Considering that Korean is an SOV language it would've been interesting to see that factor into the design of this programming language.

I wouldn't call Android user hostile. What makes most Android phones user hostile is Google Play Services.

I can call Android user hostile. Most Banks and gov apps require play services nowadays, and Google is about to ban app installation outside of their store. Cherry on top, the play store is mostly adware junk. My parents phones are full of adware, bloatware, notification spam, it's almost worse than windows 11.

In your earlier comment you said that deGoogled Android alternatives are what's "slowing us down from leaving Android entirely", but that is not consistent with saying that most banks and government apps require play services.

If these apps cannot run on deGoogled Android, then deGoogled Android cannot be slowing us down from leaving Android because using deGoogled alternatives is as inconvenient for banking and government services as using a non-Android alternative would be.

It's not entirely a contradiction. De-Googled Android alternatives can give a perception of choice and also a perception to Banks that they support "everyone" at the same time. "We have both flavors, Vanilla (iOS) and Chocolate [Android]; you claim to want Chocolate (Android), what more do you want?"

Absolutely the current duopoly market is going to make any third-party alternative harder, but de-Googled Android seems to be a worst case because "Why not just install Google Play Services?" remains too valid a question and has too many confusing answers for both non-technical users and the business people at application providers (banks and whatnot). They will continue to have a hard time trying to figure out why you keep asking for a harder work effort for Chocolate Fudge when they already have Chocolate and why isn't that good enough.

It's easier to fix that confusion by asking for an entirely new brand/flavor, such as Strawberry, than continuing this increasingly hard war between Google's Chocolate and "free" (as in speech, but certainly not free of confusion) Chocolate Fudge.

There are tweaks to enable banking apps on deGoogled Android, but it's an exhausting cat and mouse game. Most of my friends gave up after years of fighting, and now they are back on Google Android because there is no alternative.

But thats not "Androids" fault, but the banking app / google play services. Switching to another mobile linux distro would change nothing.

so it's the play services. /e/OS has none of these problems except for apps that require original play services. so yeah, those don't work.

interesting tidbit: my bank offers their app from google and from huawei store. it doesn't work on /e/OS however. (but that might also be a /e/OS bug).

this means what we really need is a viable play store alternative. EU regulations could make that happen.

Which isn't easy considering they explode tin droplets in the machine. I think that's the point the other commenter wanted to make.

Think about the purity requirements that places on the tin.

Especially in autumn and winter.

The largest "but" is that they only look at electricity generation, not energy in general. There's a lot of heating with natural gas and of course most cars still have internal combustion engines which burn petrol or diesel.

Heating with gas is difficult to phase out since it's a major investment. It would require large-scale build out of remote heating.

Replacing IC engines is a whole different story, and it's not clear whether electric cars are a complete replacement yet.

But that only works if you already know the exact movement and you basically end up playing a film on the background screen walls. You can't change anything of this on set anymore. Using real-time rendering with Unreal or whatever gives you more flexibility in exchange for visual quality.

It's done that way because of pre-visualization or Previs, which has been the norm for over a decade now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxTNhNe6Fbc

Carbon tax is not about offsetting emissions, it's about disincentivising fossil fuels.

It is about disincentivizing fossil fuels because there are negative externalities which are not priced-in absent the carbon tax.

Announcements in English aren't done for every station. Usually only for central stations and airports.

> Airbus would have been a terrible idea: no one had built commercial airliners before, and only the US had the know-how.

That's just plain false, Airbus started as a cooperation between a lot of european aerospace companies, which had different a lot of know-how in different fields. For example Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale, now Airbus) was the French part of the Concorde, they also had the Caravelle.

Plus there was a significant contribution from England - VC10, deHavilland Comet, etc.

England also made what I consider to be the prettiest bomber ever made - the Handley-Page Victor

I would use "sei" instead of "lass" for "let" to be more in line with notation in mathematical proofs.