Hopefully you’re not working for NASA.

Just wait until they have to deal with places that don’t use full hours to adjust the time.

Whine all you want, doesn’t mean I have to listen to it - especially if you’re not going to listen to me.

Amazon app store actually was just killed for non-Amazon devices a couple months ago.

I wasn’t speaking about awareness of the existence of tracking. I meant how to safely disable it.

My current vehicle is just about 20 years old, so I’ve never had one connected to the net before. I’m dreading the day this thing finally dies, and I have to find one that doesn’t do that, or figure out how to kill the connection without affecting functionality.

I don’t use the Pay Store version, so I don’t know what you’re running into there. May not matter though, as I remembered after commenting that you have to have “Wireless Debugging” enabled, which requires the hidden-by-default “Developer Options” to be enabled - something I’ll bet the Parental Controls disallows anyway.

Sorry.

I never.

Install Shizuku to give the apps of your choice elevated rights. I use Hail from F-Droid, but it looks like this is a similar app on Play that’s used via Shizuku to “freeze” apps that you can’t remove. It keeps them from running and hides them from your app drawer.

OP said they can’t install from anywhere but the Play Store.

But he’s using the rulebook from checkers, which is why he’s so obsessed with being “kinged.”

There needs to be a massive FYI campaign to inform the average citizen of how to do that.

I think the practice really took off with the arrival of AI & people not wanting their stuff harvested for training it. My personal feeling might be considered rather defeatist, but I don’t see the point in doing that because they’re going to feed whatever they can get their hands on to the AI beast, and so I’d rather have at least some miniscule influence over what it regurgitates to others.

Now, if we can just get the robber barons and their wholely-owned politicians out of the way of progress…

So, what more proof do you need that I’m not one of those fans who live for the show? There was only one show that ever got me close to that, and it wasn’t anything we’ve mentioned here.

As the other person noted, I was combining references. I’m not the type to have an encyclopedic knowledge of quotes from shows I like, as I tend to be a more casual type of fan. The ST:TOS quote was just stuck in my head from childhood & I made up most of the rest (I think).

“Calculon, save us from the ugly walking bags of mostly water who keep pushing our buttons!”

President Messiah

As Tom Petty said, however, “the waiting is the hardest part.”

No, see - Trump loves these people because they’re even more full of foolish pride than him since they’ll keep supporting him no matter how much he shits all over them.

You gotta pity any guy who winds up working for George Jefferson.