Ah, bonus points 👍

But can it run Doom while I drive over the kids in the school zone? 🤔

Yes and no. All Android phones run some variation of Linux actually.

My more private devices are still on their original stock Android 11, I just never signed into Google, and never activated location services.

F-Droid for the win!

Yeah, I get that. That’s why my non-Googled devices are not connected to my home WiFi.

Already covered captain 👍

I wouldn’t know. My Google account is older than YouTube, and GMail was just getting out of the beta stage. Smartphones didn’t exist yet, nor did all these modern fancy apps.

So the signup process was totally different back then. And when they acquired YouTube, that meant I automatically had a YouTube account, but oddly enough I had to use a different username than my Google account, to avoid conflicts as they merged.

I only use Google services on the devices I leave at home, my mobile devices will never see the likes of Google though. They don’t have any business tracking all my activity, so as far as their systems know, I haven’t left home in over 3 years LOL!

Probably after the flame over Elvis Presley’s grave runs out of fuel.

Or after the AI decides to turn itself off, which is probably never…

Happy Father’s Day!

I had potato salad and peas…

I think this post really deserves an image description for the blind users of Lemmy…

I’m in a ‘red’ state. Wanna try again?

I guess you missed my point as well.

My question was which states even ask political association in the first place?

You mean people have to register under a particular political party? I’m a registered voter, and there’s no field for which party I’d be in support of.

I just looked at my registration card, sounds like a load of horse shit to me.

Who snorts coke anymore? We snort asbestos laced dried sloth feces these days.

Ride a bike. Touch grass. You’ll meet someone eventually…

Did you read the original post? They said RAM.

Go ahead and pull all that magic in RAM, and RAM alone…

Indeed!

I actually encoded a 256 byte DOS assembly demo (not written by me) into a self decoding plain text batch file, and then for the hell of it encoded that into a QR code.

Again, disclaimer, I didn’t write the original code, but it was fun to convert into a QR code.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LSAJTQiQ0DA

And the Commodore 64 can’t decode them. Even if you fed it an algorithm that could decode them, you’d be out the memory of the algorithm.

All sounds fun on paper, but I enjoy storing terabytes of data on the Internet Archive, and sticking that to a QR code, just for fun.

He got his dick stuck in a bucket

Fair enough, good point.

That’s still not gonna get rid of all the guns already out in the wild though.

Hey, in all fairness, I think Super Soaker water guns should get a free pass.

Aside from that, yeah it wouldn’t be a bad idea if they banned all those toy guns, especially the ones designed to resemble real guns.

There are alternate apps and services that don’t depend on Google. I’m responding from one such service right now.

I’ve also been using the same TextNow number since 2016. You know, VOIP WiFi phone service? I even debugged the TextNow app back in 2016, they’re actually damn glad to have me as a regular free user.

There are ways to both maintain privacy, and also use your device at the same time.