Google’s dream of hijacking an open standard (on Android at least) is achieved :/

Oh dear god, we live in the worst timeline.

Now I miss my Nokia N9 :(

Google unfortunately locks down the RCS api’s in Android so that only the system messaging app (basically just Google Messages these days) can use them, so I don’t think any independent messaging apps can integrate RCS at all :/

Yay!

It’s been similar weather over here in the northwestern U.S., lots of clouds and periodic rain but unusually little sunlight for this time of year. I’m enjoying it personally since we’re not in a heatwave like much of the continent, but many of my plants are much less enthusiastic.

Unfortunately I haven’t run across any either :/ Handwriting detection for even a single language/script can be very complicated to implement so I understand why it’s rare in open-source keyboard options, but I’ll keep an eye out just in case I find one.

Windows now handles 7z files natively too (at least as of the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 version), I’m glad they’ve at least added some legit new features for File Explorer.

As long as they can get away with it

I have a water mill do it for me, ain’t got time for that.

Add “accounts.google.com/gsi/$3p” to the My filters page in uBO, it should block that nonsense on every page.

I was so excited

…did I miss something?

Yeah, I don’t think a lot of people understand that RISC-V doesn’t mean every RISC-V SoC is open. It’s only the underlying architecture that’s actually open.

I don’t recall them mentioning anything about efficiency or battery life improvements in the presentation, and you know they know they would’ve made a big deal about it if they had any progress to show :(