They can much more than you can imagine. I bet you have installed at least one 3-rd party app with Facebook SDK bundled in and profiling you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763949

My mother in law is constantly worried by some Google Ads in random apps that her phone is hacked...

Did she ever get anything side loaded like that? I have downloaded malware by mistake before. Not once were they allowed to proceed with installation. The only way I got anything side loaded was if I installed the first one (which is always Fdroid) deliberately via ADB after I enabled the developer mode.

No, her phone is clean. The point is GAds quite often are of questionable quality with bullshit scaring unaware people. But then as a solution G worry of grannies being tricked into installing APKs so they turn into gatekeepers of side loading completely for everyone - absurd.

The risk is Google could ban all F-Droid apps in one step, which will happen for sure.

China will push own Android OS forks into other markets even harder, if they do it fully open-source then bonus for them, users will force devs (banking apps etc) to get more support. A good example is one EU bank which publishes to Huawei's AppGallery to support non-Google certified Android phones.

Longer cycle does better job with microbes removal, especially with enzyme and activated oxygen bleach based detergents. In 30 min your machine just "rinses" the laundry to get a scent.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25207988/

The dryer kills the microbes.

Again, Europe. Different from the US. European dryers generally don't heat above 45-60C, which isn't very effective at killing microbes. They do, however, use less electricity and are gentler on fabrics. Personally, though, I hang up my clothes and only use the dryer for sheets and towels.

European dryers do not get that hot. You need over 75C consistently for a minimum of amount of time so the fabrics can heat through and hold that temperature. The sterilization process is basically the same as Tyndallization.

Only in high temperature.

There is no free lunch, but you can sleep for minutes, you can use BLE for comms, e-ink for infrequent display updates etc.

But consumers pick products for convenience reasons and Chrome updates crossed PITA line. Even my "boomers" family switches to FF.

If that was really the case, it would start showing up in the stats too. Firefox is still declining last I checked (I am still using it, but more and more sites have problems in FF.

Review flood of AI gen slop is going to burn out many teachers as it does with programmers hit by PR floods from juniors.

I worry how these who love to write will get thru the system?

>Review flood of AI gen slop is going to burn out many teachers as it does with programmers hit by PR floods from juniors.

No problem! There is an AI solution for that!

>I worry how these who love to write will get thru the system?

Eventually, I think very poorly. For now it seems that a lot of teachers can kind of tell who has used AI and who hasn't and seem to reward "old school" writers. But the future of communication, in general, seems grim.

Parents or siblings helping with assignments have been a longstanding problem.

I guess the cost has been zeroed. Otherwise, graded assignments have always been like this and favoured the kids with the right "environment".

I read it that OP has left IT and rested then got back to some freelance/co-op/own softwate development.

I am on the same fence, just on my notice period in the shit show called corporate IT where there is 90% time spent on toxic politics.

Now dreaming to burn some savings, detox and then play with Raspberry Pi projects.