Because the Trump cult got emboldened after Trump won in 2016, and it quickly became clear that any Republican that wasn’t sufficiently “unggh, Daddy Trump, destroy me harder” would get primaried by someone that was. Kiss the ring or be excommunicated.

It’s hard to feel sympathetic for them about it though, the spent the previous 20+ years paying lip service to types of people who make up the Trump cult because they were convenient for winning elections. They just never expected those people would do anything besides vote in the most respectable business-friendly Republican. Leopards, faces, yadda yadda yadda.

Existing beta users, what say you? Have the latest betas been stable enough to install on my daily driver? Are there a lot of useful advantages over Android 13? If I’ve waited this long to install the beta, should I just stay on 13 until the official release?

For the users that upvoted/commented on this, I’d just like to note that it looks like an issue has been created and a fix is ready to get merged in.

I agree that those shouldn’t be patented - they’re ideas, not implementations. If you have a particular ingenious implementation for one-click shopping, go ahead and patent it. But don’t sue people if they come up with a different way to do the same thing - that just means your implementation wasn’t particularly novel.

So yes, there have been some bad software patents given out. That just means that the process for giving software patents needs to be reformed, not that we need to get rid of software patents.

From a certain point of view, everything is mathematics. It still takes time and effort to figure out the mathematics to make new things work. Patents guarantee that the people who figure out the math will be able to profit off of it before a whole bunch of copycats steal the work. That should apply to software too - assuming that people actually figured out the math and didn’t just patent some idea without an implementation.

I think patents make some sense for software, if you patent a particular algorithm you developed for doing something useful. An example I always use for a good software patent is Google’s original PageRank algorithm - it was a specific algorithm that provided significantly better search results than existing search algorithms. But that patent just covered one specific algorithm for ranking search results, not the idea of searching the web (which was around before Google). Patents that are given for an idea, not an implementation, are bad.

This article is unclear, but it sure makes it seem like this patent was given for the idea of sending video from one device to another, not a specific algorithm for doing so. So that would be a bad patent. But I don’t think it means we should get rid of software patents altogether.

From reading the app description:

Everything happens locally in the wifi network

Does this mean devices have to be on the same Wi-Fi network for this to work? This looks extremely interesting as someone that runs Linux on my home computer, and the vast majority of my transfers are between devices on my home WiFi network, but I’d just like to know if it works elsewhere.

I think the point is to make sure everyone else aware that Brexit failed, in case any other country starts thinking about copying it

Now go back and watch it again just to see how many details and clues your missed the first time.

Yeah, but moderating a massive platform would make infinite growth very difficult, and the shareholders demand infinite growth. Won’t someone think of the shareholders?

Is there a way to change the comment sorting in Voyager? On the desktop and in the old mobile app, I preferred the “Top” sorting for comments (it’s annoying that I can’t set this as a default, but I’m assuming that’ll get fixed in time). But when I go to Voyager, I can’t figure out how to change comments away from the default sort. Is it possible to change the comment sort order in Voyager? Is it in a menu I haven’t checked yet? Some button I thought did something else?

I feel like they were some of the leaders - they’ve been making their product worse while charging more to use it for years

Did you copy the recipe from the other site? Can you post it here? As an amateur cook, I like having quantities given. Should I just wing it?

Add on question: Are there any wireless Android Auto adapters that are good for switching between multiple phones? I looked into AAWireless for a car that both my wife and I drive, and switching phones depending on who is driving seems… complicated. Is it? Is there another adapter that makes switching easy?