Is there a way to block access to and from all of Google's servers?
I’d like to do this mainly as an experiment. To see how well the web works without anything served by or data sent to Google. Is there a list of IP ranges I can just block in my hosts file? A Firefox extension? A script?
What is the average temperature of earth?
Sounds like a stupidly easy question to find out with a quick internet search, but it’s not. I don’t want to know the average surface temperature, or the average ocean surface water temperature, or read another article about climate change. But that’s all I found in the past hour. I’d like to know the average temperature of all molecules that comprise earth, or a best guess scientific estimate.
What is the average temperature of earth?
Sounds like a stupidly easy question to find out with a quick internet search, but it’s not. I don’t want to know the average surface temperature, or the average ocean surface water temperature, or read another article about climate change. But that’s all I found in the past hour. I’d like to know the average temperature of all molecules that comprise earth, or a best guess scientific estimate.
History is a shit-shoe
This shitpost will conclusively show how the Erfurt Latrine Disaster [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster] lead to the George W. Bush Shoeing Incident [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_incident]. May you drown in a Wikipedia hole like a noble drowning in shit. The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred on 26 July 1184, when Henry VI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor], King of Germany, held an assembly in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. The combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor to collapse, and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below, where about 60 drowned in liquid excrement. Heinrich VI. who presided over the assembly of nobles in Erfurt had his belief in god’s favor shaken to its core by all the lords he invited literally drowning in shit inside a church. He later became Holy Roman Emperor after his predecessor Frederik Barbarossa [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Barbarossa] had drowned in shallow water while on crusade, shortly before reaching Jerusalem - another proof that god wasn’t on the Holy Roman Empire’s side. His lack of faith, on which his own power as god-appointed Emperor was founded, was noticed by everyone around him. So the lords and the church denied his attempt to instate a hereditary monarchy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbreichsplan] and removed themselves from his court, putting them in a position where they could deny or demand payment for following his commands. Driven by a deep longing to prove he was still in god’s grace, and to regain absolute power, he believed that his role on earth was to reunite the Eastern and Western church and become the prophecized “Emperor of Peace” who would bring about the end times. To this end, he started campaigning and preparing for another Crusade that would not only reconquer Jerusalem, but also the Byzantine Empire. His death from Malaria while besieging Messina as staging ground for his crusade put an end to those plans for now, but not to the ideas behind the crusade he had popularized. When the Fourth Crusade [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Crusade] was launched just 5 years later, the most experienced crusading knights would have been veterans of his misguided campaign, and when it became clear that they couldn’t pay for the passage to the Holy Land, they would have been the ones to propose to conquer the Byzantine Empire instead as another valid target, just as their former Emperor had proposed. As we all know, the following Sack of Constantinople [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople] destroyed the will of the church and the Christian states to unite and put any real effort into another crusade from that point on. The next German Emperor Frederik II. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor] didn’t even participate in the Fifth crusade and delayed participation in the Sixth for so long he got excommunicated. The following crusades were called by individual kings, not the pope in the name of all Christendom, and the time of a unified Christendom threatening to conquer the Holy Land were over. The Muslim rule over the middle east was secure for the coming centuries, the Byzantine Empire never recovered, and the Ottoman Empire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire] rose into the power vacuum and eventually conquered it. Which leads us to Baghdad [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad]. The center of Islamic culture during its heyday and for centuries after, a shining beacon of civilization more developed than the attacking Crusader states. You have to understand what such a history does to the self-image of the inhabitants. And at the crossroads between Europe, Africa and Asia, it was easy to see the region as the center of the world. Due to the aforementioned rise of the Ottoman Empire and its incorporation of today’s Iraq [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq], the land became part of one of the greatest Empires in history. Until after a period of declining importance and influence, the British conquered the Ottoman Empire as well as Baghdad and drew their own borders in the sand, the US-lead League of Nations [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations] sanctioned the new borders imposed on the people, and called the cobbled-together country “Iraq”, an entity with no regard for its history or former glory, and under western rule for the first time in a millennium. It’s a logical conclusion that Iraq would eventually unite with their neighbors and throw off the British rule, but also that without historic precedent (due to being part of a Muslim empire for so long), they wouldn’t have the experience to establish a stable democracy. One coup d’etat followed another, which always pushes the most ruthless leaders to power. And that was the Baath Party [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27athist_Iraq]. They promised freedom and a new, pan-Arabic union that would end western rule, which the pan-Islamic unions of the past had failed at. But also within the party, the most ruthless used the chaos to rise to power, and Saddam Hussein [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#Rise_to_power] solidified his position by first killing those Baathists that didn’t support him, then thousands of his own citizens, and then starting a war, which threatened US influence in the region enough to eventually topple him - in a war that created so much anger and suffering that one man, Muntadhar al-Zaidi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_incident], saw no other way to vent his anger than to throw his shoes at the leader of the western world. to be published in the Annals [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales._Histoire,_Sciences_Sociales], awaiting þeer review.
Where do you find info about Android customization?
Whenever I search for questions I have about Android system apps, ADB, flashing, etc. I noticed all the search results are really scammy-looking websites with instructions that sound like they were translated from Chinese by an AI. It doesn’t make a difference if I use Google, Duckduckgo or Bing. Also, there seems to be hardly any official documentation for Android available. Even finding out what the preinstalled system apps even do, what exactly is needed for push messages to work, or what the different permissions do is impossible for me. I know of xdaforums.com [http://xdaforums.com] but when I look there I usually end up in a thread with 30+ pages full of users asking questions that get no helpful answer. How come there is so little good information on Android? Or am I looking in the wrong places?
Things I want to do
I want to port Lineageos to a device that isn't yet supported (Unihertz Atom). How do I even start?
So, I realize this is a big undertaking, I will have to learn Android development, and will probably fail at some point. But I’m looking for a project, and have spare time and a spare phone that has no custom ROM support, yet. I would like to build LineageOS for it, or get frustrated trying. It’s a Unihertz Atom. The Atom L and XL already have unofficial builds available, but this one doesn’t. Is there an overview on how to get started anywhere? On the LineageOS website, it says “The LineageOS wiki provides instructions based on the assumption that your device has got its device tree/kernel under the LineageOS GitHub organization”. That’s not the case, but I also couldn’t find many devices that do have an unofficial build available (including the Atom L and XL). So what’s the first step here?
Today, we announce the closure of Fntastic studio. Unfortunately, The Day Before has failed financially, and we lack the funds to continue. All income received is being used to pay off debts to our partners.
We invested all our efforts, resources, and man-hours into the development of The Day Before, which was our first huge game. We really wanted to release new patches to reveal the full potential of the game, but unfortunately, we don’t have the funding to continue the work.
It’s important to note that we didn’t take any money from the public during the development of The Day Before; there were no pre-orders or crowdfunding campaigns. We worked tirelessly for five years, pouring our blood, sweat, and tears into the game.
At the moment, the future of The Day Before and Propnight is unknown, but the servers will remain operational.
We apologize if we didn’t meet your expectations. We did everything within our power, but unfortunately, we miscalculated our capabilities. Creating games is an incredibly challenging endeavor.
We’re grateful to everyone who supported us during these difficult years. It’s been a fantastic journey over the past eight years:
2015: Opening of the studio
2017: Release of The Wild Eight
2018: Release of Dead Dozen
2018: Release of Radiant One 2021: Release of Propnight
2023: Release of The Day Before
"The Day Before" makers Fntastic are shutting down.
