Title. Thank you.
Good suggestions here, thank you.
Does anyone know what xmpp app @dessalines@lemmy.ml wrote?
If you do anything outdoorsey then trailsense is a must have.
It has all kinds of useful information and tools that can all be used completely offline.
Metal detector, cloud tracking, astronomy tools, ballistics, offline maps (with triangulation), etc…
So many useful things
my installed apps are:
fulguris browser (fck chrome and opera)
notallyX (it’s a notepad of sorts)
QR scanner
puzzles by simon tatham (good games im)
a sound recorder
libreoffice viewer
I like Fulguris, too. I don’t see it mentioned very often.
You should still be able to download those after Google adds the new third-party app restrictions. It’s some developer setting or whatever you have to press and then wait 15 (60?) seconds before proceeding. Like it’s some kind of Bop-It game. Not fond of Google but they at least did leave the hoops open. It will damage the open source scene for sure, but that can also lead to the consolidation of multiple similar projects and a concentration of donations to them.
no you have to wait 24 hours after you accept the risks, and there were some other hoops involved as well
I didn’t hear about this. I thought they were completely blocking side loading.
What do you mean about the time being up?
in 6 months google is going to block sideloading on android
I thought Google was going to stop allowing side loading apps, but now I’m not sure.
It isn’t until 2027: https://keepandroidopen.org/
Oh they said 200 days a few months ago I swear
These people are evil, incarnate, from genocide to this.
You’re right about the deadline it should only be like uhh one or two months away now, plus there is no guarantee they won’t get more extreme depending on the results.
Wait holy shit 24 hour cooldown? KILL
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-sideloading-unverified-apps-new-rules-3650343/
Wow. So the phone version of “we’re totally putting bars on your doors to keep thieves from getting in, not to keep you locked in a prison. This is for your safety, I swear.”
What I wonder is, what’s the real reason behind the scam narrative? Believing in the scam narrative itself is way too much “good citizen friendly corpo” to be coming from Google. And this would be a lot of effort to go to simply to slow down a minority of hobbyist “power users”. I think of two main possibilities, monopoly and empire. Monopoly would be that Google really doesn’t want you being able to install apps outside of the ecosystem it decides on and it’s seeing an upward trend of people doing it, so it’s trying to ensure it never becomes more than a tiny minority of people doing it. Empire route is harder for me to grasp at in the specifics but makes some sense to me intuitively.
One website says:
Around 3.9 billion people worldwide own Android phones in 2024. With a current global market share of around 70%, Android is considered to be the most widely used operating system. It continues to rise despite the pandemic as it has become popular in most countries, particularly Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, India, and Brazil.
https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-android-users-are-there
Now considering Iran is on that list, maybe we have our answer right there. Restricting what people can put on their phones makes it harder for them to use them outside of strictly sanctioned Google (ties to empire) approved apps. And the 24 hour lockdown means it’d be virtually impossible to set something up in a crisis. How this translates to potential imperial power in the specifics is not something I’m super confident on, but the fact alone that Android phones are so widespread, including in countries outside the US, and Google is deciding this for people… well, it shows all the more why countries that can be targeted by the empire need tech sovereignty.
Google Play Store is one of the world’s largest malware distributors. All a ruse
preventing scams and coercion
coming from the people who gave money for trump’s inauguration and impose any kind of crap to their users is pretty rich
