Again, I’m not saying it’s a good thing. But the original person said they paid Google for getting GrapheneOS on their Pixel and thus they should get GrapheneOS, all of which I’m saying is that they did not pay Google for that and thus this specific argument is invalid.

But that’s the thing, this only affects GrapheneOS, GrapheneOS was never even implied to be supported. The Pixel default OS still works perfectly well and is getting updates and everything.

The person said

paying money for something should get you the thing you paid for

what exactly did you pay for when you bought your phone is my question. The Pixel keeps working doesn’t it? Did the purchase contract state that you get perpetual open source access to any further updates of the Android operating system?

I’m not saying that Google is doing anything good here. I’m just saying that the argument of “get the thing you paid for” is not applicable here. You paid for a phone, you got the phone. You can still put any software you want on it. You just don’t get the newest development in an open source form, which was always just based on Google’s goodwill and never part of any purchasing agreement.

Um, does the Pixel not work anymore? Did you pay for open source access of the device code?

Lol, as if a stock iPhone was any better than a stock Pixel?

Now you can look at actually better alternatives (privacy/whatever wise)

Relying on Google was always ridiculous. People thought they could have their cake (a device with cutting-edge hardware) and eat it too (not be spied on for ads to support this). It was always clear that Google will eventually fight against custom OS on their phones.

I fear this is a problem that may never be solved. I mean that people of any intelligence fall for the mind’s biases.

There’s just too little to be gained feelings-wise. Yeah, you make better decisions, but you’re also sacrificing “going with the flow”, acting like our nature wants us to act. Going against your own nature is hard and sometimes painful.

Making wrong decisions is objectively worse, leading to worse outcomes, but if it doesn’t feel worse (because you’re not attributing the effects of the wrong decisions to the right cause, i.e. acting irrationally), then why should a person do it. If you follow the mind’s bias towards attributing your problems away from irrationality, it’s basically a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Great article.

You’re saying they’re looking for an excuse to shut down? Yeah honestly that’s what I figured, locking comments doesn’t make any sense otherwise.

After the call for admins, there was never an indication that the search wasn’t going well. Honestly, I would’ve put some time in (& I’m sure many others would’ve) if we’d known closure was imminent.

Of course there’s a best solution… it’s whatever you end up with

Totally fair. Sounds fun :)

I just kinda wonder why when you’re in a browser or node, you wouldn’t just do

const json = {...};
json.friends.filter(f => f.age >= 18);

why learn another language when you already literally got the language to process JavaScript Object Notation right there.

https://jqlang.org/

I’ve been using that for all my JSON extraction and processing needs. Let me automate a bunch of my builds for JS stuff for FoundryVTT https://gitlab.com/foundry-azzurite/pings/-/blob/master/build/build.sh

If all those people that have money to build houses were forced to give it away (taxes), we the people (the government) could just build the houses and not charge exorbitant rent.

From Wikipedia

A landlord is the owner of property such as a house, apartment, condominium, land, or real estate that is rented or leased to an individual or business, known as a tenant.

So, I’d say you’re technically wrong :D

Setup an autocorrect phrase :D

Sure, the fans… But the majority of the viewers are people like my parents, who are entertained by it for a week, don’t really care all that much about anything but the national rivalry and the cool shows and music, and then it clears off their mind until the next year.

Lol, no

Most people won’t ever see this news, and even then, many people wouldn’t care.

A while ago I made a relevant video to this…

It’s so interesting how beliefs like this do indeed make the reality that way.