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My understanding is that AOSP is still and will continue to be a thing. That’s Android. What Google has done though is put more and more new capabilities into Play Services, which are not open, rather than AOSP.

I hope someone will correct me or add better nuance though.

Yep, I’ve been using the same basic feature on stock Android for years as well, with Magisk and Advanced Charging Controller (ACC).

Still haven’t brought back the 3.5 mm headphone jack? And is that big battery replaceable (i.e. without anything stupid like ungluing it from the delicate touchscreen)?

Any coverage that omits these things is garbage IMO.

I’m no expert and I’ve been out of the game for a while, but as I recall the platforms are all quite different. Maybe it’s common now to only allow messages between matches.

But anyway, I was referring more to the trolls and harassers that need to be banned entirely, not just blocked/ignored by individuals. These people will put nasty inappropriate stuff as their profile pics in the first place, and create new accounts just to pester others.

I think the problem there is moderation. Who is going to do the work of blocking/banning 1000 creepy messages and dick pics per minute on an open platform?

Let’s be honest, what these apps are going to do is boost user engagement (read: waste your fucking time) by pulling you into conversations with AI chatbots. The longer you’re there, the more advertisements they can feed you. It’s going to be harder and harder to find a real person, because investors don’t benefit from that.

American, but I enjoy beer and have tried hundreds. I tend to like sweeter or richer Belgian and German ales the most. Things like König Ludwig, Tripel Karmeliet, Augustiner, Weihenstephaner, Ayinger, Paulaner, and St. Bernardus will always top my list.

If you like those, here are some US recommendations that are also damn good. Note, some of these are quite regional.

• Tröeg’s - Mad Elf
• Fat Heads - Alpenglow
• Boulevard - Bourbon Barrel Quad
• Royal Docks - VLAD
• Dark Horse - Scotty Karate
• Descutes - The Abyss
• Fat Heads - Goggle Fogger
• Sierra Nevada - Kellerweiss
• Terrestrial - Blue Dream
• Thirsty Dog - Irish Setter Red
• Penn Brewery - Penn Weizen
• Ommegang - Manhattan Shine
• Sibling Revelry - Lavender Wit
• Ithaca - Apricot Wheat

Also, shoutout to almost anything by Unibroue - They’re from Montreal, but hey that’s not Europe.

No, the helicopter was, read the headline again

It was just a nibble!

Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these

I don’t know a lot of card games, but I thought the row system was neat in Gwent (i.e. frontline, middle, backline).

I also like the aura enchantments in Magic: The Gathering. They tend to change up the battlefield in interesting ways.

This is how I feel a lot of times. But I did at least have the sense to go for Endeavour rather than straight to Arch (and prior to that, Manjaro and Ubuntu).

No; I died.

A: None; it was Devon.

Ohh. I use a separate phone for work so I didn’t notice that. Yeah search bar would’ve been a better spot for sure.

Um, the profile icon is just slightly to the left now. Or did you mean something else?

Microsoft: Sees that you like this feature

Next year: “Attachment reminders are available to O365 Professional Plus subscribers. Upgrade now?”

When we’re talking about molecules, millions is usually an extreme understatement. PPB (parts per billion) is a common measure for contaminants.

But PPB is still an enormous quantity. Remember Avogadro’s number (used to relate count to grams) is on the 10^23 scale (aka thousands of billions of trillions). Even 999 million is a drop in the ocean there.

EDIT: The journal abstract lists the leached nanoparticles as 10^9 (billions) per mL, and the uptake by human-derived intestine cells as 100 micrograms/mL. So yeah this is coverage by a journalist who can’t math.

Yeah but the spelling ‘normally’ would have been updated to match English pronunciation. That’s what happens in most languages. As I understand there were two issues:

• Some dictionary writers (ca. late 1400s IIRC) wanted spellings that seemed fancier like French and Latin, which is why e.g. the silent B in debt was added ‘artificially’.
• The printing press was invented right in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift so old spellings got “locked in” even though spoken English continued to change significantly for a long time afterward.

English isn’t exactly innocent there. See knight, plumber, mnemonic, pterodactyl.