Lunchtime, doubly so!

I’ve not worked with a marketing team where that would work, but maybe it will for some.

I’ve never been anywhere that I thought it would work, but it ultimately did, almost everywhere.

I’ve found it takes a few iterations, but the marketing folks in on it love being the ones who actually can reliably deliver on their promises.

It doesn’t work for the marketers that promise whatever they please without talking to dev, but I don’t find them to be worthwhile professional allies, so I don’t sweat it.

It doesn’t change the “massive customer will only renew if” scenario, though.

Very true. It doesn’t help with that case, and that one does happen. I’ve had the best luck saying “we don’t do that, but we’re scrambling to add it” in that situation.

The stupidly easy solution is to just give them stuff that has already been successfully delivered to production to market, 9 months from now. There’s invariably a huge backlog of years worth of successes that marketing wasn’t even aware of.

“No deviations will be approved from this year’s Agile product roadmap!”

We’re in a “fuck around” cycle where they pretend that the problem was we didn’t have “copilot”, and not that all of our development managers are wildly unqualified.

The “find out” part comes next.

Which is fucking impossible to fathom, because my fucking grocery store’s app can’t even implement search reliably, today.

I’m not sure how they’re going to manage to make things worse.

Actually, I’ll make a guess. My guess is we will go under the critical skill level needed for building safe hospital equipment, and we will get a rash of that stuff killing people due to lack of programmer skills.

I hope the asshole CEOs are the ones that die, but there’s not enough karma in the world for that.

I went back to Windows several times before I made the switch permanently to Linux. You just gotta do what works for you.

This is the way.

I went back and forth for years. Tuning and tweaking to find what works for me. Spoiler - the fully open source options are what worked best for me, eventually.

For awhile gaming was the only place I put up with non-Linux anymore. And now with my SteamDeck, I have an easy way to avoid buying games that aren’t Linux ready.

NDISWrapper was a big turning point for me - the first time I got Linux working and kept it for the life of the hardware, it was due to NDISWrapper.

°7

I hope I’m rocking that hard at 84.

My next non-alcohol bubbly drink will be in your honor, Larry.

Great summary bot, as ever. But missed this absolute gem from the comments:

“Thanks for helping me wardrive and steal the WiFi from that dentist, Larry.”

Yep. This is the way.

It works fine for anyone with the foresight to be born into an ultra wealthy family.

Yeah. But it’s still rare to see “no unicycling” signs so the unicyclers need to get on that.

The mantra that got me through JavaScript was “almost nothing we do here is able to be synchronous”.

Everything about the language makes more sense, with that context.

An LLM pointed at various (local) public sources of data, that can answer (local) voter questions, could be pretty cool.

I.e: "Summarize X candidate’s voting record on tax increases/education/walkable cities/unionization/etc…

Yep. That’s a good clarification.

“Apps within the same profile can communicate with mutual consent and it’s no different for sandboxed Google Play.”

If GFS is installed on a profile, any app in that profile can use it to phone home.

I suspect that aspect is mostly mitigated, for me. by my not using a Gmail account to sign into any apps. Theoretically, it doesn’t stop them from fingerprinting, in other ways.

Except:

“Google Play receives absolutely no special access or privileges on GrapheneOS as opposed to bypassing the app sandbox and receiving a massive amount of highly privileged access.”

and

“As with any other app, it can’t access data of other apps and requires explicit user consent to gain access to profile data or the standard permissions.”

Means that GFS is going to be denied it’s usual fingerprinting solutions.

Source: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play combined with professional experience with privacy technically, and a decent amount of (educated) speculation.

TL;DR:

Using separate profiles is better, particularly when using GFS.

But as someone who doesn’t sign into any Google account and just wants a banking app to work, GFS on the main profile is still way better than stock Android.

be sure that google can’t access anything else

Last time I read the GrapheneOS docs, my understanding was that this has been taken care of for you, even when using a single profile.

Don’t be like me.

Too late!

At what point does one stop being a noob?

I recognize that trick question. For C++, the answer is always “soon”.

That’s a solid description. I’m stealing that. “Cozy” is an excellent word for that sets C# apart from other languages.