They were the moderator of this community, so that wouldn't really help.
I mostly use it to track (and tweak) recipes that are safe for me with my food allergies, and from that perspective its great. Despite having all kinds of options to OCR recipes, import them, whatever, my wife just... hasn't bothered.
So I haven't really used the meal planner yet, I need to get her using it more often :)
Debian for the overwhelming majority of everything. With KDE, I don't do gnome.
My thinkpads both run arch, you may want to look at endeavouros for a simple approach to arch.
Well.... Thats saved for later.
I bought the sidewinder joystick because of it!
I should play games that use a joystick again. Or, you know, games in general.
I am almost entirely hairless below my neck
Me t...
have a full head of hair in my mid 40s.
... Never mind.
Yeah I'm not debating that there is fear mongering about this at all, just - as you noted - this is not about protecting users. Thats a farce.
This is about Google trying to close up their ecosystem, device first. That is the issue I take with this whole situation, its a clear step in that direction being marketed as something it decidedly is not.
And I think Android users should recognize what it actually is, and try to find a different option than Apple or Google going forward.
Good! I hope alternative mobile operating systems get traction out of this!
We'll see. The plan for now is a tcl flip with hotspot and a clamshell linux box in my pocket.
And again, there is no verification need anymore!
Please read the very first sentence in that slide. Then read through those steps again (and look at the steps inside of those steps).
Yes, there is a need still, or there are a series of annoying, anti-consumer steps involved, in an effort to have a walled garden.
Android and Google are not worth supporting over this. Again, not dealing with the play store first and thoroughly tells me this has nothing to do with security. If it did, they wouldn't be going this route.
Visible here - thanks!
we could make Google directly reliable for malware in the appstore.
There is no reason they shouldn't be now. Developer verification for the play store is one thing. Developer verification for installing an application on your own device is wholly separate.
I declare both as a risk.
And one is substantially higher risk than the other. Namely, the play store. As we recently saw with tens of millions of downloads from just a handful of apps in the play store. Does requiring this developer verification on a device resolve that problem? No. Not even remotely, does it?
While this started as a very anti consumer change
As long as it impacts the device use (it does), it still is.
I'm leaving Android over this. I doubt I'll be the only one.
@somegeek@programming.dev please add [AIP] to the title, and reference the example here for how to format the disclosure
Thanks!
While I'm glad this community is more welcoming now, we should avoid threads targeting individuals and focus on the positives going forward.
So I'd appreciate it if you deleted this thread, and if you instead wanted to post one about feeling more welcome now, that would be great!
Edit: and for the record, they weren't removed. After criticism about the situation they made me a mod and left.