And now, even when your WiFi is off they still turn it on to "help with location tracking." And they're talking about taking away the ability to turn Bluetooth off.

.....it's a Futurama reference

They should just harvest a huge block of ice from a comet and drop it in the ocean.

Same, been using Smart Launcher since I heard they were getting bought. No lie, I miss Nova's customizability, and some of Smart Launcher's quirks annoy me; but I vastly prefer it to being data harvested. Smart Launcher is good enough for me, and leaps and bounds better than ANYTHING else I tried.

We have a law in Texas that an Atheist can't hold office. Really stupid, but it would have to be challenged to get rid of it.

edit: went and looked it up

Article 1, Section 4 of the Texas Constitution states, "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall anyone be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being."

This is awesome! Is there a practical use case? Or was this just a fun learning project?

Doubtful. More likely somebody took the sight and put it up there for the pic.

Not sure about the rest of those, but Obsidian isn't OS either.

That's who he is!? I just followed him because I liked his posts lol.

All I'm hearing is that we might be able to hack these devices and put full Linux on them.

Has there been a problem with bad actors on this server yet? I certainly haven't noticed any.

I do think that the open sign up could become a problem in regard to bots. That being said, they could just as easily open their own instance.