Luckily my installation was free

That’s like saying US Dollars are Unlimited because you can always buy Zimbabwe Dollars…

This is about network unlocking and not bootloader unlocking

Remember the dozens of times a Windows 10 update could potentially wipe your personal data?

I think it’s fair if Mazda has to operate a server to enable it

Do they? Why can’t the 2 devices communicate directly?

Contrast based af can be kind of okay if it works. I have an old Sony camera with contrast af and it’s fast enough depending on the lens. Of course in dark or low contrast scenario’s it sucks and it can’t detect which way it has to focus, so it likes to hunt for focus if it can’t find any

Probably Ctrl + shift + win + alt + C, or something like that. The same modifiers + first letter of the program work for other services like word and linkedin

wouldn’t call them up to date

they are a little newer

Huh

you haven’t lost anything

Apart from all future customers that will now choose another service

Man I really hate how they stripped your permissions to access the internal and external storage, files can no longer access data from other apps even if you say allow all file access. Also if your phone supports SD cards, you might notice that you don’t have write access to it for some reason on later versions of android. (I really struggled with this with my Galaxy S9 on Lineage), had to use apps that remounted my SD card and what not

By the fact that they require an account to contact them, I’m going to assume they keep your data unless explicitly asked to delete it

OpenAI like other AI companies keep their data sources confidential.

“We trained on absolutely everything, but we won’t tell them that because it will get us in a lot of trouble”

Because that name already exists

ClosedAI just doesn’t sound as friendly

I didn’t expect anything else than silly pointless fun, after all it’s a squirrel with a gun.

Sometimes I love a short game that doesn’t take itself seriously, thanks for the info!

Is squirrel with a gun any good?

And there are exceptions based on capacity and how long you guarantee the battery capacity will be good for. IIRC, if it still has 70% capacity by 3 years time, it doesn’t have to be replaceable at all.

I do not remember reading that, the only exception I remember is for devices that are intended to be used under water, which phones are definitely not

Yeah, GUIFormat can do that. Fat32 has its limitations, but I pretty much always use it as the stuff I use micro SD cards in, require it

For what its worth, my Sony Xperia 1 VI didn’t come with a lot of google apps and it was easy enough to get rid of those. Obviously play services and some other stuff remain, so it’s not a degoogled phone, but it’s alright. Sony asks for some analytics stuff, but that’s all very easy to deny.

Sony also makes it very easy to root, unlock and flash your phone, with an official guide on how to do that. It’s not as easy as installing graphene OS, but I’m sure somebody will built lineage or something for it at some point

Edit: Here are links to the official documentation, Sony makes it pretty easy to built and flash AOSP

https://developer.sony.com/open-source/aosp-on-xperia-open-devices/guides/aosp-build-instructions/build-aosp-android-14/

https://developer.sony.com/open-source/aosp-on-xperia-open-devices/get-started/unlock-bootloader/how-to-unlock-bootloader/

That’s still not free from Google’s control of the chromium web engine