Well your not wrong a lot of privacy developers get more years than pedos

The way I understand it is the bootloader is built in security on the soc itself similar to tpm? In some regards phones are safer than computers in this way. If you leave your laptop out someone can tamper with the os, same with an unlocked bootloader. Safe from governments you shouldn’t use a phone if that’s your worry.

I don’t even have a lock on my phone

Well it says next year. And a lot could happen between then and now. Some comments think they will run into anti trust issues trying this.

Wow thanks for posting this. I read the whole thing but what I’m not getting is the fact that their started concern is apks “side loaded”. This is aimed directly at the foss community as normal people already won’t I stall anything outside of the play store. No non tech enthusiasts go straight to git hub …

Well I think we are such a small percentage of users that care that it probably does not matter in the grand scheme. I just got on android in 24’ when rcs started working because my large family network was always worried they would lose communication with me. Because you know the little green text bubble things don’t get pictures and stuff from non iOS… People have no clue and don’t care as long as the phone works to swipe on sorry videos

I don’t have a solution. They also messed up my alarm I heavily rely on. I’m not sure why they get off on messing with stuff. Call also lags when swiped now. Pixel 8 here

Thanks for the explanation. So essentially custom roms with Google play services removed will actually be needed to download to he good apps like new pipe and the like

Makes sense. Is Google play store just apk files as well? I thought there was some other special sauce with it as well besides just running spyware in the background. This all sounds like a good way to get full names for YouTube add less app makers…

I’m not really understanding. I buy a phone. Peter codes and app with foss tools and emails it to me. No copyright or anything bad like a to do app. I want to use said app on my purchased phone. Now Peter will have to show his license and stuff? I guess developers are criminals.

Oh I see someone already made a post. I can’t see how this is enforceable except for highly modifying the OS. It would have to be enforced at the device level correct,?

I put a rate limit on my nginx docker container. No clue if it worked but my customers are able to use the website now. I get a Alton of automated probing and SQL injection requests. Pretty horrible considering I built my app for very minimal traffic and use session data in places rather than pulling from DB and the ddos basically attacks corrupt sessions

Got it in that case a tracker might be a better option. Some of those are very accurate like in house accurate. Movement is all you need to see

This is not really a technology question. I would pull a favor and see who can check in on your car/live in/take it in. I have a ton of animals and it’s hard to get people that don’t bail out so I resort to questionable people that are pretty much homeless and we’re 100bucks goes a long ways. Or pull a favor from family

I dunno sort of have the opposite experience, up until this year I used a 2015 MacBook I found at a relatives house and Linux installed. Got me through college until I finally caved in and got a used thinkpad(13th gen) for $350. Phones are a whole different ballgame where as I can all day get a computer decent enough to use for $100. New phone ended up costing me 400 for enough storage

So I’m still on stock android on a pixel and there is no option for just pin? Maybe I have to remove fingerprint from the phone first but there is basically a serious backdoor built in. How many people will be able to turn there phone off under duress?

Yea and I bet you installed it for them. If you provide IT support for people than yea totally doable. I switched to android and people call my phone a cheap phone or laugh at it granted the people I hang out with me included are middle class at best and I have a flagship phone and they are rocking iPhone 11s and stuff. Point being marketing is key and open source doesn’t have a Nike like following

I tried Mac os and I thought it was cool until I got docker and it made me make an account. It also in order to change things in the desktop environment you had to pay for apps and I’m cheap. Windows is annoying to me after being on Linux for so long even if they have wsl. My computer broke and I ended up needing Linux to make an old MacBook we had work again is the only reason I switched originally. Developing software I appreciate that the ide and terminal are super convenient to use. Normal people for Linux… Nope. Getting my Bluetooth to work was a 3 hour journey. Normal people use their PC that much in a month where as I use mine 12 hours+ a day.

Good to know. Thankyou! I was so upset a ubuntu update bricked my old MacBook and I bought a new laptop instead of dealing with it.

Hi I just checked it out looks awesome. Unfortunately going down the rabbit hole again is looking less appealing. That’s what I liked about regolith, maybe I’m happy with gnome after reading the hyprland wiki 😅

Don’t you have to download a file manager search application etc? In addition to just the tiler