Interesting.
I'm having a look at documentation about it and weston does indeed seem like a pretty straightforward way of having a Wayland compositor on top of X11 (or per the documentation, on top of pretty much anything) to run applications that expect such a compositor, like Waydroid.
I think I might give that a try.
Thanks.
Finally, some good news!
A quick look through its documentation shows that it instructs the user how to go through a subset of the instructions the original user provided (or an alternative set of instructions if using Android 11+ as there it can use a different mechanism) plus a few more, in order to run a Shizuku service as user "adb".
From then on, that Shizuku service can then be used by other apps to do everything the "adb" user can, including installing and updating applications.
So I guess it could be used by something like F-Droid to go around Google's new mechanism to close down app installs.
For Android < 11 it's is no more non-expert friendly than the instructions already provided by the original user, though it's better in Android 11+ as there it's all interacting with menus on the Android side (see here under Start Shizuku)
Surely it could be done with a plastic blade topped by a bit of stone for weight.
Sure, one might have to pull it back up and let it plunge back down a couple of times to finish the job, but that's alright.
As we often get told, these are the Israeli "authorities" so of course it's a "fee".
It's only a "ransom" when it's charged by an "organization", which what the Palestinians have.
Reminds me how in the early days the secret keys inside the smartchips in things like bank cards could be extracted by measuring the power consumption when the smartchips were doing things like signing data using those keys.
Remember boys and girls, according to the Western Press these people were "detained" by Israel and were "prisioners", not at all "kidnapped" in an act of piracy in the high seas and held "hostage" - only Palestinian organisations kidnap people and keep them as hostages, whilst Israeli ones only ever do "detentions" and "emprisionment".
Damn, that was a close one!
For a moment I though we were going to be told that Santa Claus doesn't actually exist.
I think it's well established by now that this bunch of Labour politicians too are "arrogant and of the opinion that if they don’t like something, it’s realities responsibility to reconfigure itself".
That would amongst other things neatly explain why they went around and implemented the stupid law.
Well, on the upside America might actually survive the Trump regime purelly because of how, even with a fucking master plan seemingly made by smarter people, they're horribly inept at making it work, mainly because everybody in that Administration has been chosen based on loyalty or looks and not at all on demonstrated execution abilities.
Imagine if instead of a gaggle of morons, that Administration was instead made up of competent people with domain-applicable experience.
Using materials obtained outside the Earth's gravity well, we can make much larger ships than if we have to launch them from the surface of the Earth. Of course that requires some kind of materials processing facilities in space, which is depending on stuff like Moon bases and the years of development of materials science in low and zero-gravity environments possible in those.
Further, the Apolo Program has most definitelly shown we can buy progress. Not "beyond the known principles of present day science" progress (so, no amount of money is going to get us FTL travel) but certainly Engineering progress (so solar sail towed asteroids, moon mining, moon-based nuclear reactors, mass drivers to push loads from the Moon surface into orbit, alternative ship designs using materials found outside the Earth's surface and/or low weight designs such as the insuflable space stations that were at one point suggested and even test at a small scale, and so on).
It wasn't by chance that what I suggested was asteroid mining and Mars stations rather than interstellar travel - the money wasted in the Iraq invasion alone over the decades since could have built the infrastructure needed, to get the engineeringe experience required to be able to do the former, not the latter (as that indeed requires a kind of progress that we cannot buy).
Instead, we have Facebook, over the counter credit derivatives and LLMs.
I did nazi that coming!