Lol all these things work via the web. You just log on via the browswer. Not everything needs an app.
Aren't there attestation frameworks under development that they could start using too?
Readit Newsgoda90 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
I'm curious what you think the alternative is, because Apple is definitely a lot worse, and we all know they're very much a duopoly.
BTW, all the GrapheneOS, etc. are still Android phones.
I'm curious if GrapheneOS or other custom Android builds would be able to avoid these restrictions reasonably.
Obviously this is going to impact the supply of apps, since the market share of custom Android is smaller than even the market share of people willing to sideload or use an alternative store on a mainstream Android phone. Many developers might quit the game.
goda90 commented on OpenMower – An open source lawn mower github.com/ClemensElflein... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
This is highly dependent on where you live and what kind of creatures and insects you will be hosting.
I’m a big fan of natural landscaping, but just letting your grass over grow is not that.
I didn't say "just let it grow over" though. Turn it into natural landscape except the part you need for recreation. In many places people almost never play or sit in their front yard, for example. If you make that a natural landscape you might have to mow it once or less per year depending on what you actually plant.
I worked on The Sims. From experience I can tell you these types of games require a ton of experimentation and building before you finally hit on something that feels "fun" and you get lost in playing it. Then it all kind of comes together at once.
Keep it up! Looking forward to what you figure out.
> you get lost in playing it.
The Sims was my first experience with getting lost in a game having a negative impact on my life. Had to do most of a two week 5th or 6th grade geography project in the span of two days after playing the Sims instead of working on it.
goda90 commented on OpenMower – An open source lawn mower github.com/ClemensElflein... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
Please don't run them at night to protect animals like hedgehogs and others that are active at night.
Even better is to turn most of your lawn into natural landscape, leaving just the part you want to use for recreation as mowed.
goda90 commented on OpenMower – An open source lawn mower github.com/ClemensElflein... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
goda90 commented on OpenMower – An open source lawn mower github.com/ClemensElflein... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
> The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat.
I recently (a few weeks ago) bought one. While researching on the available options (which seemed relevant to me), actually almost none of the robots work this way. Most of them systematically go through the lawn. I think from those that I checked, only the Worx Landroid does it randomly.
I was searching for some model which works without wires, because I was too lazy to set this up. Basically, in general, I wanted sth which required as little effort as possible.
I decided for eufy E15, which uses camera (no GPS, no wires, no lidar, nothing else really). And it just seems to work. It creates a map first, and then systematically goes over the lawn. I didn't really need to do anything.
(I'm not affiliated with eufy in any way. I'm just quite happy with it so far.)
That said, obviously, having an open source variant of such a robot would be even nicer (if it works)! So I'm quite happy to see such a project.
This robot here uses GPS, as far as I can see, as the sole technique for navigation and localization. From reports that I have read, GPS mostly works fine, except for some cases where it does not (where GPS coverage is not great). Camera on the other side always works (during daytime). Maybe this could be added to this project? Of course, using the camera is probably quite a bit more complicated, and more prone to errors, but overall might be more robust and reliable.
Maybe instead of GPS or camera, it could have a local positioning system instead. 3 small, solar powered beacons can be installed around the yard to be mowed.
goda90 commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn
Can you explain why this situation is any different than regular meat? I.e. Fish immune systems don’t stop parasites from being present in the meat, flash freezing is what kills the parasites.
This obviously varies by animal, but some meats are safe to eat raw or undercooked if the animal was healthy because the meat doesn't have lots of pathogens inside it. Flash freezing won't kill bacteria or viruses that the immune system of an animal might.
goda90 commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn
goda90 commented on The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over fortune.com/2025/08/14/da... · Posted by u/plastic-enjoyer
I think the leaders of western countries know something that we don't know.
Maybe how the economic impact of AI is not as big as advertised for 3 years or that electric cars still cannot do what is needed on a bigger scale in terms of distance and transport.
Or maybe they are going to pull fusion out of their sleeves rendering the existing infrastructure almost obsolete?
AI literally came out of the US at this scale and they are the reason we have this conversation now, you can twist any narrative and make it seem like one country is smarter or better if you want to present it as that.
But does anyone even keep track of effectivity of resource utilization?
Maybe all of these avenues are not worth the effort to begin with?
The much simpler explanation is that our leaders are focused solely on short term gains. They'll grift their way to them gladly, but investing in infrastructure that'll take years to build and won't be useful until they are gone is not interesting to them.