[–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

maybe because it was to easy to upload to the googleplay store. Maybe there should be some kind of verification of the person uploading. How could this be accomplished?

Joking aside I don't think side loading should be encoumbered like this, but for the official app store it makes sense.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    i never got the need for file locking in the first place. if a program has a file open, it uusually has it in memory so changing the file is fine. If it is not in memory it should just read from the new file or ifts been deleted error out. Works fine in linux and enables a bunch of workflows which are not possible in windows. If i wantto delete a file let me, maybe show a warning that it could crash the program using it (and tell me the specific program, embarassing to ha e to gothrough a different toolto get suchbasic info).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    there are worms worse than google's.

    The problem is that android allows for manufacturers to install unremovable apps which contain said worms. If i cant trust the manufacturer i would prefer the poison i know (and know what to do with) over unnamed horrors.

    Of course my highest preference would be to buy hardware seperate from software and put linux on everything, but not everybody is capable of doing that for every device and time also comes at a price.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    hyperloop was very low air pressure subway tubes for high speed trains. Works for research tesring tracks impractical to infeasible for real world applications. But it apparently what killed high speed rail in california (because wait this will be better)

    The cars in tubes thing was a seperate stupid idea.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    fair enough. I just want to make the differentiation between unelected kings and unellected but appointed through processes that have some fundamental democratic legitimacy. Even if the point can be made that this legitimacy gets dilluted with each level of abstraction.

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