that would sort itself out after restarting.

Oh well. I’ve moved on. Just a bit frustrating.

It’s possible I just pressed the wrong green button and replaced my ship instead of adding another, although I do know how to do that properly, so I must have really messed it up.

Almost all of that (excluding voicemail) is pure text data, isn’t it? There’s no way it should be taking up multiple hundreds of megabytes. I can’t imagine voicemail audio is particularly high quality, but if you do have a load of messages then I can see it adding up.

My Phone app user data is 277MB.

Google Keep (lots of notes with offline mode) is 10.62MB.

Google Maps’ offline maps for my entire local area is only 109MB.

I’ve only seen half of the deep dive video, I’m saving it for later, but it looks incredible!

“quietly”

I’ve worked back and front end, and with a lot of developers, and I don’t think anyone would say they’re the same. Software devs are some of the most pedantic people out there.

No Man’s Sky dragged me back in again recently. There’s an expedition going on for another few weeks that was lots of fun. I’ve also started a permadeath save that I’m really enjoying.

The soundtrack alone is worth playing the game. The incidental multiplayer where you can’t communicate directly and you don’t see the name of your friend is brilliant.

It’s a game that will stay with you for a long time, sort of like Firewatch in that way.

Thanks! I’m glad I got hooked again. :-)

Damn, you’ve got more patience than me! How many jumps do you think that’s going to take you?

Yeah, I was working on the missions to get glyphs, but with an eye on player bases at the same time.

I still plan to finish the main story and see how long I can keep my permadeath save alive. It would be cool to build a significant base and get really comfortable, and then heartbreaking to die to something stupid and avoidable one day. :-D

Good luck getting grandma to install and use Graphene or Lineage on their 3 year old underpowered Samsung device that already works the way they know.

I think you’re making problems where there aren’t any. A device PIN or fingerprint along with Signal is probably way more secure than any family chat needs to be.

I imagine that most people’s families will find Singal easier than using a CLI program anyway. It’s rare to find an entire family without typical cellphones.

Signal is perfectly good under normal usage. Everything is unintuitive when it comes to extremes like losing your device.

6 months from now it’ll be relaunched, but businesses will only be able to “respond” via AI, and only if they pay for a Gemini subscription. A week later businesses will be posting the insane shit that the AI tells its customers.

I know it’s sometimes informative, but I really hate the popularity of “$x quietly does $y” in headlines.

You want Google to run ads on TV or something? It’s a tiny feature.

This Grav?

Fucking finally. I got one of those Google Home devices for free a few years ago, stuck it in the kitchen, and set the screensaver to be pictures of me, my wife, our son, or our dog. Every chance it got it picked a photo of me with an ex-girlfriend, which is definitely not what you want in your kitchen.

In the end I just set it to pictures of our son or our dog to be safe, because Google just flat out wouldn’t let me choose people not to see.

I don’t want to delete all the pictures of me with my ex-girlfriends because some of them are the only photos I’ve got from specific places.

They used to have a nice obvious detail page for every app, now I get some small entry, a bunch of other apps that I might also want to install (spoiler, I don’t), and it’s harder to see useful information.

Do they really think I’ve gone to the Play Store to install my bank’s app, but I might also want to install a different bank’s app?