Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!
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Sounds like a boon for other projects like Graphene, Postmarket, Lineage, Ubuntu Touch, etc
Make sure to donate and I hope the devs switch gears and leave Google behind.
Yeah, this shit has me moving to Graphene soon.
It’s why there’s already talk that recaptcha only works with approved phones to lock out alternatives.
For those who have the means, please consider donating to PostmarketOS, which has been slowly but surely pushing forward pure linux support for phones, and is the best longterm solution we have to completely circumvent Google and reclaim our hardware permenantly.
There will never be progress so long as device owners cannot unlock the bootloaders on their phones.
Buy from better brands and regulate companies that lock down bootloaders
That’s a law/regulation id love to see
How hard would it be for people to make a Linux distro for for a popular phone?
Phones don’t have standardized hardware interfaces, so they’re a lot more painful to develop for. You don’t just create a graphics driver, you have to do it for every display.
That being said, there are linux distros for phones, but they are far from the maturity of Android.
I got into making apps for android less than a year ago… I have no idea where else can I post my apps or even how to make them for other platforms… If any good person would give me pointers in either direction I would be grateful.
You can still develop apps for lineage, calyx and graphene without registering your personal details to Google however that would greatly reduce your userbase pool.
If your not publishing on the app store your already severely limiting your pool. The vast vast majority of users well not install anything outside of the app store.
Last I checked revanced wasn’t in the app store
Ad blocker apps are not allowed on Google Play Store, due to violation to the store guidelines.
You can publish your apps on f-droid.
I just want to know what is going to my fdroid apps when this comes in. Will they all get binned? Disabled? Just fail to load until I jump through the new “untrusted” sources hoops?
What gets me is that upstream linux has had this solved by trusting repo keys for years, why not let the end user be the trust arbiter
Because you’re not the end user, you’re the product.
yes that is the cynical take, and I mostly agree, but installed apks list their install source, so if that information is there, then its simple to give the user the ability to mark said source as trusted. But to do this under the guise of security, when there is more malware on play than fdroid is such a head scratcher
Yoy described the current solution I believe.
The more hoops they put in place to jump through, the less people would consider going outside Google Play. And the more control Google has on the ecosystem.
F-Droid is way more trustworthy than google pay.
Google claims the google playstore is safe and the only way to avoid malware. Ironically it was like 65-70% of all malware on android came from the playstore.
Or Google Play, for that matter!
(I don’t really care because I find the idea of hooking your credit cards to a third party to pay with your phone creepy to begin with, but are there any non-Google-Pay alternatives for GrapheneOS or Linux phones?)
I didnt care really about switching OS’s, but i do start to care when a fucking company gets abusive. Not only that. I get spiteful and petty. And that generally supplies enough fuel to get me through the pains of moving to a new system quite well.
When Windows 7 was discontinued, i used linux. Now im still using linux, outside of some work i did a couple of years back, none of my devices run windows.
Btw, i baught (with money!) Windows since 3.11 (Windows 3.11 - Win 98 - Win 2000 - WinXP - Win 7)
I mean - how many of us are here because we got spiteful and petty over reddit API shit?
At the least support lineageos.
Don’t you just hit that option to allow APKs that takes 24 hours to go through?
True but this option is completely provisioned by Google server side. At any point they could say
“Due to recently passed legislation, we can no longer offer advanced flow as this method now bypasses established federal laws regarding Age Verification. Identity verification will be required moving forward for unsigned apps.”
30/9/2026
there aren’t 30 months in a year…
Euros mad about this one
Because they’re sane. There’s two logical orders to use: most significant value to least, or vise versa. America just LOVES to throw logic out the window.
I don’t think it really matters, and I also think it’s a waste of time to care. I’m into wasting time since I’m at work, though, so here’s why I think there’s some logic to it.
At first glance, the order seems to come from how we say the date, “July 14th, 2026” rather than “14th of July, 2026”. It seems that there’s not really any record of which came first, the written format or the vocal one. Either way, I think that part is heavily ingrained in culture around here so writing it the way we say it makes sense.
Also, I personally think they’re listed in order of default contextual importance. The “14th” is something that can occur 12 times a year, so it makes some sense to add a qualifier describing which fourteenth you’re referring to. The year is only important if you don’t know the date in reference happened within the current year, so it’s importance is the lowest of the three.
Ultimately, we’ve long solved the issue of changing how a date is displayed for different places, so it really doesn’t matter. I won’t defend any other silly things we inherited from colonial era Europe though… The imperial system is wack.
American entitlement shows up again
should’ve put a /s at the end
what the hell is the 30th month?
The date is day/month/year standard
why
Because most of the world isn’t America.
i dont see how that comes into equation
It’s only the US that starts dates with the month.
not true, plenty of others as well. canada uses all 3 for example
Canada officially uses YY-MM-DD, and while MM-DD-YY is used due to American influence, it’s discouraged due to potential confusion unless you’re writing out the month. No other country besides the US anywhere worldwide uses MM-DD as a primary standard.
Because not everybody is American. Also because it makes way more sense
Honestly ISO Y/M/D makes more sense rationally, but practically nobody uses that.
it doesnt make sense at all really
How in the world does it make sense to start with the middle unit, move to the small, then the big? You start at one end and move to the other, either D/M/Y or Y/M/D. Set aside your gut reaction because that’s what you grew up with and it’s pretty obvious.
what makes it the middle unit
You can’t figure out how month is the middle unit of precision between year and day?
30 de septiembre del 2026 makes perfect sense to me.
thats great
Google has already stated there will be a single 24hr waiting period required, and then you can do as you please. Hyping this as the end of the world is misleading, and shooting the anti-Google message in the foot because when Google decides to TRULY not allow non-Play Store apps then nobody complaining about it will be taken seriously.
This is not crying wolf.
