early boot stages?

Pretty much nothing, except that NVIDIA doesn’t care about the average gamer on Linux, only corps

this will affect 300 people heavily, and the other 99 % will just create an account then lol

Gestures don’t work with them too nicely. Also the recents screen is still from the built-in launcher, unless with root access of course

maybe because a huge fraction of users wouldn’t understand more advanced tutorials, or it’d be just too much effort

idk tbh, SafetyNet / Play Integrity have existed for a while

Kinda makes sense. A paid app on Google Play is a license to download the .apk file(s). Then a user could make copies, and without DRM, it’d be the same situation as with copyrighted movies and whatnot.

I’m not saying I support them, it’s just that they are like this for a reason

Maybe everyone was just OK with mobile devices being locked down heavily from the start, and now it’s more or less the same level for most

Is the bootloader unlocking requirement that FRP is not triggered a hard one or just because the settings screen isn’t (or shouldn’t) be reachable? Now that OEM unlocking and FRP aren’t tied together anymore, it doesn’t seem like a hard one

This could still be bypassed by flashing a new OS that deliberately messes up the userdata wipe-persisting secrets. Well idk if there’s a way to prevent that, but I guess really needy and tech-savvy people could recover lost devices that way

Looks like they “just” have to stop signing in with a Google account, and may have to enable adb and install apps using it / e.g. Shizuku

cunny has been a disaster for mankind

jokes on you one of my not so much into linux friends had it and his setup kept breaking, now he’s about to install fedora

non-reply reply lol

i like disabling apps I rarely use but still need from time to time, like Spotify

sometime ago I had my home directory managed by systemd-homed on Fedora (before 38 even afaik). the SELinux policy wasn’t configured properly for it though, so I had to keep setting it to permissive mode. for some stupid reason I remember running the command to do that on every. single. boot. lol

yet another reason to use sd-boot?

actually normal business for Google Play and smaller apps

anyone know how intel’s microcode update policy is in comparison to AMD’s?

my OS is better than yours

heavy “btw i use arch” vibes