Give it a shot!

Rust can be a real pain in the ass: it’s like having to solve mini logic puzzles as you’re writing your code. At best, it’s fun, at worst, it’s a distraction and source of frustration.

You can always stop the rewrite if you discover you don’t like Rust.

I’m using it as a skin on my Android device now. It’s a great UI. But it was built for an unwanted platform.

most of the people here will actually argue in favor of it

On Lemmy? This is the place that’s jazzed for GrapheneOS releases so they can degoogle their phone. We go on and on about private messenger apps, Proton, running non-corporate OSes, and privacy. Most of us are here because we don’t like the shitty direction Reddit is taking.

I think you can make the argument that generally people are ambivalent about privacy, but Lemmy is a definite exception to that rule.

We’re all here for entertainment. This isn’t news or information about the real world, it’s a hypothetical that’s asking for your advice.

If it’s fake, it’s a fun thought experiment.

If it’s real, it’s a fun thought experiment.

You can choose to

1. participate, thereby strengthening our community.

2. ignore it, having no positive or negative effect on our community.

3. shit on it, thereby weakening our community.

Dude has probably been planning it for months.

My machine is not a workhorse. I got it second hand. It has around 8gb of RAM, and an 80gb HDD I found in a laptop.

But it’s enough to work as a testbed, so it’s fine with me.

I’ve finally powered on a 15 year old machine to run a bot I’ve been writing. The thing is slow as dirt and stuck behind a flakey power line network, but it’s working. I got to write my first systemd service definition, which is kind of cool.

Summit is a good replacement. It has definite quirks, but the general usability I expect from Sync was faithfully cloned.

piss off notification horse

All existing health data and features, however, will remain free.

Perfect!

I’m a reformed Sync user. Nothing. I guess you can cross post from other clients. But that’s not really a loss.

Does blocking work?

I’m not overweight, I’m prepared for the gathering storm.

I’ve worked with three incredible developers who I’d consider 10x: people who can reliably build a solution quickly, or debug problems that go deep into the OS. One would fit your description, one is a mom who shuttles her kid to after school stuff, and the other is a really nice music nerd.

Like the post states, some people are in the right place at the right time: they have the right background and temperament to do really well at their job. They don’t need to be shitty people.

I don’t really get what selling Chrome and Android would accomplish.

There was a leak of Google’s old page ranking algorithm (not PageRank, but how they change the order of results on search) - it looked like they used a bunch of signals from Chrome about the amount of time users spend on a page, how quickly they go back, etc. Chrome gives the search side of the business an advantage.

Conversely, Android feeds a bunch of extra data to the ad business about what people do in real life.

Both products give the rest of Alphabet a significant advantage over their competitors, and make it harder for new entrants to get a foothold.

I haven’t noticed problems on my P8P.

I’m surprised the repair places don’t send you a loaner phone while they have yours. Then again, I guess nobody would trust a loaner with their personal info.

it’s ok she has baby

They can still differentiate with software features, storage, memory, and other hardware features (UWB and uh, I dunno? the temperature sensor? lolololol).

That’s missing from Lemmy. 😞