This seems like it could be a fun project. Mind making a post about the build sometime?

Obfuscation only makes the effort of decompilation take a bit longer - fundamentally, they are going to be executing the bytecode on your device, and that cannot be hidden from you.

I’m speaking from experience here - I’ve decompiled multiple APKs before, all containing bytecode that has been obfuscated by ProGuard. It’s a bit harder than reading source code, but with some practice it’s always possible to figure out what’s going on in the end.

Feel free to decompile them - it’s all there in the APK, you don’t have to live in doubt.

I got the joke! Just thought it would be funnier to reply stone-faced.

Mentioning Slutstation was very much intentional on that note as well, given the notoriety of that particular word on the larger internet.

For the Stockholm transit network, any of the ends of these lines would qualify as a Slutstation, and sometimes others when the trains don’t cover the full distance of the line:

Context: Slut is the Swedish word for End/Finished/Over. See also the Swedish word for End Station, the compound word Slutstation (Station being the same in both Swedish and English, just pronounced differently).

32% coal vs 39% renewables, with natural gas making up the majority of the remainder - https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=CO#tabs-4

What a terrible take.

First off, unironically yes on account of higher efficiency in electric engines over combustion engines.

Second, what grids still run on 100% coal? And why would they keep doing that long-term, given that coal is just shit on its own merits?

IMEI can’t be read by apps since quite a few versions of Android ago (10, to be specific)

Google is not about to sell this data to anyone, the data is the money maker. They sell ads that are targeted based on the data - if they sell the data, they automatically lose their edge.

Well, you don’t necessarily need to deal with the laundry the second the machine is ready - if you merely set the alarm to be the approximate maximum time, you’re probably going to be fine with the laundry spending half an hour or so sitting wet in the machine.

If the alarm is easy to dismiss, then perhaps a reminder app could be of use. I frequently use Google Tasks with a time for the tasks to cope with everyday life, which sends a notification at the specified time.

An alarm could likely help you accomplish the same thing without the wifi-connected washing machine.

Whatever works for you works for you, though.

Looks like they report ARPU on a quarterly basis, yes.

Meta makes their ARPU readily available to the public, so you really don’t have to guess in this regard: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average-revenue-per-user-by-region/

Last quarter posted there, it was $19.04 for European users, or €17.84 with today’s exchange rate.

Wow, that’s wild that I’ve managed to miss that.

Was it possible to run it sans-camera permission back then as well?

Thanks for letting me know about it, anyhow.

That must be a pretty new API, right?

What a robot vacuum affords you is zero-effort cleaning, meaning that you can practically just have it run every day. Which I do. Our home was far dustier before, when vacuuming was an effortful activity.