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Google is looking to make sure you can't do these things anymore btw

For those who didn't know, Google will soon push a nonconsentual update to ALL Android devices (likely including Samsung phones as well) that requires all app developers to:

pay a fee to Google

agree to Google's ToS

list all current and future app identifiers

provide evidence of a private signing key

submit a government ID to Google

The dangers of this include:

The destruction of all alternative app stores, including F-Droid

No privacy for developers and higher barrier to entry for development

Giving Google total control over what software you can install on YOUR device.

All internal betas, first apps, privacy tools, etc. will go through Google's systems.

Google will likely comply with all government requests for app removals.

The sole bypass can be removed at any time by Google with no OS updates.

Censorship, plain and simple.

Removal of the freedom that caused people to use Android in the first place.

So what can I do?

First, reblog this post. Tag at will.

Second, go to https://keepandroidopen.org/ and follow their instructions to voice your concerns.

Third, spread the word and build up opposition. Even if they lock it down, keep fighting.

Fourth, NEVER COMPLY. Don't verify, avoid the update if possible, and generally make implementation hell for Google.

I know I normally don't say this, but it's important

SIGN HERE PLS

Yep, this sounds kinda like a Scam, but you can search it, it's a real thing. I'm just trying to help.

If you are an Android user you need to know that if you have non-registered apks (Pirated Apps) it'll be harder to use them. This is because in 80 days, if an app doesn't have a paid permission and some information of the creator, then the app will not be capable to be installed on the device.

This is terrible for software like F-Droid, Emulators, Ad-free music service, pirated games, and a lot of apps!

You can see more at https://keepandroidopen.org/es/

All of this situation is crazy, and because of that:

Like this isn't even like cutting off two feet like regular long hair, she spent her whole life having to be aware of where her hair was at all times so that she didn't step on it, so that she didn't tie it into a knot she didn't mean, so she didn't squash pascal, or get it caught, or drop it on whatever she's working with. And then it's just gone.

If you look at her movements while she has her hair, she will pull it around herself when she is feeling shy or uncertain, push it behind her like a cape when she wants better freedom of movement, worry it with her hands. All these coping mechanisms and ways of behaving that she has developed because of her long hair. Even Mother Gothel shows affection through Rapunzel's hair. And then one day it's just gone.

Do you think she still dreams that she has long hair? Do you think she still describes herself as blonde? Do you think she goes to brush her hair out of her face and realizes it's not over her shoulders? Do you think she ever tries to climb somewhere high and realize she can't anymore? Where does she go when she seeks comfort? What does she do when she's scared? Is the woman in the mirror a stranger?

have a gator gal yes

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

An early exploration of the themes Hokusai would keep coming back to is Spring in Enoshima, done in 1793 when he was 33. The wave is small and there are no boats, but Mt Fuji is clear in the background, and Enoshima is in Kanagawa, so we are clearly beginning to work towards something here.

A second pass, eleven years later in 1803 when he was 44. The title of this one begins to get more familiar: The View of Honmoku Off Kanazawa. It has a towering wave over a smaller boat, but Mt Fuji is not present, and the boat is considerably larger and has a sail. But the feeling of danger in the wave and the smallness of the boat are here, and of course the general composition is definitely recognizable.

This is A View Of Express Delivery Boats, done in 1805, merely two years later at age 46. Here we find the wave and the boats almost exactly as we'll find them in The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, though Mt Fuji isn't present, and the location is uncertain. And it's a good picture! The wave is threatening, the boats are small -- but the feeling of "ocean" isn't really there yet, is it? It's unlikely this picture would have become a classic for the ages. But that's okay, there's still time.

And here we have it, a full 26 years later, done by Hokusai in 1831 at the age of 72. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, one of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world. The boats are there, the mountain is there, the wave is there, and the FEELING is there. He did it! He reached the apex of his ongoing motif and theme!

Or did he? Because the whole point of a motif is not that you're striving to get to the perfect version of it, the one idealized image you carried in your head all along, and when it is done, you are also done. Hokusai is on record at the age of 73 saying he'd only just begun to feel like he was learning how to draw things properly, and that "if I keep up my efforts, I will have even a better understanding when I was 80 and by 90 will have penetrated to the heart of things. At 100, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live decades beyond that, everything I paint — dot and line — will be alive." He had drawn The Great Wave, but he didn't believe he was finished -- he thought that he was still just beginning to get started.

And he wasn't finished with his ocean motif, either. Please check out his Mt Fuji At Sea, done in 1834 at the age of 75.

#my old phone looks like this on my shelf lmao #im too scared to touch it to throw it away #idk what trash this even goes into when its at this point

The pillow-shaped object here used to be the phone’s battery. It’s not a battery anymore. Now it’s a balloon full of corrosive, pyrophoric chemicals and hydrogen gas and it’s one puncture away from burning your house down. I am 100% serious. You should be scared to touch it.

But you gotta touch it, because you gotta get it out of your house before the pressure builds up to the point where the balloon pops. This isn’t going to happen soon – there is no need to panic – but it will happen eventually.

And, indeed, it doesn’t go in the ordinary trash. You put this in the ordinary trash and you’re gonna set the garbage truck on fire. Don’t do that to the garbage collectors, their job is hard enough already.

The first thing you need to do is get a fireproof container. The most common household item that qualifies as a fireproof container is a cast-iron cookpot with a cast-iron lid – often sold as a “Dutch oven.” Any other cooking container that’s unreactive, has a very high melting point, and has a lid made of the same materials will also work: enameled or stainless steel, Pyrex with glass lid, etc.

However: Do not use a pot with a PTFE-based non-stick coating. If the battery does explode, the fire will probably be hot enough to degrade a PTFE coating, producing toxic smoke. (Not that you should breathe the smoke from the battery fire either, but PTFE breakdown products are worse.) Do not use a pot made of aluminium or copper. The fire might even get hot enough to melt those.

Whatever container you use, you might have to throw away along with the phone, so don’t use your good Dutch oven for this. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap one.

Once you have the fireproof container:

Gently pick up the phone and put it in the fireproof container. If possible, gently tape the phone to the bottom of the container to prevent it from bouncing around. Don’t put any padding in there, that’ll just make a fire worse if it does happen. Put the lid on and tape it shut.

Put a label on the container, something like “DEFECTIVE LI-ION BATTERY – FIRE HAZARD”.

It is now reasonably safe to move the container around. However, if the battery does explode, the container is very likely to leak smoke and get hot, so keep it in a well-ventilated area and away from things that will be damaged by heat. Don’t leave it exposed to the weather, either.

You need to find either a hazardous waste disposal site, or an e-waste recycler that will accept defective Li-ion batteries. I can’t help with that because I have no idea where you live.

However, your local fire department, if you have one, will probably be happy to help. Call their non-emergency number. Nothing is on fire yet, so this isn’t an emergency, but things that can easily start a fire are still within the fire department’s responsibilities. Tell them you have a phone with a bulging lithium-ion battery, you put it in a fireproof container, and you want to know how to dispose of it safely.

If the fire department tries to tell you this isn’t dangerous or it’s okay to throw it out in the regular trash (with or without fireproof container), hang up on them and write a cranky letter to your local government representatives, then keep looking for a proper disposal site.

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)