Why would Biden do this to us?!

No, they’re absolutely not. Check out tricky store and play integrity fork to see how we’re faking a trusted environment on custom and rooted roms. You can pass new basic+device integrity (equivalent to old strong) with a valid unrevoked keybox on A13+ and strong on <=A12.

It’s a new stage in the arms race for sure but it’s still possible to bypass until all of the keys used to sign keyboxes are revoked.

Edit: the device fingerprint is just as important as the keybox too, either can cause you to fail integrity checks. It’s way more annoying to manage than the legacy “just flash PIF” bypass ever was.

Stares at rooted A13+ phone passing 2/3 new integrity checks

It’s possible, but it’s annoying.

on devices running Android 13 or later.

Sounds easy then: stay on the latest Lineage that does not incorporate A13.

This isn’t viable. You can’t run an older android version than a device ships with and eventually older hardware will become obsolete enough that it won’t be able to connect to current gen mobile networks.

For now, sure, you can run android 12 on an older device and bypass integrity easily, but sooner or later that won’t be viable.

I mean, the melting pot never meant a blend of races or cultures. It meant immigrants were melted down and out came an Americanized person who fit in with the existing culture. So the application in China is almost exactly spot on, only you’re assimilating into Han Chinese culture in this case. Same shit, different continent.

I don’t see any arugula in the photo, it has a really distinct leaf outline and I’m not seeing it

Chatgpt and other LLMs are fantastic technical task assistants but, and this is a big but, you need to treat their work the same way you’d treat work from a new intern. Verify the output before you trust it.

I asked Google’s AI if I could use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster and it rightfully told me no, then it suggested using gasoline to make a spicy spaghetti sauce

Gee it sure is good we have well funded competent national cybersecurity folks and didn’t lay a bunch of them off

Always remember to say please and thank you

I propose the process be similar to a driving license. Several weeks of classroom urinal use education plus simulator time followed by 10h or so of practical urinal use accompanied by an accredited urinal use instructor, and finally six months or 100h of urinal use accompanied by a licensed urinal user over the age of 18. Then you can take your urinal use written exam and practical test for your license.

I just had my morning coffee and I need to head to the bathroom to create some content

Try searching for authors who describe their work as “Speculative fiction” - that’s the way most of them don’t admit to writing low-brow schlock like sci-fi.

Also near future sci-fi tends to be a bit lighter on the “magical machine” plot tropes. Climate fiction might be worth looking into too, most of the near future books exploring possible global warming consequences aren’t all hopped up on magical technological advances.

Edit: also check out various books described as literary speculative fiction. Authors who want the intellectual cred of being a literary writer tend to land in the speculative fiction genre more often than not.

Mold, desperation and sadness

Friendships are formed via proximity and common interests. Go places with other people who enjoy the same hobbies and make an effort to get to know some of them.

If it makes you feel better I haven’t met a grad student in the last 20y who wasn’t on some psychiatric medication. Basically everyone I knew in school was on antidepressants at the very least and the majority of undergrads were taking stimulants.

Are you depressed?

Yes.

Do you know anyone who’s not depressed?

The only happy people I know are wealthy and/or have wealthy parents (usually both, I’ll call wealthy a NAV >$10M) and have never needed to struggle.

His more recent series starting with Delta V would be excellent too. Even Kill Decision would make a great techno-thriller series.