What sucks is on the way down, between Trump’s tariff and preference for ICEs and foreign markets retaliating, he’ll take down the other US EV players. The ones run by what seems like genuinely nice people like Rivian and Lucid.

In the greater scheme of things it wouldn’t matter so much, but quite a shame.

We need more data, but ultra-marathons could be such events

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-49284389

It is a sort of empire - Immerwahr called it a Pointilist one

https://www.historynet.com/the-invisible-empire-why-some-americans-dont-count/

I mostly agree with the list, but given Spotify platforms Joe Rogan and pays artists less than Apple Music, for music streaming I went the other way.

Looking forward to Bandwagon catching on, and help recording artists cut the middle men out

Don’t forget Tesla lying about many things and saying it’s “free speech” to lie to customers, and being very obstructionist when releasing safety data

I tried Proton years ago and didn’t find it that useful (I can manage my own PGP keys, thank you).

Started switching to Fastmail seriously this month, after having had mail delivery problems with mailbox.org because of DNSSEC issues (they use a deprecated SHA1 signature still) - I have used migadu.com for a different domain for a few years as well but the webmail is a bit sluggish and the spam filter too aggressive, I might end up consolidating on Fastmail for now

Sure it’s Five Eyes so a slight regression from mailbox and migadu, but if it works well enough I might be able to get my family to move off of Gmail so a net win

Ah. Well, preview and beta are both oh Play Store. Preview is no longer updated now that the new core is deemed stable enough for beta (though some people were upset when initially it didn’t have any add ons)

Haven’t checked if they’re on the ffox fdroid repo though

yeah, I plan to use a PinePhone as my secondary device and start helping port apps to it, but will probably use either Android or iOS for some time.

Alas, my next phone might be an iPhone – though I’ll try to steer clear from Apple services.

I currently use a Pixel as my daily driver, but I want to help contribute to OpenStreetMap and there’s no OSM navigation app with Android Auto support, whereas MAPS.ME is open source, uses OSM and supports CarPlay. I wonder if it’s technically more difficult to get Android Auto support or it’s Google ironically abusing their gatekeeper role here (normally Apple is the one accused of doing that with the App Store).

You probably want Firefox Beta now instead of Preview. There are more whitelisted add-ons now; I also have Privacy Badger enabled and am tempted to also enable Decentraleyes (last time I tried it on desktop it broke some sites).