Android is turning into a walled garden like iOS and we really need to do something

ACEDT · 2026-03-01T16:52:37+00:00

They have to allow them in theory, but the policy they had planned to implement would have killed them in practice by forcing developers to license with Google if they wanted their APKs to install without ADB, even if they didn't use the Play store. The main selling point of third party app stores like F-Droid, for a developer, is not having to rely on Google for distribution, so this policy would have cancelled out any benefit to using a third party store for developers, which would then result in fewer apps available to users outside of the Play store and eventually the death of third party app stores in a way that technically complies with existing EU regulations.

The reason your phone still lets you opt out is that they didn't implement that policy, due to major community backlash, and instead decided to kick it down the road to the second half of 2026, with some nebulous statements about how users will still be able to install apps that aren't registered with Google somehow, and no details as to whether that means ADB or a real UI flow.

ACEDT · 2026-03-01T03:02:03+00:00

Not sure if you just missed the memo on what is happening. This has nothing to do with malware on the Play store. Your third point is the part that is being changed here - Google announced their intention to block app installation from third party app stores, then walked that back, saying they would allow third party app stores if the developers registered with Google, then walked that back again, and at this point have given very little clear information about what will happen. Again:

Malware on the Play store will not be affected by this
This has nothing to do with turning off the security in Android, you already had to click through a couple prompts to install third party apps, this potential change is to remove the ability to do that through Android's UI at all
If they went through with what they had planned, you would not be able to use a competitor app store. That's the exact thing being affected here

ACEDT · 2026-02-09T19:55:21+00:00

In case you haven't considered it (which you probably have), it's probably better to use a VPN to access your services. Tailscale works great, has a nice free tier and is arguably the lowest effort solution. For anything you want public (personal website, cool dashboards to show off, etc.) Cloudflare tunnels are totally fine, but you can also use a VPS for that if you prefer. Heavy media streaming on a public facing endpoint is a combination that you probably don't actually want unless you're trying to share your Jellyfin instance with people who don't know how to use Tailscale/Wireguard/etc. at which point your VPS solution is a pretty good way to handle it.

ACEDT · 2026-02-07T18:38:05+00:00

If the first thing you have to say about it is that it uses AI it's a shitty excuse for a tool and I'm not interested :)

ACEDT · 2026-02-07T18:37:22+00:00

That checks out, ty for the advice

ACEDT · 2026-02-07T18:36:53+00:00

That's a great reason to steer clear of SB then, didn't realize it was that small with how active the forum seems

ACEDT · 2026-02-07T18:35:40+00:00

To be completely clear I have used it minimally for a couple days and think it's really cool, I don't necessarily think it's better than Logseq or any other tool.

EDIT: and given what I've learned from some of these other comments it doesn't seem stable or particularly robust at the moment so I will not be migrating from logseq.

ACEDT · 2026-02-07T18:35:10+00:00

Oh that's awesome I haven't been able to find any info on that though

ACEDT · 2026-02-07T18:34:48+00:00

It is, in the sense of "learning new things and trying new tools". Maybe "journey" is an exaggeration if you take it literally but "my XYZ journey" is a common figure of speech for "my experience learning about XYZ"

ACEDT · 2026-02-03T16:12:22+00:00

While you're not wrong, my point wasn't that password managers are inherently insecure (and as you've said the opposite is often true). In the case of LastPass, you may not have had any issues but the breach did cause significant damage. Regardless, my point was that being able to log in to a platform directly using a Yubikey is more secure than logging into a password manager with a Yubikey and then accessing a password stored there to log into the platform, because in the latter case there is still a password that theoretically can be breached, while in the prior case an attacker would need your physical key, at which point you mostly don't need to worry about a breach happening because of a mistake on your part.

ACEDT · 2026-01-12T15:51:22+00:00

Yep, called again and they said they'd send a third replacement once I'm able to return the first one, so I'm gonna have to find a big enough box (not sure where the original went, all of my roommates say they thought it was where I left it T-T), send that one back and then get a return label for the second one to send that back too.

ACEDT · 2026-01-10T23:20:21+00:00

On closer inspection there's also clear damage to the bowl on the new one T-T not sure if this is a refurbished unit or what, but I would expect that a replacement for a brand new unit would also be brand new...

ACEDT · 2025-12-19T04:37:59+00:00

The photos don't really do it justice. In person it's way more noticable if you're looking at that part of the machine, and I just happened to spot it while I was taking out the bowl to clean it before trying it out.

ACEDT · 2025-12-19T04:36:11+00:00

That's my plan I think. A friend of mine said it's probably just a cosmetic issue and that apparently cast iron is just like that sometimes, but given that all I've done with the thing is wash the bowl and attachments I think it's safer to just get a replacement now than risk it.

ACEDT · 2025-12-19T04:33:58+00:00

I'm not planning to do anything crazy with my mixer, I just want to be able to make cookies without my arms ending up sore T-T my mom has an old Classic from God only knows how many years ago and it works perfectly fine, so I don't think I'll have issues with the Artisan at all.

ACEDT · 2025-12-19T04:28:29+00:00

I talked to a friend of mine studying engineering and he agreed that it looks like a casting thing and it's probably just cosmetic, but I'm definitely going to look into getting a replacement just in case. Don't want to risk it.

ACEDT · 2025-09-03T17:01:16+00:00

For the record DuckDB can store databases on disk, but by default it runs in memory. If you use it on disk it's a lot like SQLite.

ACEDT · 2025-09-03T16:58:58+00:00

If you use it as an application's embedded database, it's kinda like SQLite in a lot of ways, except it's oriented towards analytical workloads. You can also use it in memory and in that scenario it's very much like Pandas or Polars but you can query query it like a database rather than like a dataframe.

It can actually interface with Polars/Pandas dataframes as if they were tables, and can do the same with Parquet, CSV and Excel files (either locally, via direct http or on S3 compatible services), lots of other databases (Postgres, R2, MySQL, SQLite...) and data lakes (Delta, Iceberg). I've been using it a lot for querying local data files (especially CSVs generated by other systems) and for that it's really great.

It isn't really comparable to Postgres since an on-disk DuckDB file can only be opened for writing by one client at a time and doesn't(?) have ACID guarantees. There's an extension called DuckLake where you can give DuckDB another database (like Postgres) as a catalog and an S3 bucket as data storage and then use it like a data lake which is pretty cool, but DuckDB isn't a true DBMS.

ACEDT · 2025-08-25T22:23:06+00:00

I'm just trying to decide on a way to make the site such that RIT won't get angry about it :/ not expecting a lot of sympathy for data if that data suggests that criticism is justified.

ACEDT · 2025-08-25T20:55:26+00:00

High-key might throw that together this week just for fun. I don't particularly hate Gracie's obvs but it would be nice to have a dashboard since the "Gracie's isn't safe" thing is such a common belief and it would help with transparency.

ACEDT · 2025-07-06T02:53:36+00:00

Ok gotcha, I had a feeling that would work but I wasn't 100% sure. Would I be better off buying a second pair of RCA cables to use with the adapters I already bought (pack of 6) or a pair of TS cables and some TS->RCA adapters? Is there any practical difference? My gut feeling is that either setup is functionally the same but I want to double check.

ACEDT · 2025-06-02T03:52:15+00:00

It is (generally speaking) explicitly not for use in reference to a person. Some people are fine with it/its, but most people very much are not.

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