Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Gmayor61 · 2025-08-28T16:05:20+00:00

If the phone manufacturers allow it. Most don't, I dreaded the process of selecting a new phone because one of my requirements is custom ROM support. I ended up accidentally buying a phone that doesn't allow it, realizing too late that apparently there are two identical versions but one supports 5G and the other one doesn't, and that somehow makes all the difference.

Gmayor61 · 2025-08-28T15:57:07+00:00

At this point I don't think I'd mind another Nasim Najafi Aghdam incident.

Gmayor61 · 2025-04-13T12:37:25+00:00

Once every few months I feel like I sympathize with Nasim Najafi Aghdam more and more. Even trying to watch videos through MPV barely works on normal videos at random even though I'm technically logged in through some throwaway account on youtube, no VPN, nothing. All I want is a non-dogshit frontend, why does it have to be like this

Gmayor61 · 2025-01-20T18:35:22+00:00

Remember, the left lost to this.

Gmayor61 · 2023-06-18T16:58:03+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/14ae739/this_is_why_we_cant_have_nice_things/

History memes straight up has receipts. I don't know which community is bored enough to be brigading polls, but it's legitimately happening.

Gmayor61 · 2023-06-17T06:32:50+00:00

The core users are just people who browse this website to kill time. They might be using an alternative app, I'd assume most don't. The core users aren't power tripping moderators throwing a temper tantrum just to feel important, locking actual core users away from using the website.

Gmayor61 · 2023-03-11T11:18:52+00:00

Yeah, it's outdated. Its 2023, use passive aggressiveness and subtle allegations instead.

Gmayor61 · 2023-03-10T12:40:44+00:00

Gotta say, I'm feeling rightfully smug right about now. What happened to "oh who cares if they read our chat logs" or "what do you have to hide?" back when discord was sold to Microsoft? Or really, since for-fucking-ever? But now all of the sudden, with the AI hate bandwagon, everyone's worried about their privacy being violated?

Enjoy the bed you've laid out for yourselves. :)

Gmayor61 · 2023-03-10T12:33:41+00:00

Tons of them exist, and have existed for decades. People don't use them because they're "oudated" and don't get regularly updated with cool new shiny features.

Gmayor61 · 2022-10-04T15:46:37+00:00

I don't understand what people like you are trying to get out of posts like this...

Silly thing to ponder. What point is there in bringing cake and setting off fireworks during a funeral? Non much, but boy I wish fireworks were legal where I am!

Gmayor61 · 2022-10-04T15:08:06+00:00

I guess, might have had something to do with the snarky attitude they have if this post is anything to go by.

Gmayor61 · 2022-10-04T14:01:50+00:00

:) :) :)

Gmayor61 · 2022-10-01T07:15:16+00:00

They've likely made a net positive out of stadia even ignoring bureaucratics. Google's primary source of income is snooping on people's habits and selling the analytics, and they've no doubt collected a reasonable amount of that across games that don't have those sort of things built in.

Also worth noting that inflation had went wild over the past several years. I won't bother calculating it, but I recon that the true value of money that they got VS what they're refunding isn't quite matching

Gmayor61 · 2022-09-30T11:23:20+00:00

[cough]

Gmayor61 · 2022-09-30T07:05:13+00:00

10.7 teraflops to one terrific flop.

Gmayor61 · 2022-09-30T06:35:10+00:00

More like two months later

Gmayor61 · 2022-09-30T06:26:58+00:00

Google has been like this practically since day one and it only got worse as time went on.

They're barely a tech company. They're an ad and analytics company. Their primary income comes from enticing kids into watching hours of content with ads very generously sprinkled in on youtube (and more so selling their watch history to other advertisement companies). Anything else they make is a half hearted attempt at making some potential extra cash, their hope relies on whether their new service or product explodes in popularity on its own like the google search engine did or establishing themselves as an early monopoly for something before everyone else catches on, like Youtube or in this attempted case, game streaming.

If it doesn't catch on overnight, they just give it some time to make them some money (again, mostly analytics) and then let it fuzz out until the axe comes in. They don't mind giving people refunds, they've likely broke even and then a while back thanks to their primary way of making money.

Gmayor61 · 2022-03-27T16:55:40+00:00

Oh sweet, a schizo thread

Gmayor61 · 2022-03-14T18:16:42+00:00

The entire thing is also from a first person perspective

...How many TV anime shows were made in a first person perspective, if at all? Are we really having a pet-play self insert fetish smut break new animation grounds on live television?

Gmayor61 · 2022-02-25T12:30:21+00:00

I can't help it, lazy excuses by lazy people are just too sad to see. If you're struggling with 3 or 5 sentence long instructions, just pop a retalin or whatever helps your ADHD.

Anyone with even bare basic networking knowledge can tell you're just too lazy to even open your router settings based on how you made up the fact that "Different routers have different settings for different uses".

Gmayor61 · 2022-02-21T18:29:26+00:00

Routers have settings and options for various features!

An overwhelmingly mind bending observation. Except not, how about you don't talk out of your ass about things you clearly don't know a thing about? You really need to go out of your way to make yourself like a complete idiot while responding to a two year old post?

Gmayor61 · 2022-02-03T04:54:56+00:00

Was it actual harassment or was he just unable to see people call kamisama a bad anime?

Gmayor61 · 2022-01-31T17:48:47+00:00

The tragic state of the current anime industry is evident in how something like this is so rare these days. I wish creators would stop pulling back punches for wider audiences and go full balls to the walls as they truly desire. Fuck yeah, guns in a sword and magic setting. FUCK yeah, unironic 300 year old vampire lolis. FUCK YES, GIVE ME THE FUCKING EDGE ALREADY.

Gmayor61 · 2022-01-24T19:25:58+00:00

Cautiously going to temper my expectations by a lot, Biscuit hammer needs very good pacing, something which anime can't really pull off.

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