Hello, tone-policing genocide-defender and/or carnist 👋
Instead of being mad about words, maybe you should think about why the words bother you more than the injustice they describe.
Have a day!
Again: Google would not be doing this if there was no perceived benefit for them. If it was merely a matter of adding a scarier warning, then what purpose does the new “student/hobbyist” account type that restricts the number of devices your app can be installed on serve??
The headline is incomplete to an extent that it’s dishonest because it doesn’t reflect the reality of what Google is saying.
Google will only allow “experienced users” to “continue” sideloading with the new, draconian restrictions that Google will be the arbiter of. “Continue” implies that sideloading will continue as it is in its currently acceptable form. However, that is not the case. If it were, Google would not be changing anything at all because there would be no perceived benefit for them doing so.
So in a way, yes, the entire article is wrong, because it doesn’t adequately push back on the premise that it implies and instead uncritically parrots what Google would prefer people to believe, which is that people that want to sideload their apps and use third-party app stores like F-Droid will not be negatively impacted, which is not true.
It’s not FUD. The “install unknown apps” toggle already does what you’re describing. Whatever the intentionally vague blurbs from Google imply, whatever the new toggle ends up being will be worse.
And that doesn’t account for the need they’re creating for a “student/hobbyist” account that Google is creating. If you use such an account, your app can only be installed on a limited number of devices, which Google will control.
The “install unknown apps” toggle already does that. Whatever that vague blurb implies, whatever the new toggle ends up being will be worse.
And that doesn’t account for the need they’re creating for a “student/hobbyist” account that Google is creating. If you use such an account, your app can only be installed on a limited number of devices, which Google will control.
Yeah, this is garbage. Nobody should accept this. People need to keep fighting this because the “hobbyist account” bullshit still gives Google full control over what apps you can install by creating an arbitrary restriction that they can change on a whim.
Nothing short of leaving the process of installing apps from outside the Play Store exactly the same as it is now should be accepted.
The Verge is laundering Google’s Big Brother bullshit with their headline by making it sound like Google responded in an adequate manner, which is exactly what Google wants.
I’m replying to you from Asahi Linux on an Apple Silicon Macbook. The drivers are definitely there!
FEX emulation of x86 on ARM CPUs has made many x86 games playable on my Macbook.
I’m replying to you from Asahi Linux on an Apple Silicon Macbook. The drivers are definitely there!
FEX emulation of x86 on ARM CPUs has made many x86 games playable on my Macbook.
Eat shit. Fuck off already. Decades too late. Pelosi always sucked.
He’s a self-described democratic socialist, which is different from a social democrat, as you labeled him. Yes, many of his proposed policies are steps toward social democracy, rather than actual socialism, but I can’t expect one mayor, even in one of the largest cities, to somehow enact real socialism.
That distinction aside: all we can do is apply pressure and hope that Mamdani doesn’t meaningfully sell-out the working class in NYC.
Even if you’re cynical about the No Kings stuff (I have mixed feelings as well), mocking people that are trying to do something is needlessly mean-spirited and cruel.
We (the working class) are ostensibly on the same side (unless you’re a filthy class traitor), so if you have critiques, be specific and constructive with them instead of shitting on people. Tell them about other forms of resistance and mutual aid or something. The crossover with the kinds of people that show up to large protest events and those that engage other forms of resistance is pretty large in my experience, so what you’re saying just comes off like you don’t actually want a peoples’ uprising and instead take more joy in bringing people down.
The Linux app is just the desktop app, which doesn’t have the functionality that the Android and iOS apps do. It only works when paired with an Android or iOS device, so you’d still be shackled to those ecosystems without proper support for a mobile Linux app.
Canonical does a lot of bad shit, but switching to uutils is not one of them. The “challenges” are expected because it’s going in a non-LTS release, which is basically meant to be a beta of the next LTS. And those challenges are being quickly addressed as they’re being surfaced. This is exactly the right way to introduce something new, IMO.
I don’t like the uutils pushover license license though :/
Because their sandboxing format subtly breaks so many applications (more than flatpak) and Canonical very nefariously co-opts your apt install <package> with a deb package that’s actually a stub to install the Snap version, so when your shit breaks, you can waste hours before you realize that they fucked your installation.
Beyond that, Snap cold start times (installations or updates) are slow as shit (yes, even with LZO compression), and since each snap application can update on its own, you’ll also encounter random times when your shit appears to “freeze” but what’s actually happening is Canonical is busy polluting your loopback devices to decompress their shittified version of your app.
Canonical, being demons, have Snapified things like GNOME, so even your desktop environment will be encumbered by that dogshit packaging format.
Do not use Ubuntu if you value your time and well-being.
Pedophile defender, Ted Cruz, doesn’t want you or your children to have privacy. I wonder why…
How would not engaging in self-defense against an already violent fascist machine do anything other than play into the fascist handbook?
They rely on people rolling over so that they can dominate them.
Rapist’s mentality.
Can we avoid calling taking action against valid moral objections “drama”? It only serves to make the people doing the right thing sound like they’re being immature, even when they’re obviously right.
Objecting to a fascist government’s influence over very powerful build infrastructure used around the world is the right thing to do.
This type of comment is indistinguishable from the low-tier, rage bait comments under every Phoronix article.
Zig isn’t memory safe by default. Safety needs to be opted-in to, which isn’t free.
And merely recompiling C projects with the (very good) Zig toolchain wouldn’t add any form of memory safety whatsoever as far as I’m aware. You can get some safety checks that way, but you still have to fix the buggy C code manually, which is a nontrivial task in best-case scenarios.